Original: Her father , a physical education teacher ( who had represented Great Britain in the 1912 Summer Olympics ) , as told to Gloria Hunniford in Sunday , Sunday television interview LWT , Autumn 1985 taught briefly at Sidcot School , and sometime during this period Simmons followed her elder sister on to the village stage and sang songs such as '' Daddy Would n't Buy Me a Bow Wow '' .
Simplified: She began her acting career very young , and appeared in films like David Lean 's Great Expectations (/O1946/O) and Laurence Olivier 's Hamlet (/O1948/O) while still a teenager .