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DANA@50 Flight of the Doves ~ All Her Scenes 1971 (FoD#93)

Well, there's no doubt she could act, so why did DANA turn her back on the movies? “In August 1970, a totally new venture came up. I had been offered the small part of a tinker girl in a children’s adventure film called The Flight of the Doves produced by Ralph Nelson of Soldier Blue fame, and starring Ron Moody, Dorothy McGuire, and Jack Wild. The film was being shot mostly in Ireland, and the bit I was in was set in the ruins of an old monastery near Athlone. Hordes of people turned out to look at us, and this, combined with my sense of inadequacy in the presence of so many famous, talented actors, reduced me to a mass of jelly. “My first meeting with Ron Moody was equally memorable – but in a completely different way. I caught sight of him at a distance looking like a distinguished English aristocrat, tall and slim, in an open-necked shirt, cravat and blazer. As he drew nearer, my eyes nearly popped out of my head for I could see that he was fully made up like a woman, with rouge, false eyelashes – and smoking a pipe! Everyone was carrying on as if there was nothing unusual in his appearance at all and I decided that I had certainly lived a very sheltered life if this was quite normal in the film world. Then a few minutes later, I overheard someone describing Ron Moody’s part in the film – Master of Disguises! This was his role as a lady reporter. I told him about my first impression of him many years later and we had a good laugh about it. "But I must have looked a pretty odd sight myself. Dressed in a ragged old cardigan (which I was told once belonged to Eamonn Andrews), I had to have my hair plastered with grease and my skin streaked with dirt to kit me out for my part as a tinker girl. One night I returned to the hotel complete with costume and dirty face, and got locked out by the night porter who went back to the receptionist grumbling about “them beggars”! “Despite the fascinating experience of working with such wonderful people, it wasn’t much fun being made to look as ugly and dirty as possible each day so that I had to spend hours scrubbing my face and washing my hair before I could go to bed. Not my idea of a glamorous film star. And to make matters worse, it rained continuously every day. Then, soon after we had begun filming, I started to feel really unwell with awful stomach pains and a blinding headache, but I thought it was just tiredness and nerves so I didn’t bother to mention it to anyone. Then, a couple of days later, I nearly collapsed on the set. After packing me off to bed, they found I had a raging fever. A liver virus was diagnosed. Luckily my sister Susan, now a trained nurse, was over from America so she came to look after me during that dismal time. The only good point was that I lost over a stone in just one week. Unfortunately, I had managed to infect thirteen other members of the crew with the virus before I took to my bed so filming was abandoned for a week while everyone nursed their ills and gazed dejectedly at the monotonous rain. Eventually the film was finished, a beautifully imaginative and colourful film with a Disney-type plot. It never became a huge box-office success, but it was a really worthwhile experience and it’s regularly shown on television in many countries. I’ve even seen it on Canadian TV.” (Dana – An Autobiography 1985) Trivia: "Budd was asked by Nelson to compose the music to Flight of the Doves, and worked with Dana who sang the film's theme" (Wikipedia: Roy Budd)