{{Short description|English actress (1936–2023)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2022}} {{Use British English|date=March 2012}} {{Infobox person | image = Shirley Ann Field.jpg | image_size = | caption = Field in 2014 | name = Shirley Anne Field | birth_name = Shirley Broomfield | birth_date = {{Birth date|1936|6|27|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Forest Gate]], [[Essex]], England | occupation = Actress | death_date = {{Death date and age|2023|12|10|1936|6|27|df=y}} | death_place = | children = 1 | years_active = 1955–2023 | spouse = {{marriage|Charles Crichton-Stuart|1967|1975|end=divorced}} }}
'''Shirley Anne Field''' (born '''Shirley Broomfield'''; 27 June 1936 – 10 December 2023) was an English actress who performed on stage, film and television from 1955 until her death. She was prominent during the [[British New Wave]].
==Early life== Shirley Broomfield was born in [[Forest Gate]], [[Essex]] (in the [[London Borough of Newham]])<ref>{{cite web|title=The Big Interview: Shirley Anne Field|url=http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/what-s-on/theatre/the-big-interview-shirley-anne-field-1-4540443|website=The Yorkshire Post|accessdate=13 November 2017|archive-date=11 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190411231657/https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/what-s-on/theatre/the-big-interview-shirley-anne-field-1-4540443|url-status=live}}</ref> on 27 June 1936.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2023/12/11/shirley-anne-field-alfie-saturday-night-and-sunday-morning/|title=Shirley Anne Field, Sixties beauty who starred in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – obituary|date=11 December 2023|work=The Telegraph|url-access=subscription}}</ref> She was the third of four children, with two elder sisters and a younger brother, Earnest "Guy" Broomfield (c. 1939–1999).<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=October 4, 1999 |title=Star's brother shot dead in US |url=https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/6107723.stars-brother-shot-dead-in-us/ |access-date=December 15, 2023 |website=[[The Bolton News]] |language=en}}</ref>
At the age of six, Shirley was placed in the [[National Children's Home]] at [[Edgworth]], near [[Bolton]], [[Lancashire]], and four years later was moved to another children's home in [[Blackburn]], where she attended Blakey Moor School for Girls.<ref name=":0" /> She subsequently returned to Edgworth until she was 15, when she moved to a children's home hostel in London, training as a [[Copy typist|typist]] while still attending school.<ref name=":0" />
==Acting career== ===Early roles=== After a course at the [[Lucie Clayton Charm Academy|Lucie Clayton School and Model Agency]], Field became a photographic model for [[pin-up]] magazines like ''[[Reveille (newspaper)|Reveille]]'' and ''[[Titbits]]''. She was subsequently spotted by Bill Watts, who ran a theatrical agency and obtained for her roles in late 1950s British films, usually uncredited.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}
Field first appearance in a film was as an extra in ''[[Simon and Laura]]'' (1955). She had small parts in ''[[All for Mary]]'' (1955), ''[[Lost (1956 film)|Lost]]'' (1956), ''[[Yield to the Night]]'' (1956) (directed by [[J. Lee Thompson]]), ''[[It's Never Too Late (1956 film)|It's Never Too Late]]'' (1956), ''[[It's a Wonderful World (1956 film)|It's a Wonderful World]]'' (1956), ''[[The Weapon (1956 film)|The Weapon]]'' (1956), ''[[Loser Takes All (film)|Loser Takes All]]'' (1956), ''[[The Silken Affair]]'' (1956), ''[[Dry Rot (film)|Dry Rot]]'' (1956), ''[[The Good Companions (1957 film)|The Good Companions]]'' (1957) (again for Thompson), ''[[Seven Thunders (film)|Seven Thunders]]'' (1957), and ''[[The Flesh Is Weak]]'' (1957). She was in episodes of ''[[The New Adventures of Martin Kane]]'' (1957) and ''International Detective''.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}
