(4 October 1937 - 19 September 2015)
Highly successful bonkbusting novelist and actress in films (1954-65, including Rock You Sinners) like sister Dame Joan, for whom she adapted her book The Stud for the screen. Also wrote screenplays for The World Is Full of Married Men and Yesterday’s Hero as well as some of her TV series, Hollywood Wives, Lucky Chances and Lady Boss, and was an occasional producer of her own adaptations.
MICHAEL DARVELL
Michael Darvell
Michael Darvell trained as a librarian at Watford and in Surrey before joining Ealing Libraries where he became Music Librarian for the borough. He edited Masthead, the magazine of the University of North London School of Librarianship, The Surrealist, the staff magazine of Surrey County Library, and contributed to the Assistant Librarian and London Librarian professional journals. A freelance film reviewer since 1970, he has written for Film, Films Illustrated, Film Review, Movie Maker and Radio Times, as well as editing Montage, the London film societies magazine, for ten years. A change of career saw him joining What’s On in London as Features Editor and he eventually stepped into the shoes of the late F. Maurice Speed (founding father of Film Review annual) as the magazine’s Editor. From 2007 to 2015, he was co-editor of the Film Review annual with Mansel Stimpson. As well as writing about films, Michael has reviewed theatre for The Stage newspaper, and has written about music theatre and cabaret for the Classical Source and Musical Theatre Review websites. He is also a former restaurant critic for the ViewLondon website. Michael has been a member of the London Film Critics’ Circle since 2005.
