
- 320 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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The Real Stanley Baxter
About this book
Stanley Baxter delighted over 20 million viewers at a time with his television specials. His pantos became legendary. His divas and dames were so good they were beyond description.
Baxter was a most brilliant cowboy Coward, a smouldering Dietrich. He found immense laughs as Formby and Liberace. And his sex-starved Tarzan swung in a way Hollywood could never have imagined. But who is the real Stanley Baxter?
The comedy actor's talents are matched only by his past reluctance to colour in the detail of his own character. Now, the man behind the mischievous grin, the twinkling eyes and the once-Brylcreemed coiffure is revealed.
In a tale of triumphs and tragedies, of giant laughs and great falls from grace, we discover that while the enigmatic entertainer could play host to hundreds of different voices, the role he found most difficult to play was that of Stanley Baxter.
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Table of contents
- Copyright Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Preface
- Prologue
- 1. A Star is Grown
- 2. The Infirm and the English
- 3. Little Ethel Merman
- 4. The Norman Bates Experience
- 5. 3,000 Volt Love
- 6. The Red Coal Minor
- 7. De-bollocking
- 8. Carry on Sergeant
- 9. Buggery, Bestiality and Necrophilia
- 10. To Be Had
- 11. Poofter Hell
- 12. Ménage à Deux
- 13. Life Gets Galmourouser
- 14. The Get Out of Jail Free Card
- 15. Bob Hope or Bill Holden?
- 16. Stage Frights
- 17. Fruit-flavoured Mother-love
- 18. Five-buck Blow Jobs
- 19. The Scots Cain and Abel
- 20. Padding, Tits and Wigs
- Gallery
- 21. Kommandant Baxter
- 22. There's Nothing Funny About Stanley
- 23. Spanked Bottoms
- 24. Dick Swap
- 25. Loving Sydney
- 26. Arse Banditry
- 27. The Wee Culver City Collapse
- 28. Nymphromania
- 29. The Suicidal Zapata
- 30. Love in Leeds
- 31. The Morally Inhibited
- 32. Death by Porridge
- 33. Santa's Sack
- 34. Benny from Crossroads
- 35. The Languid Moon Vanishes
- 36. Ugly Flowers
- 37. David Niven's Blow Job
- 38. Shadows Becoming Darker
- 39. The Wasp Sting
- 40. Cancelling the Newspapers
- Endnotes
- Personal Life
- Stanley Baxter On... Radio, TV and Film
- Acknowledgements
- Picture Credits
- Luath Ad