London Friends of Cork including David Hemmings, Prudence de Casembroot, Dick Beamish and others

London Friends of Cork including David Hemmings, Prudence de Casembroot, Dick Beamish and others

Cork Film Festival, London Friends of Cork, Prudence de Casembroot, David Hemmings, Dick Beamish, Dermot Breen

This is a black and white photo of the festival director Dermot Breen at a promotional event for the film festival. The photo is undated but notes that the event includes the London Friends of Cork including actor David Hemmings, Prudence de Casembroot, and Dick Beamish. The formally dressed group of eight delegates, some with a drink and cigarette in hand, are lined up smiling at the camera.

David Hemmings, third from the left, wearing a frill-trimmed shirt, was the partner of Baroness Prudence de Casembroot, who stands second from left in a long white dress. Hemmings (1941-2003) was an English actor and director, who achieved international fame as a sixties icon following his memorable role, as a London fashion photographer, in Blow-Up (1966), by the Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni, and starring Vanessa Redgrave and Sarah Miles. He later played the leading man, opposite Jane Fonda, in Roger Vadim’s fantasy Barbarella (1970). However, his turbulent colourful personal life was also of great interest to the media. Hemmings was married four times and divorced from his second wife, the American actor Gayle Hunnicutt, following an affair with his then-personal assistant Baroness Prudence de Casembroot. He married de Casembroot in 1976, and they had four children, before divorcing in 1997.

University College Cork, Cork Film Festival, Donal Sheehan

Cork Film Festival Collection

University College Cork

Donal Sheehan

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TIFF
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English, eng

Cork, Ireland

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252 x 202mm