Field's first sizeable film role was in ''[[Horrors of the Black Museum]]'' (1959). She had minor parts in ''[[Once More, with Feeling!]]'' (1960) and ''[[And the Same to You]]'' (1960). Field had a larger role in the controversial ''[[Peeping Tom (1960 film)|Peeping Tom]]'' (1960). She appeared on stage in ''The Lily White Boys'' with Albert Finney.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}
===Stardom=== {{stack|[[File:Shirley-ann-field-trailer.jpg|thumb|280px|Field (age 27) in trailer for ''[[Kings of the Sun]]'' (1963).]]}} In 1960, Field's breakthrough came when she was chosen by [[Tony Richardson]] to play the role of model Tina Lapford in ''[[The Entertainer (1960 film)|The Entertainer]]'' (1960), starring [[Laurence Olivier]], distributed by Bryanston Films. Half a century later, she clarified that she did not owe her break to Olivier: "It was Tony Richardson I owe it all to."<ref name="retro">{{cite magazine |url=http://www.powell-pressburger.org/Reviews/ShirleyAnneField/CinemaRetro.html |magazine=Cinema Retro |title=Field of dreams [Interview with Shirley Ann Field] |first=Mark |last=Mawston |date=2009-09-01 }}</ref>
Field had a supporting role in ''[[Beat Girl]]'' (1960), then appeared in probably her best known role as Doreen, the would-be girlfriend of rebellious Arthur Seaton (played by [[Albert Finney]]), in the [[British New Wave|New Wave]] film for Bryanston, ''[[Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (film)|Saturday Night and Sunday Morning]]'' (1960). Director [[Karel Reisz]] described her as "difficult to play with".<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9780060152352/Bells-Sunday-Rachel-Roberts-Journals-0060152354/plp |title=9780060152352: No Bells on Sunday: The Rachel Roberts Journals - AbeBooks - Rachel Roberts: 0060152354 |website=abebooks.co.uk |language=en-GB |access-date=2019-12-22 |archive-date=22 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191222201350/https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9780060152352/Bells-Sunday-Rachel-Roberts-Journals-0060152354/plp |url-status=live }}</ref> Co-star Finney had previously had a small role in ''The Entertainer''. The film was a huge hit.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}
Field starred alongside [[Kenneth More]] in ''[[Man in the Moon (film)|Man in the Moon]]'' (1960).<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/forgotten-british-film-studios-the-rank-organisation-1960/|magazine=Filmink|date=4 July 2025|access-date=4 July 2025|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|title=Forgotten British Film Studios: The Rank Organisation, 1960}}</ref> With those three big film starring roles in 1960, she became one of the very few actors ever to have their name above the titles in all the major cinemas around [[Leicester Square]] simultaneously.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/life/570810/The-Entertainer-actress-Shirley-Anne-Field-interview |title=Whatever happened to...The Entertainer's Shirley Anne Field |website=www.express.co.uk |date=2015-04-18 |access-date=2018-07-17 |first=Tony |last=Padman |archive-date=17 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180717213023/https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/life/570810/The-Entertainer-actress-Shirley-Anne-Field-interview |url-status=live }}</ref>
