Vera Frances

Vera Frances (born 1930) is a British actress who worked with Arthur Askey, Tommy Handley, George Formby, Dinah Sheridan, John Mills and Alastair Sim, among others.
Frances's father was a props and special effects man for Gainsborough Pictures at Grove Studio's in Shepherds Bush, she made her first film appearance in Back-Room Boy as the Cockney girl Jane. she then went on to make another five films.
In her early teens Frances left the movies to follow her ambition to be a dance teacher. This proved to be very successful and resulted in a dance school. After marrying Dennis William Ward in 1953 Frances moved the school to March in Cambridgeshire. Dennis Ward died in Cambridge aged 73 in 2000; Vera Frances still lives in Cambridgeshire.

• Good-Time Girl (1948) .... Edie
• Waterloo Road (1945) .... Vera Colter
• Get Cracking (1943) .... Irene
• It's That Man Again (film) (1943) .... Daisy
• King Arthur Was a Gentleman (1942) .... Vera
• Back-Room Boy (1942) .... Jane