Petula Clark

Petula Sally Olwen Clark (born November 15 1932), CBE, is a British singer, actress, and composer, best known for her upbeat popular international hits of the 1960s. With nearly 70 million recordings sold worldwide, she is the most successful British female recording artist to date. She also holds the distinction of having the longest span on the international pop charts of any artist, an astonishing fifty-one years - from 1954, when "The Little Shoemaker" made the UK Top Twenty, through 2005, when her CD "L'essentiel - 20 Succès Inoubliables" charted in Belgium.

Selected filmography

• Medal for the General (1944)
• I Know Where I'm Going (1945)
• Vice Versa (1948)
• Here Come the Huggetts (1948)
• The Romantic Age (1949)
• Dance Hall (1950)
• White Corridors (1951)
• The Card (1952)
• Made in Heaven (1952)
• The Runaway Bus (1954)
• Track the Man Down (1955)
• A Couteaux Tirés (1964) (also composed score)
• Finian's Rainbow (1968)
• Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
• Never, Never Land (1980)