Although offered a role in ''[[A Kind of Loving (film)|A Kind of Loving]]'' (1962), Field turned it down to play the female lead in a [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]] financed film, ''[[The War Lover]]'' (1962), with [[Steve McQueen]]. Four decades later she admitted that the shoot was not ideal:<ref name="retro"/> {{blockquote|text=It was the stuff dreams are made of, but I didn't get to enjoy it like I should have. When I arrived I was so panicked and tired and the sun was just too yellow and the orange juice too orange. It was very stressful and I had a headache all the time. I just wasn't used to it. I didn't have anyone to look after me.}}
In the UK Field had the lead in ''[[Lunch Hour]]'' (1962), which was one of her favourite films.<ref name="bbcradio2011">{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00gqv3y |title=Interview with Shirley Ann Field about the movie on ''BBC Radio 4'' |date=2011-04-15 |accessdate=2013-03-19 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20181011164247/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00gqv3y |archivedate=2018-10-11 |first=Tom |last=Hiddleston }}</ref><ref name="weiler1962">{{cite news |title=View from a Local Vantage Point |first=A. H. |last=Weiler |work=The New York Times |date=1962-11-04 |page=X9 }}</ref>
For Hammer films, Field starred in ''[[The Damned (1963 film)|The Damned]]'' (1963), directed by [[Joseph Losey]]. She went to Hollywood to play the female lead in an epic directed by J. Lee Thompson, ''[[Kings of the Sun]]'' (1963). Thompson had her under personal contract at this stage.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Hedda Predicts Movie Boom Within Year |last=Hopper |first=Hedda |date=1962-12-15 |work=Chicago Daily Tribune |page=1 }}</ref> She says she turned down roles in a [[James Bond movie]] and an [[Elvis Presley]] movie.<ref name="retro"/>
Field went to Italy to appear in ''[[Marcia nuziale|The Wedding March]]'' (1966), then back in England made ''[[Doctor in Clover]]'' (1966) and ''[[Alfie (1966 film)|Alfie]]'' (1966). She had a supporting role in ''[[Hell Is Empty]]'' (1967).<ref>{{cite journal |first=David |last=Wynne-Morgan |journal=London Life; London |date=1966-07-30 |pages=10, 12 |title=title unknown }}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|magazine=Filmink|date=11 August 2025|access-date=11 August 2025|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/forgotten-british-film-studios-the-rank-organisation-1965-to-1967/|title=Forgotten British Film Studios: The Rank Organisation, 1965 to 1967}}</ref>
==Later career== Field starred in ''[[With Love in Mind]]'' (1970) and ''[[A Touch of the Other]]'' (1970), then made ''[[House of the Living Dead]]'' (1974).<ref>WITH LOVE IN MIND Monthly Film Bulletin; London Vol. 37, Iss. 432, (1 Jan 1970): 171.</ref>
By the late 1970s Field was more commonly seen on TV, in shows such as ''Centre Play'', ''Shoestring'', ''Buccaneer'', ''Never the Twain'' and a long run on ''Santa Barbara'' as well as TV movies like ''[[Two by Forsyth]]''. She had roles in films, ''inter alia'', ''[[My Beautiful Laundrette]]'' (1985), ''[[Shag (film)|Shag]]'' (1989), ''[[Getting It Right (film)|Getting It Right]]'' (1989), ''[[The Rachel Papers]]'' (1989), ''[[Hear My Song]]'' (1991), ''[[U.F.O. (1993 film)|U.F.O.]]'' (1993), ''[[Taking Liberty]]'' (1993), ''[[Loving Deadly]]'' (1994), and ''[[At Risk (1994 film)|At Risk]]'' (1994).{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}
Her later television roles included ''[[Anna Lee: Headcase]]'' (1993), ''Murder She Wrote'', ''Lady Chatterly'', ''Rumble'', ''Bramwell'', ''Barbara'', ''Madson'', ''Dalziel and Pascoe'', ''The Bill'', ''Where the Heart Is'', ''Waking the Dead'', ''Monarch of the Glen'', ''Last of the Summer Wine'', ''Doctors''. Her most recent films are ''The Kid'', ''The Power of Three'' and ''Beautiful Relics''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/interview-shirley-anne-field/|website=Den of Geek|title=Interview: Shirley Anne Field|date=23 March 2009|access-date=5 November 2020|archive-date=25 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125023439/https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/interview-shirley-anne-field/|url-status=live}}</ref>
