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"Most of the time, last thing at night, I am praying, and I am asking for the sins to be forgiven and the trespasses to be forgiven." 🕊

Remembering KENNETH WILLIAMS ✨️ * 22 February 1926 ༒︎ 15 April 1988

from one of my favourite albums, "Parlour Poetry with Kenneth Williams" (Saydisc Records, 1978)

His beautiful voice will always linger in my head; may he rest in peace 🤍 ... I miss you so much, love! 🥀

#gone too soon 😔 #Kenneth Williams #in memoriam ✨️ #15 April 1988 #rest in peace my beautiful poetry lover 🙏💫 #ilysm #Parlour Poetry #1978 #my edits

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"My father wanted a football-playing, beer-drinking son, and he got a gin-drinking poetry-reader. Funny isn't it?"

It is ... delightfully funny! ☆

In memoriam of British comedy legend KENNETH WILLIAMS

22 February 1926 - 15 April 1988

To mark the occasion, here's a favourite song from "The Buccaneer", a musical play by Sandy Wilson, staged in 1955 with a young and ambitious Kenneth Williams as the toffee nosed and precocious Montgomery Winterton ... what an excellent typecasting! ⭐️

Happy birthday, love ❤️🏳️‍🌈

... thank you for being there for me, as the unique personality and artist you were. 🙏

I miss you terribly!

✨️

Photo info, please see below:

Kenneth by Don Smith, April 1971

On stage: Kenneth in "The Buccaneer" at Lyric Hammersmith London, 1955

#Kenneth Williams #Happy birthday my love 💜🖤🤍 #22 February 1926 #in memoriam ☆ #I would be lost without him ... especially at the moment!!! #he deserved so much better ... ✨️❤️‍🩹 #my edits #quotes #The Buccaneer #HIS voice #❤️❤️❤️

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"Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated."

To my beloved mother, who passed away on January 30, 2024 ... 🥀🕊🤍

Mama, I wish you could come back, but I don't want you to suffer again.

I know you are listening from above. There's nothing that I value more than your love. No matter where I am or what I'm doing, your memories will always keep me smiling. I know you are with me, and I will always love and miss you with all my heart.

Until we meet again! 💖✨️💖

"A mother's love is always with her children. Losing a mother is one of the deepest sorrows a heart can know. But her goodness, her caring, and her wisdom live on-like a legacy of love that will always be with you. May that love surround you now and bring you peace." ❤️‍🩹

#I'm devastated and don't know how to ever get over her loss ... it hurts so much!!!!! 😭💔😫💔😭💔😫💔😭 #Farewell my beautiful angel 🕊🤍✨️ #I have no words ... #personal #from my main blog #crushondonald

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Paul Carrack - “Eyes of Blue" 

Album: "A Different Hat” with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by David Cullen 

© Carrack UK, 2010

✨️🩵✨️

#the deepest blue eyed soul I've ever immersed myself in 💙❤️‍🩹 #Eyes of Blue #Paul Carrack #favourite songs ☆ #Kenneth Williams #btw this bby had the most intense blue eyes and the most beautiful eye wrinkles I've seen so far !!!! ✨️❣️ #a little tune for you my love ... 😘 #my edits

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“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”

— Emily Bronte

#💞 #Emily Brontë #quotes #literature #spilled ink

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“As far as I’m concerned, I’m not interested in playing the role on only one level. The whole point of first-class acting is to make a reality of it. To be real. And I have to make sense of it in my own mind in order to be real.”

“I would sooner play in a good British picture than in the majority of American pictures I have seen.”

GLYNIS JOHNS

5 October 1923 - 4 January 2024

... may she rest in peace ✨️🕊

Photo: Glynis (as Marion Southey) with a young, ambitious Kenneth Williams (as Peter Wishart) in the adventure film "The Seekers" (UK/New Zealand), released in June 1954.

Ken's diary entry on 29 September 1953:

"Peter Eade rang to say I'd got the film part!!! Wishart!!! The leads are Jack Hawkins and Glynis Johns. It seems fantastic. But I know that it is part of the pattern. I am destined to be a good actor."

#the last of the last of the Golden Era ✨️ #Farewell Glynis 🤍🕊 #may she rest in peace! #Glynis Johns #1923-2024 #Kenneth Williams #The Seekers #1954 #1950s #British cinema #The Kenneth Williams Diaries #my edits

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KENNETH WILLIAMS presents his own unique Auld Lang Syne … Voici Ma Crêpe Suzette, une création délicieuse! 💞

HAPPY NEW YEAR ✨

clip taken from An Audience with Kenneth Williams (1983) 

#I love you to death my prince!!! 💖 #Happy New Year ✨ #Kenneth Williams #Ma Crêpe Suzette #Auld Lang Syne #An Audience with Kenneth Williams #1983 #1980s #video edits #New Year's Eve #31 December 2023 #srb

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"With me round here ... I'm the butchest thing you'll find round here, I can tell you!" ⭐️

The Kenneth Williams Show (1970-1976)

A very happy, prosperous and healthy New Year to all fellow K.C.W. lovers!

❤️🎇🎊🥳🥂🪩🎆❤️

... Glam up, and have a big time! ✨️

#oh how much I love him! ♥️ #Kenneth Williams #Happy New Year 🎆 #New Year's Eve #New Year 2024 #The Kenneth Williams Show #1970s #let's do it again love! 🥂

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[...] my terrible and wonderful angel.

