Susan Shaw: Difference between revisions

▲Publication: ''Daily Mail'' (London, England) Issue: 16935 p 2</ref> They signed her to a term contract and trainer her at its [[The Company of Youth|"charm school"]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmovie.com/artist/susan-shaw-p64951|title=Susan Shaw – Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos – AllMovie|work=AllMovie}}</ref>

▲Shaw's first lead came in ''[[To the Public Danger]]'' (1948) a short feature directed by [[Terence Fisher]]. She had a role in one of the segments of ''[[Quartet (1948 film)|Quartet]]'' (1948) then when [[Sydney Box]] decided to make a film series out of the Huggett family with [[Jack Warner (actor)|Jack Warner]], Shaw was cast as Susan Huggett. There were three in the series: ''[[Here Come the Huggetts]]'' (1948), ''[[Vote for Huggett]]'' (1948) and ''[[The Huggetts Abroad]]'' (1949).<ref name=carryon>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/?id=qEW5BAAAQBAJ&pg=PT844&lpg=PT844&dq=susan+shaw+actress+the+huggetts#v=onepage&q=susan%20shaw%20actress%20the%20huggetts&f=false|title=Carry-On Actors|isbn=9781908382085|last1=Ross|first1=Andrew|date=19 October 2011}}</ref> Shaw was the female lead in the comedies ''[[It's Not Cricket (film)|It's Not Cricket]]'' (1949) and ''[[Marry Me (1949 film)|Marry Me]]'' (1949) and one of many actors in ''[[Train of Events]]'' (1949).<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article231070556 |title=Margaret Aylwards |newspaper=[[The Sun (Sydney)|The Sun]] |issue=2399 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=3 April 1949 |accessdate=28 September 2020 |page=12 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> She was by now one of the busiest young actors in Britain.<ref>Author: Cecil Wilson Date: Thursday, 11 November 1948

▲Shaw began to appear on television in ''[[One Man's Family]]'' (1951) and a BBC version of ''[[The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse]]'' (1951).<ref>No Surprises — But Still a Favourite

▲Author: J. Stubbs Walker Date: Monday, 28 May 1951

▲Publication: Daily Mail (London, England) Issue: 17165 p 2</ref> She was the female lead in some Bs: ''[[There Is Another Sun]]'' (1951), ''[[Wide Boy (film)|Wide Boy]]'' (1952), ''[[A Killer Walks]]'' (1952), ''[[The Large Rope]]'' (1953), AND ''[[Small Town Story (film)|Small Town Story]]'' (1953). On TV she did ''Count Your Blessings'' (1953). In April 1951 the ''Daily Mail'' listed Shaw on a poll from over 2,000 readers as one of the most popular British female actors in the country (after [[Anna Neagle]], Jean Simmons, Jean Kent, Glynis Johns, Greer Garson, Petula Clark, Margaret Rutherford and Patricia Dainton, and in front of Jane Wyman.<ref>Anna Neagle, John Mills are top stars

▲Author: By Daily Mail Reporter Date: Saturday, 14 April 1951

▲She supported in some "A"s likes ''[[The Intruder (1953 film)|The Intruder]]'' (1953) and ''[[The Good Die Young]]'' (1954) as well as ''[[Time Is My Enemy]]'' (1954) and played leads in ''[[Stolen Time]]'' (1955), ''[[Stock Car (film)|Stock Car]]'' (1955), ''[[Fire Maidens from Outer Space]]'' (1956), the comedy ''[[Davy (film)|Davy]]'' (1958), ''[[The Diplomatic Corpse]]'' (1958), and ''[[Chain of Events]]'' (1958) as well as the TV play ''You Can't Have Everything'' (1958).

▲She wound up living alone and broke in Soho. She died of [[cirrhosis of the liver]] and was cremated at [[Golders Green Crematorium]], North London. Her old friends were going to pay for the funeral but then the Rank Organisation stepped in to do it.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.norwoodsociety.co.uk/articles/183-184-the-sad-story-of-susan-shaw.html|title=184: The Sad Story of Susan Shaw|work=norwoodsociety.co.uk}}</ref> "When we heard of the circumstances of her death we felt it was the least we could do," said a spokesman from the Rank Organisation. Charlie Stevenson, landlord of the Swiss Tavern in Old Compton Street, said "She came in here every day. They say she died of cirrhosis of the liver and she lived next door to prostitutes in Soho. But this is Soho. We all live next door to prostitutes. We loved her and we weren't going to see her buried in a pauper's grave. Now we shall give the money to medical charities."<ref>Soho bids farewell to a fallen star

▲Date: Saturday, 2 December 1978

▲==Critical assessment==

▲The film historians Steve Chibnall and Brian McFarlane praise the "sulky, spiky tenacity that differentiated her from many of her contemporaries".<ref>Steve Chibnall & Brian McFarlane, ''The British 'B' Film'', Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2009, p. 184.</ref>