receiver in one hand and feather duster held aloft in the other, the audience adored The Boy Friend". In the second act, Farjeon had her own number, It's Nicer in Nice, with which she regularly stopped the show. Wilson described her presentation of the song as "a miniature Follies routine, in which Violetta skipped and cavorted round the stage in company with the boys and girls, receiving her calls at the end in a plethora of bobs and kisses which she herself remembered from her childhood, when a touring revue visited the village in the Pyrenees where she was living." Wilson also recalled that this dance routine was "so vigorous that at many performances her vital assets often popped out of her costume and were on full display to the astonished audience." Ten years after The Boy Friend opened, Farjeon reprised the character of Hortense in another Sandy Wilson musical, Divorce Me, Darling!, a 1930s pastiche sequel. After a run at the Players' Theatre it opened at the Globe Theatre (now known as the Gielgud Theatre) in the West End in 1965. It was less successful than The Boy Friend, meeting with mostly indifferent reviews and running for only 91 performances, but Farjeon had another show-stopping number (dueting with Robert Parvin): Paradise Hotel. In 1990, at the age of 66, Farjeon brought Hortense back for a final time in a Sunday night gala revival of The Boy Friend with almost the entire original cast at the Duchess Theatre in the West End. The theatrical newspaper, The Stage, reported that "Violetta, plumper than we remember but still enchanting, high-kicked her way across the stage" and won a standing ovation. Other roles Outside the Players' Theatre, Farjeon had sporadic work as a character actor, usually in French roles, using her full married name of Violetta Farjeon. She appeared in four films, playing a barmaid in A Day To Remember (1953), a cameo role in The Prince and the Showgirl (1957), a parent in The Pure Hell of St Trinian's (1960), and a French serving maid in Lancelot and Guinevere (1963). Of The Prince and the Showgirl, starring Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe, Farjeon recalled that "It was lovely, because she [Monroe] never used to turn up on the set, and we were paid by the day". Her television roles included character performances in Armchair Theatre and Honour Bright (1958), Somerset Maugham Hour