CURTSY TO QUEEN
BROUGHT CHILD FILM FAME
A child's curtsy to the Queen has brought film fame to curly-haired, four-year-old Georgina Goddard. who appears with Celia Johnson in a Ministry of Information film, "A Letter from England," states Ernest Betts in the "Sunday Express.
Last February Georgina was one of the baby mannequins who appeared at Buckingham Palace to show frocks of Lancashire cotton which were being sent to America.
When Georgina made her curtsy, the Queen was struck by the child's charm and prettiness, and talked to her about the new frock she wore. When Georgina left, she carried a doll given by the Queen herself.
A few weeks later, Carol Reed, the film director, was looking for a child to act in "A Letter from England,"' a short which told of English children sent as evacuees to America. He saw scores of children without being able to • make up his mind. Then he saw Georgina and decided that she was the perfect child for th~ job.
Georgina, who is one of the cleverest pupils of the Italia Conti School, which has trained hundreds of children for the stage, is already a "professional." She has appeared in advertisements requiring attractive children as models.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 121, 24 May 1941, Page 13
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204CURTSY TO QUEEN Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 121, 24 May 1941, Page 13
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