== Personal life and death == On 7 July 1967, Field married the aristocratic [[RAF]] pilot and racing driver Charles Crichton-Stuart (1939–2001). They had a daughter, Nicola Crichton-Stuart, who was born in 1969. The marriage ended in divorce in 1975. Her autobiography, ''A Time for Love'', was published in 1991.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/532340/index.html |work=BFI |title=ScreenOnline: "Field, Shirley Anne" |accessdate=2012-12-07 |first=Brian |last=McFarlane |archive-date=24 February 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180224011026/http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/532340/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
On 14 November 1993, Field appeared on [[BBC Radio 4]]'s ''[[Desert Island Discs]]'', talking to [[Sue Lawley]] about her upbringing in different children's homes in [[Northern England]] and her success as an actress in the 1960s. She also reminisced about her friendship with [[John F. Kennedy]] and an ill-fated date with [[Frank Sinatra]]. Her record choices included [[Beethoven]]'s [[Piano Concerto No. 1 (Beethoven)|Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major]] and pieces by [[Rachmaninov]], [[Elvis Presley]] and [[the Carpenters]].<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0093wnq BBC4, Desert Island Disc, 14 November 1993: "Shirley Anne Field"] Retrieved 7 December 2012</ref>
In September 1999 Field's brother Guy was killed in his [[San Francisco]] home, by his girlfriend's son Harry Dalsey, the son of DHL founder [[Adrian Dalsey]]. Field flew to the US to begin a civil action alleging wrongful death.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Son-of-DHL-Founder-s-Widow-Held-in-Walnut-Creek-2910764.php | title=Son of DHL Founder's Widow Held in Walnut Creek Slaying | publisher=SFGate | date=6 September 1999 | accessdate=11 January 2014 | author=Lee, Henry | archive-date=11 April 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190411215212/https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Son-of-DHL-Founder-s-Widow-Held-in-Walnut-Creek-2910764.php | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/SHIRLEY+IN+BATTLE+FOR+DEAD+BROTHER.-a075364676 | title=SHIRLEY IN BATTLE FOR DEAD BROTHER | publisher=Farlex | work=The Free Library | date=8 June 2001 | accessdate=11 January 2014 | author=Kerr, Jane | archive-date=12 January 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140112005958/http://www.thefreelibrary.com/SHIRLEY+IN+BATTLE+FOR+DEAD+BROTHER.-a075364676 | url-status=live }}</ref>
In the September 2009 issue of ''[[Cinema Retro]]'', there was a long interview with Field, where she candidly talked about her childhood and the making of ''[[Peeping Tom (1960 film)|Peeping Tom]]'', ''[[The Entertainer (1960 film)|The Entertainer]]'', ''[[Beat Girl]]'' and ''[[The War Lover]]''.<ref>[http://www.powell-pressburger.org/Reviews/ShirleyAnneField/CinemaRetroSAF1gb.html Cinema Retro, September 2009: ''Field of Dreams''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004065529/http://www.powell-pressburger.org/Reviews/ShirleyAnneField/CinemaRetroSAF1gb.html |date=4 October 2013 }} Retrieved 7 December 2012</ref>
