Stanley Holloway
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Biography
[Edit]Stanley Holloway was an accomplished singer and actor, a disarmingly funny comedian, and a superb monologist. The son of a lawyer's clerk, he was born Stanley Augustus Holloway in London's East End on October 1, 1890. After working in the office of a fish market in Billingsgate, the lad began his performing career as "Master Stanley Holloway — The Wonderful Boy Soprano." At the age of 17 he sang with a concert-party providing entertainment at East Coast seaside resorts. In 1913 he traveled to Milan, Italy, where he received voice training in preparation for a career in opera. Holloway served in the infantry during the First World War, spending four years in the Connaught Rangers ("The Devil's Own"). Although an estimated 2,500 members of this regiment were slain during the Great War, Holloway survived and immediately began singing and acting in London's music halls and theaters, performing at the Winter Garden as Captain Wentworth in Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse's Kissing Time in 1919, and as Rene in A Night Out in 1920.
Holloway made his motion picture debut in 1921, appearing in a silent movie engagingly entitled The Rotters. That same year, working in collaboration with fellow singing comedian Leslie Henson, Holloway helped to form a London-based touring musical revue called the Co-Optimists. This troupe would virtually reinvent itself every year through 1929, and they were filmed in 1930. Holloway established himself as a BBC radio personality in 1923 and developed his solo act throughout the 1920s while continuing his involvement with the musical theater. He was cast as Bill Smith in the London production of Vincent Youmans' musical comedy Hit the Deck (1927), in Song of the Sea (1928), and in Coo-ee (1929). He began recording his monologues for the phonograph market in the early '30s. Peopled with colorful "North Country" characters named Albert, Sam Small, and the Ramsbottoms, these remarkable recitations were couched in rhyming stanzas carefully crafted by George Marriott Edgar, Greatrex Newman, Robert Patrick Weston, and Bert Lee, and also by Holloway himself, who occasionally sang the verses rather than declaiming them.
Holloway participated in a number of stage revues during the 1930s. These included The Savoy Follies (1932), Three Sisters (1934), Here We Are Again (1935), All Wave (1936), London Rhapsody (1938), Up and Doing (1940), and Fine and Dandy (1942). He showed up in a steady stream of British movies including Sing as We Go (1934); Squibs (1935); The Vicar of Bray (1936); a film adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara (1941); Champagne Charlie, The Way Ahead, and This Happy Breed (1944); Caesar and Cleopatra, Brief Encounter, and The Way to the Stars (1945); Meet Me at Dawn (1946); Nicholas Nickelby (1947); and Another Shore, The Winslow Boy, and Hamlet, wherein he played the Gravedigger opposite Sir Lawrence Olivier (1948). He appeared in the films The Perfect Woman and Passport to Pimlico (1949); The Magic Box and The Lavender Hill Mob (1951); The Titfield Thunderbolt and The Beggars Opera (1952); Meet Mr. Lucifer (1953); An Alligator Named Daisy (1955); No Tree in the Street and Hello, London (1959); and No Love for Johnnie (1961). On-stage in New York he played Bottom in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and personified Alfred P. Doolittle in both the stage (1956, 1958) and screen (1964) versions of My Fair Lady.
In 1957 Holloway made some of his all-time funniest and best recordings in the company of Beatrice Lillie and Cyril Ritchard (Nonsense Verse of Carroll and Lear, Cadmon Literary Series LP TC 1078). His dramatic readings of "The Pig-Tale" from Lewis Carroll's Sylvie and Bruno and Edward Lear's heart-rending existential opus The Dong with the Luminous Nose were unparalleled triumphs of theatrical timing, artful delivery, and seasoned wit. In 1960 Stanley Holloway became an officer of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, and toured as a solo act under the billing Laughs and Other Events. In 1962 he was cast as an English butler in the U.S. television sitcom Our Man Higgins, while 1964 found him on-stage in Philadelphia in Cool Off!, a Faustian spoof. Wiv a Little Bit o Luck: The Life Story of Stanley Holloway as told to Dick Richards was published in 1967 and reprinted in 1981. Holloway toured Asia and Australia in 1977 with The Pleasure of His Company, a Noël Coward tribute show, gave a Royal Command Performance in 1980, and died at the age of 91 in a nursing home in Littlehampton (Sussex) England on January 30, 1982.
