Imelda Anne Crawford (22 November 1920 – 17 October 1956) was a British film actress.

Biography

Crawford was born in

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to a Scottish father and an English mother, and brought up in

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. On the advice of Alastair Sim, she attended the

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. A contemporary of Margaret Lockwood and

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, Crawford is best remembered for her roles in women's pictures of the 1940s, such as '' Millions Like Us'' (1943), '' Two Thousand Women'' (1944), and '' They Were Sisters'' (1945). She married Wallace Douglas in 1953 and died of

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in a London nursing home in 1956, aged 35. ''

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'', on 18 October 1956, reported that she was playing in

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's ''The Spider's Web'', at London's Savoy Theatre, when she became ill. After acting in a stage production of ''The Gift'', about a scientist blinded by an accident, she added a codicil to her will leaving her eyes to the International

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Filmography

Film

Television

References

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* 1920 births 1956 deaths Scottish actresses British film actresses Deaths from leukemia in England 20th-century British actresses British people in Mandatory Palestine {{UK-film-actor-stub