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There's A Girl In My Soup (play)
''There's a Girl in My Soup'' is a stage comedy written by Terence Frisby. Set in the 1960s, it tells the story of a smooth-talking TV chef, Robert Danvers, who falls for a much younger woman, Marion. She leaves her hippy boyfriend, Jimmy, to live with Danvers, but eventually returns to Jimmy, leaving Danvers bereft. It opened on 30 May 1966 at the Golders Green Hippodrome and transferred soon after to the Globe Theatre. ''There's a Girl in My Soup'' ran for years until 1973 to become the longest-running comedy in the history of the West End. The play ran at the Globe Theatre for years, from March 1966 until 6 August 1969, when it transferred to the Comedy Theatre, opening there on 18 August 1969 and closing in 1973 after 2,547 performances. Nat Cohen was an investor in the play. It was unprecedented for a comedy to run for such a long time. This record was later broken by ''No Sex Please, We're British'' and then '' Run for Your Wife''. Productions The show was directe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terence Frisby
Terence Peter Michael Frisby (performing name Terence Holland; 28 November 1932 – 22 April 2020) was a British playwright, actor, director and producer, best known as the author of the play ''There's a Girl in My Soup''. Early life Frisby was born in 1932 in New Cross, south-east London, the second son of William Frisby, who worked on the railways, and Kathleen (née Campbell), who was employed in a department store. He was educated at Dartford Grammar School leaving aged 16 becoming a tailor's apprentice. He remained in the occupation for six years before gaining a place at the Central School of Speech and Drama and training to become an actor. He worked in repertory theatre under the name Terence Holland from 1957 to 1966. Under his stage name, he was also a presenter on the BBC's children's series '' Play School'' during the 1960s.Here's A House: A Celebration of Play School, Volume 1, Paul R Jackson, 2010 Plays and other work ''There's a Girl in My Soup'' opened in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Franklyn
William Leo Franklyn (; 22 September 1925 – 31 October 2006) was an English actor, perhaps best known for voicing the "Schhh... You Know Who" adverts for Schweppes from 1965 to 1973. He also performed on stage, film, television and radio, taking over from Peter Jones as "The Book" (the narrator) in the third, fourth and fifth radio series of ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy''. He is also known for his portrayal of Sexton Blake for BBC Radio 4 in 1967. Early life Franklyn was born William Leo Beare in Kensington into an acting family: his maternal grandfather, Arthur Rigby, Sr and uncle, Arthur Rigby, Jr, mother, Mary Rigby, and father, Leo Franklyn, were all actors. He was taken to Australia as a baby, where his father toured with musical comedies. The young Franklyn attended Wesley and Haileybury Colleges, both in Melbourne, and developed an abiding love of cricket. He later trialled as a fast bowler for Essex, and opened the bowling for the Stage Cricket ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
There's A Girl In My Soup
''There's a Girl in My Soup'' is a 1970 British romantic comedy film directed by Roy Boulting and starring Peter Sellers and Goldie Hawn. Terence Frisby wrote the screenplay based on his 1966 stage play of the same name. Plot Robert Danvers is a vain, womanizing and wealthy host of a high-profile television cooking show. He meets Marion, a no-nonsense 19-year-old American hippie who has just broken up with her British rock musician boyfriend Jimmy. After a halting start, they begin an affair, and she accompanies him on a trip to a wine-tasting festival in France, where she embarrasses him by getting extremely drunk, but they enjoy their time together on the coast in the South of France. However, when they return to London, Marion makes up with Jimmy and turns down a desperate proposal of marriage from Danvers. Throughout the film, Danvers' favourite line with women is: "My God, but you're lovely" – which, in the final scene after Marion has gone back to Jimmy and Danvers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Challis
John Spurley Challis (16 August 1942 – 17 September 2021) was an English actor. He had an extensive theatre and television career but is best known for portraying Boycie, Terrance Aubrey "Boycie" Boyce in the long-running BBC Television sitcom ''Only Fools and Horses'' (1981–2003) and its sequel/spin-off ''The Green Green Grass'' (2005–2009), as well as Monty Staines from the seventh series onwards in the ITV sitcom ''Benidorm (British TV series), Benidorm'' (2015–2018). Challis was an established stage actor, making appearances for companies including the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre, National Theatre. Early life John Spurley Challis was born on 16 August 1942 at St Andrews Nursing HomeBath Weekly Chronicle and Herald 22 August 1942, Sat · Page 11 Clifton, Bristol, Clifton, Bristol, England. An only child, his family moved to southeast London when he was a year old. He grew up in Epsom, after the family moved to Tadworth in Surrey. Challis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise English
Louise English (born 27 April 1962) is a British actress. She was a regular performer on ''The Benny Hill Show'' from 1978 to 1986, as an actress and in dance group Hill's Angels (the show ran from 1969 to 1989) and has performed in West End plays and nationally touring musical-theatre productions. Early life and education English's mother, Elizabeth (Liz) English, was an actress, singer, and dancer who appeared in ''Evening Stars'', a review that toured with Benny Hill during his early showbusiness career. She attended ballet school. While at the ballet school, she was cast in ''Bugsy Malone'' as the ballerina. She was selected as the 1977 Butlin's Holiday Princess. Television English was chosen by Benny Hill to be one of the original members of Hill's Angels on ''The Benny Hill Show'' and earned a role as a featured performer. She spent eight years on ''The Benny Hill Show'', dancing with Hill's Angels and occasionally performing supporting roles in sketches with the show' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mill At Sonning
