Kay Walsh was an English actress and dancer. She grew up in Pimlico, brought up by her grandmother. She began her career as a dancer in West End music halls, making her film debut in How's Chances? in a small part, and had a larger role in another 1934 film, Get Your Man. She continued to act in "quota quickies" films for several years. Walsh first met David Lean, then a film editor, in 1936, during the filming of Secret Of Stamboul. They began a relationship and Walsh broke off her engagement to Pownell Pellew. Walsh and Lean married on 23 November 1940. She moved on to higher-prestige... films with appearances in two Noël Coward-scripted films, In Which We Serve and This Happy Breed , both directed by Lean. Walsh had campaigned for Lean to receive co-director credit on In Which We Serve. Walsh contributed dialogue to the 1938 film of Pygmalion, and also devised the scenario for the closing sequence of Lean's film adaptation of Great Expectations , for which she received a writing credit on the latter film.
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| Birthdate: | August 27, 1911 |
| Birthplace: | Chelsea |
| Date of death: | April 16, 2005 |
| Height: | 5' 4" |
| Also known as: | Kathleen Walsh |