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Carry On Loving
''Carry On Loving'' is a 1970 British comedy film, the 20th release in the series of 31 ''Carry On'' films (1958–1992). It was directed by Gerald Thomas and features series regulars Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Hattie Jacques, Terry Scott and Bernard Bresslaw alongside newcomers Richard O'Callaghan (in his first ''Carry On'') and Imogen Hassall (in her only ''Carry On'' role). The dialogue veers toward open bawdiness rather than the evasive innuendo characteristic of the earlier films in the series. The film was followed by '' Carry On Henry'' in 1971. Plot Various events involve a dating agency run by Sid Bliss and his longtime girlfriend Sophie Plummett. Their "Wedded Bliss" agency purports to bring together lonely hearts using computer-matching technology, but couples are actually paired up by Sophie. Bliss consistently avoids marrying Sophie, enthusiastically pursuing Esme Crowfoot, a seamstress and client who consistently rejects his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renato Fratini
Renato Fratini (October 1932 in Rome – 1973 in Mexico)Branaghan, S. & Chibnall, S. (Ed.) (2006) ''British film posters: An illustrated history''. London: British Film Institute, pp. 185-190. was an Italian commercial artist who specialised in cinema posters and book covers. His heyday was in 1960s London. Career in Italy Renato Fratini studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma. He began his career in the early 1950s by joining the studio owned by the Guerri brothers. There he mostly worked on illustrations and comic strips. In 1952 he joined the Augusto Favalli's studio, which was at that time Italy's biggest producer of film posters. He worked with artists such as Nicola Simbari, Enrico DeSeta and Giorgio De Gaspari."Taking the rough with the smooth" by David Roach in ''Illustrators'', No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rank Organisation
The Rank Organisation (founded as the J. Arthur Rank Organisation) is a British entertainment conglomerate founded in 1937 by industrialist J. Arthur Rank. It quickly became the largest and most vertically integrated film company in the United Kingdom, owning production, distribution, and exhibition facilities as well as manufacturing projection equipment and chairs. It diversified into the manufacture of radios, TVs and photocopiers (as one of the owners of Rank Xerox). The company name lasted until February 1996, when the name and some of the remaining assets were absorbed into the newly structured Rank Group plc. The company itself became a wholly owned subsidiary of Xerox and was renamed XRO Limited in 1997. The company's logo, the Gongman, first used in 1935 by the group's distribution company General Film Distributors [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricia Franklin
Patricia Franklin (born 11 September 1942) is an English actress best known for her roles in five '' Carry On'' films. Early life Born in East Finchley, London, Franklin and her family frequently went to see shows at the nearby amateur theatre; after seeing that the theatre company, Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, offered drama classes, Franklin decided to join. After appearing in several productions, Franklin joined Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). Career Upon leaving RADA, Franklin's first acting role was as a hostess in an episode of ''At Last The 1948 Show'' in 1968. After this, she spent nine months in the West End in ''Uproar in the House'' with Joan Sims and Peter Butterworth. The producer of the '' Carry On'' films Peter Rogers was in the audience as Sims and Butterworth were regulars in the series and offered Franklin a part in the next film which she accepted. Franklin's first film role was playing a farmer's daughter in ''Carry On Camping'' (1969) in severa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Grady (actor)
Michael Grady (born 6 February 1946) is an English character actor. He is best known for his comedy roles in films and television, particularly as Ken Mills in '' Citizen Smith'' (1977–1980) and Barry Wilkinson in ''Last of the Summer Wine'' (1986–2010). Early life Grady was born on 6 February 1946, in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. He undertook classical training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Career Grady's theatre career was extensive, including theatre roles at the Royal Shakespeare Company and London's Royal National Theatre, as well the West End, the Royal Court, the Bush, and the Soho Poly, plus many tours and pantomimes around the country. His television roles have included '' Minder'' as Kev in the Series 1 episode, '' The Bengal Tiger'', Steve Bracket in ''Rooms'', '' Citizen Smith'', as series regular, Ken Mills, '' Look and Read'', ''Dr Ballantyne'', '' Sweet Sixteen'', 161 episodes of ''Last of the Summer Wine'', playing Barry Wilkinson, husband ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Hickson
Joan Bogle Hickson (5 August 1906 – 17 October 1998) was an English actress of theatre, film and television. She was known for her role as Agatha Christie's Miss Marple in the television series '' Miss Marple''. She also narrated a number of ''Miss Marple'' stories on audiobooks. Biography Born in Kingsthorpe, Northampton, Hickson was a daughter of Edith Mary (née Bogle) and Alfred Harold Hickson, a shoe manufacturer. After boarding at Oldfield School in Swanage, Dorset, she went on to train at RADA in London. She made her stage debut in 1927, then worked for several years throughout the United Kingdom, achieving success playing comedic, often eccentric characters in the West End of London. She played the role of the cockney maid Ida in the original production of '' See How They Run'' at the Q Theatre in 1944, and then at the Comedy Theatre in January 1945. She made her first film appearance in 1934. The numerous supporting roles she played during her career included se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Mahoney
