{"id":1974,"date":"2012-07-31T10:48:38","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T09:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alchemy1977.wordpress.com\/?p=974"},"modified":"2015-01-22T17:16:12","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T17:16:12","slug":"a-twin-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/2012\/07\/a-twin-tragedy\/","title":{"rendered":"A Twin Tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The last month has been a sad one for British acting, as two iconic figures from the golden age of the British screen passed away. Angharad Rees and Simon Ward became familiar faces to UK cinemagoers and fans of TV drama via a series of fine performances in a string of films and television serials of the Sixties and Seventies. Mainstream media outlets highlighted their roles in domestic TV productions, identifying Rees with the character of the passionate serving girl Demelza in Poldark, and Ward with parts like Bishop Gardiner in the recent series The Tudors, both BBC period dramas.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Yet cult film fans remember them fondly for rather darker performances, particularly for Hammer Films, the UK\u2019s legendary Gothic horror specialist. In 1971, Angharad took the leading role of Saucy Jack\u2019s daughter in Hands of the Ripper. It was a part which showcased her versatility, as a delicate English rose with some wickedly dangerous thorns. In 1969, the dashing Mr Ward made his film speaking debut as one of Baron Frankenstein\u2019s most memorable assistants in Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, playing a young doctor named Karl, blackmailed by the Baron into assisting in his fiendish experiments. Some, including the film\u2019s distinguished director Terence Fisher, regard Frankenstein Must be Destroyed as Hammer\u2019s greatest exercise in celluloid Gothic.<\/p>\n

To commemorate the passing of these two irreplaceable performers, you might care to join us and watch a DVD double-bill of these two ripe vintage slices of Hammer horror. If you\u2019d like to immerse yourself yet further in the worlds of Jack the Ripper and Baron Frankenstein, we might have just the thing. Those fascinated by the Ripper will adore our grisly but elegant Jack\u2019s Tally pendant, while Frankenstein fiends should check out Igor\u2019s Knife Switch, our eye-catching earring inspired by the Baron\u2019s brutish assistant.
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\nYou can purchase both of the above items by visiting our recommended dealers page at www.alchemyengland.com\/buy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The last month has been a sad one for British acting, as two iconic figures from the golden age of the British screen passed away. Angharad Rees and Simon Ward became familiar faces to UK cinemagoers and fans of TV drama via a series of fine performances in a string of films and television serials […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[163,164],"class_list":["post-1974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-angharad-rees","tag-simon-ward"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2063,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974\/revisions\/2063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}