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She'd wanted to become a dress designer but was working as a typist at the Ministry of Information when she did a screen test for the J. Arthur Rank Organisation.

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Shaw was by now one of the busiest young actresses in Britain..

The film historians Steve Chibnall and Brian McFarlane praised the 'sulky, spiky tenacity that differentiated her from many of her contemporaries.

In April 1951, she was listed as one of Britain's most popular actresses in a poll of 2,000 Daily Mail readers.

Susan Shaw’s story is one of the saddest in British film. She rose from a working-class South London background to become one of the most popular and beautiful British actresses of the 1940s and 50s, but the misery of the last twenty years of her life made her death a merciful release.

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