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Grazina Frame
Grazina Frame (born Lydia Anna Grazina Obrycha; 6 November 1941) is an English stage and screen actress, singer and voice double Early life Grazina Frame was born as Lydia Anna Grazina Obrycha to Polish parents Zena Frame (mother) and Karol Jan Obrycki (father). She attended the Aida Foster Drama School and began her career as Grazina Obrycki. Television She first appeared on television as a servant girl in ''A Time to be Born'', a Christmas play, for BBC Television (24 December 1953). On television, she appeared as entertainer ''Gloria Marsh'' in the 19 October 1969 episode of Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) " That's How Murder Snowballs", and in series Up Pompeii! (1970), The Fenn Street Gang (1971), Doctor in Charge (1972) and The Morecambe and Wise Show as a regular from 1971 to 1974, playing supporting roles to the legendary comedians. Her latest screen appearance was in the 1996 television movie ''Cuts''. Stage She appeared as ''Mavis'', a ''Victorian Mermaid'', in '' Fol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borough Of Fylde
The Borough of Fylde is a Non-metropolitan district, local government district with borough status in the United Kingdom, borough status in Lancashire, England. It covers part of the Fylde plain, after which it is named. The council's headquarters are in St Annes. The borough also contains the towns of Kirkham, Lancashire, Kirkham, Lytham and Wesham and surrounding villages and rural areas. The neighbouring districts are Borough of Blackpool, Blackpool, Borough of Wyre, Wyre, City of Preston, Lancashire, Preston, South Ribble and West Lancashire. History The district was created on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, covering the area of three former districts, which were all abolished at the same time: *Fylde Rural District *Kirkham, Lancashire, Kirkham Urban district (England and Wales), Urban District *Lytham St Annes Municipal Borough The district was named Fylde after the coastal plan. It was awarded borough status from its creation, allowing the chair of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Young Ones (1961 Film)
''The Young Ones'' (US title: ''Wonderful to Be Young!'') is a 1961 British comedy musical film directed by Sidney J. Furie and starring Cliff Richard, Robert Morley as his character's father, Carole Gray as his love interest, and the Shadows as his band. The screenplay was written by Peter Myers and Ronald Cass, who also wrote most of the songs. Herbert Ross choreographed the dance scenes. Its soundtrack spawned numerous hits, including the title track. Although Richard had appeared in two pictures prior, ''The Young Ones'' was his first major film in a string of musical films including '' Summer Holiday'' and '' Wonderful Life''. The film was produced by the Associated British Picture Corporation and shot at their Elstree Studios. It had its World Premiere on 13 December 1961 at the Warner Theatre in London's West End. Plot The story is about a youth club member, and aspiring singer, Nicky and his friends, who try to save their youth club in London's West End from an u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Discogs
Discogs ( ; short for " discographies") is a database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. Database contents are user-generated, and described in ''The New York Times'' as "Wikipedia-like". While the site was originally created with the goal of becoming the largest online database of electronic music, it now includes releases in all genres and on all formats. By 2015, it had a new goal: that of "cataloging every single piece of physical music ever created." As of 2025, its database contains over 18 million user-submitted album listings. History Discogs was started in 2000 by Kevin Lewandowski who worked as a programmer at Intel Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and Delaware General Corporation Law, incorporated in Delaware. Intel designs, manufactures, and sells computer compo .... It wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Up Pompeii!
