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Stanley Augustus Holloway, OBE (1 October 1890 – 30 January 1982) was an English stage and film actor, comedian, singer, poet and monologist. He was famous for his comic and character roles on stage and screen, especially that of Alfred P. Doolittle in My Fair Lady. He was also renowned for his comic monologues and songs which he performed and recorded throughout most of his 70-year career.
Born in London, Holloway pursued a career as a clerk in his teen years. He made early stage appearances before infantry service in the First World War, after which he had his first major theatre success starring in Kissing Time when the musical transferred to the West End from Broadway. In 1921, he joined a concert party, The Co-Optimists, and his career began to flourish. At first, he was employed chiefly as a singer, but his skills as an actor and reciter of comic monologues were soon recognised. Characters from his monologues such as Sam Small, invented by Holloway, and Albert Ramsbottom, created for him by Marriott Edgar, were absorbed into popular British culture, and Holloway developed a following for the recordings of his many monologues. By the 1930s, he was in demand to star in variety, pantomime and musical comedy, including several revues.
Stanley Holloway - The Lion And Albert
The lion and Albert - Stanley Holloway
Brahn boots - Stanley Holloway
Three ha'pence a foot - Stanley Holloway
STANLEY HOLLOWAY: My Word You Do Look Queer.
Stanley Holloway - My word you do look queer!
With A Little Bit Of Luck - Stanley Holloway (My fair Lady)
My Fair Lady - Stanley Holloway - 5 Pounds
Dean Martin & Stanley Holloway
Stanley Holloway - Old Sam & Young Albert
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Famous monologue. Sorry about the jump, but that's vinyl for you. The missing words are:- "a grand little lad was their Albert all dressed in his best"
The ettiquette of a funeral.
The story of Noah buying wood for his ark.
Stanley at his best. MY WORD, YOU DO LOOK QUEER (Bob Weston / Bert Lee) Stanley Holloway (Monologue) I've been very poorly but now I feel prime, I've been out today for the very first time. I felt like a lad as I walked down the road, Then I met Old Jones and he said, 'Well I'm blowed!' My word you do look queer! My word you do look queer! Oh, dear! You look dreadful: you've had a near shave, You look like a man with one foot in the grave.' I said, 'Bosh! l'm better; it's true I've been ill.' He said, 'I'm delighted you're better, but still, I wish you'd a thousand for me in your will. My word, you do look queer!' That didn't improve me, it quite put me back, Still, I walked farther on, and I met Cousin jack. He looked at me hard and he murmured,'Gee whiz! It's like him!...
"With A Little Bit Of Luck", Stanley Holloway (Alfred P. Doolittle) in My fair Lady (1964)
fish & chips ; performing "With a little bit of luck you'll never work" (My fair lady)
Two tracks from Classic Monologues, Old Sam and The Lion and Albert. East London-born Stanley Holloway (1890-1982) was a popular member of any entertainment for more than 50 years, as early as 1907, he could be found as a member of a pier-end concert-party troupe in one of England's east coast resorts. He remained with them for several years until snapped up by fellow-comedian Leslie Henson to feature in his rather more prestigious concert-party. During the war he enlisted in the Connaught Rangers. Immediately after World War One, he made his debut in West End musical comedy. Today most memories of him will be as Alfred P Doolittle in My Fair Lady singing Wiv a Little Bit Of Luck.
Stanley Holloway performing a musical public information song about eating the right kinds of food during wartime on a broadcast-only 78rpm. The other side features Gert and Daisy on the same subject. Sadly the record has a crack in it so you will hear a click through the first half of both sides.
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A tribute to Joyce Carey & Stanley Holloway in Brief Encounter (1945)... Romance blossoms between Myrtle Bagot, the refreshment room manageress & the station master Albert Godby... Margaret Barton (Beryl)
English singer/actor/comedian Stanley Holloway recreates the songs "With a Little Bit of Luck" and "Get Me to the Church on Time" which he sang as Cockney dustman Alfred P Doolittle for 4 years on Broadway's production of "My Fair Lady" in 1956, and again in the 1965 Academy Award winning movie. Here, at 81, he is backed by a chorus from the CBC Vancouver TV series "Music Hall" taped in 1971.
