My hair was all over the place, my smile fake on film and as for my weight – you really do look two stone heavier onscreen. At that moment I realised I knew so little about movie acting. “Well, thank God DVDs didn’t exist in those days! The finished scene was horrendous – or rather, I was horrendous. The three of us couldn’t wait to see it at the cinema. I had on my Mary Quant dress and thought I looked the business. “Anyone would have been happy with a pound a day for that. You certainly won’t find it mentioned on my CV! Our contribution involved going down to the Mersey Ferry and riding it back and forth all day to Bebington, so we were in the background while the main actors wandered around the ship. “In the end, I was so embarrassed by the final result that I’ve never told anyone about it. All I knew was, it was my chance to be seen by an audience of millions. “The film was Ferry Cross the Mersey starring Gerry and the Pacemakers – I think it was their attempt to do a Beatles-type movie. “When SEC (Shelagh Elliot-Clarke, who ran the Bold Street dance school Elisabeth attended from the age of four) announced that a film crew were seeking extras for a few days,” she wrote, “my friends Jackie and Alex and I ran down to sign up.
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