Janet Mahoney (born 1 January 1938) is an English actress who has appeared in film, theatre and television roles. She appeared in several films, including ''Doctor in Trouble'' (1970), '' Carry On Loving'' (1970) and '' Mutiny on the Buses'' (1972). Her London stage roles included ''Carry on London'', ''Cockie!'', '' Anything Goes'', ''The Maid of the Mountains'', ''Ann Veronica'', ''Come Spy with Me'', and ''Irene''. She also appeared in episodes of the television series ''Dad's Army ''Dad's Army'' is a British television British sitcom, sitcom about the United Kingdom's Home Guard (United Kingdom), Home Guard during the World War II, Second World War. It was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft (TV producer), David Crof ...'' and '' Up Pompeii!''. References English television actresses English film actresses Living people 1938 births Actors from the London Borough of Hackney Actresses from London People from Stoke Newington {{UK-tv-actor-1930s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julian Holloway
Julian Robert Stanley Holloway (24 June 1944 – 16 February 2025) was a British actor and voice artist. He was the son of comedy actor and singer Stanley Holloway and former chorus dancer and actress Violet Lane and the father of author and former model Sophie Dahl. Early life Holloway was born in Watlington, Oxfordshire, England on 24 June 1944. He was educated at Ludgrove School, Harrow School, and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, graduating in 1963. Career In the 1962–63 television season of '' Our Man Higgins'', Holloway was cast in his first major acting role as Quentin in four episodes. He became a mainstay of the ''Carry On'' film franchise, appearing in eight films between 1967 and 1976, as well as one of the '' Carry On Christmas'' television specials. In the 1970s British police drama '' The Sweeney'' episode ''Big Spender,'' Holloway appeared as John Smith, the brains of an organized crime family who involve themselves with two dishonest employees of a car pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Pertwee
William Desmond Anthony Pertwee (21 July 1926 – 27 May 2013) was an English actor and comedian. He is best remembered for playing Chief ARP Warden Hodges in ''Dad's Army'' and P.C. Wilson in '' You Rang, M'Lord?''. Early life Pertwee was born in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, on 21 July 1926."Dad's Army star Bill Pertwee dies aged 86" BBC News, 27 May 2013 Born the youngest of three boys of a Brazilian mother and an English father, James Francis Carter Pertwee, who travelled the country as a salesman until he became ill and died in 1938, when Bill Pertwee was 12. The family moved home many times during Pertwee's childhood and he lived in , [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patsy Rowlands
Patricia Amy Rowlands (19 January 1931 – 22 January 2005) was an English actress who is best remembered for her roles in the ''Carry On'' films series, as Betty Lewis in the ITV Thames sitcom '' Bless This House'', and as Alice Meredith in the Yorkshire Television sitcom '' Hallelujah!''. Early years Rowlands was born in Palmers Green, Middlesex and attended the Sacred Heart convent school at Whetstone. While attending, an elocution teacher spotted her potential and encouraged her to pursue a career in acting. She applied for the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and won a scholarship aged 15. Early career Rowlands began her career in the chorus of '' Annie Get Your Gun'', followed by a summer season in Torquay. She then spent several years with the Players' Theatre in London, before making her West End theatre debut in Sandy Wilson's musical '' Valmouth''. Rowlands's other West End credits included ''Semi-Detached'' with Laurence Olivier and directed by Tony Richard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bluebeard
"Bluebeard" ( ) is a French Folklore, folktale, the most famous surviving version of which was written by Charles Perrault and first published by Barbin in Paris in 1697 in . The tale is about a wealthy man in the habit of murdering his wives and the attempts of the present one to avoid the fate of her predecessors. "The White Dove (French fairy tale), The White Dove", "The Robber Bridegroom (fairy tale), The Robber Bridegroom", and "Fitcher's Bird" (also called "Fowler's Fowl") are tales similar to "Bluebeard". The notoriety of the tale is such that Merriam-Webster gives the word ''Bluebeard'' the definition of "a man who marries and kills one wife after another". The verb ''bluebearding'' has even appeared as a way to describe the crime of either killing a series of women, or seducing and abandoning a series of women. Plot In one version of the story, Bluebeard is a wealthy and powerful nobleman who has been married six times to beautiful women who have all mysteriously vanis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Butterworth
Peter William Shorrocks Butterworth (4 February 1915''Prisoner of War Collection'' National Archives – 17 January 1979) was a British actor and comedian best known for his appearances in the ''Carry On'' film series. He was also a regular on children's television and radio. Butterworth was married to actress and impressionist Janet Brown. Early life Butterworth was born on 4 February 1915, in Bramhall, |
Vetting
Vetting is the process of performing a background check on someone before offering them employment, conferring an award, or doing fact-checking prior to making any decision. In addition, in intelligence gathering, assets are vetted to determine their usefulness. Etymology To ''vet'' was originally a horse-racing term, referring to the requirement that a horse be checked for health and soundness by a veterinarian before being allowed to race. Thus, it has taken the general meaning "to check". It is a figurative contraction of ''veterinarian'', which originated in the mid-17th century. The colloquial abbreviation dates to the 1860s; the verb form of the word, meaning "to treat an animal," came a few decades later—according to the ''Oxford English Dictionary'', the earliest known usage is 1891—and was applied primarily in a horse-racing context ("He vetted the stallion before the race," "You should vet that horse before he races", etc.). By the early 1900s, ''vet'' had b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
