Rosamund John
[1] Nora Jones was born and brought up in Tottenham in north London, the daughter of Frederick Henry Jones, a wine merchant's clerk, and his wife, Edith Elizabeth (née Elliott).[2] Following several more years of stage work she was cast opposite Leslie Howard in The First of the Few (1942).[2][3] This led to her being cast in Howard's next film as a director, The Gentle Sex (1943).[2] She next starred in the rural wartime comedy Tawny Pipit (1944), made by Two Cities Films, which, according to John, went on to be popular with American audiences as "it was everything the Americans thought of as being English.1947 saw her star with James Mason in The Upturned Glass (1947), with Michael Redgrave in the Boulting Brothers' political drama Fame is the Spur (1947) and with Patricia Roc in the drama When the Bough Breaks (1947).