“Hundreds of girls envy 21-year-old Dorothy Bromiley, the Levenshulme, Manchester ‘starlet’ who flies to Hollywood next week on a six-month, £150-a-week contract,” trumpeted the Manchester Evening News in early 1952, describing the young hopeful as “snub-nosed” and “doe-eyed”.
Bromiley, Audrey Dalton and Joan Elan were selected from around 700 applicants to play sisters living on a Pacific atoll that is besieged by love-starved US servicemen in the romantic comedy The Girls of Pleasure Island (1953).
