Her natural performance in Willy Russell's masterpiece seemed effortless but Collins found it hugely challenging " and still made every day a party Pauline Collins was a unique phenomenon: a superb light-comedy actress " as she described herself " who was unerringly able to reach emotional depths that reduced the stoniest-hearted of audiences to tears. She did this supremely, of course, in Willy Russell's Shirley Val…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AM on November 10, 2025