A three-part series in which Evelyn Laye recalls aspects of her career. 1: The glamour of the theatre in the first half of this century.
'Champagne was guzzled from ladies' shoes.
Diamonds lurked in bouquets of flowers - left at stage-doors by that now-vanished race of gentlemen, the stage-door johnnies.
The humbler ones who weren't dukes or lords were merely millionaires and all a girl needed to land herself one of these was to get a job in the shows of the Gaiety Theatre.'
Introduced by Vanessa Lee.
Producer Barry Knight