Parkinson: Lauren Bacall, Kenneth Allsop, Tom Paxton and Danny Thompson


11:00 pm - 12:05 am, Saturday, February 28 on BBC Four (9)

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Lauren Bacall, Kenneth Allsop, Tom Paxton and Danny Thompson

Michael Parkinson is joined by actress Lauren Bacall, singer-songwriter Tom Paxton, broadcaster and author Kenneth Allsop and musician Danny Thompson. First broadcast in 1972


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Michael Parkinson (Host)
Born: March 28, 1935 in Cudworth, West Yorkshire
Best Known For: Quizzing celebs
Early-life: Born on March 28, 1935. An only child, he grew up in a council house in the coalmining village of Cudworth, near Barnsley, South Yorkshire. When he was 14, his father, a miner, took him down the pit to put him off working there. After his original dream of playing cricket for Yorkshire was dashed, Parkinson left school at 16 to work on a local paper before joining the Manchester Guardian and later the Daily Express. He was also the youngest officer to take part in the Suez crisis.
Career: Parkinson's first TV job was as a producer at Granada. In 1969 he began hosting the channel's Cinema programme. By 1971 he was working for Thames TV, presenting Teabreak with wife Mary, before getting his own chat show at the BBC which saw him interview such stars as Ingrid Bergman, Orson Welles, James Stewart and John Wayne. More than a decade later the series was dropped. He had a short-lived term at TV-am and appeared on the shows Give Us A Clue, one-off drama Ghostwatch and Going for A Song. In 1998, his chat show was revived and proved an instant hit. It switched from the Beeb to ITV1 in 2004 and ran until 2007 - the same year he retired from his Sunday morning Radio 2 programme.
Quote: 'There comes a time when you have been around for so long you become like a well-worn, well-loved object on the mantlepiece.'
Trivia: Parkinson owns a pub (which is run by one of his three sons), writes books and plays golf.
Kenneth Allsop (Guest)
Lauren Bacall (Guest)
Born: September 16, 1924 in New York
Best Known For: Her on and off-screen partnership with Humphrey Bogart.
Early-life: Born Betty Joan Perske in New York in 1924. She was brought up by her mother, a secretary, after her parents divorced when she was five. As a young girl, she had dreams of becoming a dancer, but switched to acting in her teens. She studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and took small parts in off-Broadway plays, but initially had more success as a model. Her big break came when she was signed up by director Howard Hawks, after his wife spotted her on the cover of Harper's Bazaar magazine. He changed her name and cast her opposite Humphrey Bogart in To Have and Have Not in 1944.
Career: Bacall's film debut made her an instant star, although her second movie, Confidential Agent (1945), was less well received. The Big Sleep (1946) reteamed her with Bogart, and they went on to make two more films together. Her habit of turning down substandard roles earned her a reputation for being difficult, but she did go on to feature in Young Man with a Horn (1950), How To Marry a Millionaire (1953) and Written on the Wind (1956). Bacall's movie career waned during the following decades, but she found success on Broadway in the plays Cactus Flower and Applause. She received her first Academy Award nomination in 1996 for The Mirror Has Two Faces. She received an honorary Academy Award in 2010. She died on August 12, 2014, at the age of 89.
Quote: 'I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it.'
Trivia: She wed Humphrey Bogart in 1945. They had two children together and the marriage lasted until his death in 1957. She was married to actor Jason Robards from 1961 to 1969. Their son, Sam, went on to become an actor.
Tom Paxton (Guest)
Melvyn Cornish (Director)
Richard Drewett (Producer)

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