Meeting the Famous

[Lena & Harry Smith]

Sorry for the delay in answering your post Gray, but when i was talking to Venables at that time he said that he was finished with football and would never go back to it.
Now i wonder what enticed him back, no prizes for guessing.

[Lena & Harry Smith]

Now that's what we call mingling with the stars Mark. i've seen Sinatra Four times, the nearest I ever got to him was in 1984, at the Royal Albert Hall peering through the curtains watching him rehearsing.
I used to make morning and afternoon tea and coffee for the BBC for actors and actresses who rehearsed at a club where Harry was commitee member and leader. I have met Jack Warner, Peter Cooke, Dudley Moore, Marty Feldman, Yootha Joyce John Junkin Sylvia Sims All the actors of Dad's army Tessie o' Shea.
We knew and have met David Tomlinson many times and Robert Morley.
At our Charity days we met Roy Castle, cricketers Brian Jonstone, Dennis Compton, Colin Milburn,
Also met singer Ronnie Carroll, Denis Lotis,Ann Shelton, and last but not least Al Martino

[mark porter]

thats a good list there some greats who we will never see the like of again. ann shelton was a lovely lady who i toured with many times with the squadronaires ( in the eighties and early nineties) we had many a fish and chip supper in the dressing room. sadly missed, as are most of those on your list .mine too come to think of it.

[mark porter]

sylvia syms is at the radisson hotel in heathrow on 14th october by the way at a collectors fair i believe.

[Marian]

Is she buying or selling Mark??!!!!

Impressive list of celebrities you've met, also Lena and Harry's.
Marian

[ROBERT M.]

So Mark, you have met the lovely Eleanor Powell................... .....................I call her the GREAT Eleanor Powell...............more so than Ginger Rogers

[Lena & Harry Smith]

We saw Ginger Rogers in "Mame " back in the late Sixties Robert and remember the very impressive way they arranged her singing and dance acts, making it look as if she was using a great deal of energy, when with most of her numbers she was being lifted high up with the aid of a burley bloke each side of her to give her a break. The look of relief on her face was impossible for her to disguise. Mind you she was 58 at the time.

[mark porter]

marian,
sylvia syms is selling her signed photos i just checked. apparently someone persuaded her its not that shes desperate but there are a few british movie stars , like susan george and leslie phillips. so she agreed. a friend of mine collects movie memorablia. www.autographica.co.uk is the info link.

[Marian]

Many thanks for the link Mark. It looks interesting. I see Susan George has had to cancel though. Saw her on tv recently talking about her horse photographs. I believe Jack Jones gave her her first Arabian horse.
Peter used to like Sylvia Syms in her younger days - "Ice Cold in Alex" etc. Recently, she has become a really good character actress though.
I have built up quite a good autograph collection over the years. It's sometimes interesting to buy an old autograph book, and find a real gem inside!
Marian.

[Mark Fox]

You ARE modest,Mark-you've also met Bill Wyman,Olivia Newton John,Curtis Stigers,Jamie Cullum,to name but a few more and I'm hurt you forgot ME!