The Mill at Sonning is a professional theatre and restaurant, converted from a circa-1800 flour mill on earlier foundations, on an island in the River Thames at Sonning Eye in the English county of Berkshire. The river divides into three, with the mill race forming the middle branch, spanned by one of the Sonning Backwater Bridges just downstream of the mill. The original mill was established much earlier and was mentioned in the Domesday Book. During the 19th and early 20th centuries, the mill was owned by the well-known local families of May and Witherington, and it produced flour for Huntley and Palmer biscuits in the nearby town of Reading. More recently, the Mill complex has been converted into a 215-seat air-conditioned theatre, with a restaurant for pre-theatre meals and also a bar, where the original watermill is now exposed to view. Close by is the French Horn hotel, also on the river. The theatre has a small hydroelectric generator of 18.5 kW capacity, commissioned i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Sinden
Marcus Andrew Sinden (born 9 May 1954) is an English actor, director and producer. Sinden has worked in film and theatre (mainly in London's West End) as both actor and producer and directed the documentary series '' Great West End Theatres'', detailing the history of ten of the forty major playhouses in London. He was artistic director of the Mermaid Theatre and inaugurated the British Theatre Season in Monaco, which was awarded a Royal Warrant by Prince Albert of Monaco. His first West End production was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Entertainment and another won the Stage Award for Best Ensemble work at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. He is also the director and co-author of the touring anthology '' Seven Deadly Sins Four Deadly Sinners'' and was nominated for a Sony Award for his voice-overs for Apple Computer's TV advertisements. His father was the actor Donald Sinden. In 1968, he and his older brother, actor Jeremy Sinden, were part of the "Na-Na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gig Young
Gig Young (born Byron Elsworth Barr; November 4, 1913 – October 19, 1978) was an American stage, film, and television actor. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performances in '' Come Fill the Cup'' (1952) and '' Teacher's Pet'' (1959), finally winning that award for '' They Shoot Horses, Don't They?'' (1969). In 1978, Young murdered his 31-year-old wife three weeks after their wedding before turning the gun on himself and committing suicide at the age of 64. Early life Born Byron Elsworth Barr in St. Cloud, Minnesota, he and his older siblings were raised by his parents, John and Emma Barr, in Washington, D.C., where his father was a reformatory chef. He attended McKinley High School, where he developed his first love of acting appearing in school plays. Career Theatre After graduating from high school he worked as a used car salesman and studied acting at night. He moved to Hollywood when a friend offered him a ride if he wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadway Theatre
Broadway theatre,Although ''theater'' is generally the spelling for this common noun in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences#-re, -er, American and British English spelling differences), many of the List of Broadway theaters, extant or closed Broadway venues use or used the spelling ''Theatre'' as the proper noun in their names. Many performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations also use the spelling ''theatre''. or Broadway, is a theatre genre that consists of the theatrical performances presented in 41 professional Theater (structure), theaters, each with 500 or more seats, in the Theater District, Manhattan, Theater District and Lincoln Center along Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway, in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Broadway and London's West End theatre, West End together represent the highest commercial level of live theater in the English-speaking world. While the Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway thoroughfare is eponymous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Randell
Ronald Egan Randell (8 October 1918 – 11 June 2005) was an Australian actor. After beginning his acting career on the stage in 1937, he played Charles Kingsford Smith in the film '' Smithy'' (1946). He also had roles in '' Bulldog Drummond at Bay'' (1947), '' Kiss Me Kate'' (1953), '' I Am a Camera'' (1955), '' Most Dangerous Man Alive'' (1961) and ''King of Kings'' (1961). Early life and career Randell was the son of Ernest Randell (d. 26 May 1946) and Louisa Egan, who had married in 1912. His father was an accountant, born in Broken Hill. Randell was born in Sydney and was the youngest of three sons, the others being Reg and Norm. The family lived for a time in Western Australia but eventually settled in Sydney. Randell attended Marist Brothers in North Sydney. He left school at the age of 14, and went to work as an office boy in a Sydney finance office. Early career Aged fourteen, Randell participated in a few sketches at a social acting club and did an unpaid job for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Aston
Anne Aston (born Anne Lloyd, 1 January 1948) is an actress and television presenter best known as the hostess of '' The Golden Shot'' in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Early career and ''The Golden Shot'' Born Anne Lloyd on New Year's Day 1948 in Glasgow, she grew up from the age of three weeks old in West Bromwich in Sandwell and attended West Bromwich Technical High School. She was a supporter and season ticket holder at local football club, West Bromwich Albion. After leaving school she worked for the travel agency run by her father, Lewis Lloyd, before auditioning successfully for the ''Golden Shot'' where she made her debut, aged 21, on 12 January 1969. Aston said, "100 girls were interviewed and the number was reduced to seven for the final audition and then I was chosen". This was her first live show which was recorded in black and white and broadcast on Sunday afternoons at 5pm. Her surname was changed, as directed by the actors' union Equity, from Lloyd to Aston to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katy Manning
Catherine Ann Manning (born 14 October 1946) is a British actress. Although she has made many appearances on both screen and stage, Manning is best known for her part as the companion Jo Grant in the BBC science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. Manning initially played the role regularly from 1971 to 1973 but also reprised the role in the ''Doctor Who'' spin-off '' The Sarah Jane Adventures'' in 2010. She is also well known for voicing Iris Wildthyme in the audio series '' Iris Wildthyme'' for Big Finish Productions since 2005. Moving to Australia in 1982, Manning continued her career before moving to Los Angeles in the 1990s and then returning to Australia. She has also made many theatre appearances, including two one-woman shows and playing Mary Smith in the first run of the play '' Run for Your Wife'' and Rita in '' Educating Rita'' at the Sydney Opera House. Since 1990, Manning has been in a relationship with Australian entertainer and singer Barry Crocker and i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