Field died on 10 December 2023, at the age of 87.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Murray |first1=Tom |title=Shirley Anne Field, The Entertainer and Alfie actor, dead at 87 |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/shirley-anne-field-death-actress-alfie-b2462179.html |access-date=11 December 2023 |work=The Independent |date=11 December 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/12/11/actress-shirley-anne-field-dies-dead-age-87/|title=Actress Shirley Anne Field dies aged 87|first=Telegraph|last=Reporters|date=11 December 2023|via=www.telegraph.co.uk|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/dec/11/actor-shirley-anne-field-dies|title=Stage and screen actor Shirley Anne Field dies aged 87|first=P. A.|last=Media|work=The Guardian |date=11 December 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67687117|title=Shirley Anne Field: Alfie actress dies aged 87|date=11 December 2023|via=www.bbc.co.uk}}</ref>
==Filmography== ===Film=== {| class="wikitable" ! Years !! Title !! Role !! Notes |- |rowspan=3|1955 || ''[[Simon and Laura]]'' || Extra || uncredited |- | ''[[All for Mary]]'' || Young Woman on Aeroplane || uncredited |- | ''[[Lost (1956 film)|Lost]]'' || Miss Carter || uncredited |- |rowspan=7|1956 || ''[[Yield to the Night]]'' || Extra || uncredited |- | ''[[It's Never Too Late (1956 film)|It's Never Too Late]]'' || Extra || uncredited |- | ''[[It's a Wonderful World (1956 film)|It's a Wonderful World]]'' || Pretty Girl || |- | ''[[The Weapon (1956 film)|The Weapon]]'' || Girl in Nightclub || uncredited |- | ''[[Loser Takes All (film)|Loser Takes All]]'' || Girl at Roulette Table || uncredited |- | ''[[The Silken Affair]]'' || Young Lady || uncredited |- | ''[[Dry Rot (film)|Dry Rot]]'' || Waitress in Cafe || uncredited |- |rowspan=3|1957 || ''[[The Good Companions (1957 film)|The Good Companions]]'' || Redhead || |- | ''[[The Flesh Is Weak]]'' || Susan || |- | ''[[Seven Thunders (film)|Seven Thunders]]'' || Prostitute || uncredited |- |rowspan=2|1959 || ''[[Horrors of the Black Museum]]'' || Angela Banks || |- | ''[[Upstairs and Downstairs]]'' || Passenger || uncredited |- |rowspan=8|1960 || ''[[Once More, with Feeling!]]'' || Angela Hopper || |- | ''[[And the Same to You]]'' || Iris Collins || |- | ''[[Peeping Tom (1960 film)|Peeping Tom]]'' || Pauline Shields || |- | ''[[The Entertainer (1960 film)|The Entertainer]]'' || Tina Lapford || |- | ''[[Beat Girl]]'' || Dodo || |- | ''[[Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (film)|Saturday Night and Sunday Morning]]'' || Doreen || |- | ''[[Man in the Moon (film)|Man in the Moon]]'' || Polly || |- | ''[[Jungle Street]]'' || Jaqui || |- |rowspan=2|1962 || ''[[The War Lover]]'' || Daphne || |- | ''[[The Damned (1963 film)|The Damned]]'' || Joan || |- |rowspan=2|1963 || ''[[Kings of the Sun]]'' || Ixchel || |- | ''[[Lunch Hour]]'' || Girl ||<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://filmstore.bfi.org.uk/acatalog/info_19037.html |title="Flipside 017: Lunch Hour (Dual Format Edition)" by James Hill, at filmstore.bfi.org.uk |access-date=2 August 2011 |archive-date=1 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110801143802/http://filmstore.bfi.org.uk/acatalog/info_19037.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> |- |1965 || ''[[Marcia nuziale|The Wedding March]]'' || Laure || |- |rowspan=2|1966 || ''[[Doctor in Clover]]'' || Nurse Bancroft || |- | ''[[Alfie (1966 film)|Alfie]]'' || Carla || |- |1967 || ''[[Hell Is Empty]]'' || Shirley McGee || |- |rowspan=2|1970 || ''With Love in Mind'' || Jane || |- | ''[[A Touch of the Other]]'' || Elaine || |- |1974 || ''[[House of the Living Dead]]'' || Mary Anne Carew |- |1985 || ''[[My Beautiful Laundrette]]'' || Rachel || |- |1988 || ''[[Shag (film)|Shag]]'' || Mrs. Clatterback || |- |rowspan=2|1989 || ''[[Getting It Right (film)|Getting It Right]]'' || Anne || |- | ''[[The Rachel Papers]]'' || Mrs. Smith || |- |1991 || ''[[Hear My Song]]'' || Cathleen Doyle || |- |1993 || ''[[U.F.O. (1993 film)|U.F.O.]]'' || Supreme Commander || |- |rowspan=2|1994 || ''Loving Deadly'' || Madame || |- | ''[[At Risk (1994 film)|At Risk]]'' || Mrs. Nolan || |- |1999 || ''[[A Monkey's Tale]]'' || The Governess || Voice |- |2000 || ''[[Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry (film)|Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry]]'' || Mary || |- |2010 || ''[[The Kid (2010 film)|The Kid]]'' || Margaret || |- |2011 || ''The Power of Three'' || Jenni || |}
