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“Actresses are passive objects waiting to be picked up by the profession and used... When you’re in work, you’re vitally important - to the play and the company. You’re served by makeup people and wardrobe people and treated like a valuable property. Then the play is finished and suddenly you’re on the dole. Most girls leave the profession because all their drive, ambition and real love of the theatre are beaten by the humiliation of the dole queue, and by rejection, and having to answer the question from friends and relatives that strikes like a spear through the heart – 'Are you working at the moment?‘“ [1]
In 1976, Marshall was researcher and script editor for Granada Television’s Crown Court [6] and later went on to direct episodes of the show. In 1978 she directed Empire Road , a BBC Two weekly serial, [7] and other directing work included episodes of Jackanory Playhouse , [8] ITV Playhouse , BBC2 Play of the Week, [9] and Play for Today . [10] In his memoirs, the actor Norman Beaton recalled Marshall from their time together on Empire Road: “An attractive blonde, she had a disarming smile which concealed a will of iron.” [11]
In 1989, Marshall directed a London stage production of Peter King's The Health Farm. [12]
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This is a list of British television related events from 1979.
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