Author: Andy Merriman Hattie Jacques is known and loved as the imposing Matron in the Carry On film, the star of many radio classics, and the fictional TV series of Eric Sykes. But the formidable screen person was a long way from real life; an unsatisfying marriage to John Le Mesurier, and affair with a Cockney car dealer, and fears that her size excluded her from film roles. Here is the full story. (pb) |