06-06-2021, 09:21 PM
(06-06-2021, 08:46 PM)Mike Costigan Wrote: We couldn't afford the down-payment on a Mighty Antar, so we had to make do with two Merlins and an ancient Kestrel we had lying about.
Shades of 'Old Mother Riley' no doubt.
Thinking about Arthur Lucan, who played the character before the war: I had a great aunt who was a 'B' movie actress between the wars (going by the name of Marilyn Mawn) On one occasion, my mother, then about 17, was waiting in my uncle's car at Pinewood Studios whilst he was collecting my aunt from the set she was working in.. Whilst she was waiting, Arthur Lucan, who had a reputation for being partial to pretty young women, approached my mother and attempted to 'chat her up', whereupon my mother very primly told him that she was waiting for her uncle. " Oh, is that what you call them nowadays?" quipped Lucan.