Dawn Addams with Dermot Breen

Dawn Addams with Dermot Breen

Cork Film Festival, Dawn Addams, Dermot Breen, Charlie Chaplin

This is a photo of the the English actor Dawn Addams embracing the film festival director Dermot Breen. Addams is shown in profile with her arms around Breen who is smiling up above the eyeline of the camera. Both are in formal wear with Addams wearing a dark-coloured satin gown, accessorised with white gloves and a small handbag and a ribbon tied into her dark hair. Breen is wearing a dark suit with a bow-tie and has a cigarette in his left hand.

This photo was taken in 1957, the year that Dawn Addams played alongside Charlie Chaplin in the film A King in New York (Charlie Chaplin, 1957) which was screened at the festival. She had an illustrious and somewhat controversial relationship with the film festival. Due in part she admitted years later to the advice of her publicist advising her to court publicity. In particular her request, during the 1957 film festival, for a milk bath at the at the Cork Metropole Hotel caused much commotion in the press; it was shot down by the manager of the hotel, Douglas Vance, because "the people of Cork are finding it hard to make ends meet" (Independent, 09.11.2012). Her vivacious personality must have been a joy to capture by the photographers of the day as is evident from the many photos of her in the archive.

University College Cork, Cork Film Festival, Ambrose O'Mullane

Cork Film Festival Collection

University College Cork

1957

Ambrose O'Mullane

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TIFF
JPEG

English, eng

1957
Cork, Ireland

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218 x 167mm