The Oldie | June 2021
Welcome to the sizzling June issue of the Oldie.
Hugo Vickers interviews the great Leslie Caron on her 90th birthday. She tells him how she starred in Gigi, danced with Fred Astaire and acted opposite Cary Grant.
Robert Bathurst asks comedy greats, from Barry Cryer to Griff Rhys Jones, about dying on stage - what happens when they don't get a laugh?
Christopher Balfour fondly recalls a hilarious trip to New York with Princess Diana, who would have been 60 on 1st July.
Virginia McKenna tells Roderick Gilchrist about saving the wildlife she fell in love with, filming Born Free, over 50 years ago.
Barry Humphries loves a new book about his native Australian tongue and its rude expressions.
PLUS: Frances Wilson on sex-mad DH Lawrence; Anne Sebba on Churchill's mommie dearest - the New Yorker was her son's greatest influence; and Gyles Brandreth on topless Liz Hurley
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