It’s the classic
story, in fact, the 42nd Street story: unknown actress from
small town (in this case Mumbles, Wales) gets her big break
when she goes on in understudied role one night. She’s
cast as the star (of 42nd Street) and goes on to fame and
fortune.
Catherine Zeta Jones was
an accomplished singer and dancer as a youngster, touring
with a local amateur performing troupe. At age 11, she was
playing the title role in local productions of Annie and,
at 13, a lead role in Bugsy Malone. At 14 she was hired
for a touring production of The Pajama Game, and then moved
to London to pursue acting full-time. She moved up from
second understudy to showstopping star in that West End
production of 42nd Street when only 16 years old.
From London, the strikingly
beautiful actor traveled to France, and made her feature
film debut in Les 1001 Nuits/Scheherazade (1990). In 1991,
at 22 years of age, she took on the role of the eldest daughter
in the British television series, The Darling Buds of May.
During Darling Bud’s three-year run, she appeared in
two American productions, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
(TV - 1992), and Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992);
and the British feature films Out of the Blue (1991) and
Splitting Hairs (1993). Before leaving England “to
escape the British tabloids,” Jones took to the London
stage for an English National Opera production of Street
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