Josephine Botting

Josephine Botting is curator, 20th century fiction, at the BFI National Archive.

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Rarities of British cinema

Peggy Cummins and her glitzy family melodrama My Daughter Joy

Born in Wales 100 years ago, actress Peggy Cummins is best remembered for her turn as the gun-toting bank robber in the 1950 noir Gun Crazy. But that same year, British critics preferred her starring alongside Edward G. Robinson in a tale of extravagant wealth that’s now been forgotten.

By Josephine Botting

Peggy Cummins and her glitzy family melodrama My Daughter Joy
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