Avril Angers was one of Britain's finest comedy actresses. Once dubbed Britain's answer to Lucille Ball she was a great exponent of revue, musicals, cabaret and TV and film comedy. Born in Liverpool, Angers' long and successful career in show-business began in variety. Her father was the comedian Harry Angers and her mother was Lillian Errol, a ...
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"I took to drama such as School for Scandal and She Stoops to Conquer like a duck to water. I didn't really do Shakespeare. To be honest, by the time you've started from the top of a line and got to the bottom of the page, you've forgotten what the gag was." (Stage Newspaper, January 2005).
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I think I was the first glamorous British comedienne - I had blonde hair and not bad legs. I wasn't like the eccentric Nellie Wallace but being glamorous made it harder. You had to time the gags perfectly
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In 1949 she announced her engagement to actor Barry Wicks, only to declare, nearly two years later, while in a summer show at Bexhill-on-Sea, that she was "too busy" for marriage. She never married and was survived by two brothers.
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