She Knows Y'Know [DVD]

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Actress Jean Fergusson, known for appearances in Last of the Summer Wine, wrote a biography and devised and starred in a tribute show, She Knows Y' Know!, at London's Vaudeville Theatre in 1997. The show won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Entertainment in 1998. WITH a host of memorable catchphrases and hilarious malapropisms, all delivered in an inimitable Lancashire brogue, Hylda Baker was a comedy star unlike any other. One memorable thing that happened to Hylda in March 1972, and which would stay with her for ever and was to give her great pride, was that she was the subject of This Is Your Life. It was Roy Bottomley's idea that she would be a splendid subject and he was now working on the programme.

George Hollingbery sold "accumulators" for early wirelesses, changed from Comet Battery Services to Comet Radio Services when the mains chance arose and begat a chain of Comets visible all over the country. I think I find it fascinating because of the romantic notions we have about marriage, which are very different for men and women. Also, the idea that individual & personal responsibility can only be achieved through marriage. To me, the two don't equate. The infection may, for example, mutate into variants which are still transmissible, but less virulent. Ending not with a bang, but a whimper. 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.Now that deferral is nearly up. An independent scrutiny of the framework is in progress, prior to the full review next year. Then, beyond the Covid crisis, there are the seemingly permanent problems besetting Scotland. Not the least of which is the grim mortality rate associated with the misuse of drugs. In 2020, no fewer than 1,339 souls succumbed, once again the worst rate in Europe.

Most immediately, we have yet to subdue Covid. For now, it remains a potent threat. We have simply to believe that it will subside, conquered by vaccination. That this too will pass. Eventually. It was Arthur Mullard and Queenie Watts, I said. No, said Pete, it was Arthur Mullard and Hylda Baker. You're the One That I Want – Full Official Chart History". Official Charts Company. Official Charts Company. 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. Baker was born in Farnworth, Lancashire, the first of seven children. Her father, Harold Baker, was a painter and signwriter, who also worked part-time in the music halls as a comedian. At ten, Baker made her debut at the Opera House, Tunbridge Wells, and continued to tour as a single variety act — singing, dancing and performing impersonations. By 14, she had started writing, producing and performing her own shows. Her stage act included a gossip from the North of England, with a silent, sullen companion named "Big Cynthia", almost always played by a man in drag (such as Victor Graham, and lastly by Matthew Kelly). [3] Her act was full of malapropisms and catchphrases that had become part of her public persona, the most familiar being "She knows, y'know!" and, when asked the time "It's quarter past... I must get a little hand put on this watch." [4] Film and television career [ edit ]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.

She has coached herself to stay calm. The younger Ms Sturgeon, apparently, felt conditioned to emulate tough, masculine behaviour. Irrationally, what was seen in a man as strength transmuted for a woman into a reputation as a “nippy sweetie”. She has learned and adapted. Sadly, she was by now already suffering the early effects of dementia, struggling to remember lines and instead relying on cue cards and whispered prompts from her fellow actors. She fell out with LWT after slipping on some spilt beer on set and breaking her leg, appearing in a wheelchair in one episode. When she sued for compensation, it brought the third series to an abrupt end, but also marked the end of her TV acting career.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. Hylda Baker (4 February 1905 – 1 May 1986) was an English comedian, actress and music hall performer. Born and brought up in Farnworth, Lancashire, she is perhaps best remembered for her role as Nellie Pledge in the Granada ITV sitcom Nearest and Dearest (1968–1973) and for her role in the 1960 film Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. [ citation needed] Early life and career [ edit ]