Talk:Honor Blackman

message: This article is a total mess.
A long collection of theatre plays with no references or dates - see all the "when" tags.
I feel like putting it up for deletion.
I am not a Honor Blackman fan so I do not see why I should put the article in order.
I simply do not care enough about her.
But the article does need a lot of work - so if there are any Honor Blackman fans out there, you're needed !
Tovojolo 00:28, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The fact that the article is a "mess" is no reason to delete it! She clearly warrants an article, so it needs tidying not deleting. Just put a clean-up tag, and hopefully someone will eventually tidy it! --UpDown 08:04, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
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message: I have taken all this out of the article.
Only put it back when you can give references, dates, facts and citations.
"She starred  in the West-End in Wait Until Dark in 1966 and Who Killed Santa Claus? and then toured Australia and Canada with Move Over Mrs Markham. She then toured England in The Gentle Hook by Francis Durbridge, the highly successful thriller Motive and The Deep Blue Sea.  She played the role of 'Leslie Cosbie' in a national tour of The Letter and then travelled to Australia for the role of 'Ruth Carson' in Tom Stoppard's Night and Day at the Festival of Western Australia. 
Returning to England  she appeared as 'Desiree Armfeldt' (her favourite part) - in A Little Night Music  both at the Northcott Theatre in Exeter and on a hughely successful national tour. At the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford she played 'Millamant' in The Way of the World and then coupled the two parts of 'Lady Utterword' in Heartbreak House and 'Lady Windermere' in Lord Arthur Savile's Crime on tour for Triumph Theatre Productions. She returned to the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre for the title role of Rose which she then took on tour.
She spent a year  at the Apollo Victoria Theatre as Von Trapp's first love 'Elsa Schraeder' in The Sound of Music and then moved into panto  as the wicked  'Evil Vanity' in Mother Goose at the Wimbledon Theatre. She continued the wickedness as 'Queen Rat' in Dick Whittington at the Richmond Theatre .  Again at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre she played the lead 'Elizabeth Harris' in Foxtrot followed by a tour.
She played 'Mother Miriam Ruth' in Agnes of God at the Greenwich Theatre . She then went on to the Palace Theatre to play 'Peggy Porterfield' in the hit musical On Your Toes. 
She played another 'Mother Superior' in the musical Nunsense, then went on a short tour of Canada , giving her 'Wicked Stepmother' in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs which she had played in Plymouth and Aberdeen the previous Christmas.
She returned  to launch her first highly acclaimed one-woman show The Life and Times of Yvette Guilbert which toured Britain and culminated in a sell-out season at the Edinburgh Festival.
She recently  enjoyed a season at the Haymarket Theatre playing in a production of Old World followed by the film To Walk with Lions playing the role of 'Joy Adamson'. Continuing with her  Theatre work she played 'Amanda' in The Glass Menagerie for York Theatre Royal and the role of 'Madame Alexandra' in Mademoiselle Columbe with Birmingham Repertory Co.
Other recent work includes a season for Cameron Mackintosh playing ‘Mrs. Higgins’ in the National tour of My Fair Lady, the national tour of The Kingfisher.
Blackman also has 3 solo shows to her credit. Yvette, Dishonorable Ladies, Wayward Women
Caprisa 10:42, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
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message: Correction, Maud Adams on "Octopussy was about 37-38 when she appeared on it.
*Erm, yes, and Honor Blackman was 36 during Goldfinger, which would make Maud older than Honor. (Sorry if you are actually agreeing with me, but it sounds like you are disputing the edits I recently made to the article) Cyclone49 14:10, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Goldfinger (film) was filmed (according to IMDb) in the first half of 1964, Blackman turned 39 that August. Octopussy (film) was filmed between August '82 and January '83, Maud Adams turned 38 in February of the latter year. So you can easily work out who was the oldest Bond girl. The honor goes to Honor. Crisso (talk) 12:01, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
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message: I've been trying to find some information about Honors actual DOB, so I looked it up on the BMD's. It's not there! I tried both dates, and both of them came up with nothing.
Are we sure that Honor Blackman is her real name, and that she was actually born in the UK? Paul Norfolk Dumpling 10:25, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I found her on the BMD: She was definitely born Honor Blackman and definitely in 1925. Crisso (talk) 03:17, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Real Name?

message: : The IMDB claims 12 December 1927. This is inconsistent with the article. --24.199.89.159 03:47, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The article also claimed she was 37 when she filmed Goldfinger, which would be consistent with the IMDB birthdate. Honor herself said in an interview with The Sunday Mirror that she was 77 when she joined Coronation Street in 2004, also consistent with a 1927 birthdate. If no one objects I'm going to change it. Smurfmeister 12:58, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Her birthdate has been confirmed as August 22, 1925- see here. Gustav von Humpelschmumpel (talk) 00:36, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

text:  Also, Goldfinger was filmed between January 20 and June 21, 1964, which would make age 37 inconsistent with either date of birth (36 if December 12, 1927; 38 if August 22, 1925). --Anshelm '77 (talk) 14:16, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  There are even more possibilities, the Avengers Website says her birthdate is between 22 August 1926 and 12 December 1927. Maybe somebody should write to her official website and try to get an answer there. --83.160.198.125 (talk) 00:15, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

text: No need for that as the Birth Index proves she was born in 1925. And the fact that her birth was registered in the 3rd quarter would indicate the 22nd August date is correct.  Crisso (talk) 22:38, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
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message: Blackman died on 6 April 2020, aged 94 from natural causes 92.21.88.18 (talk) 18:07, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Already done – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:20, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
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message: I don't think the lead photograph is right for this article. 
Her face is very difficult to pick out, being in shadow; even when the image is enlarged.
I get the impression this picture has only been used because it is copyright-free. The image from the 2000s is better, even if it shows her much later in life. It's still not perfect, but at least you can see her relatively easily.
What do other editors think?
RASAM (talk) 21:55, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed, the 1971 image doesn't work at all well in the infobox and you can barely see her face. I've put back the 2000 photo which is more suitable for an infobox image.--♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 08:11, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
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