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Filicity's first love was a boy named "Janis Duler" when she was at the tender age of four- teen. It was strictly platonic in which the boy disagreed with. Thus commenced Felicity's first broken heart. She cried for a week and listened to "Only The Lonely" Poor Felicity! |
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Felicity's first movie was "Shakespeare Wallah" circa
fortune in England soon after. This raised the second biggest disappointment for Geoffery and the deterioration of the company was evident. How- ever, Geoffery and Laura continued a scaled down ver- sion of the company for years after. |
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Since nobody may know what a "Wallah" is, I'll tell ya. It's a noun of Hindi origin meaning "A person connected with a particular thing or function". |
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On arriving in England, Felicity went to live with her Aunt Beula in Olton, the town she was born in. As expected, things were slow at first. Her first job was a small bit on a television series "Love Story". She had three lines. The next job was for another TV show called "The Mayfly And The Frog" where she learned to ride a motorcycle. Felicity met her first husband in a play called "Gone And Never Called Me Mother". Felicity Had a Boy "Charley" by this marriage. Felicity was doing "The Norman Conquests" when Richard Briers asked if she would look over a script for a comedy show for the BBC. "The show might not be hugely successful but I think the writing is excellent and it would be fun to do". She agreed and thus begun the role of "Barbara Good" on "The Good Life" The four actors worked impressivly well together. Felicity's thinking on this was that all four were theatre actors and not "Stars". You got to admit, nobody is famous in a theatre. All four became a household word and the show's popularity was phenomenal. The biggest problem was telling the lady who lived in the Good's location house that her garden will have to be plowed under again. None of the actors were as they portrayed themselves on the show. "Tom" disliked working with animals, "Jerry" was not henpecked and the first with the jokes, "Margo" was not bossy and "Barbara" was not a pleasing wife. As the show skyrocketed, her marriage plummeted into failure. Thirty episodes in all were recorded. Two specials were that of a Christmas show and one recorded before Queen Elizabeth II. Felicity did two more comedy shows "Solo", and "The Mistress". I can't find any information about these, they must have been flops. She worked again with Paul Eddington in "The Camomile Lawn". She went back to the theatre and hitched up with Tom Stoppard. Around this time Felicity re-married and her sister Jennifer got cancer and passed on. Laura also passed and finally Geoffery. It appears now that as the final curtain is drawn on "Shakespeareana", so has the mass popularity of Felicity Kendal. She is now strictly doing theatre and who goes to that stuff? However, she left a permanent mark on all of humanity with her quick witted "Barbara Good" and always will be remembered for that. |
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As the stars come out to play on a quiet night and the twilight of sleep sets to engulf the dreamer into oblivion, Felicity will reign once again in the depths of the soul with the wind streaming through her golden hair. Her beautiful face smiling as a bright spring day. And her eyes, oh those great beautiful eyes......And Wellies right up to her knees! |
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| 1999 Good Wrench | |||||||||||||||||