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Morecambe and Wise Untold (Paperback)
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Morecambe and Wise Untold (Paperback)
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List price R266
Loot Price R232
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You Save R34 (13%)
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The illustrated story of Eric and Ernie's early years as variety
entertainers, and the first ever biography to reveal how they
became Britain's best loved comedy double act. Eric Morecambe &
Ernie Wise were Britain's greatest ever double act, but there's
never been a book which really revealed the era that made them such
a special part of our national culture. Until now. Although they
ended up on TV, they started out in variety, and their
record-breaking Christmas shows were a secret homage to that
forgotten world. For a quarter of a century, from the early Forties
until the late Sixties, they were a live act first and foremost,
playing pantomime and summer season, variety theatres and seaside
piers. 'You're making us look like a cheap music hall act,' Ernie
used to complain, in mock protest. 'Well, we are a cheap music hall
act,' Eric would reply. Morecambe and Wise Untold is a book about
Eric and Ernie's live years. What was it really like, that lost
world which they came from? How did it shape them? What were the
other acts like? And the theatres? And the shows? Why did they
survive, while so many other variety acts vanished? This is the
story of the spit and sawdust places where they served their
showbiz apprenticeship, told through the reminiscences of the
people they met along the way. Morecambe and Wise Untold contains
brand new interviews with Ken Dodd and Bruce Forsyth (who worked
with Eric and Ernie in Variety) plus Michael Grade, Ernest Maxin
and John Ammonds, who got to know them as a live act, and went on
to mastermind their phenomenally successful TV shows. There are
interviews with Gail and Gary Morecambe (Eric's children), Joan
Morecambe (Eric's widow) and a rare and revealing interview with
Doreen Wise - the first time that Ernie's widow has ever been
interviewed for a book about Morecambe & Wise. The text is
accompanied by a wealth of rare and previously unseen photos by
Gary Morecambe from his father's family archive and from the
collections of friends, fellow performers and fans who captured the
emerging story of a legendary showbiz partnership in the making.
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