Ann leslie autobiography of a face

"You're keeping a good man out of a job," he told her, and did everything he could to make her life difficult.

No-one gave her a copy of the Daily Express style-book, so she invented her own style, considerably livelier and more readable: the news editor may have hated her stories but they made the night editor laugh and he put them in the paper.

Salvation came, according to her account, when she was sent to Oldham in a blizzard to interview a dwarf who had been at school with Cary Grant.

They got on like a house on fire, sipping the Scotch he kept hidden from his wife in a kettle.

"We were getting merrier and merrier.

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Suddenly the wife, who looked like Les Dawson, turned up," she later recalled. "She was furious. She saw this upper-class woman wearing a fur coat getting tipsy with her husband. So she threw me out."

But the story made the paper and she was promoted to a Ann Leslie obituary: One of Britain's most formidable ... - BBC ZOPYR