My Fair Lady is a 1964 American musical film adaptation of the Lerner and Loewe eponymous stage musical based on the 1938 film adaptation of the original 1913 stage play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. With a screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner and directed by George Cukor, the film depicts a poor Cockney flower seller Eliza Doolittle who overhears an arrogant phonetics professor, Henry Higgins, as he casually wagers that he could teach her to speak "proper" English, thereby making her presentable in the high society of Edwardian London. The film won eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Director.
My Fair Lady is a 1964 American musical film adaptation of the Lerner and Loewe eponymous stage musical based on the 1938 film adaptation of the original 1913 stage play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. With a screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner and directed by George Cukor, the film depicts a poor Cockney flower seller Eliza Doolittle who overhears an arrogant phonetics professor, Henry Higgins, as he casually wagers that he could teach her to speak "proper" English, thereby making her presentable in the high society of Edwardian London. The film won eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Director.
Midnight Episode - British Murder Mystery Starring Stanley Holloway, Leslie Dwyer, Reginald Tate and Meredith Edwards A street performer called the Professor becomes involved with a mysterious murder. Produced by Theo Lageard Directed by Alfred Zeisler Written by Georges Simenon with screenplay by Rita Barisse, Paul Vincent Carroll, David Evans, William Templeton and Reeve Tyler
TV special featuring songs and monologues from Stanley Hollloway. Please visit my blog www.archivetvmusings.wordpress.com for reviews and news concerning old British television.
Jumping for Joy - 1956 A man buys a greyhound and enters it in a major race, but discovers the dog has one paw in the grave. Our hero nurses the pooch back to health, getting mixed up with criminals trying to fix the big race. With Frankie Howerd, Stanley Holloway, A E Matthews, Alfie Bass, Joan Hickson, Lionel Jeffries, Richard Wattis
The Vicar of Bray is a satirical description of an individual fundamentally changing his principles to remain in ecclesiastical office as external requirements change around him. The religious upheavals in England from 1533 to 1559 and from 1633 to 1715 made it almost impossible for any individual to comply with the successive religious requirements of the state. A film version of the tale was released in 1937 starring Stanley Holloway as the vicar. In the film, the vicar (of Bray, County Wicklow in Ireland) is given a more positive character and events are placed at a slightly earlier period, during the English Civil War. He successfully protects his parishioners by adopting a diplomatic approach during the turbulent events and secures forgiveness for moderate rebels from the restored ...
"The Way Ahead" is a British Second World War drama released in 1944. It stars David Niven and Stanley Holloway and follows a group of civilians who are conscripted into the British Army to fight in North Africa. In the U.S., an edited version was released as "The Immortal Battalion". The film was written by Eric Ambler and Peter Ustinov and directed by Carol Reed. The three had originally produced the 1943 training film "The New Lot", which was produced for the Army Kinematograph Service. "The Way Ahead" was an expanded remake of their earlier film, this time intended for a commercial audience. The two films featured some of the same actors, including John Laurie, Raymond Huntley and Peter Ustinov. In the days after the Dunkirk evacuation in Second World War, Lieutenant Jim Perry (David...
Various Artists - 100 Comedy Classics - Best of Comedy Released 2014-05-16 on AudioSonic Music Download on iTunes: https://geo.itunes.apple.com/album/id882747085?uo=6&app;=itunes&at;=10ldAw&ct;=YTAT5060209954653 Download on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=Various+Artists+100+Comedy+Classics+-+Best+of+Comedy&c;=music&PAffiliateID;=100l3VM 1. 05:23:53 Bernard Cribbins The Hole in the Ground 2. 05:23:53 The Goons The Ying Tong Song 3. 05:23:53 Mike Sarne Come Outside 4. 05:23:53 Gerhard Hoffnung The Bricklayer 5. 05:23:53 Lonnie Donegan My Old Man's a Dustman 6. 05:23:53 Michael Flanders The Gnu Song (with Donald Swann) 7. 05:23:53 Stan Freberg Little Blue Riding Hood 8. 05:23:53 Joyce Grenfell Nursery School 9. 05:23:53 Bob Newhart Introducing Tobacco to Civilization 10. 05:2...