''Up Pompeii!'' is a British television comedy series set in ancient Pompeii and broadcast between 1969 and 1970, starring Frankie Howerd. The first series was written by Talbot Rothwell, a scriptwriter for the ''Carry On'' films, and the second series by Rothwell and Sid Colin. Two later specials were transmitted in 1975 and 1991 and a film adaptation was released in 1971. Background ''Up Pompeii!'' first appeared in the '' Comedy Playhouse'' series, after Michael Mills and Tom Sloan from BBC Comedy and Light Entertainment visited the ruins of Pompeii. Since Mills had recently seen Frankie Howerd in the stage musical ''A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum'' he casually remarked to Sloan that he half expected Howerd to suddenly appear round the corner. Sloan had replied 'Why not?', and the idea took root. Talbot Rothwell was invited to write a script and the designer Sally Hulke visited Pompeii with a sketch book and camera to ensure realism and authenticity. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of The Morecambe & Wise Show (1968 TV Series) Episodes
This is an episode summary of British TV comedy show '' The Morecambe & Wise Show'', starring Morecambe and Wise. This was the first show of this title to be broadcast (although the duo's previous show, '' Two of a Kind'', was credited as "The Morecambe & Wise Show" in the opening credits of its final two series), and ran on BBC2 and BBC1 for a total of nine series, plus eight Christmas specials, between 1968 and 1977. Overview The episodes produced for the BBC between 1968 and 1977 by Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise are generally considered to be their best output; From series two, all were written by Eddie Braben (save for the 1972 and 1976 Christmas shows which were penned by John Junkin and Barry Cryer) these programmes used a familiar format of opening spot with the duo in front of an empty stage, followed by a musical guest, sketches, another musical guest followed by a scene in the fictional flat, either in bed or in the lounge greeting star guests, usually a play "What Ern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Summer Holiday (album)
''Summer Holiday'' is a soundtrack album by Cliff Richard and The Shadows to the Summer Holiday (1963 film), film of the same name. It is their second film soundtrack album and Richard's eighth album overall. The album topped the UK Albums Chart for 14 weeks. Three singles from the album were released. Before the album release both "The Next Time" and "Bachelor Boy" (A- and B-side respectively) had already been hits. This was followed by "Summer Holiday (song), Summer Holiday" and lastly "Foot Tapper" (by the Shadows). All three singles topped the UK Singles Chart. Rare Release A "special edition" double-album (limited to 80 copies) was given to the cast and crew of the movie and has since become very collectible, with an original selling for £498 in 2010. Track listing Side one #"Seven Days to a Holiday" (Cliff Richard, A.B.S. Orchestra, Mike Sammes, The Michael Sammes Singers) – 3:13 # "Summer Holiday (song), Summer Holiday" (Cliff Richard and the Shadows, The Norrie Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Young Ones (album)
''The Young Ones'' is a soundtrack album by Cliff Richard and the Shadows to the film of the same name. It is their first soundtrack album and Richard's sixth album overall. It was produced by Norrie Paramor, with music by Ronald Cass and Stanley Black. The album topped the UK Albums Chart for six weeks (with another eleven weeks at number two) and charted for 42 weeks in total when the chart was a top twenty. The album became the first UK soundtrack to sell more than one million copies in total, combining UK and international sales. Three singles were released from the album, the first two prior to the album release. " When the Girl in Your Arms is the Girl in Your Heart" was released in October 1961 and reached number 3 in the UK Singles Chart. The Shadows' instrumental, " The Savage", was released in November and reached number 10. Lastly, " The Young Ones" was released in January 1962 and, with half a million pre-orders, debuted at number 1. It spent 6 weeks at the summit, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Monkhouse
