Wendy Toye
| Wendy Toye | |
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| Born |
1 May 1917 London, England |
| Died | 27 February 2010 (aged 92) London, England |
| Occupation | Dancer, choreographer, actress; film, television and stage director |
| Years active | 1929–1997 |
| Spouse(s) | Edward Selwyn Sharp (1940–1950) |
Wendy Toye CBE (1 May 1917 – 27 February 2010) was a British dancer, stage and film director and actress.
Beryl May Jessie ("Wendy") Toye was born in London. She initially worked as a dancer and choreographer both on stage and on film, collaborating with the likes of directors Jean Cocteau and Carol Reed. She directed the original production of Bless the Bride in 1947.
Toye's debut film short, The Stranger Left No Card (1952), won the Best Fictional Short Film prize at the 1953 Cannes Film Festival, while her Christmas-themed short On the Twelfth Day… (1955) received an Oscar nomination in the Best Short Subject category. She directed films from the early 1950s until the early 1980s. Toye also was an advisor to the Arts Council and lectured in Australia.
She was attacked and robbed in her maisonette in Westminster on 27 November 1956. Two men stole jewellery and money.
On 6 January 1958, she appeared as Roy Plomley's Guest on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs. Her choices were wide-ranging, including Bach, Mahler and Lena Horne. She was the head of the jury at the 13th Berlin International Film Festival in 1963.
Among the many charities supported by Dr Toye were the Theatrical Guild (formerly the Theatrical Ladies' Guild), where she helped backstage and front-of-house staff, and became president, and the Actors' Charitable Trust, to which she was recruited by Noël Coward, and of which she was vice president.
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