Alma Butterfield

Alma Butterfield in 1950

Alma Butterfield was an Australian writer and character actress. She was best known for her work on radio including the Gwen Meredith serials The Lawsons and a long stint on its sequel Blue Hills as Mrs. Jenkins.[1] According to one critic her performance in TV movie The Slaughter of St Terese's Day was "sublime: she brilliantly encapsulates an entire generation of Australian womanhood, with her hunched shoulders, faded dress, mangled vocabulary and verbal sniping."[2]

As a writer she authored six children's stories, two chiildren's plays and several poems, as well as contributing humorous stories to magazines.

Select credits

Television

Radio

  • The Lawsons as Mrs. Brown
  • Blue Hills - Mrs Jenkins
  • Hagens Circus - (radio)
  • Aunt Jenny Real Life Stories

References

  1. ^ "Stars of the Air – Mrs. Jenkins, in "Blue Hills"". Kilmore Free Press. No. 1630. Victoria, Australia. 23 February 1950. p. 6. Retrieved 3 August 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ^ Vagg, Stephen (19 October 2020). "Forgotten Australian TV Plays – The Slaughter of St Teresa's Day". Filmink.
  3. ^ "Perry Masonnew honors". The Australian Women's Weekly. Vol. 27, no. 45. Australia. 13 April 1960. p. 66. Retrieved 3 August 2020 – via National Library of Australia.


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