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The Beautiful British
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Joanna Winnifreth who became Anna Lee, lovely to look at in "Hangmen Also Die!'
The lady is a symbol. Her name is Anna Lee. She is England in America — yours to know and cheer forever
BY FREDDA DUDLEY
UNIQUE is the word for Annie. She is blonde, blue-eyed, fragile of appearance and far lovelier than is necessary, even in glamour gummed-up Hollywood. You saw her first with Ronald Colman in RKO's "My Life With Caroline," which depicted her with no more brain than you could carry on the tip of a knife while riding a jeep at full speed. This was a gross libel, because the Lee lady is definitely on the cerebral side.
Her second picture was "How Green Was My Valley," in which she played Roddy McDowall's beloved Bron. After that came "Flying Tigers" in nurse's white, then "Flesh And Fantasy" and "The Commandos Strike At Dawn." But wait till you see her performance in "Hangmen Also Die!"
Now that you have the key to her identity, would you like the key to her life? It's the masculine department of the human race. Proof of this exciting statement will follow immediately.
Miss Lee (then known as Joanna Boniface Winnifreth) at the malleable age of ten was the only distaff member of a boys' school. It came about in this way: Her father was the rector at Ightham, near Sevenoaks, Kent. England, and he was also headmaster of the preparatory school. As there were no feminine educational opportunities located near by, Joanna was taught her lessons with the boys. Also, her hair was cropped exactly as theirs was and she wore the same school toggery.
She played all the games — even to the English version of football — until one of the more embittered spinsters in her father's pastorate protested that this was shocking behavior for a little girl, particularly a parson's daughter. Miss Lee remembers to this day, with quiet wrath, her anguish at being kicked off the first team.
And. as it must befall each of us. Miss Lee's first daring adventure was inspired by a man. He was a gorgeous creature — a lion tamer in a circus. "As I recall him. (Continued on page 95)
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