2007-01-01 04:29:17 · 9 answers · asked by robinabolton 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
Sally Ann Howes
2007-01-01 04:31:18 · answer #1 · answered by Joe D 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sally Ann Howes is a British-born singer and actress, born July 20, 1930 in London, England. She holds a dual citizenship, having become a naturalized United States citizen. Her career on stage, screen and television has spanned over six decades. She is best remembered by many fans for the role of Truly Scrumptious in the 1968 musical film, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
In 1967 she began the long film shoot for what would become a celebrated children's classic, and a role for which she would achieve new and everlasting fame, that of Truly Scrumptious, the beautiful, aristocratic daughter of a candy magnate in the movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968).
Despite all her work before and after the film, it is the one role she is consistently identified with and loved for.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang did not, however, restart her film career or launch a career for her in episodic television despite several guest-starring roles in Mission Impossible, Marcus Welby, M.D., and Branigan and The Men From Shiloh. Even the pilot Prudence and the Chief which was a spoof on The King and I, did not get picked up as a TV series. In addition, musicals were now failing at the box office and that venue was closed to her. As a result, she returned almost exclusively to the musical stage, appearing in only a few more films/TV productions.
Later Theatrical Career
In the 1970's she toured Britain with The King and I and later the USA with The Sound of Music. After her debut with the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera in 1972 with The Sound of Music she returned to England to star in the stage drama, Lover, which was written specifically for her.
In the 1970s and 1980s, she began to cross over from standard musicals to operettas. She performed two summers with the Kenley Players in Blossom Time and The Great Waltz, and she later added Franz Lehár's The Merry Widow and then two seasons of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music at the New York City Opera. She also added the role of Gertrude from Hamlet to her repertoire.
In 1990 she debuted her one-woman show, From This Moment On at the Edinburgh Festival and at a benefit for the Long Island AIDS Association at the John Drew Theatre in Easthampton, New York.
Her last film was the 1992 miniseries Judith Krantz's Secrets. That marked her 50th year in film.
Recent projects include her narrations of Cubby Broccoli, The Man Behind Bond on the 2000 year release of the DVD Diamonds Are Forever, The Making of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang The Musical (2002), and her appearance in the documentary, After They Were Famous - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (2004).
Personal
She has been married to Douglas Rae since the early 1970s. Except for occasional lectures, charity functions and some Broadway openings, she is mostly retired (as of 2005), although she still hosts events or performs two or three times per year. She is currently an Artistic Advisor for the Palm Beach Theater Guild, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the Royal Poinciana Playhouse in Palm Beach, Florida.
Filmography
* Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (2003) (documentary)
* Death Ship (1980) - Margaret Marshall
* Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) - Truly Scrumptious
* The Admirable Crichton (1957) aka Paradise Lagoon (USA Title) - Lady Mary
* Due mogli sono troppe (1950) - aka Honeymoon Deferred (UK) - Katherine Fry
* Fools Rush In (1949) Pamela Dickson
* The History of Mr. Polly (1949) - Cristabel
* Stop Press Girl (1949) - Jennifer Peters
* Anna Karenina) (1948) - Kitty Scherbatsky
* My Sister and I (1948) - Robina Adams
* Nicholas Nickleby (1947) - Kate Nickleby
* Pink String and Sealing Wax (1946) - Peggy Sutton
* Dead of Night (1945) - Sally O'Hara (segment Christmas Party)
* The Halfway House (1944) - Joanna French
* Thursday's Child (1943) - Fennis Wilson
2007-01-01 04:59:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sally Ann Howes
2007-01-01 04:31:38 · answer #3 · answered by zah 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sally Ann Howes, and wasnt Dick Van Dyke's dance in Me Ol Bamboo astonishinlgy great?
2007-01-01 04:31:42 · answer #4 · answered by bagoftwix 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was Sally Ann Howes. This was a great family movie.
2007-01-01 04:37:08 · answer #5 · answered by Kerry 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She was played by Sally Ann Howes. I take it you're watching it too??
2007-01-01 04:41:29 · answer #6 · answered by stellaprincess2005 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh I'm watching it now its a great Christmas film the children love it as well as the adults!
2007-01-01 04:38:31 · answer #7 · answered by Deep Throat 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
someone annoying
2007-01-01 04:32:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
me
2007-01-01 04:30:02 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