Remembering Anna Massey on her birthday 🎂
📷 Cecil Beaton
bromide print on white card mount, 1956
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"What constantly impressed was her fastidious intelligence and capacity for stillness: always the mark of a first-rate actor."
- @billicritic
Anna Massey with her dad, the great actor Raymond, her half-brother Geoffrey (an architect), & her brother Daniel, also a fine actor.
Photo: Philip Townsend, 1964
Anna Massey & Alfred Hitchcock on the set of Frenzy, 1971
Photo: Leonard Brown
"I’m not instinctive. It takes enormous discipline and bravery to get me there."
Anna Massey, John Merivale & Adrianne Allen in rehearsal for The Reluctant Debutante
Photo: Friedman-Abeles, 1956
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Massey received a Tony nomination for her role when the production moved to New York. Adrianne Allen was her mother; a talented family!
Anna Massey by Peter Rand, 1967
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"Hitchcock loved corny jokes & wordplay. Once when we'd sat through a terribly slow rehearsal he said: 'Too many dog's feet! What do I mean?'
"And I said 'Pawses'… and he was thrilled that I understood his sense of humour."
Anna Massey as Gwen John, by Nancy Webber
cibachrome print, 1982
Today we're celebrating Massey's birthday 🎂
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