1. Molly Parkin was born on Molly Noyle Thomas, 3 February 1932 and is a Welsh painter, novelist and journalist, who became most well-known for her work on Nova magazine, newspapers and television in the 1960s.
15 Facts About Molly Parkin
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Molly Parkin told her mother that she was studying art after-hours at school.
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Molly Parkin's grandfather saw her delivering papers and reported this to her mother, who prevented her from continuing with the job and punished her by making her do housework.
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Molly Parkin idolised Hill, who she thought was a gentleman, and many years later saw similar characteristics in the actor James Robertson Justice.
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Molly Parkin was knocked unconscious, hospitalised, and spent about a year off school, convalescing.
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Molly Parkin spent much of this period alone in her room above the shop, drawing and painting.
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In 1949 Molly Parkin gained a scholarship to study fine art at Goldsmiths College, London, and then a scholarship to Brighton College of Art.
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Molly Parkin sold the shop to business partner Terence Donovan, then joined Nova magazine in 1965, when the radical Dennis Hackett became its editor.
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In that year 1965, Molly Parkin starred in the anti-war film Good Times, Wonderful Times, by Lionel Rogosin which represented Britain at the Venice Festival that year.
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Molly Parkin wrote a 750-word outline for a novel entitled Love All.
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In 2010, a portrait of Molly Parkin painted by Darren Coffield was exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, London for the BP Portrait Award.
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Molly Parkin was a "castaway" on the BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs in May 2011.
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Molly Parkin featured in an episode of Channel 4's Britain's Weirdest Council Houses in February 2016, in which she was filmed in her council flat in a tower block in the World's End Estate at the World's End area of Chelsea.
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Molly Parkin had moved into the flat in 2002, after she was declared bankrupt following a period of alcoholism.
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In 2017 Molly Parkin appeared live in a one-woman show at a London salon hosted by Simon Oldfield of Pin Drop Studio.