The actress Renee Gadd was born 22nd June in 1908. The Argentinian born actress mostly appeared in British films during the 1930’s and 1940’s. One of her latter films was in Ealing studios Dead of Night in 1945 where she played the part of Mrs Craig (pictured).
She started her career at the age of 14 as a chorus girl in Brighton which developed in to a successful stage career which included becoming a member of a Shakespearian company at Stratford-on-Avon, a series of successful West End roles and acting together with Fred Astaire (in Funny Face) with whom she had an affair.
She appeared in several films, including The Bad Companions 1932, White Face alongside Hugh Williams in 1932, Happy 1933, Letting in the Sunshine, in 1933, which possibly the first British sex comedy, The Love Captive 1934, Tomorrow We Live 1936, The Crimson Circle 1936, Brief Ecstasy 1937, Murder in Soho 1939, Unpublished Story 1942, They Came to a City 1944, Frieda 1946, Good Time Girl 1948 and her final film in 1950, The Blue Lamp.
She died at the age of 97 in 2003.
She started her career at the age of 14 as a chorus girl in Brighton which developed in to a successful stage career which included becoming a member of a Shakespearian company at Stratford-on-Avon, a series of successful West End roles and acting together with Fred Astaire (in Funny Face) with whom she had an affair.
She appeared in several films, including The Bad Companions 1932, White Face alongside Hugh Williams in 1932, Happy 1933, Letting in the Sunshine, in 1933, which possibly the first British sex comedy, The Love Captive 1934, Tomorrow We Live 1936, The Crimson Circle 1936, Brief Ecstasy 1937, Murder in Soho 1939, Unpublished Story 1942, They Came to a City 1944, Frieda 1946, Good Time Girl 1948 and her final film in 1950, The Blue Lamp.
She died at the age of 97 in 2003.
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