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The "cute egghead" was played by Liz Reber, an Australian model and actress who posed for Helmut Newton when he was still in Australia, moving to Europe in the Sixties. She is probably best remembered to television audiences as a regular on "Candid Camera", and worked in the Italian theatre for some years after leaving television.
After leaving the stage and screen, she worked as a designer - everything from children's clothes to magazine covers and handbags. She turned more towards fine arts and has made a name for herself as a painter, exhibiting in Paris and London, and creating murals and trompe l'oeil for hotels, restaurants, private houses and festivals across Britain and Europe. Nowadays, she works and lives in Paris.
Her lines in the script? She only has two, spoken as Steed enters the school for the first time and passes through the babble of high-brow conversation. Later on, she's seen smiling and winking at Steed as he sits the first exam paper (as in the picture shown here).
Here her lines here (MP3 39KB), they are transcribed below:
George Bernard Shaw miscalculated phonetically; he didn't allow for the Liverpool sounds.
[interlocutor laughs]
So you see..." |
