[78-L] Masonic Bodge!^

[Julian Vein]

On 26/01/13 00:32, Mike Harkin wrote:
> Peter Sellers playing a Liberace-type one might almost believe - I think he could bring it
> off.  But James Mason??????!!!!!!  He must have REALLY NEEDED the money!  And how did they work Mrs M into it?  Liberace never had a wife, did s/he - not in the full sense of the word anyway?
>
> Mike in Plovdiv
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A bit late in responding to this one. What I meant to say was that Mason 
played the Liberace character on-stage only. Off-stage he was his usual 
brooding self. His wife played the friend of the woman (June Havoc) who 
was obsessed with him.

One wince-making scene was when he's on stage, ruminating about what has 
been happening to him. He starts playing the piano with an introduction 
that goes on and on before he rushes off stage. What he played sounded 
very much like the riff that Eddie Heywood used for "Begin The Beguine"!

      Julian Vein