Reza wrote:Ms. Corri’s marriage to the actor Daniel Massey ended in divorce.
A bit of related trivia:
Daniel Massey later married Penelope Wilton, who seven years after their divorce married Ian Holm, from whom she is now divorced. Six years later Massey married Penelope's sister Linda less than a year before his death in 1998. He was apparently trying to emulate his parents "keep it in the family" style of divorcing and remarrying. Raymond Massey's wife later married her divorce lawyer and Raymond married the lawyer's wife. Daniel's godfather was Noel Coward whom he played in Star!
Adrienne Corri, Actress Known for ‘A Clockwork Orange,’ Dies at 84
By Daniel E. Slotnik New York Times 3/30/2016
Adrienne Corri, an actress whose movie career lasted nearly five decades and encompassed a wide range of roles, but who was probably best known as the victim in an infamous rape scene in Stanley Kubrick’s “ A Clockwork Orange,” died on March 13 at her home in London. She was 84.
The cause was a massive coronary, her son, Patrick Filmer-Sankey, wrote in an email.
Ms. Corri appeared in horror movies like “Vampire Circus” (1972) and in more prestigious fare like David Lean and Robert Bolt’s Academy Award-winning “Doctor Zhivago” (1965) and her breakthrough film, “The River,” a 1951 drama set in India and directed by Jean Renoir. She was also seen on Broadway in “Jane” (1952) and “The Rehearsal” (1963), and on television shows like “Doctor Who.”
A 1950 profile of Ms. Corri in The New York Herald Tribune said that her impetuousness made an impression on the set of “The River” and described her as “afraid of nothing.”
Her fearlessness stood her in good stead two decades later when Kubrick cast her in a harrowing scene in “A Clockwork Orange” (released in the United States in 1971), his adaptation of Anthony Burgess’s dystopian novel of the same name.
In the scene, the movie’s antihero, a thug played by Malcolm McDowell, barges into her home with three of his cronies before they assault her husband and trash their house as Mr. McDowell belts “Singin’ in the Rain.” Mr. McDowell cuts off Ms. Corri’s clothes, then tells her helpless husband to watch before he rapes her. Kubrick insisted that Ms. Corri appear naked for multiple takes.
That scene and other violent and sexually explicit material initially earned the film an X rating in the United States. It remained controversial for years after its limited British release, drawing protests and news reports of alleged copycat crimes.
Nevertheless, “A Clockwork Orange” was nominated for four Oscars, including best picture, director and screenplay, in 1972.
Adrienne Riccoboni was born in Glasgow on Nov. 13, 1931, and raised in Edinburgh. Her son said she left home as a teenager and performed with traveling theater groups before attending the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
She had two children, Patrick and a daughter, Sarah Filmer-Sankey, with the film producer Patrick Filmer-Sankey in the 1950s. They both survive her, as do a sister, Brenda Simonetti, and a granddaughter.
Ms. Corri’s marriage to the actor Daniel Massey ended in divorce.
