Vera Day
Acting
Biography
A highly photogenic blonde starlet of the 1950s, petite, buxom Vera Day was once touted as Britain's answer to Marilyn Monroe. Having dropped out of school at the age of 15, she had tried her hand in retail and hospitality before finding steadier employment as a beauty parlour assistant and hairdresser's model. Modelling then became her full-time occupation, but Vera had loftier ambitions. Answering an ad for showgirls in a theatrical publication, she went on to audition for bandleader and impresario Jack Hylton. Hylton was sufficiently impressed by her looks and self-assurance to cast her in…
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Вера Дэй
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The Saint
1962 · TV
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
1998 · Movie
Hell Drivers
1957 · Movie
The Prince and the Showgirl
1957 · Movie
Quatermass 2
1957 · Movie
A Kid for Two Farthings
1955 · Movie
I Was Monty's Double
1958 · Movie
The Riddle
2007 · Movie
A Stitch in Time
1963 · Movie
Grip of the Strangler
1958 · Movie
The Crowded Day
1954 · Movie
Watch It, Sailor!
1961 · Movie