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Shirley is, perhaps, best known as the girl who was painted gold,
from head to toe, in the James Bond film Goldfinger. She starting acting as a child and
later had an act with Max Bygraves at the London Palladium. She starred in three of the
first four Carry Ons. In Sergeant she plays Mary, the bride whose husband is called up
into the army on their wedding day, and follows him to camp and gets a job in the canteen
so that she can see her beloved. In Nurse, she plays Dorothy, a nurse who falls for a
patient under her care and finally gets him when he is discharged. In Constable, she
receives counselling from Constable Potter, when she gets jitters before her wedding, but
all comes right in the end. She stopped acting in 1968 to concentrate on her family. |
