About the Author

Elizabeth Dilys Powell, CBE (20 July 1901 3 June 1995) was an English journalist who wrote for the Sunday Times for over fifty years. Powell was best known as a film critic, noted for her receptiveness to cultural change in the cinema, and she coined many classic phrases about films and actors. She was also one of the founder members of the Independent Television Authority (ITA), which launched commercial TV in the UK.