She was a something of an icon in the 1960's with roles in important films like They Shoot Horses Don't they? and A Man for All Seasons (one of my favourite plays incidentally).
She'd be mortified to know that what I best remember her for is Superman.
But it came out when I was growing up, first film Dad took me to see it, just the two of us. Happy memories.
Maybe she wouldn't be bothered, maybe she's proud of it. I know that Alec Guinness hated Star Wars and the fact that most people ending up thinking of him as Obi Wan Kenobi, rather than the distinguished, talented actor he was with a phenomenal output.
And what's true of actors is true of companies that make stuff and agencies that do creative work. People don't just judge you for your best stuff, what you're most proud of, they judge you by ALL the things you do and all the things you've done. Like:
Brands with great ads but crap brand experience.
Agencies that only put challenging award winners on their reel conveniently forgetting the less interesting stuff from their biggest paying clients.
Agency people who will say,"But when I worked at Mother", "When I won an APG", "When I worked on Nike". No one cares, they want to know what you're going to do now.
You're only as good as you're worse piece of work, you're not as good as you think you are you're as good as others think you, it's not what you did, it's what you've done.
Like Susannah York, you can't assume that people only know you for best stuff, plan for the fact they might know you for the worst.
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