Title: Nonsense Verse of Carroll & Lear
Artist: Stanley Holloway, Beatrice Lillie
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Alice In Wonderland
Artist: Stanley Holloway, Lewis Carroll, Joan Greenwood
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Artist: Stanley Holloway, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Robert Helpmann, Moira Shearer
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Title: Oliver! 1961 (Stereo)
Artist: Alma Cogan, Stanley Holloway, Dennis Waterman, Rita Williams
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Collections
Title: Movie Music: The Definitive Performances
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: There's No Business Like Show Business
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: The Greatest Hits from the Musicals
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: The Old Good Times (1934)
Genre: World Music
Title: Vintage Comedy Collection 2
Genre:
Title: 100 of the Greatest Comedy Skits
Genre: Humor
Title: Vintage Kids Songs from the '30s, '40s & '50s
Genre: Kids
Title: Award Winning Musicals
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: My Fair Lady - On Broadway
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Comedy Classics
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: The Best of Musical Comedy
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Simply British Comedy Songs
Genre: Humor
Title: Classic British Comedy & Humor
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Nostalgia Trip to the Stars
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Mikado (Original Cast Recording)
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Vintage British Comedy, Vol. 1
Genre:
Title: Vintage British Comedy, Vol. 7
Genre:
Title: Vintage British Comedy, Vol. 1
Genre:
Title: Shakespeare's Greatest Quotes
Genre:
Title: Vintage British Comedy (1) - Volume 1
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Title: Remember Then Vol 3
Genre: Jazz
Title: Vintage British Comedy (1) - Volume 3
Genre:
Title: Vintage British Comedy, Vol. 8
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Title: Smash Xmas Hits, Vol. 6
Genre:
Title: British Wartime
Genre:
Title: Winter Wonderland And Other Xmas Faves
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Title: Oliver (Studio Cast Recording)
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: The Driving Instructor - 20 Comedy Classics
Genre: Humor
Title: British Comedy - Diamond Jubilee Edition
Genre: Humor
Title: The Classic Comedy Collection 3, Vol. 1
Genre:
Title: A Retrospective British Comedy
Genre: Humor
Title: The Classic Comedy Collection 4
Genre:
Title: Vintage Comedy Collection 2, Vol. 1
Genre:
Title: Vintage British Comedy, Vol. 3
Genre:
Title: Big Hits & Highlights of 1940 Volume 4
Genre: Pop
Title: British & American Comedy Legends
Genre: Humor
Title: The Days of Silly Songs
Genre:
Title: Vintage British Comedy, Vol. 1
Genre: Humor
Title: Vintage British Comedy, Vol. 6
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Title: Swingin' on a Star, Vol. 5
Genre: Pop
Title: Vintage British Comedy, Vol. 4
Genre:
Title: Music Hall to Variety
Genre: Pop
Title: The Classic Comedy Collection 3, Vol. 2
Genre:
Title: Music Hall to Variety, Second House, Vol. 3
Genre:
Title: Vintage Comedy Collection 2, Vol. 2
Genre:
Title: The Classic Comedy Collection 4, Vol. 3
Genre:
Title: This Is My Song 115 Classic Favourites CD 5
Genre: Pop
Title: The All Time Greatest Songs - 10 - Musical (CD2)
Genre: Pop
Title: A Time To Remember: 1938
Genre: Blues, Jazz, Rock, World Music, Pop
Title: A Time To Remember: 1934
Genre: Blues, Jazz, Rock, World Music, Pop
Title: A Time To Remember: 1941
Genre: Blues, Jazz, Rock, World Music, Pop
Featuring albums
Title: My Fair Lady
Artist: Julie Andrews, Rex Harrison
Genre: Jazz, Pop, Theatre/Soundtrack, Classical
Title: My Fair Lady (Original Soundtrack)
Artist: Marni Nixon, Rex Harrison
Genre: Jazz, Pop, Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: My Fair Lady (Original London Cast Recording)
Artist: Julie Andrews, Rex Harrison
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: My Fair Lady
Artist: Original Broadway Cast Recording
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack, Vocal & Symphonic
Title: Greatest Musicals Double Feature: Oliver & My Fair Lady
Artist: Original Cast
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: My Fair Lady (Original Broadway Cast)
Artist: My Fair Lady - Original Broadway Cast
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Great Speeches from Shakespeare
Artist: John Gielgud, Marlon Brando, Sir Laurence Olivier
Genre:
Title: My Fair Lady - Original London Cast Recording
Artist: Julie Andrews, Original London Cast Rex Harrison
Genre: Classical
Title: Jones & Schmidt: Hidden Treasures, 1951-2001
Artist: Tom Jones, Harvey Schmidt
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: The Heroes Collection (CD1)
Artist: Songs For Captain Tom
Genre: Blues, Jazz, Byzantine/Relegious, Country, Theatre/Soundtrack, Classical