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Vida Hope (16 December 1910 – 23 December 1963) was a British film actress.〔(Profile ), ftvdb.bfi.org.uk; accessed 4 April 2014.〕 ==Life and career== Born in Liverpool, Lancashire to theatrical parents she travelled widely as a child.〔Some of the Company – Vida Hope (autobiographical note). In : ''Late Joys at The Players' Theatre''. T V Boardman & Co Ltd, London, New York, 1943., p83〕 She was “forbidden to go on the stage“ and therefore became a typist in an advertising office aged 16, going on to write copy.〔 At this time however she took every chance she got to take part in amateur dramatics, managing to get the lead roles in plays by Shaw, Ibsen and Chekhov.〔 Following the role of the Fairy Wish-Fulfilment in the pantomime ''The Babes in the Wood'' at the Unity Theatre, she was offered a role by Herbert Farjeon in a revue ''The Little Revue'' in 1939, and worked in his revues for over three years.〔 She gave much support and formed a strong friendship with Dirk Bogarde, in his first West End play in 1940, ''Diversions''.〔Bogarde, Dirk. ''A Postillion Struck by Lightning''. Triad/Panther Books, Frogmore, 1978, p268.〕 During the Second World War she became a regular performer at the Players' Theatre, where her repertoire included 'Casey Jones', 'Daddy Wouldn’t Buy Me a Bow-wow', 'Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron', 'The Lady Wasn't Going that Way' and 'You May Pet Me as Much as You Please'.〔List of Songs. In : ''Late Joys at The Players' Theatre''. T V Boardman & Co Ltd, London, New York, 1943, p113-115.〕 She played a leading role alongside Alec Guinness in the Academy Award nominated film The Man in the White Suit, as Birtha, in 1951. Hope appeared in a range of roles in a production of ''Peer Gynt'' at the New Theatre in London (1944-45) and later directed Valmouth at the Lyric, Hammersmith (1958) and The Boy Friend at the Bristol Hippodrome (1958–59)〔(List of appearances for Vida Hope at the Theatricalia site ) accessed 10 April 2015.〕 She was married to the film editor and director Derek Twist and appeared in several of his films. She died on 23 December 1963 in Chelmsford, Essex, in a road accident at the age of 53. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vida Hope」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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