Dame Sybil Thorndike talks to Frank Hauser about her Victorian childhood, her early days in the theatre and her marriage with Lewis Casson.

"When I was five years old I remember the Jubilee of Queen Victoria."
"The children knew that the theatre came first, we went to work - other people did jobs."
"There is a phoney naturalism which is just as ham as big phoneyness - and twice as boring."

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