Thursday, November 10, 2005

Pointing the Percy at the porcelain

Thanks Obi for today's title contribution and getting me thinking of the Carry On's.

Some great, some just awful but which ever Carry On film I watch there's a chuckle to be had somewhere. If I'd been in London in the 60's I can just imagine hanging out with the Carry On crowd.... in the props cupboard. Apparently most of the cast were never paid that great a fee and never receive royalties when the repeats are shown time and time again. Charles Autrey (I bet I've spelt that wrong) was a constant drunk on set and as i've said Kenny was obsessed with his lower regions and ailments. Babs said it was so sad the last time she saw her dear Kenny, it was in London somewhere, he was painfully frail and was being propped up by two of his young man friends...

Kenneth Connor was probably the most sane out of the cast along with Joan Simms. Sid James... what a corker of a laughing clown. June Whitfield and Jim Dale are some of the remaining few alive.

Carry On Camping.....................


1 comment:

Nick Mazonowicz said...

Charles Hawtrey.

Hwah! Hwah! Hwah! Hwah! Hwah!

Sid James claimed to be a boxer and 'ard man. In actual fact, he was a hairdresser in South Africa.