I haven't seen this film for years and I don't have a copy of it unfortunatley but I may get one from one of the places mentioned on here.
Who played the telephonist? I remember she had a lovely highland accent and was really pretty. I don't remember the characters name so I'm not sure who from the cast she was/is. I wonder if that was her real accent or just put on for the film?
I guess it's Joan Greenwood, I've just read in the Trivia section that Joan Greenwood was known for her husky voice. It also says she was born in London so I guess the highland accent was false - very good though.
shareha ha ha her famous lines in the movie "If you want to be cheeky you must be cheeky in the Gaelic" "You learned the Gaelic just to take the eyes out of me"...Peader
shareEaling sexy female star, plays the telephonist she is great in the man in the white suite and kind hearts too. one of Britans sexyist women, (u can keep diana doors) Joan Greenwood every time
shareShe's also wonderful in the 'Importance of Being Earnest'. That voice!
share(1995) Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#63)
shareI saw the movie first around 1954 and remembered only the scene where the grocer gave the ghastly news, "There is no whisky!" The remastered DVD came from Netflix yesterday, and the instant Joan Greenwood spoke I remembered her as Sibella in "Kind Hearts and Coronets." The way she drawled the name "Louis" in that husky voice was one of the high points of that great film.
share
I suppose that no one before or since has uttered "Louis" in quite such a sexy way.
As a coda to her career, she played an old dowager friend of Miss Marple in "Bertram's Hotel". That husky voice has stolen more scenes....