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Humphries was a friend of the English poet John Betjeman until Betjeman's death in 1984. Their friendship began in 1960, after Betjeman, while visiting Australia, heard some of Humphries's early recordings and wrote very favourably of them in an Australian newspaper.
Apr 22, 2023 · Apart from musicians or dancers, Humphries was only ever joined by one other person onstage - the silent Madge, played by English actor Emily Perry, who was Dame Edna's long-suffering best...
Jun 27, 2023 · Betjeman, who took his teddy bear, Alfie with him to Oxford in 1925 was the inspiration for the character of Sebastian Flyte in Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. Posted to Dublin as press attaché in the British Embassy during World War II from early 1941 to autumn 1943, his love affair with Ireland had begun two decades earlier in Oxford.
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Apr 22, 2023 · Another friend from a different world – they were essentially kindred spirits – was the poet John Betjeman. Humphries as Aunty Edna with Barry Crocker in a London taxi in a scene from The ...
- Mark Mcginness
Famous friends Barry had an eclectic circle of friends from Kylie Minogue – who Dame Edna claimed to have breastfed – to the late Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman.
Apr 22, 2023 · The character invented to pass the time on the bus made her debut in Lawler’s Christmas revue in 1955. Edna was a composite portrait of various women whose mannerisms had imprinted themselves in...
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Apr 5, 2022 · We became good friends. Even when he was half-paralysed lying in bed in Chelsea towards the end of his lief, I would go and read to him. He particularly liked schoolboy stories of derring-do and poetry of all kinds, most particularly those written by poets who had fallen from favour like John Masefield.
