Liverpool's Odd Couple ; Laura Davis Discovers an Unlikely Alliance of Showbiz and Politics
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HE WAS a dashing entertainer once rumoured to be romantically involved with Marilyn Monroe. She was a stocky politician for whom the description "battle-axe" ought to have been invented.
While Frankie Vaughan, the impoverished commercial artist-turned star of the silver screen, was mingling with Hollywood celebrities in the 1960s, Bessie Braddock, nearly three decades his senior, was fighting for the rights of her constituents.See the full content of this document
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Liverpool's Odd Couple ; Laura Davis Discovers an Unlikely Alliance of Showbiz and Politics
They were two people unlikely to become friends, yet a sense of social responsibility and Liverpool roots were to bring them together.
By the time she became a Labour MP, as a 46-year-old housewife in 1945, Liverpool-born Bessie had served a long ...See the full content of this document
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