Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Hattie Jacques

Hattie Jacques
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The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/February 7, 2014 by BencherliteTalk 01:32, 20 January 2014‎ (UTC)



Hattie Jacques (1922–80) was an English comedy actress of stage, radio and screen, known to a world-wide audience through her portrayals of strict, no-nonsense characters in 14 of the Carry On films. She started her career on stage at the Players' Theatre, London, before progressing onto radio, where she appeared in three popular BBC series, It's That Man Again, Educating Archie and Hancock's Half Hour. Her cinematic debut—in Green for Danger—was brief and uncredited, but she grew to have a prolific screen career. Jacques developed a long professional stage and television partnership with Eric Sykes, whom she co-starred with in the long-running series Sykes and Sykes and a.... The role endeared her to the public and the two became staples of British television. Her private life was turbulent: she was married to the actor John Le Mesurier from 1949 until their divorce in 1965, a separation caused by her five-year affair with another man. Jacques, who had been overweight since her teenage years, suffered ill-health soon after the separation from Le Mesurier. She died in 1980 of a heart attack.

1 point for the lady's birthday only. Sadly not much in the way of an image: the blue plaque of her former residence may well be the best there is. Cheers - SchroCat (talk) 20:08, 2 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Support as co-author.   Cassianto Talk   17:13, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Support, solid article. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 17:57, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Support an excellent article about a lovely, and memorably hilarious lady.--ColonelHenry (talk) 18:15, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
 * - The Blue Plaque would be good, unless we could find a way to ignore Jimbo's order prohibiting the use of NFC pictures in blurbs (which I disagree with).--ColonelHenry (talk) 17:57, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
 * How does that look now. - SchroCat (talk) 22:38, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
 * It's certainly better than nothing at all.  Cassianto Talk   23:53, 5 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Support strong article. buffbills7701 20:16, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Support, comedy is important and educational. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 05:57, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Support I don't think we get many British ladies on the main page do we?! Go on Hattie -- Loeba (talk) 21:16, 13 January 2014 (UTC)