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Port Talbot has an undisputed claim to be called the actors' capital of Wales, producing a remarkable number of actors since the inter-war years including Richard Burton, Anthony Hopkins and Michael Sheen. This book surveys the careers of 50 actors from Port Talbot and considers what its most famous stars have put back into their community.

This is a new and expanded edition of a path-breaking book first published in 1991. It was the first volume of essays published on Welsh women's history and has become a classic, helping to stimulate much research on the subject. This twentieth anniversary edition makes the original text available once more.