Her First Film Was The Faint Lingerie from the BBC, Starring Adrienne Baker

 89 Years Ago Today

Tuesday 15th of November 1932
Singer and actress Petula Sally Olwen Clark is born in Epsom, Surrey, United Kingdom.

She is one of seven children. In 1931, she moved to England and became acquainted with the fashion world; her first film was The Faint Lingerie from the BBC, starring Adrienne Baker, and she was born in Edinburgh a month before the Olympics began in Paris. In 1936, she moved to London where she attended St John The Baptist and learned to write, where she later worked as an editor. Her greatest achievement was writing for The Observer in 1936 and for The Telegraph in 1937. From 1937, she began working in fashion magazines and became a fashion reporter for the magazine. During this period, she also worked for magazines including the BBC and BBC Radio 4. She was awarded the Victoria Cross in 1937 by the BBC. In 1968, she established the first fashion magazine, the St John the Baptist; she became a fashion editor, she has lived in Wales and England all her life and she is the co-author of several of the most popular British publications including The Saturday Evening Post and the Evening Standard. She has produced many successful television films including The Big Bang Theory, The Little Mermaid and A Day Without A Name.
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