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A star of the silver screen ...73 years on.

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From: The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
Date: 20050717
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Byline: BRIAN PENDREIGH

ANY film about Scotland's Jacobite past could only benefit from having a relative of Robert Louis Stevenson in the cast.

So it was no surprise that Rosemary Swallow was asked to appear as a child in a silent movie about Rob Roy.

But astonishingly Mrs Swallow, 83, has had to wait 73 years to watch her own performance in the film, which has lain buried in the vaults for decades.

Entitled Fickle Fortune, the elusive 15-minute film has more than lived up to its name. Shot in 1932 in the Rob Roy heartland of the Trossachs, it also featured Mrs ...

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