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Obituary: Edmund Purdom 
EducationGuardian.co.uk | by Ronald Bergan | Sun, Jan 4
Sun, Jan 4
Purdom, with his ex-ballerina wife, Anita Phillips, had gone to Hollywood in 1952 to test for My Cousin Rachel, but Richard Burton got the part. "I was so broke," Purdom recalled, "that I couldn't afford to pay the doctor's bill when my daughter was born. I had no money for bus fare. I had to walk...
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