It seems that she never acted on TV or in the movies again after this. Could this be a consequence of director Jonathan Miller's explanation that he was looking for a girl who was "not very pretty but curiously plain, sallow and a bit priggish"? That's a charming thing to tell a 13-year-old girl, isn't it?
I think we're the green thingy
Actually, she was quite pretty. She looks indeed like one of the pre-Raphaelite
beauties that British artists of the 1850s painted. I wonder if that was intentional.
Other British child actresses of the 1960s who only made one movie include Judith Donner in "Seance on a Wet Afternoon" and Deborah Baxter in "A High Wind in Jamacia". The Brits did not have a child star system. Even Haley Mills made only one British movie- "Tiger Bay"- before being whisked off to Disneyland.
Blaine in Seattle
On the dvd commentary, Jonathan Miller says that he choose her for her serious-looking face. They did her hair well. From the rear she looks exactly like the Tenniel drawing of Alice.
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