Early and forgotten British celebs

[Piff paff puff]

I read that the studios arranged marriages and divorces to publicise their films. It was probably true.

Absolutely

 

[Donnavanessa]

Will record it,bloody memory can’t remember it.

Haha - my memory is not what it used to be! I’ve recorded it too.

 

[House of Tea]

Sandie Shaw was completely up herself. One hit wonder.

 

[Boogs]

I was expecting to be laughing loads reading the book but I actually felt really sad. Her attitude towards sex is quite concerning and I think there is a lot of stuff she has suppressed.

 

[Dollylovesshoes]

Her scene in that is superb, beautifully judged.

Yes,with her glass of ‘orange juice’,smashing actress.

 

[Dollylovesshoes]

When I was a tiny child I had a tendancy to SHOUT (I'm also quite deaf so it's unsurprising), my mum and dad always said I was like Peggy Mount. Can you recommend anything she's been in, I honestly don't think I've seen anything she's been in other than Oliver, and I can't remember Mrs Bumble in that?

wasn't she in a series where she was a detective type person?

 

[LucyEyelesbarrow]

Beautiful actress,played Estelle didn’t she in Great Expectations.

Also in later life in a Miss Marple Agatha Christie.Married at one time to Stewart Granger.

A Murder is Announced is the MM she starred in, a good role. Starring the marvellous Joan Hickson, too.

 

[House of Tea]

See I think I’m in the minority here because this I don’t mind unless they are doing a documentary (like claiming Cleopatra was black). But then again if a very obvious transgender person was playing a character I would find that very hard to watch and engage with. I guess we all have our own preferences!

It’s all about staying in the story for me. We are supposed to say, well actors can play anybody, their role is to shapeshift. Glenda Jackson played Hamlet etc. However, that might be a rarefied position those in the arts can reach, but for the average Joe viewer who just wants to immerse themselves in a story, it is introducing another element that detracts from the story. I would choose not to see a woman playing Hamlet on stage, but in tv series you can be watching an historical series and suddenly there is a jolt because the casting director has added in someone who doesn’t fit the character.

 

[FunkyMonkey]

When I was very young I had an irrational fear of Charlie Drake, I have a vague memory of hiding behind the sofa when he was on TV.

When I was little I had an irrational fear of Morphe and did the same

 

[Donnavanessa]

I don’t know much apart from the basics- what do you think about his father’s death, was he involved? Do you think Kenneth himself died by suicide?

His father took his own life. He and Kenneth were not close but nothing to suggest that he was involved from what I’ve understood and read.

Oh - that’s a hard one - he certainly wrote about suicide - but he was such a complex character it’s hard to say. I would highly recommend reading his diaries if you’re interested in finding more out about him. They are quite revealing.

 

[MrsBsDayOff]

Lynne Frederick's pretty much forgotten. Not a very good actress imo, but she had been married to Peter Sellers and David Frost. So a little surprising.

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Ok, so a little more reading and I discover the public turned on her after Sellers died, his son (her step son) claimed she 'stole' the children's inheritance. She was blacklisted too. So, that explains it.

I watched the movie Voyage of the Damned a year or two ago and furiously googled Lynne after it. She was super pretty wasn't she? You're right though, not a great actress.

She disappeared from the spotlight in the mid 80s and had addiction issues. Her cause of death doesn't seem 100pc clear based on the info available online.

The Sellers family had nothing good to say about her, although they were biased re the inheritance issue. Be interesting to hear perspectives of others who knew her to see did she actually deserve the reputation she ended up with (a greedy moneygrabber, basically)

 

[Donnavanessa]

Yes she is although I can't find much recent information online, hope she's doing well. She was gorgeous

Just had a quick Google - like you said not much info on her. On wiki it said she retired from the music business in 2015 and she’s in her mid-70s now.

 

[mickeycat]

A story that, for once, is actually about nice people!

Random acts of kindness: Comedians being good to each other - Comedy Chronicles - British Comedy Guide

Negative stories always make the biggest press headlines; so much so that positive tales, such as acts of unfaltering kindness, are often left completely untold.

www.comedy.co.uk

Thanks for that - a really good read. Poor T-T

 

[Miss Ophelia]

Loved Sian Phillips in How Green was my Valley.

 

[shellie]

She had a certain sex appeal.

She was in a few Carry-Ons from what I remember as well as many of the shows from the 60s/70s.

 

[Jerry Garcia]

I love Passport to Pimlico, The Maggie, Whisky Galore and many more. Google Withers was in a good one about WW2 but I've forgotten title. They even did a horror, Dead of Night

She was in a brilliant kitchen sink drama, It Always Rains in Sunday which was ( finally) repeated recently on TCM

 

[Dollylovesshoes]

Yes he was had some wonderful stories not sure if he is still about

Yes,he was so well respected on there,I haven’t looked at DS for ages,they got rid of show biz thread didn’t they?DS was bloody awful,I have been member since 2006.

Yes he was had some wonderful stories not sure if he is still about

I’m sure he said he was in his eighties.

 

[Pipsy]

Ahhh I actually thought i got it wrong I thought now was it Gene Tierney? Yes not nice was it?


She also played Spartacus wife didn't she?

Yes, here's an interview on set. Not much said about the role unfortunately

 

[Dollylovesshoes]

He was perfect when younger. Even when I found out he was gay I still adored him and watched all his films. Pity he has gone to seed now with too much surgery

Read his Autobiography (first one) it was brilliant I thought.Love that film,see it many years ago.

 

[Mcomics]

Remember very pretty Swedish actress Elke Sommer?

Wasn't she in a carry on film??