In a fifty-six-year career spanning Take it From Here to Absolultey Fabulous, June Whitfield's presence in a show has always been a hallmark of quality. From Shakespeare to Carry On films, from Penge Rep to the Palladium, there is hardly a theater or studio where she hasn't appeared and in the process acquired a wonderfully funny backstage tale to tell. June Whitfield writ
In a fifty-six-year career spanning Take it From Here to Absolultey Fabulous, June Whitfield's presence in a show has always been a hallmark of quality. From Shakespeare to Carry On films, from Penge Rep to the Palladium, there is hardly a theater or studio where she hasn't appeared and in the process acquired a wonderfully funny backstage tale to tell. June Whitfield writes perceptively about the great comics she has known in her long professional life. She views the changing fashions in television with benign detachment, and relishes being in the modern comedy loop. Actress, storyteller, wife, and mother -- whatever the role, she remains endearingly herself and one of our greatest national treasures.
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Audio
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8 pages
Published
August 1st 2001
by Chivers Audio Books
(first published January 1st 2000)
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The great screen, stage and radio actress relates her own life story, from dance classes to parties with Noel Coward.
Not so much into these memoirs of the stars however I love me some June, which is just as well because the writing was pretty mundane. Would have given this 2* but I'll plonk another on because of
The great screen, stage and radio actress relates her own life story, from dance classes to parties with Noel Coward.
Not so much into these memoirs of the stars however I love me some June, which is just as well because the writing was pretty mundane. Would have given this 2* but I'll plonk another on because of the part-of-the-furniture woman.
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