#1965 Jane

[littlequeenies]

29th October 1966, FABULOUS 208 Magazine, page 19

Playin' Jane

Jane relaxing off-stage with one of her best friends, her kitten Cleo.

Quietly, without any false fuss, Jane Asher, actress, has arrived. After fifteen years of exits and entrances, Jane has become accepted as an actress. Not as just another pretty young girl to grace a TV screen, but as an actress capable of bringing the screen to life . . . doing a job that no one else could do quite so well.

This is Jane Asher's year. We salute her.

THERE is something very touching and vulnerable about Jane Asher that endears her to the armchair playgoers. She's like a daisy planted among roses. Fresh, delicate and unpretentious.

She may be in The Saint, Love Story or in any old kitchen sink drama on TV, but the moment she appears, there is something happening on the screen. She doesn't throw her limbs into theatrical poses or shrill out her lines. There is a quiet strength in her performances that makes them far more memorable than hammy histrionics.

She has been acting since she was five years old, and she has learned her craft the hard way, in fifteen years of repertory, radio and TV roles.

Jane Asher has the look most big girls envy. Small-boned and fragile-looking she appears just as feminine in over-sized sweaters and sloppy jeans as some poor girl who has spent hours dolling herself up.

She has a pale, elfin face, dominated by deep-set blue eyes, rather serious and a little sad. There is a lot happening behind them. Her long hair looks like great flames leaping about her face.

She desperately wants to play Joan Of Arc.

It was her hair which brought Jane, at five, into the acting profession. She was playing in the park one day with her mother, her younger sister Clare, and her big brother Peter. They all had bright red hair. Someone passing by said they ought to be in pictures or something.

The idea appealed to Jane. Soon she was cast as the deaf mute in Mandy. She was Alice. She was Wendy in Peter Pan. And she was Juliet in a children's TV version of Romeo and Juliet.

They were all roles that called for a pretty face, a limited range of expressions, and no particular acting ability. But Jane was attracting the notice of people who had plays to offer her that would really put her talent to the test.

THE supreme test came this year, when Jane played the lead in a new play called Cleo for the Bristol Old Vic Company.

She held the stage for two-and-a-half hours playing a mixed-up teenager with a sensitivity unusual in a girl of twenty.

Jane took a dozen curtain calls on the first night. People pushed into her dressing-room to shake her hand, and tell her how much they had enjoyed seeing a star born.

The star sat on the floor in her shaggy sweater and kneed blue jeans, and calmly drank champagne from a cracked mug.

JANE is uncompromisingly down-to-earth and sensible. She can cut through hours of fancy discussion with one simple scentence of logic. It's her ability to seperate the real from the superficial that makes her a good actress.

She recently appeared in BBC-2's classic Brothers Karamazov. At the moment, she is appearing with Laurence Harvey, Moira Redmond and Diana Churchill in Shakespeare's A Winter's Tale, at the Cambridge Theatre, London.

The play has been selected for study in C.C.E. "A" Level examination next January. Jane hopes that lots of young people will see the play, to prepare themselves.

When this production closes - it's the one she appeared in at the Edinburgh Festival - Jane moves into a Broadway play.

As we said, Jane Asher, actress, has arrived.

JUNE SOUTHWORTH

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[littlequeenies]

This actually was published on Fabulous Magazine, 27th March 1965, but I guess some photos from this photoshot session were used later for other articles.

[fayegonnaslay]

Jane Fonda photographed by Milton H. Greene in Malibu for Marie Claire, 1965.

[roses-in-hollywood]

Jane Fonda and Audrey Hepburn at the Oscars, 1965.

[wh0-is-lily]

Edie Sedgwick Smoking While Posing, 1960s

[littlequeenies]

March 1965 issue

scanned from 16 Magazine (1965)

[twixnmix]

Edie Sedgwick and Andy Warhol during a party at the Factory in New York City, 1965.

Photos by Bob Adelman

[funjoke]

Jane Fonda avec une cible photographiée par Dennis Hopper, 1965

[ludmilachaibemachado]

Jane Asher and Michael Caine in ‘Alfie’, 1965🌺🌺🌺

Via @isabelfutre on Instagram🌺

[elafranco2024]

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Jane Asher was completely in love, look how she looks at Paulie and her smile. ❤️

Jane and Paulie, 1965.

[beatlesficrecs]

Fic: On our way back home

by kathleenishereagain (no tumblr that i know of

Summary:

Here's the short version from ao3: Summer 2019, 77-year-old Paul wakes up feeling surprisingly good. One tiny problem: he is back in December 1965.

Why I like this fic:

This fic is SUPER popular, I wanted to be the first one to recommend it on here because it is genuinely my favorite beatles fic Ever. Paul somehow time travels back to 1965 and gets to be a beatle all over again. Most importantly, he gets to see John again, and say the things he never got to say :) It ripped my heart out the first time I read it and sewed it all back together again. I laughed, I cried, I aww'd, I got angry, everything! It is a Very long read (over 360k.. in like sixty some chapters) but ALL of it is worth it. The world building, characterization, the smut, all of it is a 10/10 across the board. Every beatles fan that hasn't tackled this monster yet deserves to read it!

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[weirdlookindog]

Catacombs (1965)

AKA The Woman Who Wouldn't Die

[secretceremonies]

Jane Fonda in France (September 6th, 1965)

[forever70s]

Jane Goodall in 1965

[wh0-is-lily]

Sylvie Vartan on her wedding day, 1965

[ludmilachaibemachado]

I think that is the most beautiful photo of Jane Asher as well. She’s just so natural!🌺🌺🌺

One of the most noticeable yet iconic portraits of Jane Asher, which happened to be the first one I seen when I first discovered about her in 2012! 🩷

Beauty bulletin— Jane Asher photographed by David Bailey for the September 15th UK issue, also shown in the August 1st American issue.

From Vogue American Archives website

FUNNY GIRL: JANE ASHER OF LONDON.

“I’ll kill her," teen-agers mutter when they hear that Jane Asher is Paul the Beatle's bride. She was not, when we went to press, his bride. "She's just great as an actress," said Paul McCartney. "She's fab." Said Jane, "I hadn't even expected to like the Beatles. I hadn't even any of their records. But they have this gorgeous humour." However

her psyche has been shaken, Jane's looks remain somewhat as they were pre-Beatle-a complex of knockout red, ragged, rugged, rangy hair, a face as pale as the white of a smart egg ("so fair it's unfair," she noted). At the age of eighteen, her rusty freckles have shown through thirteen years of stage, movie, and Tv-eleven feature films of which is the latest is Masque of the Red Death, shortly in New York. Asked how she would describe her look, she said, "I don't." Pressed further, she allowed that "I hate the idea-_but it might be rather Alice in Wonderland."

Edited coloured version.

In the second slide you can see the original picture found on vogue’s website.