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Jane Arden (born Norah Patricia Morris; 29 October 1927 – 20 December 1982) was a British film director, actress, singer/songwriter and poet, who gained note in the 1950s. Born in Pontypool, Monmouthshire, she studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
One of the most outspoken radical feminist voices in British theatre and cinema in the 1960s and 70s, Jane Arden has since been virtually silenced by near-invisibility: her books long out of print, her plays unperformed, and her films unscreened until a belated revival in 2009.
Jane Arden. Writer: Anti-Clock. Jane Arden was born in Wales in 1927 and left for London in her teens. She trained at RADA and quickly began working as an actress and playwright.
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- Wales, UK
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- North Yorkshire, England, UK
Aug 20, 2019 · Jane Arden (a pseudonym possibly drawn from a ‘girl reporter’ comic strip, or a correspondent of Mary Wollstonecraft, or both, or neither) was born in 1927 and left the Welsh town of Pontypool at 16 to join RADA, a drama school in London.
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Jane Arden began tracing female oppression in 1966 when she wrote a script for the film The Logic Game (1965). It was described as a "surrealist puzzle" attempting to locate the isolation of women in the context of bourgeois marriage.
- October 19, 1927
- December 20, 1982
Feb 25, 2022 · The anti-psychiatry movement – an uneasy coalition of hippies, libertarians, existentialists and political radicals – was at its height. Arden was familiar with the central thinkers of the movement, particularly R.D. Laing, who happened to be her exact contemporary, both of them born in 1927.
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Jane Arden. Actress: A Dinner of Herbs. Born in the UK, she spent her childhood in Hong Kong and returned to the UK to train at the Theatre Arts School in Sussex.
