Vanda Hudson
Vanda Hudson | |
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Born | Wanda Maria Zaleska 7 October 1933 |
Died | 2 April 2004 | (aged 70)
Occupation(s) | actress and cabaret artiste |
Years active | 1955–1971 |
Vanda Hudson (born Wanda Maria Zaleska; 7 October 1933 – 2 April 2004[1][2]) was a Polish-born British film and television actress, cabaret entertainer and model. She was noted for playing blonde bombshell roles.
Career
[edit]Born in Slaskie, Poland, Hudson emigrated to the UK in 1948 and after working as a cabaret singer found her first acting role in the 1955 BBC TV drama Miss Patterson.[3]
From 1957–1969 she appeared in a dozen British films including Sapphire (1959), Bottoms Up (1960), Strip Tease Murder (1961) and Jungle Street Girls (1961), in which she sang "I'm Only a Girl" (Harold Geller/Perry Ford). In 1960 she appeared in the cult film Circus of Horrors in which she played a girl stabbed to death by a knife-thrower.
In 1959 she wrote a weekly column "Diary of a Glamour Girl" for Picturegoer magazine."[4]
On TV she appeared in The Vise (1954) and The Avengers (1961).
In 1971 she appeared in cabaret in London at the Astor Club[5] and in the review "Stand By For Take Off" at the Casino de Paris club.[6][7]
Personal life
[edit]She was married to Jan Pikulski with whom she had a son.[8]
After retiring from show business she ran the restaurant "Turpin’s" in Hampstead, London.[1]
Filmography
[edit]- Greetings Cards (Pathé short newsreel, 1955) as self[9]
- Seven Thunders (1957) as minor role (uncredited)[citation needed]
- Innocent Sinners (1958) as minor role (uncredited)[citation needed]
- Sapphire (1959) as girl at the Tulip Club (uncredited)[citation needed]
- The Heart of a Man (1959) as Cha Cha (billing: Vanda)
- Libel (1959) as girl in street
- Bottoms Up (1960) as Matron (billing: Vanda)
- Circus of Horrors (1960) as Magda von Meck
- Ticket to Paradise (1961) as Gina
- Strip Tease Murder (1961) as Angelin (billing: Wanda Hudson)
- Jungle Street Girls (1961) as Lucy Bell
- Father Came Too! (1964) as Nell Gwynne
- Happening (1968) (billing: Wanda Hudson)
- A Promise of Bed (1969) as Susan Stress
TV appearances
[edit]- Miss Patterson (1955) as girl
- The Vise, S02E11, "Death Mask" (1954) as Toni
- The Avengers, S01E19, "Double Danger" (1961) as Lola Carrington
References
[edit]- ^ a b McGillivray, David (20 December 2004). "Gone but not forgotten". The Stage and Television Today. Retrieved 14 January 2025.
- ^ "Vanda HUDSON". Film Index International. Retrieved 14 January 2025 – via ProQuest.
- ^ "Miss Patterson". BBC Programme Index. Retrieved 14 January 2025.
- ^ "A Girl's Gotta Live". Picturegoer. Vol. 38. 4 November 1959. p. 4 – via ProQuest.
- ^ "Current Bills". Variety. Vol. 261, no. 12. 3 February 1971. p. 62 – via ProQuest.
- ^ "Vanda Hudson – star of Get Ready For Take-Off at the CASINO DE PARIS". The Stage and Television Today. No. 4688. 18 February 1971. p. 6 – via ProQuest.
- ^ MacCarthy, Fiona (13 January 1971). "40 men and a girl – and nobody noticed me". Evening Standard. p. 15. Retrieved 14 January 2025 – via ProQuest.
- ^ "Vanda's son goes home with mother". Evening Standard. 15 July 1960. p. 13. Retrieved 14 January 2025.
- ^ "Greetings Cards". British Pathé. Retrieved 15 January 2025.
External links
[edit]- Vanda Hudson at IMDb