Joyce Redman, Exuberant Tom Jones Eating Scene Actress, 96

“For better and worse, Ms. Redman’s fieriness as an actress was most memorably on display in her portrayal in Tom Jones of the promiscuous Mrs. Waters, with whom Tom locks eyes in lusty communion as they devour one course after another in a crescendo of sexual anticipation. Haskel Frankel described it in The Times in 1981 as ‘one of the funniest, most sensual scenes ever put on film without removing one stitch of clothing.'”