Petula Clark
Birthday:
15 November 1932, Ewell, Surrey, England, UK
Birth Name:
Petula Sally Olwen Clark
Height:
157 cm
Petula Clark was a star at the age of 11. She starred in the music halls and on BBC radio singing for the troops during WWII. She was a child star in a series of British films from the end of WWII through to the early 1950s,and by 1954 was having hit records. After a move to France in 1960, having fallen for a Frenchman, she had hit records all ove...
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Petula Clark was a star at the age of 11. She starred in the music halls and on BBC radio singing for the troops during WWII. She was a child star in a series of British films from the end of WWII through to the early 1950s,and by 1954 was having hit records. After a move to France in 1960, having fallen for a Frenchman, she had hit records all over Europe ,and by 1966 with such hits as "Downtown" and "my Love" having topped the American charts, became a truly international star. Show less «
[on her life as a child star in the 1950s] Because of the circles I mixed in, professionally, I knew about things that children in those day...Show more »
[on her life as a child star in the 1950s] Because of the circles I mixed in, professionally, I knew about things that children in those days were shielded from. Yet, at the same time, I was still very young in my own experiences of life. It was all rather peculiar and confusing. Show less «
I've thought about stopping working, just briefly. Sometimes I stop and think, 'Wait a minute. When I finish this, what do I do?' But I don'...Show more »
I've thought about stopping working, just briefly. Sometimes I stop and think, 'Wait a minute. When I finish this, what do I do?' But I don't have what normal people call a home. There's no place where I can go and grow my radishes. That's pretty weird when you think about it. [The Arizona Republic, Aug. 29, 1999] Show less «
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