Jane Horrocks

Absolutely Fabulous, Bad Girl, Boon, Heartland, Henry IV, Hunt for Venus, La Nonna, Leaving Home, Never Mind the Horrocks, Nightlife, Red Dwarf, Road, Roots, Some Kind of Life, Suffer the Little Children, The Garden, Welcome to the Times. Kendall's life is explored in "The Brief, Madcap Life of Kay Kendall," written by Eve Golden, Kim Kendall, and Kim Elizabeth Kendall (University Press of Kentucky, 2002). Cartwright was so impressed with her that he wrote the play and the movie Little Voice just to show off her talent. Before her marriage to Harrison, Kendall had a romantic relationship with Sydney Chaplin, a son of Charlie Chaplin. While working on a play directed by Jim Cartwright she used to warm up by doing singing impressions of Judy Garland and Ethel Merman. She succumbed to her illness on September 6 the following year, soon after completing the movie "Once More with Feeling", starring opposite Yul Brynner. They have a son, Dylan, and a daughter, Molly. In 1958, Kendall won a Golden Globe Award for her performance in Les Girls, probably the best-known film of her career.

She lives with writer, Nick Vivian. Harrison was married to actress Lilli Palmer at the time, but when he learned Kendall had been diagnosed with myeloid leukemia from her doctor, he divorced Palmer and married Kendall, never revealing to her the reason for her failing health. She went to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company. Later she starred opposite Rex Harrison in the comedy The Constant Husband (1955), and an affair soon followed. She was born in Rossendale Valley, Lancashire. She co-starred with Clark again in Dance Hall (1950), and was featured in a quick succession of forgettable films before gaining fame in "Genevieve" (1953). Jane Horrocks (born January 18, 1964) is an English comedian and actress. Her first major screen role was in the Sid Field-Petula Clark musical London Town (1946), notable for being one of the costliest flops in British film history.

Road (1987). Her father was Terry Kendall, a vaudevillian. Wolves of Willoughby Chase, The (1988). Her maternal grandmother was Marie Kendall, a musical-comedy star for her vivacious personality and diction while singing. Getting It Right (1989). She was born Kay Justine Kendall McCarthy on May 26, 1927 in Withernsea, a coastal resort in eastern England. Memphis Belle (1990). Kay Kendall (1927-1959) was a British actress.

Life Is Sweet (1990). Second Best (1994). Some Kind of Life (1995). Little Voice (1998).

Chicken Run (2000). Born Romantic (2000).