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The Story of a Stunner

BBC Home Service
on BBC Home Service Basic

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by James Laver.
The history of a little milliner who became Rossetti's 'Blessed Damozel'.
With Veronica Turleigh as Elizabeth Siddall and Eric Portman as Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Contributors

Writer:
James Laver
Producer:
Mary Hope Allen
Elizabeth Siddall:
Veronica Turleigh
Dante Gabriel Rossetti:
Eric Portman
Ford Madox Brown:
Norman Shelley
(by:
permission of H.M. Tennant Ltd.)
His landlady:
Vivienne Chatterton
Maid at the elder Rossetti's house:
Gladys Spencer
Deverell:
Alan Wheatley
William Michael Rossetti:
Allan Jeayes
Millais:
Lewis Stringer
Holman Hunt:
Preston Lockwood
Christina Rossetti:
Rosalind Atkinson
(by:
permission of the Administrators of the Old Vic)
Ruskin:
Carleton Hobbs
Fanny Cornforth:
Vida Hope
Mrs Rossetti, Senior:
Susan Richmond
Swinburne:
Leslie French
(by:
permission of the International Ballet Company)
Waiter:
Richard Williams
Howell:
Charles Mortimer
Cabman,:
undertaker, maid
Source: Radio Times

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BBC Home Service is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 1st September 1939 and ended on the 29th September 1967.

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