A vintage 5x3 page from an autograph album signed in person by Jill Bennett (1926 - 1990), the deceased English actress who was Jacoba Brink, Bibi's skating coach, in the Bond film For Your Eyes Only (1981). Bennett appeared in many British films, including Lust for Life (1956), The Criminal (1960), The Nanny (1965), The Skull (1965), Inadmissible Evidence (1968), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968), Julius Caesar (1970), I Want What I Want (1972), Mister Quilp (1975), Full Circle (1977), Britannia Hospital (1982), Lady Jane (1986) and Hawks (1988). Her final film performance was in The Sheltering Sky (1990). Divorced from her second husband, the playwright John Osborne, she committed suicide, aged 58, having long-suffered from depression. In 1992, Bennett's ashes, along with those of her friend, the actress Rachel Roberts (who also died by suicide, in 1980), were scattered by their friend Lindsay Anderson on the waters of the River Thames in London. Anderson, with several of the two actresses' professional colleagues and friends, took a boat trip down the Thames, and the ashes were scattered while musician Alan Price sang the song "Is That All There Is?".

On the reverse is an autograph by actor John Standing

Jill Bennett

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