Line #29 Creator/MargaretNolan


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3	Margaret Ann Nolan (29 October 1943 – 5 October 2020) was an English actress, glamour model and visual artist.
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5	Born in Hampstead, London, Nolan initially studied to be a teacher, but playwright and actor Tom Kempinski, whom she was dating at the time and who was acting with the National Theatre, persuaded her to begin a career in acting. However, she ultimately began her career as a model, being briefly known as "Vicky Kennedy" during her glamour modelling career in the early 1960s.
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7	She would revert to her birth name as soon as acting roles came her way, including ''Film/AHardDaysNight'' with Music/TheBeatles, as the {{Gambler Groupie\|s}} who joins Paul's grandfather at a casino.[[note]]Leading to Paul's grandfather's infamous line, after looks at her ample cleavage, "I bet you're a great swimmer."[[/note]] In 1964, Nolan got the small role of Dink, Bond's masseuse, in the ''Film/JamesBond'' film ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''. However, most memorably, she was also the woman painted gold that appeared in Robert Brownjohn's title sequence, advertisements and the soundtrack album's cover. Incidentally, one of Nolan's television roles around the time was appearing in one of the first episodes of ''Series/TheSaint'' with future Bond actor Creator/RogerMoore.
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9	She was also best known in appearing in six films of the ''Film/CarryOnSeries''. In the 1971 film ''Film/CarryOnAtYourConvenience'', composer Eric Rogers referenced Nolan's appearance in ''Goldfinger'' by using its three-note {{Leitmotif}} on a close-up of her. Nolan was given bigger roles in several 1970s ''Carry On'' films, most sizably in ''Film/CarryOnGirls'', where there may have been another reference to ''Goldfinger'' when Nolan is wearing a ''silver'' bikini while she and Creator/BarbaraWindsor are cat-fighting on a hotel floor.
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11	She would retire from acting in the 1980s to take care of her family, after which she would begin a new career as a visual artist, producing photo-collages assembled from cut-outs of her early glamour modelling photographs, which were sometimes grotesque and {{deconstruct\|ion}}ed her sex symbol image. However, she would make a return to acting, when Creator/EdgarWright cast her in his film ''Film/LastNightInSoho'', who would later describe her unique status of having appeared in a [[Music/TheBeatles Beatles]] film, a Film/JamesBond film and in several ''Carry On'' films as making her "the middle of Venn diagram of everything cool in the 60's".
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13	It would sadly end up being her last role, as Nolan passed away from cancer on 5 October 2020 at age 76.
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15	!!Films with pages on TV Tropes:
16	* ''Film/AHardDaysNight'' (1964) as Girl at Casino
17	* ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'' (1964) as Dink
18	* ''Film/CarryOnSeries''
19	** ''Film/CarryOnCowboy'' (1965) as Miss Jones
20	** ''Film/CarryOnHenry'' (1971) as Buxom Lass
21	** ''Film/CarryOnAtYourConvenience'' (1971) as Popsy
22	** ''Film/CarryOnMatron'' (1972) as Mrs. Tucker
23	** ''Film/CarryOnGirls'' (1973) as Dawn Brakes
24	** ''Film/CarryOnDick'' (1974) as Lady Daley
25	* ''Film/PromiseHerAnything'' (1966) as Mail-Order Film Girl
26	* ''Film/TheGreatStTriniansTrainRobbery'' (1966) as Susie Naphill
27	* ''Film/WitchfinderGeneral'' (1968) as Girl at Inn
28	* ''Film/TheBestHouseInLondon'' (1969) as Prostitute
29	* ''Film/{{Toomorrow}}'' (1970) as Johnson
30	* ''Film/{{Frenzy\|1972}}'' (1972) as Young Woman (DeletedScene)
31	* ''Film/SkyBandits'' (1986) as Waitress
32	* ''Film/LastNightInSoho'' (2021) as Sage Barmaid
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34	!!TV series with pages on TV Tropes:
35	* ''Series/TheSaint'' (1963, episode "Iris") as Daisy
36	* ''Series/DangerMan'' (1965, episode "Parallel Lines Sometimes Meet") as Mrs. Elliot
37	* ''Series/AdamAdamantLives'' (1966, episode "More Deadly than the Sword") as Sadie
38	* ''Series/ThePersuaders'' (1971, episode "Element of Risk") as Sophie
39	* ''Series/SteptoeAndSon'' (1972, episode "A Star is Born") as Nemone Wagstaff
40	* ''Series/WhateverHappenedToTheLikelyLads'' (1973, episode "I'll Never Forget Whatshername") as Jackie
41	* ''Series/LastOfTheSummerWine'' (1973, episode "Pâté and Chips") as Connie
42	* ''Series/TheSweeney'' (1975, episode "Thin Ice") as Betty
43	* ''Literature/BridesheadRevisited'' (1981, episode "The Bleak Light of Day") as Effie

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