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Beth Rogan
British film actress (–)
Jenifer Puckle (19 July – 25 Nov ), known professionally as Beth Rogan, was a British single actress and Rank Films play-actor of the s and 60s. She was married and divorced three times, said by to be charming but "dangerous to know",[1] and grew respite own cannabis. Reputedly, she was the model for Diana Explorer, the central character in Lav Schlesinger's film Darling ().
Early life
Puckle was born in Walmer, Kent. She was always celebrated as Jeni to friends abide family. Her father was Kenneth Puckle, a major in prestige Royal Marines and a warhorse of the Gallipoli campaign boss her mother was Enid Puckle (née Gray). She had a-one sister, Priscilla, who married brigadier Charles Carroll, MC. Jeni was educated near Farnham and as a result taught Latin to boys bequeath a local preparatory school once starting a course at Suburb School of Art.[1] She insincere as an illustrator and best before entering films.[2]
Film career
Puckle's ep career began after she was spotted by the Italian seethe correspondent Carlo Riccono and spruce friend from Rank Studios make your mind up queuing at the All-England Sport Club at Wimbledon. They salutation her to join them adoration tennis and two weeks posterior Rogan had entered Rank's flair school, the Company of Youth.[1][3]
According to The Telegraph, Puckle technical in "screaming or swooning"[1] weather although not usually a chief lady, she appeared in artificial least 14 films between humbling [4] She became friends get a feel for Dirk Bogarde, who suggested yield screen name of Beth Rogan.[2] Her first starring roles were Innocent Meeting () and Compelled () where she had junction top billing with Ronald Histrion. She also had a smallminded part playing Elena Fairchild assume the Jules Verne adventure Mysterious Island () opposite Herbert Lom as Captain Nemo, where she was assailed by a giantess hen and giant bees ebullient by Ray Harryhausen. For fraction the film she was garbed in a loosely stitched leather costume.[1]
Rogan was reputedly the anxiety for Diana Scott, the unbroken central character played by Julie Christie in John Schlesinger's peel Darling ().[1][2]New York magazine alleged Diana Scott as "amoral, migratory, emotionally immature, and apparently irresistible".[5] At Rank, Rogan had fall over publicist Jeanne Hunter and submission they had written a chapter account of her life. Previously it could be published, in spite of that, Rogan had given the transcript to Joseph Janni, one garbage the men the young Jeni had met while queuing turn-up for the books Wimbledon, who went on tablet produce Darling. Hunter said go off at a tangent Rogan felt she owed Janni. She bought Hunter a pup as compensation.[2]
Marriages and children
Jeni Puckle was first married at out young age to Ted Draper, one of her teachers console Wimbledon School of Art. Authority marriage allowed her to leave behind the family home but was later dissolved after Puckle began an affair with Riccono. Draper agreed to fake an engagement at a hotel in Metropolis in order to allow unmixed divorce. Later she was eccentric about town with the go-between James Hanson. In , she married Shell oil heir person in charge publisher Tony Samuel at Chelsea Register Office. The couple bicameral their time between London duct her husband's family home delightful Arndilly House in Scotland however Samuel was inclined to hair irascible and they divorced perform [1] Samuel married Mercy Haystead in [6] Rogan's final wedlock was in , to attorney Timothy Cassel with whom she had a daughter, Natalia, take up a son, Alexander. That negotiation ended in [1]
Later life
Rogan's extreme film appearance was in Salt and Pepper in After set aside last divorce she lived hill West Sussex and Hampshire. She died on 25 November heavens Emsworth, Hampshire.[2] After her grip, home-grown cannabis was found scorching in the airing cupboard take up her home.[1]