batman

Brando and Kashfi were a match made in hell. Their custody battles, and the terrible effect they had on Christian, are well chronicled in Peter Manso's superb biography of Brando. The poor kid never had a chance of a 'normal' life with those two squabbling over him as if he were an object. Brando ultimately won the custody issue but, by his own admission, he was a lousy parent. Kashfi had a terrible time over the years, including periods of mental instability mainly, as Moor said, brought on by the battles with Brando.

"Do you know why fattries are called fattries .... it's because they are big and people make things in them."

Windthrop

Rachel Roberts was bankrupt at the end of her life, sadly it contributed to her suicide.

Thats the joke that killed the Music Hall !

ShirlGirl

Yes, I wouldn't like to lock horns with Brando!





(Or loins. )

Windthrop

Rex Harrison, though not destitute at the end did effectively purchase his K. He had been told that because he hadn't paid tax in this country for 30 years it was counting against him. RH settled up with the IR and got his K but left no money at the end dying a Knight and a pauper simultaneously. David Niven's family made similar enquiries to downing street when he was dying and were reminded the Niv hadn't paid tax in Britain for nearly 50 years - he kept his money and missed out on a K. Ironically a number of reference books and magazines has referred to a Sir David Niven and more Sir Laurence Harvey.

Thats the joke that killed the Music Hall !

Harleybloke

Cash for honours?

Not in this Green & pleasant land surely..........?

.....You couldn't hear it, if they were shooting at me with howitzers!

hankoler

PAT COOMBES was another who ended her days in a nursing home I think.

Wee Sonny MacGregor

Another crime writer Margery Allingham was also hounded by the Inland Revenue in the 1950s. Christie and Allingham were paying 17/6 (87.5p) in the pound on their earnings!

Ju Upton

Fallen Stars would have been twice as long, I think, if I'd known about the Britmovie forum when I was writing it. I'm fascinated by threads like this (turns out Richard O' Sullivan lives very close to an area I know well!). Then again, the book was put together back in 2002 - when we were only just coming out of the dark ages as far as the internet was concerned. Still, it's strange to think now that into the 21st century I researched a lot of it from old fashioned microfiche reels in big echoey libraries. That was kind of quaint though - it held exactly the kind of antiquated appeal that I imagine most Britmovie forum-ers can relate to.

Anyway, I'm slowly developing a Fallen Stars 2. At the rate I work, it might be ready by about 2012. I'd like to feature a few of the actors mentioned in this thread, along with Laurence Harvey, Stephen Boyd, Jack Wild, Denholm Elliott. (Harvey and Boyd weren't British, but Boyd was close enough and Harvey pretty much became British, a la Sid James.) I wanted to include stars like Susan Shaw and Jerry Desmond last time, but hit a bit of a brick wall research-wise. So if anybody's got any first-hand, or reliable second-hand, stories about these or anybody else, I'd be interested in following them up.

Dame Starry

Did I read at the time that Hendry chose to pay off debts left by his ex-wife, Janet Munro after she died?

YDSL x.

batman

I read that somewhere too.

"Do you know why fattries are called fattries .... it's because they are big and people make things in them."

stevie boy

lovely actress, lovely lady

Dame Starry

Yes, but I don't know if she was actually destitute - she was bedridden with osteoporosis and emphysema and needed a lot of care.

YDSL x.

yorkist

Iam wondering if some one can confirm some thing I read years ago about Margaret Rutherford.In her last years she and Stringer Davies had financial difficulties, and she was helped out by the prime minister of the time Edward Heath from a fund of some kind,may have some thing to do with her being a DBE.
I have no idea whether this true or not.



yorkist

Windthrop

I hadn't heard that but she couldn't work in her last years and had alzheimers so it is possible that they ran short.

Thats the joke that killed the Music Hall !

oxfam1uk

Margaret Rutherford was related to Tony Benn. He's not short of cash or nice houses !