Convent-educated Angela Douglas started acting as a teenager, joining the Worthing repertory company before making her West End debut in 1958. She made her film debut in 1959 with Donald Pleasence in The Shakedown, and then appeared with Tommy Steele in It’s All Happening.

She is best remembered for her roles in several Carry On films in the 1960s, including Carry On Cowboy , in which she played a trigger-happy version of Annie Oakley, Carry On Screaming, Follow That Camel and Carry On Up the Khyber.

In her early twenties she met and fell in love with one of Britain’s best-loved actors, Kenneth More, who was then 47 and internationally famous for his starring roles in such films as Genevieve, Reach for the Sky and Doctor in the House. In his best-selling autobiography More or Less, published in 1978, he said, “When Angela and I met and fell in love, everyone and everything was against us. I felt about her as I had never felt about any other woman… My only reason for living was to marry her.”

Happily married for 14 years, after More was found to have Parkinson’s Disease, Douglas put her career on hold until his death in 1982.

Join Angela in conversation with Martin Humphries as she recalls a passionate and eventful life, an adventure of love and work.

This Cine Sisters event is being run in association with De Montfort University’s Cinema & Television History Research Centre.

Doors open at 18.30 for a 19.30 start. Cafe/bar.

Tickets & Pricing

Spring Season 2013 ticketing applies. Advance tickets may be purchased from WeGotTickets, or direct from the Museum.