Jane Arden

Jane Arden

Born: October 29, 1927
Died: December 20, 1982
in Pontypool, Wales, UK
Jane Arden (29 October 1927 – 20 December 1982) was a Welsh film director, actress, screenwriter, playwright, songwriter, and poet.

Arden was born Norah Patricia Morris at 47 Twmpath Road, Pontypool, Monmouthshire.[1]

She studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, England, and began her career in the late 1940s on television and in the cinema.

She appeared in a television production of Romeo and Juliet in the late 1940s, and then starred in two British crime films: Black Memory (1947) directed by Oswald Mitchell – which provided South African-born actor Sid James with his first screen credit (billed as Sydney James) – and Richard M. Grey's A Gunman Has Escaped (1948). There are copies of both films in the BFI National Archive, but the copy of A Gunman Has Escaped is incomplete.

Movies for Jane Arden...

Vibration
Title: Vibration
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Uses two young western people as the mediators between the new gestalt initiated by Jung, Reich and Frederick Perles, and the magnetic chain of a Sufic master, finding that the East and the West, the scientific and the mystical, begin to hold together in a truly organic way.
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The Other Side of the Underneath
Title: The Other Side of the Underneath
Character: Therapist
Released: November 21, 1972
Type: Movie
A therapist looks into the mind of a woman diagnosed as schizophrenic and finds, not madness, but tortured sexual guilt created by the taboos of society.
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Separation
Title: Separation
Character: Jane
Released: October 19, 1968
Type: Movie
Separation concerns the inner life of a woman during a period of breakdown – marital, and possibly mental. Her past and (possible?) future are revealed through a fragmented but brilliantly achieved and often humorous narrative, in which dreams and desires are as real as the ‘swinging’ London (complete with Procul Harum music and Mark Boyle light show) of the film’s setting.
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Exit 19
Title: Exit 19
Character: Maserati Passenger
Released: August 8, 1966
Type: Movie
A frank dialogue on sexual likes and dislikes that place between a man and his mistress in bed together.
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The Interior Decorator
Title: The Interior Decorator
Character: Susan Carter-Carter
Released: April 14, 1965
Type: Movie
An interior decorator takes a millionaire's wife on a guided tour of her new home.
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Dali In New York
Title: Dali In New York
Character: Herself
Released: February 21, 1965
Type: Movie
Filmmaker Jack Bond and Salvador Dali got together at Christmas 1965 to make Dali in New York, a highly entertaining film. Dali devoted two weeks of his life to creating extraordinary scenes for the film, performing "manifestations" with a plaster cast. A thousand ants and one million dollars in cash. When he confronts the feminist writer, Jane Arden, sparks fly. "You are my Slave! I am not your slave. Everybody is my slave." Dali recalls his meeting with Freud, "The last human relationship ever" About his wife, 'But for Gala I would be lying in a gutter somewhere covered with lice" Jim Desmond's dazzling cinematography captures the great artist painting as Flamenco virtuoso Manitas de Plata performs. Dali in New York is a rare treat for anyone who loves film and the living theatre of Dali's surreal universe.
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In Camera
Title: In Camera
Character: Inez
Released: November 4, 1964
Type: Movie
A 1964 BBC adaptation of Sartre's "No Exit."
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A Gunman Has Escaped
Title: A Gunman Has Escaped
Character: Jane
Released: January 1, 1948
Type: Movie
In this crime drama, three gem thieves must get out of London after they kill a man. Friction between the men increases as they hide out on a farm and then get back on the road. Trouble ensues when one of the three begins suspecting the others of treachery.
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Black Memory
Title: Black Memory
Character: Sally Davidson
Released: July 1, 1947
Type: Movie
Cockney Danny Cruff is the son of a man wrongly accused of murder. Danny decides to solve the mystery himself by hobnobbing with London's underworld. To do this, he poses as a juvenile delinquent.