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...Taste of Honey. Playwright Shelagh Delaney's story of a wise child in the Lancashire slums who knows her own mother and is determined to know herself. Rita Tushingham makes the heroine a kind of Oliver Twist in a maternity dress...
...Rita Tushingham says funny things as afterthoughts. "I always seem to be pregnant," she comments, reviewing her tiny list of acting credits. "If I ever have children, they'll probably be padded ones...
...list is short, but Rita Tushingham, at 20, is the most acclaimed new actress in Britain for her performance in the film version of A Taste of Honey. Director Tony Richardson (Look Back in Anger), passing up all the established stars who wanted to do the part, put an ad in the paper and submitted to a tumult of unknowns. He picked Rita and drew from her a performance that moved critics on both sides of the Atlantic, and won for her the British film industry's award for the most promising newcomer of the year plus an equity...
Unpadded, Rita Tushingham weighs about 120 lbs. and looks like a soft rubber toy. She is signed for five more pictures, but there are no scripts, and no one knows exactly what she will do. She has a problem because she is now a star and cannot do the small parts that she needs for experience, nor are there many starring parts for little female elves with big wide eyes...
...Taste of Honey. Playwright Shelagh Delaney's story of a wise child in Lancashire slums, who knows her own mother and is fearlessly determined to know herself. Rita Tushingham makes the heroine a kind of Oliver Twist in a maternity dress...