Anthea askey biography of abraham
A Personal Memoir by Timothy Johnston..
Pages dans la catégorie «Naissance à Londres au XXe siècle».
PERT AND pretty, sweet and very petite, Anthea Askey was the delightful daughter of one of the country’s all-time favourite funny men, Arthur Askey, who might very well have called himself “sweet and petite” if only in jest.
The only child of Arthur and his beloved wife, May, both of whom might be described as pocket-sized, Anthea inherited her father’s spirit of comedy and her mother’s good looks. Domesticity and producing grandchildren for her parents deprived her of a fulsome career in television and faithful viewers of a major star.
A few weeks later Arthur Askey was to make his first BBC radio broadcast in Saturday Night Music Hall. He felt his daughter’s birth brought him luck for within a few years he would become the star of radio’s first regular comedy series, Band Waggon, which would lead him into a string of major comedy films over the next decade.Anthea’s education at a nearby conve