She Knows Y'Know [DVD]

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Joan Sanderson was great here as the opposing battleaxe, Marilyn's mother, she had such a stoic delivery, it's funny she looks as old here as she would thirty years later in After Henry. Born in Farnworth, near Bolton, on February 4th, 1905, she was the eldest of seven children. Her father, Harold, was a painter and signwriter who supplemented his income as a part-time comedian in the music halls, where young Hylda was bitten early by the performing bug. Fergusson, Jean (1997) She Knows You Know. The remarkable story of Hylda Baker. Breedon Books ISBN 185983101X

Now that deferral is nearly up. An independent scrutiny of the framework is in progress, prior to the full review next year. KEN Rowland, the champion fund raiser about whom we wrote on May 25, is recovering from a queer do (to use the medical term) involving pulmonary embolism, a condition with which the column is uncomfortably familiar. Mr William would still cycle down there as an old man; they left a duster out for him, and he always imagined a use.

Baker came to national attention in BBC television's The Good Old Days in 1955. This led to her television series, Be Soon (named after another of her catchphrases), in 1957 and a supporting part in the sitcom Our House in 1960, followed by her own sitcom, The Best of Friends, in 1963. Yet again, we have Talking PicturesTV to thank for looking after this film, you can be certain it would be looked after by the BFI it were set in London or was by some obscure minority auteur. But films like this, which were once mainstream, if regional and working class in their appeal, are rudely neglected by that institution.

The infection may, for example, mutate into variants which are still transmissible, but less virulent. Ending not with a bang, but a whimper. We will then move on to the Covid public inquiry. As yet, we do not know the precise formulation of the inquiry; in particular, whether there will be a separate Scottish investigation or, as seems more likely, a Scottish dimension to a pan-UK effort. Monthly Film Bulletin said "Hearty over-acting from Hylda Baker cannot prevent this being just one more conveyor-belt North Country farce. All the old familiar jokes and situations are affectionately preserved, with a pop singer and coffee bar thrown in to prove that the film’s makers are bang up to date with the mood of the fifties." [3] In her late seventies her dementia worsened and in 1981 she moved to a care home for retired performers in London. Her final two years were spent in hospital, where she died in May 1986, at the age of 81. For a generation of TV and film viewers, Hylda Baker will be forever remembered as a feisty and sharp-tongued performer whose mangled monologues and comical facial contortions had us rolling in the aisles.The gavotte? She needs to make a concomitant calculation as to the point in time at which she might win such a plebiscite, rather then mount a defiant gesture. She needs to persuade the PM. Simultaneously, she needs to placate those in the independence movement who complain of slow progress. Because this is a comedy, the social conventions of that time can be laughed at as they are not so in your face or emotive.

Eurwyn sees Hylda's film She Knows Y'Know as one of the holy grails of British comedy. "We've lost so much over the years and I'm convinced many are still out there. You have to know where to look. Jean [Fergusson] tried the BFI, but the film wasn't in good condition so I put feelers out as a past film collector and went, let us say, to see a man about a dog! I found the film in immaculate condition. Nobody had watched it for half a century. It was a really good feeling, and I couldn't wait to see it." In fact he had brought the show to ITV in 1968, when Thames TV was created. Hylda was rehearsing in Brixton for the new TV series of Nearest and Dearest and her agent, Bill Roberton, had been liaising with Thames, giving them as much detail as possible. The collection is unusual in its nature - both by its survival and in being available in the public domain. Its rarity is reflected, for instance, in the records concerning the management of a touring theatrical production in the 1940s, by insights into the early days of TV performances in the 1950s, and by the fan-mail showing the effects of instant fame. However, although several series of records are apparent - the scripts, the fan-mail - they appear to be complete only for fairly specific periods of Hylda's working life. WE were arguing about who sang You’re The One That I Want. No, not the John Travolta and Olivia Newton John version –the other one.Finally, two over-arching issues. Nicola Sturgeon requires to perform an elegant gavotte with regard to independence. When Coronavirus is finally subdued, she will return to her demand that the UK Government should accede to a further referendum on independence. Jean Ferguson recalls this edition of This Is Your Life in her book, She Knows You Know! reproduced here with kind permission of the author...

However, glancing ahead, there are one or two issues on the horizon which may further challenge that hard-won reputation for sangfroid. You're the One That I Want – Full Official Chart History". Official Charts Company. Official Charts Company. She made her own music hall debut at the age of 10, developing a popular act in which she sang, clog danced and performed impersonations. By the age of 14 she was already writing, producing and performing her own comedy shows. Her most popular music hall act was as a northern gossip, performing a monologue alongside a silent, sullen companion named “Big Cynthia”, almost always played by a man in drag.Some material has not been retained: duplicates of scripts etc., some truly ephemeral items of correspondence, and some unannotated printed music scores have been destroyed. Audio tapes originally accompanying the collection have been transferred to the North West Sound Archive. The store became Oxendale and Barker, then just Barkers, with no apostrophe to suggest how singular it has all become. Harrison in those days, Audrey was also there in 1946 when fire destroyed almost everything they'd built up at the old Temperance Hall in Gladstone Street. "We put on a show that night in the Mechanics Hall, then moved to the Co-operative Hall and up to the Royal Astoria. Her routine was littered with malapropisms –“and I can say that without fear of contraception”– and catchphrases including her most famous, “she knows, y’know!” These became so closely associated with her that they became part of her public persona, almost inseparable from the characters she played. Critics might carp that she only ever played one part, but it was one of her own devising and nobody did it better. People still seem to remember me," said the great old stager. "This business of ours really is quite extraordinary."