[…] bankruptcy. Their saviour was Hazel Ascot, a seven-year-old champion tap dancer. She made just two films, ‘Talking Feet’ (1937) and […]
[…] but the Kelly side of the family was as equally interesting in many ways, probably more so. Because, okay, there was Bridget who was a ballet ballet dancer, Grace Kelly, who was whose maiden name was a Woodley Grace Woodley. And the Woodley family is very well connected to the bank's family of the […]
[…] I stayed there while they were shooting and they were doing things like close-ups of the shoes in the shop window; when the newspaper turns into the dancer. They had guys with wires and moving newspapers about. I mean all this was totally alien to me I’d just come from school a couple of weeks befo[…]
[…]avoury. [His national service was mainly in entertainment]He got married (happily for 54 years) and auditioned at The Windmill, and got taken on as a dancer in musical parodies. Did some understudying too. Sustained a cartilage injury, but his old producer (Bill Ryan) recommended he had an operation[…]
[…]s, and Bette Davis [again] for obvious reasons. If you see pictures of Bette Davis when she was an ingenue, she makes Marilyn Monroe look like a pole dancer. [laughter] She is so beautiful, but beauty was of a different kind in those days, and most of the leading ladies [Joan] Crawford and all that,[…]
[…]rs: Cis with Thorley Walters and Jack with now what was her name? Oh God it'll come I can't think of it for the moment, who was on the show she was a dancer, she’s, she's the lead dancer and Walton as I say had one of his young ladies in the chorus too.Eric Robinson and the studio orchestra it was s[…]