Georgette Lisette Withers was born on March 12, 1917 in Karachi, now Pakistan, where her father, an officer in the British Army, served at the time. She studied at the Academy of Dance and Dramatic Arts Helen Leminsky and at the Buddy Bradley Dance School. She got her first professional engagement at the age of 12, performing as part of the choir in London theater revues. Her theatrical career was very successful - in the future she soon became an actress in the first roles. First appearing on screen
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Georgette Lisette Withers was born on March 12, 1917 in Karachi, now Pakistan, where her father, an officer in the British Army, served at the time. She studied at the Academy of Dance and Dramatic Arts Helen Leminsky and at the Buddy Bradley Dance School. She got her first professional engagement at the age of 12, performing as part of the choir in London theater revues. Her theatrical career was very successful - in the future she soon became an actress in the first roles. First appearing on screen in Michael Powell's films Girl in the Crowd (1934) and The Test of Love (1935), Withers soon became one of the UK's most recognizable actresses, starring in six to seven films a year. Among her many films of that time - "The Accused" (1936), "Crime in London" (1936), "Paradise for two" (1937), the famous spy detective Alfred Hitchcock "Lady disappears" (1938), "Honeymoon" (1940). Despite the fact that in the difficult military and post-war years, films with her participation were released much less often, the peak of the actress’ popularity fell on the 40s: it was then that the films that became classics of British cinema “To Taste” (1944), “Dead in the Night” (1945), “Pink Thread and Surguch” (1945), “It Always Rains on Sunday” (1948) appeared. With the onset of the new decade, the actress began to appear on the screen less and less; having starred in several films, in the late 50s she, along with her husband, actor and director John McCallum, moved to Australia and left the world of cinema for a long time, completely devoting herself to the theater. During her years at the theatre, Withers was engaged in more than thirty plays, toured Europe and Australia, and played on the stages of London and New York. In 1970, she briefly returned to the audience in the comedy Nickeled Queen (directed by John McCallum), and four years later appeared as a prison warden in the English television series Within These Walls. Withers' second comeback took place in the mid-80s, when she starred in the drama One Time at a Time (1985) and in several television adaptations of literary works: Northangern Abbey (1986, based on the novel by Jane Austen), Hotel By the Lake (1986, based on the novel by Anita Bruckner) and Ending (1989, according to Kingsley Amis). In the next decade, Withers played in only two films - "Rural Life" by Australian director Michael Blakemore (1994) and the romantic drama "Glitter" (1996) by Scott Hicks.