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‘Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not’

09 Saturday Feb 2019

Posted by marina72 in Film, Theatre

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Albert Finney, Anouk Aimee, Audrey Hepburn, Billie Whitelaw, British Cinema, Charlie Bubbles, Erin Brockovich, Gabriel Hershman, Gumshoe, John Osborne, Karel Reisz, Kitchen Sink Drama, Laurence Olivier, Liza Minnelli, Miller's Crossing, New Wave, Orphans, Salford, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Scrooge, Shelagh Delaney, Stephen Frears, The Dresser, The Gathering Storm, Tom Jones, Tony Richardson, Two For The Road, Winston Churchill, Woodfall Films

Albert Finney was born in Salford in 1936. His father, Albert Sr., was a bookmaker. He attended Salford Grammar School and won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). After graduating in 1956, he worked in the theatre, and was an understudy to Sir Laurence Olivier. Continue reading →

Shelagh Delaney 1939-2011

22 Tuesday Nov 2011

Posted by marina72 in Books, Fiction, Theatre

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A Taste of Honey, Dance With a Stranger, For Books' Sake, Jeanette Winterson, Joan Littlewood, Kenneth Tynan, Morrissey, Salford, Shelagh Delaney, Theatre Royal Stratford East

My tribute to Shelagh Delaney, ‘the first working-class woman playwright’, who died recently, is published today at For Books’ Sake

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