This week’s featured post is a letter from respondent Mary Pook of Brighton. The letter, written as a follow-up to one we had received from her  earlier that month, touches upon the types of actor and actresses that Mary believes to have been more prominent at the time. These, she argues, were those with ‘conventional good looks’ with ‘no character to speak of’. To emphasise her points, she recalls the experiences of her uncle and a friend (Patricia Hayes – who would go on to have a successful acting career), who she argues both experienced setbacks in their careers due to their more characterful looks.