[These daily posts will cover little known actors or people that have appeared in more recent films and TV series. Various degrees of information that I was able to find will be given and anything that you can add would be appreciated.]
Gloria Best is an actress, model and director who appeared in supporting roles in three “Carry On” films; “Carry on Cleo” (1964), “Carry on Spying” (1964) and “Carry on Cowboy” (1965). She also had a small role in “Goldfinger” (1964).
She was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England in 1944. At 13 she went to the Ada Foster theatre school in Golders Green. When she was 14, she had her own children’s television show on the BBC called ‘Studio E’. The Ada Foster theatre school was an agency too and so she was sent for an audition to Pinewood Studios for ‘Carry on Spying’. Peter Rogers and Gerald Thomas did the auditions which was basically parading up and down in front of them. Gloria had no idea what the ‘Carry Ons’ were! She was unaware of Barbara Windsor via the Ada Foster school as she had pictures in her office of all the students past and present and Barbara’s picture was up there.
At 24 Best was crowned Miss Britain in the 1968 beauty contest after finishing runner up the past two years. This was part of the Miss International Contest.
After her last film “Carry on Cowboy” in 1965 she drifted into making commercials before moving to Canada in 1969 where she owns and operates two daycare centers and directs local theater plays.
A bit of trivia. Gloria is good friends with Dionne Warwick who is her daughter’s godmother.
BEST, Gloria [7/?/1943, Wakefield, Yorkshire, England,
U.K. - ] – Miss Britain 1968, model, director,
theater, film, TV actress, married to ? mother of a daughter.
Carry on Cowboy – 1965 (Bridget)
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