Her maternal grandfather was Walter Andrew Bowring, CBE, a British diplomat who served as Administrator of Dominica (1933–1935) she was a great-great-granddaughter of political economist Sir John Bowring.
They married in 1935, and divorced prior to 1943. York was born in Chelsea, London, in 1939, the younger daughter of Simon William Peel Vickers Fletcher (1910–2002), a merchant banker and steel magnate, and his first wife, the former Joan Nita Mary Bowring. She was appointed an Officier de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1991.
Her other film appearances included Sands of the Kalahari (1965), A Man for all Seasons (1966), The Killing of Sister George (1968), Battle of Britain (1969), Jane Eyre (1970), Zee and Co. She received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? She also won the 1972 Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for Images. York's early films included The Greengage Summer (1961) and Freud (1962).
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An obituary in The Telegraph characterised her as "the blue-eyed English rose with the china-white skin and cupid lips who epitomised the sensuality of the swinging sixties", who later "proved that she was a real actor of extraordinary emotional range". Her appearances in various films of the 1960s, including Tom Jones (1963) and They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969), formed the basis of her international reputation. Helping to keep things interesting is an eclectic array of guest stars who include Hank Azaria as a dyspeptic funeral director and David Byrne as a doctor with an awkward bedside manner.Susannah Yolande Fletcher (9 January 1939 – 15 January 2011), known professionally as Susannah York, was an English actress. A long scene in which Beth John and Beth’s sister, Ann (Susannah Flood), fish while on mushrooms has an engaging, improvisatory vibe. Jonathan Groff shows up in an amusing bit as a Long Island Lothario who’s attracted to Beth because of her Manhattan connection his obsessive love for the city is right out of an early Billy Joel song. There are highlights on both sides, mostly in what feel like stand-alone sequences that have the energy and inventiveness that Schumer brought to sketch comedy. But it’s a superficial tie, and the show’s tone and style swerve between the more solemn family material and the more comic love story. The two story strands are connected - Beth’s attraction to the rustic John, and her reintroduction to Long Island’s natural beauty, is part of the mellowing process that eventually allows her to reconcile herself to her past. Going on at the same time is the rom-com, in which Beth blows up her relationship with a man-child co-worker (Kevin Kane) and begins to fall for farmer John, who tends to the vegetables and animals at a Long Island vineyard. As events in the present trigger continual flashbacks to Beth’s childhood, it’s as if Schumer were digging up the roots of her own stage persona. Schumer has spoken about her husband, Chris Fischer, being on the autism spectrum Beth’s romantic interest, John (Michael Cera), demonstrates a pronounced, if generally charming, social and personal awkwardness.īeth, an unhappy Manhattan wine saleswoman, experiences a personal loss that sends her on a memory journey through her Long Island childhood and forces her to confront her feelings about her judgmental, needy mother (Laura Benanti). Schumer created “Life & Beth” and wrote half the episodes (she also directed four), and the known congruences between her life and that of her heroine, Beth Jones, align it with other personal shows by female comedians like “Somebody Somewhere,” “One Mississippi” and “Better Things.” Beth, like Schumer, attended high school in suburban Long Island like Schumer, she experienced a change in lifestyle when her father’s business failed. But for the true fan, they’ll be worth the relatively short binge. They’re stretched out a little too thinly over the 10 half-hour episodes, and they don’t really compensate for the overall sentimentality and simplistic psychology. It’s not a triumphant one, but it has touches of the old Schumer, smart and transgressive and self-aware. Still, the autobiographical-ish “Life & Beth,” premiering Friday on Hulu, feels like a return.
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Amy Schumer has not been absent from television during the six years since the end of her intermittently brilliant sketch show, “Inside Amy Schumer.” She’s had a couple of Netflix stand-up specials and made a detour into reality TV (“Amy Schumer Learns to Cook,” “Expecting Amy”).
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