Lally Bowers

Lally Bowers was a British actress, born on January 21, 1917 in Oldham, Lancashire, England. Bowers was educated at Hulme Grammar School in Oldham and worked as a secretary before walking-on and understudying at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. As a professional actress, she appeared in hundreds of stage productions, films and television programmes and rep at Manchester, Sheffield, Southport, Guilford, Liverpool, Birmingham and the Bristol Old Vic. Her London debut came in 1944 and her many West End successes included "Dinner With the Family" for which she won a Clarence Derwent award in 1957, "Difference of Opinion", "The Killing of Sister George", "Dear Octopus" and "The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B". She is perhaps best remembered for her role as the mother of the Prince (Richard Chamberlain) in "The Slipper and the Rose". Bowers died on July 18, 1984 in London, England.

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