Radio show from cassette 1982-01-31
"A Midsummer's Night's Dream" (abridged) by William Shakespeare cast Theseus...........Tenniel Evans Hippolyta.........Agnes Bernelle Egeus.............Carl Bernard Hermia............Ingrid Hafner Demetrius.........Peter Birrel Lysander..........Richard Gale Helena............Sarah Churchill Quince............Bill Horsley Bottom............Stanley Holloway Flute.............Julian Holloway Starveling........Carl Bernard Snout.............Alastair Hunter Snug..............Gerald Lawson Fairy.............Agnes Bernelle Oberon............Kenneth Griffith Titania...........Adrienne Corri Puck..............Annette Crosbie Philostrate.......Carl Bernard Narrator..........Dennis Vance Directed by Dennis Vance. Script by Morys Aberdare and Fiona Bentley. Musique Concrete and Sound Patterns compo...
ALBERT'S RETURN
from the Stanley Holloway record
You've `eard `ow young Albert Ramsbottom
At the zoo up at Blackpool one year
With a stick with an `orse's `ead `andle
Gave a lion a poke in the ear?
The name of the lion was Wallace,
The poke in the ear made `im wild
And before you could say "Bob's yer uncle"
E'd upped and `e'd swallowed the child.
`E were sorry the moment `e done it;
With children `e'd always been chums,
And besides, `e'd no teeth in his muzzle,
And `e couldn't chew Albert on't gums.
`E could feel the lad movin' inside `im
As `e lay on `is bed of dried ferns;
And it might `ave been little lad's birthday-
E wished `im such `appy returns.
But Albert kept kickin' and fightin'-
And Wallace got up, feelin' bad.
Decided 'twere time that `e started
To stage a comeback for the lad.
Then puttin' `ead down in one corner,
On `is front paws `e started to walk;
And `e coughed, and `e sneezed, and `e gargled
`Till Albert shot out - like a cork!
Now Wallace felt better directly
And `is figure once more became lean.
But the only difference with Albert
Was, `is face and `is `ands were quite clean.
Meanwhile Mr. and Mrs. Ramsbottom
`Ad gone back to their tea, feelin' blue.
Ma said, "I feel down in the mouth, like."
Pa said, "Aye, I bet Albert does, too."
Said Mother, "It just goes to show yer
That the future is never revealed;
If I'd thowt we was goin' to lose `im,
I'd `ave not `ad `is boots soled and `eeled."
"Let's look on the bright side," said Father,
"Wot can't be `elped must be endured;
Each cloud `as a silvery lining,
And we did `ave young Albert insured."
A knock on the door came that moment
As Father these kind words did speak.
`Twas the man from Prudential - `e'd come for
Their tuppence per person per week.
When Father saw `oo `ad been knockin',
`E laughed, and `e kept laughin` so -
The man said "`Ere, wot's there to laugh at?"
Pa said "You'll laugh and all when you know!"
"Excuse `im for laughing," said Mother,
"But really, things `appen so strange -
Our Albert's been et by a lion;
You've got to pay us for a change!"
Said the young man from the Prudential:
"Now, come, come, let's understand this-
You don't mean to say that you've lost `im?"
Pa said "Oh, no, we know where `e is!"
When the young man `ad `eard all the details,
A purse from `is pocket he drew
And `e paid them with interest and bonus
The sum of nine pounds, four and two.
Pa `ad scarce got `is `and on the money
When a face at the window they see-
And Mother cried "Eee, look, it's Albert!"
And Father said "Aye, it would be."
Albert came in all excited,
And started `is story to give;
And Pa said "I'll never trust lions
Again, not as long as I live."
The young man from the Prudential
To pick up the money began
But Father said "`ere, wait a moment,
Don't be in a `urry, young man."
Then giving young Albert a shilling,
`E said "`Ere, pop off back to the zoo;
Get your stick with the `orse's `ead `andle-
Go and see wot the tigers can do!"
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