Benjamin Tammuz, from 'Minotaur', tr. Kim Parfitt & Mildred Budny

#Minotaur #Benjamin Tammuz #literature quotes #fragments #Casey 🖤🤍 ... 💖

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25 December 1957

It is Christmas morning. A clear bright one but with the hint of cloud & forecast of fog to come later. [...] The noises from the next flat are as irritating as usual. My flat is stuffed with Xmas cards. [...] It is always this time of the year that I yearn for the thing which life has never given me - physical love. I suppose I'll get over it. 💔

The Kenneth Williams Diaries

#poor tortured baby 😞 #Kenneth Williams #Christmas Day #1957 #The Kenneth Williams Diaries #photos by John Schlesinger (1956) #my edits #I love you Ken 🫶 ... Merry Christmas anyway!!! 🤍✨️🕊

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Merry Christmas darling 🌟 ... you're always in my heart! ♥️

#Merry Christmas my love ♥️🎄 #Kenneth Williams #Season's Greetings 🌟

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Kenneth Williams and Ingrid Bergman at a press reception in London on the occasion of their upcoming stage play of George Bernard Shaw's "Captain Brassbound's Conversion" on 5 January 1971

24 February 1971

Ingrid is still doing some lines well and some lines badly ... it is because the lack of stage technique makes her her unable to sustain moments or comedy effects ... Nevertheless, I adore this woman and will forgive everything from someone who has her sweetness, radiance and generosity of spirit and who packs the theatre as she does. It is really marvellous to play to such houses.

11 June 1971

[...] I should think Bergman is the best person I've ever met who is an international star. I said to her in the wings 'You are being splendid tonight' & she said 'Yes, I'm in good voice too.' I said 'Yes, but the entrance was superb! So grand, so composed ... utterly serene' and she replied 'Well you know about actors - you can't just switch it on - some nights it all just goes right ...' It is true.

30 August 1982

[...] Went in to see her (Louisa, KW's mother) for meal at 5.30 and she told me 'Poor Ingrid Bergman is dead' and there was an item about her on the TV news, and a shot of her talking about Casablanca. She looked very altered from the '71 days when I worked with her. She died of cancer. [...]

1 September 1982

We saw the television tribute to Ingrid Bergman. It was staggering to see clips of her early films when she looked so radiantly beautiful, and then the later shots of her (during the illness) when the face aged so rapidly. The interviewer asked her 'Were you frightened when you found out you'd got cancer?' and for a tiny moment Ingrid's patience broke. 'Of course ... wouldn't you be frightened if you found that out about yourself?' Then the smile was resumed. I remember that dinner with her at the Garden in '71. I wrote in that diary how I'd said at the end of the evening 'You're the best person I've ever worked with' & she replied 'Oh my dear! There will be lots of others ...' There were not.

The Kenneth Williams Diaries

In memoriam INGRID BERGMAN ✨️

* 29 August 1915

✝︎ 29 August 1982

"You don't realise how much warmth, delight and love you bring into a room with you ..."

#Ingrid Bergman #Happy Birthday angel ✨️🕊 #29 August 1915 #may she rest in peace 🥀 #29 August 1982 #Kenneth Williams #The Kenneth Williams Diaries #1971 #1982 #so sweet how much Ken loved and respected her ... 😭💕 #my edits

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[...] The day hangs heavily. Marilyn Monroe killed herself yesterday & today an English actress (Pat Marlowe, aged 28 and described as former friend of MM) in sympathy did the same. The pointlessness of our life - the awful cheap regard of life. [...] Rain pouring all the time.

The Kenneth Williams Diaries - 6 August 1962

In memoriam MARILYN MONROE ✨️

1 June 1926 - 5 August 1962

#Marilyn Monroe #in memoriam ☆ #5 August 1962 #The Kenneth Williams Diaries #6 August 1962 #Marilyn and Kenneth ... born in 1926 #mental health struggles haunted them throughout their lives #finally both died too early 😥 #Kenneth Williams

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august sipped away like a bottle of wine 'cause you were never mine

#😔 #August #Taylor Swift #song lyrics #memories #pressed flowers #aestheitcs

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There it is! ☆

Finally, I've managed to get an excellent conditioned copy of the audio book of Kenneth' Williams's autobiography "Just Williams," released on two audio cassettes in 1988 ... the year he died before his time on April 15th.

Even if it's abridged by ca. 43 minutes, it's an original in every way, thus a must-have for my already huge but still constantly growing KW collection! ♡

Below is an excerpt from the book, which is one of my favourite anecdotes when Kenneth served the British army as a draughtsman in the Royal Engineers. This notable episode happened in Ceylon in 1945:

He was such a smart guy with great wit! I miss him ... ✨️

#Kenneth Williams #Just Williams #autobiography #1985 #1980s #KW in his own words #lifelines #fragments #alwalys fun to read or listen to!!!! #a treasure 🩷🩷🩷 #my edits #my photos

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— clarice lispector, the stream of life

#him 🥺 #Clarice Lispector #The Stream of Life #literature quotes #typography #unable to allow love ... 💔 #fear of commitment

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the camp commandant 🏳️‍🌈

Kenneth Williams talks about the recent Carry On film (Follow That Camel) on The Eamonn Andrews Show, aired 25 June 1967 ... in his own unique way. ♡

Camp is a fluid and ever-changing concept within queer culture. In general, camp can be described as a style of humour or performance that is deliberately exaggerated, over-the-top, and often poking fun at traditional ideas of femininity and masculinity.

Camp is often used as a form of resistance against mainstream culture and can be a way for queer people to reclaim power and visibility.

© Fabio Cleto - Camp: Queer Aesthetics and the Performing Subject: A Reader [Introduction: Queering the Camp], Edinburgh University Press, 1999

#Kenneth Williams #The Eamonn Andrews Show #TV performance #Carry On films #Follow That Camel #1967 #1960s #camp #queer #gay #gay pride #lgbtq #fragments #book excerpt #isn't he adorable? #nobody does it better 💕 #happy pride 🌈 #... from a straight ally with love ♡♡♡