1. Anne Heywood then entered a National Bathing Beauty Contest and won.
18 Facts About Anne Heywood
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Anne Heywood had a small role in Lady Godiva Rides Again.
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Anne Heywood had a small part in the comedy Find the Lady.
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Heywood was signed to the Rank Organisation, who changed her name to Anne Heywood and gave her small supporting roles in Checkpoint and Doctor at Large.
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Anne Heywood made Floods of Fear with Howard Keel.
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Anne Heywood was loaned to an Italian company for the historical costume drama Carthage in Flames.
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Anne Heywood starred in the war movie A Terrible Beauty opposite Robert Mitchum.
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In December 1960 Anne Heywood announced she had terminated her seven year contract with Rank, which had two years to go.
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Anne Heywood starred in some British comedies, Petticoat Pirates and Stork Talk then did three films produced by Stross: The Brain, The Very Edge, and 90 Degrees in the Shade.
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Anne Heywood was making High Jungle for MGM with Eric Fleming but the film was cancelled when Fleming drowned.
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Anne Heywood went to Italy to play a nun in The Lady of Monza, playing The Nun of Monza, then did a movie with Richard Crenna produced by Stross, Midas Run.
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Anne Heywood was second-billed in an espionage adventure film with Gregory Peck, The Chairman but she was only on screen for five minutes.
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Anne Heywood was mentioned as a possible star of Myra Breckinridge, but did not appear in the final film.
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Anne Heywood starred in I Want What I Want, a box-office and critical flop produced by Stross, then went to Italy for the giallo film The Killer Is on the Phone and The Nun and the Devil, again as a nun.
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Anne Heywood starred in Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff, produced by Stross and in the Italian satanic horror Ring of Darkness.
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Anne Heywood then had supporting roles in Sadat and the science fiction film What Waits Below.
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Anne Heywood was married for twenty-eight years to British film producer Raymond Stross, who produced most of her films after they met in Ireland in July 1959 during the filming of A Terrible Beauty.
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Anne Heywood died from cancer in Houston, Texas on 27 October 2023, aged 91.