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Nancy Price

Nancy Price

Acting

Biography

Nancy Price, CBE, was an English actress on stage and screen, author and theatre director. Her acting career began in a repertory theatre company before progressing to the London stage, silent films, talkies and finally television. Her stage carrier began in 1900 and ended in 1950. She played her first film role in 1916 and the last in 1952, all in all she appeared in 29 films. Her first TV role was in 1938, during British TV's brief pre-war period, and she then appeared in four TV plays in 1950 and 1951.

Known For

The Naked Heart
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At the beginning of the 20th century, in the North of the Province of Quebec. After five years spent in a boarding school, Maria Chapdelaine comes back to the family farm. Robert Gagnon, a villager and childhood friend, loves her secretly but Maria is wooed by Lorenzo Surprenant, a man who has fled his home town to escape the police. The one she is really in love with is François Paradis, a handsome trapper. The latter promises to marry her in the spring, as soon as he is back from the Far North. Robert, who is aware of how miserable Maria is, writes a letter to François , asking him to come back at once. Unfortunately, the young trapper is buried under the snow during a storm. As for Lorenzo he gets gunned down by the police. Finally understanding that Robert has sacrificed himself out of love for her, Maria accepts to become his wife.

The Naked Heart

1950Movie