Kenneth Carten

[citation needed] Tallulah Bankhead, a very close friend of his sister, Audrey, became a surrogate mother to Carten, who during the summer break from Eton College, went to live with them.

[2] In the late 1930s, with his sister, Audrey, he frequented the social circle of Elvira Mullens Barney.

[citation needed] After leaving acting, he became a theatrical agent; his clients included Laurence Olivier, Noël Coward and Googie Withers.

[citation needed] He represented also Amelia Hall, who, in her memoirs, wrote: "I returned to my Hampstead digs and phoned Kenneth Carten.

He asked me to realize that not every day did an actress come to England from abroad and within two or three weeks land a role like Amanda.