But I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was not a very happy time for me.

What a thrill it was to play opposite Maurice Evans in this brilliant, dazzling musical, based on the life of two of the greatest personalities in stage history.

I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.

It was one of the marvellous feelings of the film, having the music going in your head while doing scenes.

Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track.

After all, a job isn't worth doing unless you enjoy it.

But I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was not a very happy time for me.