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      Hattie: The Authorised Biography of Hattie Jacques

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      The first and authorised biography of one of the heroines of post-war British comedy, on radio, film and TV.

      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-w...

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      Product ID:9781845133627
      Product Form:Paperback / softback
      Country of Manufacture:GB
      Title:Hattie
      Subtitle:The Authorised Biography of Hattie Jacques
      Authors:Author: Andy Merriman
      Page Count:240
      Subjects:Biography: arts and entertainment, Biography: arts & entertainment
      Description:Select Guide Rating
      The first and authorised biography of one of the heroines of post-war British comedy, on radio, film and TV.

      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 classics as ITMA, Educating Archie and Hancock’ s Half Hour, and as the fictional sister of Eric Sykes in his long-running TV sitcom.

      But the formidable, frumpy galleon-in-full-sail screen persona could not have been more at odds with the real-life woman, as this biography reveals for the first time. She had a tempestuous wartime affair with an American officer, and then a strange marriage to the actor John le Mesurier (Corporal Wilson in Dad’ s Army) whose dissatisfactions she circumnavigated by moving her lover, a flashy Cockney car dealer, into the matrimonial home. But as well as being warm and sexy and generous she was also, owing to her lifelong struggle with her weight, needy and melancholic, and rueful that her size persistently typecast her and excluded her from many roles.

      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.


      Imprint Name:Aurum
      Publisher Name:Quarto Publishing PLC
      Country of Publication:GB
      Publishing Date:2008-09-25

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      Weight212 g
      Dimensions162 × 197 × 20 mm