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27: 221:, but most alumni only had modest film careers, regularly employed in British films but rarely if ever receiving star-billing. Female graduates of the programme were often referred to somewhat disparagingly as "Rank Starlets", with the implication that their purpose was merely to appear on screen and look glamorous; however, Hylton did feature in substantial acting roles with prominent billing. 370:
career in the 1950s: "Virtually everything she did is worth watching, for her if sometimes for little else." They add that each film she was in "benefits from the instinctive humanity, the sense of her characters having a past and a place in the world, which she brings to them".
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and from the early 1960s she spent her career entirely in television, where she featured in a number of one-off productions for BBC and ITV drama strands as well as appearing in series such as
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The film historians Steve Chibnall and Brian McFarlane praise her "quite unusual intensity and a real capacity for depicting working-class lives", and note her extensive
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McFarlane, Brian (16 May 2016). The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth edition. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9781526111968 – via Google Books.
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Hylton, who had been diagnosed with a congenital heart defect in her late 30s, died of a heart attack in Glasgow on 28 February 1979, aged 52.
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In the early 1950s, Hylton was cast in major roles in several films with a predominantly female cast and targeted at female audiences;
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Hylton's first television appearance was in the starring role of Queen Guinevere in the 1956 series
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ended in divorce, although the couple remained on good terms. The marriage produced a daughter,
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Hylton's first screen appearance came in a 1946 programmer
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Talent-spotted in her teens, Hylton was a product of the
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Glasgow
Scotland
Euan Lloyd
Peter Dyneley
Rosalind Lloyd
Rank Organisation
Company of Youth
Dirk Bogarde
Diana Dors
A Girl in a Million
Gainsborough Studios
Jassy
When the Bough Breaks
Ealing Studios
Holiday Camp
It Always Rains on Sunday
My Brother's Keeper
Here Come the Huggetts
Passport to Pimlico
Dance Hall
It Started in Paradise
haute couture
The Weak and the Wicked
B-films

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