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Hattie Jacques was an English actress who appeared in many genres of light entertainment including radio, film, television and stage. Jacques's career spanned from 1939 until her death in 1980. She is best remembered for her appearances in fourteen Carry On films and for her professional partnership with Eric Sykes.
1 nov 2011 · Paperback. 11 Used from $6.12. The hardback of this first and authorised biography received very good reviews and immediately reprinted. It tells the story of one of the heroines of post-war British comedy, on radio, film and TV. Hattie Jacques is known as the billowing, imposing Matron in the Carry On films, as the star of such BBC radio ...
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15 ago 2023 · Reflecting on the life of Hattie Jacques. 15 August 2023. Professor Sophie Scott (UCL Psychology & Language Sciences) looks back on the life of actress, Hattie Jacques, and how she made people laugh. Listen: BBC Radio 4 'Great Lives' (from start) Tweet.
Yes, it's now time for the voluptuously proportioned Hattie Jacques (1922-80), a screen, stage and radio actress, and talented comedienne, to step into the spotlight. There’s a blue plaque on Hattie’s birthplace in Sandgate, near Folkestone, on the Kentish Riviera. It’s to be found adorning Strand House, at 125 High Street.
John Le Mesurier. Actor: The Italian Job. The son of a solicitor, British character actor John Le Mesurier attended public school in Dorset, England, before embarking on a career in law. However, acting was his true calling, and at age 20, with his parents' approval, he began his acting career by studying drama at the Fay Compton School of Acting, where one of his classmates was Alec Guinness ...
Ruth Jones takes on the role of larger-than-life Carry On actress Hattie Jacques. Happily married for more than a decade to charming Dad's Army actor John Le Mesurier, Hattie is at the height of her popularity when she is seduced by her handsome young driver, John Schofield. While filming Carry On Cabby, she begins a clandestine affair with the ...
25 set 2008 · This biography has been written with full co-operation from Hattie's son, and show business friends like Barbara Windsor, Clive Dunn, Galton and Simpson and Ian Carmichael. Andy Merriman is the son of the legendary comedy scriptwriter Eric Merriman.
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