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Louise Brooks

In A Publicity Portrait

By Edward Thayer Monroe For

Kenneth Williams photographed in London for ‘Radio Times’ in connection with the BBC Radio 4 series The Secret World of Kenneth Williams, June 1971.

Friday, 4 June 1971

Off to the Paris for this radio series ‘Secret World of KW’. A  strange collection of BBC rep. types - none of whom are laugh getters, but my stuff went all right & I think on the whole, it was a success for a start to a new series. Walked to the theatre at 6.45 just saying ‘Thank God for being alive’. During the performance, I noticed everyone was being v. good, & then they said ‘Alfred Hitchcock is out front!’ Ingrid [Bergman] asked me up for drinks with him. He was enchanting and we all went off to Inigo Jones for dinner. At the restaurant Hitch said that during The Birds he's said in one sequence (where all these birds came down the chimney & attacked Jessica Tandy) ‘Listen Jessica ... if one of them gets up your skirt, grab it! Because a bird in the hand ...’ & that was certainly one of the funniest lines I’ve ever heard about filming!

Kay Francis born January 13, 1905 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

BASIL RATHBONE + dancing

THE MAD DOCTOR (1941)

RIO (1939)