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FleetingEileenM
Joined: 30 Mar 2010 Posts: 5784 Location: Hampshire
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Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2018 5:12 pm Post subject: Denis Norden |
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What a wit and for many years a brilliant scriptwriter with Frank Muir.
I still laugh at Take It From Here with Ron & Eth. My Word and My Music were joys to watch. "Honour's tea is the best, Polly, see?" is one of my favourites from My Word.
Loved his description in My Music of a harp which is "an over-sized cheese slicer with cultural pretensions"
They also wrote "Balham - Gateway to the South" for Peter Sellers. Brilliant.
Norden also wrote that famous line "Infamy. Infamy. They've all got it in for me" for Jimmy Edwards and it was nicked for Kenneth Williams in a Carry On film. Apparently Muir was always annoyed that Norden didn't get credit for it.
RIP Denis. |
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Ian Robinson Site Admin
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 3608 Location: Chorley, Lancashire
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Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2018 2:01 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, a bit of an unsung genius. When I was a kid him and Frank Muir seemed like fairly straight old people but actually they came up with all sorts of strange, wacky and subversive stuff in their heyday. |
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John W
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK
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Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2018 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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Aged 96! I remember Denis on a TV music programmes ‘Face The Music’ and 'My Music', the latter was presented by Steve Race, a fantastic pianist, and was mainly about classical music but Ian Wallace would sing novelty tunes as well as opera, and I’m sure Denis chose to 'sing' film tunes and other tunes that dance bands in the 1930s and 40s recorded. _________________ -
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becky sharp
Joined: 01 Dec 2008 Posts: 6845
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Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2018 2:53 pm Post subject: Re: Denis Norden |
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FleetingEileenM wrote: | What a wit and for many years a brilliant scriptwriter with Frank Muir.
I still laugh at Take It From Here with Ron & Eth. My Word and My Music were joys to watch. "Honour's tea is the best, Polly, see?" is one of my favourites from My Word.
Loved his description in My Music of a harp which is "an over-sized cheese slicer with cultural pretensions"
They also wrote "Balham - Gateway to the South" for Peter Sellers. Brilliant.
Norden also wrote that famous line "Infamy. Infamy. They've all got it in for me" for Jimmy Edwards and it was nicked for Kenneth Williams in a Carry On film. Apparently Muir was always annoyed that Norden didn't get credit for it.
RIP Denis. |
Don't think I ever knew who wrote that quote,Eileen.I do know it was voted the top one liner, in a poll, a few years ago though. |
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FleetingEileenM
Joined: 30 Mar 2010 Posts: 5784 Location: Hampshire
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Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2018 12:25 pm Post subject: |
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Although the script is credited to Talbot Rothwell, the most often quoted line ("Infamy, infamy, they've all got it in for me!") was supplied by the writing team of Frank Muir and Denis Norden, who had coined it for their BBC Radio comedy series "Take It From Here". Norden recalled that Rothwell asked their permission to recycle the line before using it in his script. |
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becky sharp
Joined: 01 Dec 2008 Posts: 6845
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Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2018 10:29 am Post subject: |
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FleetingEileenM wrote: | Although the script is credited to Talbot Rothwell, the most often quoted line ("Infamy, infamy, they've all got it in for me!") was supplied by the writing team of Frank Muir and Denis Norden, who had coined it for their BBC Radio comedy series "Take It From Here". Norden recalled that Rothwell asked their permission to recycle the line before using it in his script. |
Thanks for that,Eileen. |
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