Two years later, Gielgud picked the actress, then 14, to play the fairy Peaseblossom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the West End. In 1943, Patricia Dainton made her screen début, uncredited, in The Bells Go Down, a wartime drama starring Tommy Trinder, and appeared in The Windmill Man at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon. Then, she explained: “If you find what you want among the ‘Ds’, you don’t look any farther.” The professional name Patricia Dainton came when Margaret elongated Pate and her mother – assistant manager of John Gielgud’s acting company before becoming a theatrical agent – picked Dainton from a book, believing that agents and casting directors “skim over” the beginning of an alphabetical list.
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