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English actor Bob Hoskins passed away today at the age of 71. His thespian accomplishments are too numerous to mention, although this writer particularly recommends seeing him in Terry Gilliam’s Brazil (1985) and in Mermaids (1990). I mention him here, however, because of his starring role in Dennis Potter’s 1978 television mini-series “Pennies from Heaven” …
This 1931 Pathétone film clip shows Elsie Carlisle, accompanied by Harry Rubens at the piano, singing “Alone and Afraid” and “My Canary Has Circles Under His Eyes.” “Alone and Afraid.” Music by Jack Trent, words by Stan Leigh (1931). Recorded the same year by Jerry Hoey and His Band (Joe Leigh, vocalist), Jack Payne, and …
Radio Parade (1933) is a variety film featuring such stars of the time as Clapham and Dwyer, Gert and Daisy, Reginald Gardiner, Florence Desmond, and Roy Fox, but it is most notable for showing, in reel 2, ELSIE CARLISLE SINGING ON FILM FOR NEARLY EIGHT MINUTES! Elsie sings such numbers as “It’s Great to Be …
On April 15, 1896, Elsie Carlisle was baptized in the parish of St. James’, Collyhurst, in Greater Manchester. The parish registry gives the date of the baptism and lists her birth as having occurred earlier in the same year, on January 28. Her parents’ names were James and Mary Ellen. They lived at 7 Whitehead …
Clive Hooley has given us quite a treat: an Elsie Carlisle song recorded 73 years ago that was not previously on the Internet and is on no vinyl album or CD that I have ever seen. It is a wartime tune on the flip side of the album with the famous “Hut Sut Song.” Copyrighted …
A limerick about Elsie Carlisle and Sam Browne: A crooner named Elsie CarlisleIs a girl with a very nice stisle; But the cheek that she gets From Sam Browne in duets –Now how can this chap be so visle?” – B. C. Hilliam, the “Mr. Flotsam” of the musical comedy duo “Flotsam and Jetsam”