Robert Alan Monkhouse (1 June 1928 – 29 December 2003) was an English comedian, television presenter, writer and actor. He was the host of television game shows including '' The Golden Shot'', '' Celebrity Squares'', '' Family Fortunes'' and '' Wipeout''. Early life and career Monkhouse was born on 1 June 1928 at 168 Bromley Road, Beckenham, Kent, the son of chartered accountant Wilfred Adrian Monkhouse (1894–1957) and Dorothy Muriel Monkhouse (''née'' Hansard, 1895–1971). Monkhouse had an elder brother, John, who was born in 1922. Monkhouse's grandfather, John Monkhouse (1862–1938), was a prosperous Methodist businessman who co-founded Monk and Glass, which made custard powder and jelly. In a 2015 documentary, it was revealed that Monkhouse and his older brother suffered from physical and verbal abuse by their mother. Monkhouse was educated at Goring Hall School in Worthing, Sussex, and Dulwich College in south London, from which he was expelled for climbing the clo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Alphabet Murders
''The Alphabet Murders'' (also known as ''ABC Murders'') is a 1965 British detective film directed by Frank Tashlin and starring Tony Randall, Anita Ekberg and Robert Morley. It is based on the 1936 novel '' The A.B.C. Murders'' by Agatha Christie. Plot Albert Aachen, a clown with a unique diving act, is found dead, the murder weapon happens to be a poison dart. When a woman named Betty Barnard becomes the next victim, detective Hercule Poirot suspects that Sir Carmichael Clarke could be in grave danger. As Poirot and Captain Hastings look into the crimes, a beautiful woman with an interesting monogram named Amanda Beatrice Cross becomes the focus of their investigation, at least until she leaps into the Thames. Cast * Tony Randall as Hercule Poirot * Anita Ekberg as Amanda * Robert Morley as Captain Hastings * Maurice Denham as Inspector Japp * Guy Rolfe as Duncan Doncaster * Sheila Allen as Lady Diane * James Villiers as Franklin * Julian Glover as Don Fortune * Graz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Every Day's A Holiday (1965 Film)
''Every Day's a Holiday ''(US title ''Seaside Swingers'') is a 1965 British musical comedy film directed by James Hill and starring John Leyton, Mike Sarne, Ron Moody, Grazina Frame, and Freddie and the Dreamers. The screenplay was by Anthony Marriott, Jeri Matos and James Hill. Plot A group of teenagers take up jobs in a seaside resort for the summer. Cast * John Leyton as Gerry Pullman * Mike Sarne as The Hon. Timothy Gilpin * Freddie and the Dreamers as The Chefs * Freddie Garrity as Chef Freddie (as Freddie and the Dreamers) * Derek Quinn as Chef Danny (as Freddie and the Dreamers) * Roy Crewdson as Chef Gustav (as Freddie and the Dreamers) * Pete Birrell as Chef Sigmund (as Freddie and the Dreamers) * Bernie Dwyer as Chef Henri (as Freddie and the Dreamers) * Ron Moody as Len Basto * Liz Fraser as Miss Slightly * Grazina Frame as Christina Barrington de Witt * Nicholas Parsons as Julian Goddard * Michael Ripper as Ernest Pulman * Hazel Hughes as Mrs. Barringto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bargee
''The Bargee'' is a 1964 British comedy film shot in Techniscope directed by Duncan Wood, and starring Harry H. Corbett, Hugh Griffith, Eric Sykes and Ronnie Barker. The screenplay was by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. Plot Hemel Pike and his cousin Ronnie are two boatmen operating a canal-boat and its butty for British Waterways on the Grand Union Canal. Although the canals are struggling due to declining traffic, Hemel refuses to give up his traditional lifestyle. He also enjoys his reputation as a Don Juan, with girlfriends all across the canal network, something of which Ronnie is envious. Hemel and Ronnie set out from Brentford to Boxmoor, repeatedly encountering an inept "mariner" in a small pleasure craft. At Rickmansworth, Hemel visits one of his lovers, a barmaid called Nellie, but he has to make a quick exit when she accidentally learns about his other girlfriends. Hemel and Ronnie reach Boxmoor, where they deliver their cargo before travelling on empty towards Bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
What A Crazy World
''What a Crazy World'' is a 1963 film directed by Michael Carreras, co-written by Carreras and Alan Klein and based on the latter's stage play. The pop musical features various late 1950s and early 1960s musical performers such as Joe Brown, Marty Wilde, and Susan Maughan, and also includes an appearance by Freddie and the Dreamers, with Klein playing a minor role as a comrade of Brown's and Wilde's characters. Plot Unemployed working class lad Alf Hitchens has an on-off relationship with his girlfriend Marilyn Bishop whilst attempting to break into the music business by selling a self-penned song that describes heavy issues in his personal life. Michael Ripper appears in several cameo roles bemoaning the "bleeding kids" he encounters. Cast * Joe Brown as Alf Hitchens * Susan Maughan as Marilyn Bishop * Marty Wilde as Herbie Shadbolt * Harry H. Corbett as Sam Hitchens, Alf's father * Avis Bunnage as Mary Hitchens, Alf's mother * Michael Ripper as Common Man * Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
