Noel Purcell

Um, a lot of Irish involvement as well.

I mean, Noel Purcell playing Noel Purcell [laughs] very, very effectively.

The other connections would be, um, Movita, who's the, the love interest in the, in the, the, the 1935 film.

'35.

We said whatever about it, you know, we we heard Danny Kaye and had the fabulous show.

And as I mentioned in one of my earlier podcasts, Noel Purcell was doing a pantomime called Mother Goose when my.

darling mother gave me a little shove up on the stage and I ended up holding his hand as we sang on the stage, which had a profound effect and lasting effect on me and gave me my love of the theatre.

It was just the whole sort of enchantment of the thing, looking down at all these little lights and thousands of people.