
It's great to see that the wonderful English actress and star Silksoundbooks audio book reader
Virginia McKenna will soon be back on the big screen in her first movie appearance for 11 years.
Virginia is joined by fellow BAFTA winner Keith Michell in a new movie
Love/Loss which finished filming this weekend in the English village of Knebworth, Hertfordshire. The 90-minute film is written and directed by documentary film maker Guy Daniels and is about two childhood sweethearts who are reunited after 60 years. With three weddings, two funerals and plenty of dancing, Love/Loss is decribed by the producers as
a thoughtful and romantic film for all ages, that will have you smiling and crying.
Virginia McKenna won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress for her performance in the 1956 film,
A Town Like Alice and two years later was nominated for Best Actress again for her role in
Carve Her Name with Pride’. She is best remembered for her 1966 role as Joy Adamson in the true-life film
Born Free for which she received a nomination for a Golden Globe. She won the 1979 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a British musical for her performance opposite Yul Brynner in
The King and I. She established
The Born Free Foundation in 1991 and was awarded an OBE in 2004.
Virginia's unabridged audio book,
The Secret Garden written by
Frances Hodgson Burnett is available to download from silksoundbooks.com