Name Patricia Bredin | Role Actress | |
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Movies Left Right and Centre, Desert Mice, The Treasure of Monte Cri, The Bridal Path Similar People Ivor Emmanuel, Sidney Gilliat, Monty Berman, Frank Launder, Michael Relph | ||
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Patricia Bredin (born 1934) is a British actress and one-time singer from Hull, England, who was best known as the very first United Kingdom representative in the Eurovision Song Contest. She took part in the 1957 contest, held in Frankfurt, and finished in seventh place out of ten entries with the song "All", the first ever song sung in English at the Eurovision. According to The Eurovision Song Contest - The Official History by John Kennedy O'Connor at 1:52, this was the shortest performance in the history of the contest. However, this record was beaten in 2015 when Finland selected Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät to represent them in the 2015 edition of the contest. Their song: Aina Mun Pitää is only 1:27 long.
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- 1957 patricia bredin all
- Patricia bredin good old days 26th dec 1959
- Personal life
- Selected filmography
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She took the part of Molly, the island girl, in the original cast of the musical Free as Air in 1957. In 1959, she starred in the British comedy film Left Right and Centre with Ian Carmichael. This saw British exhibitors vote her one of the most promising British new stars along with Peter Sellers and Hayley Mills. On Boxing Day in 1959 she also appeared in the BBC TV's long running variety show The Good Old Days, which was rescreened on Boxing Day 2016 on BBC4 as part of the BBC's celebration of the programme.
The following year she had a leading part in another film, the period adventure The Treasure of Monte Cristo, and starred with Sid James in Desert Mice.
Bredin had the distinction of succeeding Julie Andrews as Guenevere in the Broadway production of Camelot. She played the role from 16 April 1962 until she was replaced by Janet Pavek three months later.
Patricia bredin good old days 26th dec 1959
Personal life
In 1964, she married singer Ivor Emmanuel, but they had no children, and divorced within two years.
On her second marriage, she married the Canadian businessman Charles MacCulloch and became Patricia Bredin-McCulloch, but he died on their honeymoon. She built up a herd of cows on their estate and looked after them for almost ten years before financial complications brought her cow-womanship to an end. She published some entertaining reminiscences about this period of her life in My Fling on the Farm (1989).