She Knows Y'Know [DVD]

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My favourite part in this movie comes towards the end. It reminds me so much of the color - 'The Colour Purple'. It's the scene where - or it's the way Marilyn walks in the room brandishing a wedding ring and making the announcement 'I's Married Now' - "I Married Terry 3 Months Ago" - (in a snotty nose voice) - as if that makes everything alright and all the problems go away. Although we are leaning more & more on how well we manage our finances - ie: Credit History & Credit Scores - that determine how responsible we are as adults, much of today's society still determines responsible behaviour and worthiness through the eyes of marriage. Many application forms asterisk & force us to answer questions that reveal our marital status. At least on paper you can choose not to answer but you can't online. Online application forms won't proceed to the next stage until you answer all the questions that are not optional and the marital status question is seldom optional. She Knows Y'know | BFI | BFI". Explore.bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on 5 August 2012 . Retrieved 15 March 2014. In a coda to her musical career, she teamed with Arthur Mullard in 1978 to record a comedy version of " You're the One That I Want" from the film Grease. Baker and Mullard, then aged 73 and 68, dressed in wigs and costumes similar to the John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John characters from Grease and appeared on the BBC show Top of the Pops and the Granada Television music show for children Get It Together. Their version reached #22 in the UK’s BBC singles chart. [9] The two entertainers recorded an album of pop covers entitled Band on the Trot. [10]

I adore Hylda Baker, I just love her unique brand of humour, and of course she's great, it must have been hard to find roles for someone so unique, she would definitely find her place with Nearest and Dearest and Not on your Nellie. Her mishaps with words are present, but used sparingly.KEN Rowland, the champion fund raiser about whom we wrote on May 25, is recovering from a queer do (to use the medical term) involving pulmonary embolism, a condition with which the column is uncomfortably familiar. The other issue is money, public spending. Not the daily decisions but rather a fundamental threat to her devolved budget. A threat which is presently just a spot on the horizon but which will loom larger as months pass. Born in Farnworth, near Bolton, on February 4th, 1905, she was the eldest of seven children. Her father, Harold, was a painter and signwriter who supplemented his income as a part-time comedian in the music halls, where young Hylda was bitten early by the performing bug. His time as a Baker's boy also included seven episodes of Be Soon - another catchphrase - her first television series.

I think I find it fascinating because of the romantic notions we have about marriage, which are very different for men and women. Also, the idea that individual & personal responsibility can only be achieved through marriage. To me, the two don't equate. The collection is unusual in its nature - both by its survival and in being available in the public domain. Its rarity is reflected, for instance, in the records concerning the management of a touring theatrical production in the 1940s, by insights into the early days of TV performances in the 1950s, and by the fan-mail showing the effects of instant fame. However, although several series of records are apparent - the scripts, the fan-mail - they appear to be complete only for fairly specific periods of Hylda's working life. Jean Ferguson recalls this edition of This Is Your Life in her book, She Knows You Know! reproduced here with kind permission of the author...

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In her late seventies her dementia worsened and in 1981 she moved to a care home for retired performers in London. Her final two years were spent in hospital, where she died in May 1986, at the age of 81. For a generation of TV and film viewers, Hylda Baker will be forever remembered as a feisty and sharp-tongued performer whose mangled monologues and comical facial contortions had us rolling in the aisles. Ken, 56, is presently confined to his own bed after an operation on Monday, though things are looking brighter. "He's canny," says Muriel, and probably says it all. People still seem to remember me," said the great old stager. "This business of ours really is quite extraordinary." Alison Steadman played Baker in the play Our Hylda by Martyn Hesford, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 15 June 2017.

Mr William would still cycle down there as an old man; they left a duster out for him, and he always imagined a use. Baker was born in Farnworth, Lancashire, the first of seven children. Her father, Harold Baker, was a painter and signwriter, who also worked part-time in the music halls as a comedian. At ten, Baker made her debut at the Opera House, Tunbridge Wells, and continued to tour as a single variety act — singing, dancing and performing impersonations. By 14, she had started writing, producing and performing her own shows. Her stage act included a gossip from the North of England, with a silent, sullen companion named "Big Cynthia", almost always played by a man in drag (such as Victor Graham, and lastly by Matthew Kelly). [3] Her act was full of malapropisms and catchphrases that had become part of her public persona, the most familiar being "She knows, y'know!" and, when asked the time "It's quarter past... I must get a little hand put on this watch." [4] Film and television career [ edit ]

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Hylda Baker (4 February 1905 – 1 May 1986) was an English comedian, actress and music hall performer. Born and brought up in Farnworth, Lancashire, she is perhaps best remembered for her role as Nellie Pledge in the Granada ITV sitcom Nearest and Dearest (1968–1973) and for her role in the 1960 film Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. [ citation needed] Early life and career [ edit ] We went on to discuss the humour of Hylda Baker and whether it would still be judged funny today. And why shouldn’t it last? She built her comedy around a character from an 18th century play. Her biggest success, however, was in a sitcom called Nearest and Dearest, the story of Nellie Pledge, would-be queen of Colne, and her family of preserving cases. Yet again, we have Talking PicturesTV to thank for looking after this film, you can be certain it would be looked after by the BFI it were set in London or was by some obscure minority auteur. But films like this, which were once mainstream, if regional and working class in their appeal, are rudely neglected by that institution.

Her routine was littered with malapropisms –“and I can say that without fear of contraception”– and catchphrases including her most famous, “she knows, y’know!” These became so closely associated with her that they became part of her public persona, almost inseparable from the characters she played. Critics might carp that she only ever played one part, but it was one of her own devising and nobody did it better. Finally, two over-arching issues. Nicola Sturgeon requires to perform an elegant gavotte with regard to independence. When Coronavirus is finally subdued, she will return to her demand that the UK Government should accede to a further referendum on independence. He'd met Hylda, successfully transferred from music hall to television, at a show business party. "She looked all the way up at me, said she was going to need a feed at the end of the following week and asked if I'd like to give it a go. My attitude was that I'd do anything once." Even now I hear voices on television and recognise them from rep in Darlington. I saw Charles 20 years ago in The Importance of Being Earnest at the Civic. He hadn't changed a bit."It was Arthur Mullard and Queenie Watts, I said. No, said Pete, it was Arthur Mullard and Hylda Baker. In 1955, her music hall skills were used to full effect on BBC Television’s “The Good Old Days”, which led to a TV series, “Be Soon”, named after another of her catchphrases. More TV work followed, together with film roles including a memorable turn as ‘Aunt Ada” in the 1960 classic “Saturday Night and Sunday Morning”, starring Albert Finney. Other film cameos included “Up the Junction” and “Oliver!”, both in 1968, but it was in TV sitcoms where Hylda Baker found her true home and became a household name. The parents decide to find someone else to marry the girl. And that's the plot so far. Not sure if you would want to watch this dog to find out what happens. I guess I will finish (14 minutes left) but I don't think I will like it!