From age 7 to 15, which covered the last four years of the Second World War (1941–45), she danced in working men's club circuits for 15 shillings a time as "Baby Eileen". [4] During the war, she performed as well at London's Stage Door canteen for American troops and sang songs like "Yankee Doodle." At one time she was attending dance class ...

Vera May Atkins CBE (15 June 1908 – 24 June 2000) [1] was a Romanian-born British intelligence officer who worked in the France Section of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) from 1941 to 1945 during the Second World War.

The following is a list of female agents who served in the field for the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II. SOE's objectives were to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in occupied Europe (and later, also in occupied Southeast Asia) against the Axis powers, and to aid local resistance movements.

From age 7 to 15, which covered the last four years of WW2, she danced in local working men’s clubs as "Baby Eileen". Another of our contacts, Sheila Brimmer (nee Frost), went to the same dance school as Eileen in Tottenham and kindly sent …

When she was five years old, World War II broke out, forcing her mother to ship off her children - as most parents were wont to do during the war - to the countryside village of nearby Little...

The story is about English expatriates living in Italy at the beginning of World War II. Dame Dench recalls, “After a day of shooting, we would drink a whole bottle of Procecco and then try to find our hotel rooms.” Dame Eileen Atkins enjoying an amusing …

Feb 15, 1998 · Atkins, 63, the co-creator of the TV series “Upstairs, Downstairs” and “The House of Eliott,” adapted and read Woolf’s diaries for a five-part BBC radio series. Her most recent...

Eileen Atkins is part of the Silent Generation, which followed after the G.I. Generation. As young adults during the McCarthy Era, many members of this generation felt it was dangerous to speak out. They were too young to see action in World War II and too old to participate in the fun of the Summer of Love.

Upstairs Downstairs star Eileen Atkins explains the real-life inspiration for her relationship with the monkey in the series.

British intelligence agent Vera Atkins (1908-2000), as principal assistant in Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) secret service, administered some of the most sensitive secret operations carried out by Allied forces during World War II.