Sylvia Syms and the London Friends of Cork Film Festival at the Piccadilly Hotel

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Title

Sylvia Syms and the London Friends of Cork Film Festival at the Piccadilly Hotel

Subject

Cork Film Festival, Sylvia Syms, Dermot Breen, London Friends of Cork, Bernard McDonagh, Noel Harrington, Frank O'Leary, Anna Neagle, Beatrice Edney

Description

This is a black and white photo of the English actor Sylvia Syms at a drinks reception at the Piccadilly Hotel in London, organised by the London Friends of the festival. Syms, in a bright knee-length dress and cigarette in hand, is turned towards her companions, Bernard McDonagh and Noel Harrington, in conversation. The small group includes the festival director Dermot Breen on the left next to Frank O’Leary who was a member of the organising committee. The undated photo notes that the association of London friends was founded by Bernard McDonagh, a committee member of the London Film Society.

Born in 1934, Sylvia Syms has a prolific film and television career. Her second film My Teenage Daughter (Herbert Wilcox, 1956) also starred Anna Neagle who was a visitor to the festival when My Teenage Daughter opened at the Savoy in 1956. Her films include Brendan Behan’s The Quare Fellow (Arthur Dreifuss, 1962), The Tamarind Seed (Blake Edwards, 1974) with Julie Andrews and Omar Sharif, Absolute Beginners (Julien Temple, 1986) with David Bowie and Patsy Kensit, and as the Queen Mother in The Queen (Stephen Frears, 2006) with Helen Mirren. Her television work includes Thatcher: The Final Days (Granada Television, 1991) where she starred as Margaret Thatcher. Her daughter Beatrice Edney (1962-) is also an English actor with many film and television appearances including Highlander (1986, 2000), Inspector Morse (1989), Lewis (2013), and Poldark (2015-2019).

Creator

University College Cork, Cork Film Festival

Source

Cork Film Festival Collection

Publisher

University College Cork

Rights

This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Please credit the Cork International Film Festival Archive and provide a link back to the site.

Format

Photo
TIFF
JPEG

Language

English, eng

Coverage

London, England
Cork, Ireland

Still Image Item Type Metadata

Original Format

Photo

Physical Dimensions

212 x 163mm

Collection

Citation

University College Cork, Cork Film Festival, “Sylvia Syms and the London Friends of Cork Film Festival at the Piccadilly Hotel,” Cork International Film Festival Archive, accessed December 14, 2024, https://corkfilmfest.ucc.ie/items/show/454.