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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2016 9:02:20 GMT
Frances Ruffelle. Born: August 29, 1965 (age 51),
Singer who once represented the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest
Showbiz family, her mother is Sylvia Young of stage school fame, and she is the mother of Eliza Doolittle
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Post by ARENA on Aug 30, 2016 8:10:44 GMT
Donald Hewlett (30 August 1920 – 4 June 2011) was an English actor, born in Northenden, Manchester, Lancashire, and best known for his sitcom roles as Colonel Charles Reynolds in It Ain't Half Hot Mum.  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2016 12:28:40 GMT
Denis Healey. Born: August 30, 1917, Mottingham, London. Died: October 3, 2015, Alfriston
Politician, one time member of the communist party who rose through the ranks of the Labour party to become Chancellor of the Exchequer
Lampooned for his eyebrows, and Mike Yarwood's "Silly Billy"
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Post by ARENA on Aug 31, 2016 7:20:21 GMT
Larry Grayson (31 August 1923 – 7 January 1995), born William Sulley White, was an English comedian and television presenter who was best known in the 1970s and early '80s. He is best remembered for hosting the BBC's popular series The Generation Game and for his high camp and English music hall humour. His camp stand-up act consisted mainly of anecdotes about a cast of imaginary friends, the most frequently mentioned were Everard and Slack Alice. He is often cited as one of the first gay entertainers to have enjoyed mass appeal, although he never made any reference to his sexuality. He was devoted to his adopted home town of Nuneaton, where a museum display relating to his life and work and a memorial have been established.  |
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Post by marispiper on Aug 31, 2016 8:30:56 GMT
Shut that door...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2016 9:01:56 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2016 9:03:46 GMT
Larry Grayson (31 August 1923 – 7 January 1995), born William Sulley White, was an English comedian and television presenter who was best known in the 1970s and early '80s. He is best remembered for hosting the BBC's popular series The Generation Game and for his high camp and English music hall humour. His camp stand-up act consisted mainly of anecdotes about a cast of imaginary friends, the most frequently mentioned were Everard and Slack Alice. He is often cited as one of the first gay entertainers to have enjoyed mass appeal, although he never made any reference to his sexuality. He was devoted to his adopted home town of Nuneaton, where a museum display relating to his life and work and a memorial have been established. Wasn't Danny La Rue ahead of Larry in the "gay entertainer" stakes? |
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Post by aubrey on Aug 31, 2016 9:18:02 GMT
Larry Grayson not making any reference to his sexuality: (Though I admit, it was a purloined letter type of reference: hidden in plain sight.) |
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Post by marispiper on Aug 31, 2016 9:22:47 GMT
We've come a long way...back then sexual orientation was a talking point. Now (thankfully) who cares?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2016 15:26:35 GMT
We've come a long way...back then sexual orientation was a talking point. Now (thankfully) who cares? I think it is only a "talking point" or of interest these days when the individual goes to great lengths to protect their sexuality, even using the courts |
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Post by ARENA on Sept 1, 2016 7:32:03 GMT
 Violet Helen Carson, OBE (1 September 1898 – 26 December 1983) was an English actress of radio and television, and a singer and pianist, who had a long and celebrated career as an actress and performer during the early days of BBC radio, and during the latter decades of her life as the matronly gossip and battle-axe Ena Sharples in the ITV television soap opera Coronation Street. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2016 11:44:57 GMT
Violet Helen Carson, OBE (1 September 1898 – 26 December 1983) was an English actress of radio and television, and a singer and pianist, who had a long and celebrated career as an actress and performer during the early days of BBC radio, and during the latter decades of her life as the matronly gossip and battle-axe Ena Sharples in the ITV television soap opera Coronation Street. There's a drama/documentary about Tony Warren's efforts to get Floriezel St, as he first called it, onto our screens Most of the cast he found easily but he needed an elderly "battleaxe" to play Ena Sharples. After fruitless auditions he remembered Violet Carson who had by then retired. She was asked to audition, swept in as best Ena Sharples, and he knew he had found who he was looking for
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2016 13:28:55 GMT
Barry Gibb. Born: September 1, 1946 (age 70), Douglas, Isle of Man
Lead singer, and only surviving member of the BeeGees, with his falsetto voice
Here with his brothers singing the Oldies anthem
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Post by ARENA on Sept 2, 2016 8:10:21 GMT
Derek Fowlds (born 2 September 1937) is an English actor, best known for playing Bernard Woolley in popular British television comedies Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister and Oscar Blaketon in the long-running ITV police drama Heartbeat. %201.2.jpg) |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2016 11:14:52 GMT
Russ Conway. Born: September 2, 1925, Bristol. Died: November 16, 2000, Eastbourne
Popular piano player, adored by hos fans - especially women (if only they knew  )
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