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  1. Hattie Jacques (/ dʒ eɪ k s /; born Josephine Edwina Jaques; 7 February 1922 – 6 October 1980) was an English comedy actress of stage, radio and screen. She is best known as a regular of the Carry On films, where she typically played strict, no-nonsense characters, but was also a prolific television and radio performer.

  2. Nov 15, 2020 · Her rendition of Mammy’s Little Coal Black Rose was hugely popular. “We want Hattie!” roared the crowd. This led to offers of radio spots and bit parts in films: “woman in sports car with ...

  3. Sophie studies why we laugh and says it was great how Hattie held her own with these men. Together with expert Andy Merriman they explore Hattie's life including how she did her own welding in a film, her marriage to John Le Mesurier and affair with John Schofield , and whether the typecasting she suffered was a hindrance or a benefit to her career.

  4. Hattie Jacques was a key figure in British postwar popular cinema and culture, condensing a range of contradictions around power, desire, femininity and class through her performances as a comedienne, primarily in the Carry On series of films between 1958 and 1973. Her recurrent casting as ‘Matron’ in five of the films in the series has fixed Jacques within the British popular imagination ...

    • Estella Tincknell
    • 2015
  5. Jan 19, 2011 · The idea for a Hattie Jacques film was first hatched with Cheryl Taylor in BBC Comedy, following the excellent BBC Four dramas on Frankie Howerd, Tony Hancock and others. We all felt it was time ...

  6. Hattie Jacques (1922 – 1980) was a gifted comedienne and actor who is now largely remembered for her roles as an overweight, strict and often lovelorn battle-axe in the ritish Carry On series of low-budget comedy films between 1958 and 1973. A key figure in British post-war popular cinema and

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  8. Mar 25, 2010 · The larger-than-life of Ms Jacques had a prim matronly image concealed a raucous, boozy and surprisingly hedonistic Earl's Court lifestyle. A double divorce from John Le Mesurier (arranged simultaneously so that both partners could marry others) was reordered to paint Jacques as the victim, the better to preserve her 'much-loved' public status.