Alma Butterfield was an Australian writer and character actress. She was best known for her work on radio including the Gwen Meredith serials The Lawsons and a long stint on its sequel Blue Hills as Mrs. Jenkins.[1] According to one critic her performance in TV movie The Slaughter of St Terese's Day was "sublime: she brilliantly encapsulates an entire generation of Australian womanhood, with her hunched shoulders, faded dress, mangled vocabulary and verbal sniping."[2]
As a writer she authored six children's stories, two chiildren's plays and several poems, as well as contributing humorous stories to magazines.
Select credits
editTelevision
edit- The Slaughter of St Teresa's Day (TV movie) (1960)[3]
- A Little South of Heaven (TV movie) (1961)
Radio
edit- The Lawsons as Mrs. Brown
- Blue Hills - Mrs Jenkins
- Hagens Circus - (radio)
- Aunt Jenny Real Life Stories
References
edit- ^ "Stars of the Air – Mrs. Jenkins, in "Blue Hills"". Kilmore Free Press. No. 1630. Victoria, Australia. 23 February 1950. p. 6. Retrieved 3 August 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Vagg, Stephen (19 October 2020). "Forgotten Australian TV Plays – The Slaughter of St Teresa's Day". Filmink.
- ^ "Perry Masonnew honors". The Australian Women's Weekly. Vol. 27, no. 45. Australia. 13 April 1960. p. 66. Retrieved 3 August 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
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