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Born on this day 1937
Shirley Bassey - world famous superstar.
Dame Shirley found fame in the mid-1950s and has since become one of the world's most popular female vocalists. She is perhaps best known for recording the theme songs to the James Bond films "Goldfinger" "Diamonds Are Forever" and "Moonraker"
Shirley Bassey was raised in the working class neighborhood of Splott. Her mother was from Yorkshire and her father was a Nigerian seaman who left the family when Shirley was a baby. Bassey initially worked in an Enamelware factory, before making her professional debut at 16 and her first major hit was "The Banana Boat Song," after which she has had countless hits and has become a highly respected figure in the music industry.
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Tiger Bay (Welsh: Bae Teigr) was the local name for an area of Cardiff which covered Butetown and Cardiff Docks. It was rebranded as Cardiff Bay, following the building of the Cardiff Barrage, which dams the tidal rivers, Ely and Taff, to create a body of water.
Tiger Bay 1959 MOVIE
Korchinsky (Horst Buchholz), a Polish sailor, visits his girlfriend Anya (Yvonne Mitchell), while on shore leave in Cardiff's dockland area of Tiger Bay. On his arrival, he is enraged to find that Anya is now living with another man and an argument develops between them resulting in the jealous seaman killing his ex-girlfriend. The murder is observed by a 12-year-old girl called Gillie (Hayley Mills); she lives in an upstairs flat with her Aunt and witnesses the quarrel while spying through a letterbox. Gillie gets hold of the abandoned gun, convinced the weapon will make her more popular when playing 'Cowboys and Indians' with the other children in town.
A 12 year old tomboy witnesses the murder of a woman by her Polish merchant marine boyfriend but bonds with him and thwarts the police in their investigation.
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Shirley Bassey - world famous superstar.
Dame Shirley found fame in the mid-1950s and has since become one of the world's most popular female vocalists. She is perhaps best known for recording the theme songs to the James Bond films "Goldfinger" "Diamonds Are Forever" and "Moonraker"
Shirley Bassey was raised in the working class neighborhood of Splott. Her mother was from Yorkshire and her father was a Nigerian seaman who left the family when Shirley was a baby. Bassey initially worked in an Enamelware factory, before making her professional debut at 16 and her first major hit was "The Banana Boat Song," after which she has had countless hits and has become a highly respected figure in the music industry.
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Tiger Bay (Welsh: Bae Teigr) was the local name for an area of Cardiff which covered Butetown and Cardiff Docks. It was rebranded as Cardiff Bay, following the building of the Cardiff Barrage, which dams the tidal rivers, Ely and Taff, to create a body of water.
Tiger Bay 1959 MOVIE
Korchinsky (Horst Buchholz), a Polish sailor, visits his girlfriend Anya (Yvonne Mitchell), while on shore leave in Cardiff's dockland area of Tiger Bay. On his arrival, he is enraged to find that Anya is now living with another man and an argument develops between them resulting in the jealous seaman killing his ex-girlfriend. The murder is observed by a 12-year-old girl called Gillie (Hayley Mills); she lives in an upstairs flat with her Aunt and witnesses the quarrel while spying through a letterbox. Gillie gets hold of the abandoned gun, convinced the weapon will make her more popular when playing 'Cowboys and Indians' with the other children in town.
A 12 year old tomboy witnesses the murder of a woman by her Polish merchant marine boyfriend but bonds with him and thwarts the police in their investigation.
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