Dame Flora Robson (1902-1984) was not unattractive (to my eyes) in her younger years, but by middle age she was known for playing severe characters, forbidding queens and dowagers, spirited servant women, nuns and spinsters, and such-like. Her screen roles included the in the first case: Empress Elisabeth in The Rise of Catherine the Great (1934), […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:36PM on March 28, 2026