The programme will examine Jacques's secret affair with a younger man, which took place while she was married to Dad's Army actor John Le Mesurier. "Hattie Jacques is a comedy hero of mine and I'm ...

Award-winning actress and comedy writer Ruth Jones (Gavin & Stacey, Tess Of The D'Urbervilles) is lined up to play larger-than-life Carry On actress Hattie Jacques in a new BBC Four drama, Hattie.

"There was more to Hattie Jacques than the public persona of the Carry On films," explains Ruth Jones. "I was surprised. I think because most people only know her for playing the austere matron in the ...

The son of Hattie Jacques has praised Ruth Jones's performance in a one-off drama about the former Carry On star. Jones, who is best known for her role in Gavin and Stacey, is appearing in BBC biopic ...

Ruth Jones as Hattie Jacques, with Robert Bathurst as John Le Mesurier (left) and Aidan Turner as John Schofield Throughout most of its 85 minutes I was poised on the edge of my seat, waiting for it ...

Josephine Edwina Jaques (7 February 1922 – 6 October 1980) was an English comedy actress, known as Hattie Jacques. Starting her career in the 1940s, Jacques first gained attention through her radio ...

‘There was more to Hattie Jacques than the public persona of the Carry On films – her private life will surprise.’ So says Ruth Jones, who is playing the comedienne in a new BBC Four drama. In ...

PROTEUS Theatre Company brings its one-woman show Becoming Hattie to York Theatre Royal’s Studio tomorrow and Saturday after a residency at London’s Leicester Square Theatre. The play celebrates the ...

Married comic actors Hattie Jacques and John LeMesurier seem the perfect couple, with their two young sons and the legendary Christmas dinners they host for their friends. However, in 1963, after a ...

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