NEWSFLASH: Happy Birthday – Kay Kendall

By Cleaver Patterson Last updated May 21, 2020

Happy birthday to British actress Kay Kendall, who would have been 94 today. Born May 21st, 1926, in Withernsea, Yorkshire, she died tragically of myeloid leukaemia, on September 6th, 1959, in London. Married to Rex Harrison, her most famous screen role was as the trumpet playing girlfriend of Kenneth More, in the cult comedy classic Genevieve (1953).

Kay Kendall blows her trumpet, in Genevieve (1953)

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Cleaver loves movies and watches most things, though he favours films with a darker air. A contributor to various books, magazines and websites, he has written for The Sunday Times Magazine, L.A. Review of Books and We Belong Dead Magazine amongst others. His book - Don't Go Upstairs! A Room-by-Room Tour of the House in Horror Movies - which studies the role of the house in horror cinema, was recently published by McFarland.

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