The 200th edition
I Like the Girls Who Do
A celebration of Max Miller , comedian and star.
Presented by Gerald Scarfe with Max Bygraves
Charlie Chester , Doris Hare Jean Kent , Alec McCowen Tommy Trinder , Max Wall Bernie Winters and Max Miller
Tm ready for bed - anybody?'
Max Miller , dazzling in chintz and gaudy plus-fours, one foot on the footlights, leering and howling with delight, confronted his audience. Sexual innuendo was his game. He trod a dangerous line, just this side of respectability, across the Music Halls of the 30s and 40s.
On the stage of the Hackney
Empire, with chorus girls and full supporting acts, Gerald Scarfe re-creates
Max Miller 's rise from the back streets of Brighton to the top of the bill. The most outrageous comedian of his day, Max was banned by the BBC, in trouble over the Royal Command Performance, admired and hated by the comics of his age - and ours.
Assistant producer SALLY GEORGE Photography JOHN RHODES Film editor JIM LATHAM Written and directed by GERALD SCARFE
40 Minutes editor EDWARD MIRZOEFF
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