Vocally she could range from the plumminess of a duchess to the raucous expletives of the charwomen she used to meet as a footloose single girl sharing a Mayfair flat with a West End prostitute. But in person, as the journalist Gyles Brandreth recorded in his diary, that husky, purring voice is for real.
On the London stage she had a notable misfire in 1963 with So Much to Remember, a feeble revue that staggered from the Establishment to the Vaudeville in the West End before its fatal collapse. No actress languishes like Fenella Fielding, nodded Eric Shorter, the Telegraphs man in the stalls. Up go the eyelashes with a Kensington flutter; and down another register comes the Bagshot voice.
Films seemed to offer her a more reliable channel f…
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