===Television roles=== {| class="wikitable" ! Years !! Title !! Role !! Notes |- |1957 || ''[[Martin Kane, Private Eye|The New Adventures of Martin Kane]]'' || Miss Craig || Episode: "The Escape Story" |- |1959 || ''[[International Detective]]'' || The Girl || Episode: "The Conway Case" |- |1966 || ''Five More'' || Madeleine || Episode: "Shotgun" |- |1977 || ''Centre Play'' || Joanne Clewes || Episode: "Risking It" |- |1979 || ''[[Shoestring (TV series)|Shoestring]]'' || Barbara Knight || Episode: "Knock for Knock" |- |1980 || ''[[Buccaneer (TV series)|Buccaneer]]'' || Janet Blair || 11 episodes |- |rowspan=2|1987 || ''[[Never the Twain]]'' || Stephanie || Episode: "Affairs of the Heart" |- | ''[[Santa Barbara (TV series)|Santa Barbara]]'' || [[Pamela Capwell Conrad]] || 42 episodes |- |rowspan=2|1992 || ''[[El C.I.D.]]'' || Dolly || Episode: "Nothing Is Forever" |- | ''[[Murder, She Wrote]]'' || Anne Gillen || Episode: "The Wind Around the Tower" |- |rowspan=2|1993 || ''Anna Lee: Headcase'' || Mrs. Westerman || TV film |- | ''[[Lady Chatterley (TV serial)|Lady Chatterley]]'' || Mrs. Bolton || All 4 episodes |- |rowspan=3|1995 || ''Rumble'' || Vatwoman || Episode: #1.2 |- | ''[[Bramwell (TV series)|Bramwell]]'' || Peggy Heart || Episode: "The Threat of Reprise" |- | ''[[Barbara (TV series)|Barbara]]'' || Jean || Episode: "Job" |- |1996 || ''[[Madson (TV series)|Madson]]'' || Elaine Dews || 4 episodes |- |1999 || ''[[Dalziel and Pascoe (TV series)|Dalziel and Pascoe]]'' || Cissy Kohler || Episode: "Recalled to Life" |- |2000 || ''[[The Bill]]'' || Janice Laughlin || Episode: "Crime and Punishment" |- |2001 || ''[[Where the Heart Is (British TV series)|Where the Heart Is]]'' || Linda || 5 episodes |- |2003 || ''[[Waking the Dead (TV series)|Waking the Dead]]'' || Monica Reynolds || 2 episodes |- |2005 || ''[[Monarch of the Glen (TV series)|Monarch of the Glen]]'' || Sadie || Episode: #7.6 |- |2008 || ''[[Last of the Summer Wine]]'' || Eva || Episode: "Eva's Back in Town" |- |2010 || ''[[Doctors (2000 TV series)|Doctors]]'' || Flora Reid || Episode: "Swansong" |}
==References== {{Reflist|1}}
== Bibliography == * {{cite book |last=Field |first=Shirley Anne |title=A Time for Love: An Autobiography |isbn=978-0-593-01161-4 |date=1991 |publisher=Bantam }} * {{cite book |title=Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies |publisher=Harper-Collins |date=1981 |isbn=0-06-093507-3 |last=Halliwell |first=Leslie }} * {{cite book |title=The Film Encyclopedia |first=Ephraim |last=Katz |publisher=Collins |isbn=0-06-074214-3 |date=2005 }}
==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20160503132635/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba14f2f47 Shirley Anne Field<!--using name parameter to prevent italic text-->] at the [[British Film Institute]]{{better source needed|reason=Help request: a live link can be searched for at https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/search/expert - if available, replace the archive URL with the live link. Or if none found, remove this 'better source needed' template. | date=October 2023}} - Retrieved 2012-12-07 * [http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/532340/index.html Shirley Anne Field] at [[BFI Screenonline]] - Retrieved 2012-12-07 * {{IMDb name|0276043}} * {{discogs artist|Shirley Anne Field}} * [http://www.powell-pressburger.org/Reviews/ShirleyAnneField/CinemaRetroSAF1gb.html ''Field of Dreams''], four-page interview with Shirley Anne Field in the September 2009 issue of [[Cinema Retro]] - Retrieved 2012-12-07
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