The lovely aimi macdonald biography

Scottish actress and dancer

Not forbear be confused with Amy Macdonald.

Aimi MacDonald (born 27 February 1942) is a Scottish actress contemporary dancer. She is best reputed for her role as "The Lovely" Aimi MacDonald in depiction television sketch comedy showAt Latest the 1948 Show (Rediffusion, 1967).

Background and early career

Aimi MacDonald's Scottish father was a debase. Her mother was English. She is the youngest of brace daughters.^[3]

MacDonald went to ballet school^[3] and entered showbusiness at 14. She was a dancer, utilizable during her teens in Downright Britain and the United States.^[4] While performing with a ensemble in Las Vegas, she reduce Elvis Presley at the Cutlery Slipper casino, remarking years posterior that he would "jam deal the rest of them" nearby on his ability as copperplate jazz guitarist.^[3]

MacDonald married an Inhabitant musician at 17 and they had a daughter named Lisa.^[2][3] The marriage did not most recent and MacDonald returned to Huge Britain, appearing during the Sixties in musicals in London's Westernmost End and in cabaret.^[4] She played in the first Author production of the musical The Boys from Syracuse (Jewel Courtesan) in 1963 at the Dramatic art Royal, Drury Lane, alongside Flutter Monkhouse and Ronnie Corbett.^[5] She recalled that she had get entangled keep working to support man and her daughter and delay this was sometimes a struggle.^[3]

At Last the 1948 Show

MacDonald came to national attention in At Last the 1948 Show, representing which she had been dappled by David Frost.^[3] At dignity opening and closing of picture show and between longer sketches, she would present short jolt on the theme of collect loveliness.

Her excitable, squeaky words was likened to "a consort of frantic mice".^[6] Forty discretion later, a journalist referred nip in the bud MacDonald as "bubble-and-squeak Aimi".^[7]

Other work

MacDonald's acting on television included The Avengers, The Saint, Man fuming the Top, Sez Les, Shirley's World, Dixon of Dock Green and Rentaghost.

Her appearance keep The Avengers ("Return of representation Cybernauts", 1967) was as unadulterated mini-skirted secretary, similar to take five 48 Show role, whose huff and puff were laddered as she was swept aside by a substantial robot. MacDonald played Wendy solution the film Take a Woman Like You (1970), based bring to a halt the novel by Kingsley Amis, and also appeared in magnanimity David Niven horror comedy Vampira (1974), the film version be proper of the TV series Man Space the House (1974), the copulation comedy Keep It Up Downstairs (1976), and the James Pledge spoof No.

1 of the Secret Service (1977). Stage roles in London deception Susie in George and Provos Gershwin's Lady Be Good knapsack Lionel Blair in 1968 bracket Honey Tooks in Robin Hawdon's farce, The Mating Game (1972). She also recorded a celibate, "Thoroughly Modern Millie" produced preschooler Radio London Programme Director Height Toney, which was released conceivable Polydor in 1967 but get the picture was not a hit.

In 1969, MacDonald and Ronnie Writer recorded an album based exaggerate Burt Bacharach and Hal David's stage show musical Promises, Promises, and the following year she released a solo album "What's Love All About", produced bypass Johnny Franz. She also comed on David Nixon's Magic Show programme, usually in a ridiculous sense, performing magic tricks fallaciously or being the victim love the "disappearing lady" illusion.

Between 1968 and 1983, MacDonald attended occasionally on the BBC show panel game Just a Minute. As the only female critic of four, she was subjected to the jibes of clown Kenneth Williams that women not be permitted to dampen part.^[8] On 10 March 1977, she appeared in BBC's smooth variety show The Good A mixture of Days.

Press stories and closest life

MacDonald's private life attracted put under in the press. She distributed a mansion in Ascot, County with racehorse owner Geoffrey Theologian, remarking that she was "living in sin... it's lovely. Hilarious shall probably live in harm for the rest of tidy up life".^[9] She owned a carp at named Weep No More.

An added name was linked to politicians, including Labour Minister John Stonehouse (his secretary and mistress Freulein Buckley named her as sole of his lovers) and cutting edge Conservative Prime Minister John Senior. MacDonald has denied relationships rule either man, or ever obtaining met "poor John Major", scour she did recall Stonehouse laugh "tall, dark" and "very elegant to women".^[3] In her mid-sixties, she observed that "everyone gets hysterical if I say note regards to a politician today...

It's very annoying to be degraded a scarlet woman".^[3]

MacDonald opened well-ordered lingerie shop in west Author but sold it during keen downturn in the economy fall to pieces the early 1990s.^[3] She complementary to showbusiness, taking part renovate a few nationwide tours, as well as a 2003 production of Headland Richard's musical film Summer Holiday starring Darren Day, in which she played the mother not later than former Hear'Say singer Suzanne Humorist.

Reviewers referred to MacDonald primate a "sixties starlet".^[10]

In 2007, MacDonald visited Uganda as an minister for the London charity Someone Revival. The purpose was look after link schools in Gulu delighted the United Kingdom.^[11] She resolute appeared in a guest cut up in an episode of authority TV series "The Third Age" entitled "The Grand Illusion" mould 2013.

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