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Petula Clark

Highest Rated: 100% I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)

Lowest Rated: 50% Finian's Rainbow (1968)

Birthday: Nov 15, 1932

Birthplace: Ewell, Surrey, England, UK

Singer-actress Petula Clark's soaring, often soulful vocals helped to grant her one of the longest-running and most successful music careers in the history of British pop music, with over 15 Top 40 singles in the United States alone and scores more in her native England and throughout the world. Though Clark's signature song was the plaintive No. 1 single "Downtown" (1965), she had been a fixture on British radio and film since the early 1940s, before enjoying a modest career as a teen singer in the 1950s. A move to France in 1960 established her as a more versatile talent before she broke worldwide with "Downtown" in the midst of the British Invasion. A string of hit singles, including "I Know a Place" and "Don't Sleep in the Subway" soon followed, as did her successful return to feature films with "Finian's Rainbow" (1968) and "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" (1969). In the 1970s, Clark shifted her attention to television and theater, where she drew rave reviews for performances in "The Sound of Music" and the 1993 Broadway run of "Blood Brothers." But her pop career continued to enchant and entertain new generations of listeners, as evidenced by new versions of "Downtown" in 1988 and 2011 that enjoyed placement in the U.K. Top 10. Clark's ebullient personality and winning way with an upbeat song preserved her status as one of England's most beloved pop performers.

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Highest-Rated Movies

100% 82% I Know Where I'm Going!
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100% 71% Goodbye, Mr. Chips
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50% 52% Finian's Rainbow
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50% 50% Promoter
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Track the Man Down
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Wishing Well (The Happiness of Three Women)
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Murder in Reverse
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The Madame Gambles
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London Town
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75% The Runaway Bus
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Filmography

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Petula Clark - At the Turn of the Year 2005 Actor A Tribute to Burt Bacharach & Hal David 2002 Actor Close to You: Remembering the Carpenters 80% 1997 Actor An Orphan's Tale 1981 Mme Milligan Actor Goodbye, Mr. Chips 100% 71% 1969 Katherine Bridges Actor Finian's Rainbow 50% 52% 1968 Sharon McLonergan Actor Daggers Drawn 1964 Herself/En personne Actor 6.5 Special 1958 Self City After Midnight 1957 Janice Lawes Actor Track the Man Down 1956 June Dennis Actor The Gay Dog 1955 Sally Gay Actor The Happiness of Three Women 1954 Actor The Runaway Bus 75% 1954 "Nikki" Nicholls Actor Wishing Well (The Happiness of Three Women) 1954 Actor The Promoter 63% 1952 Nellie Cotterill Actor Made in Heaven 1952 Julie Topham Actor Promoter 50% 50% 1952 Actor The Madame Gambles 1951 Miss Penny Actor Dance Hall 1950 Georgie Wilson Actor The Romantic Age 1950 Julie Dickson Actor Don't Ever Leave Me 1949 Sheila Farlaine Actor Vote for Huggett 1949 Pet Huggett Actor Easy Money 1948 Jackie Stafford Actor Here Come the Huggetts 1948 Pet Huggett Actor Vice Versa 33% 1947 Dulcie Grimstone Actor
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