Bruce: The Autobiography

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Pan Macmillan, Sep 6, 2012 - Biography & Autobiography - 448 pages

Bruce Forsyth is known across four generations as the face of family entertainment classics such as The Generation Game, Play Your Cards Right and The Price is Right. His is an amazing story that spans more than two thirds of the twentieth century.

In the late 1950s, over half of Britain would tune in to Sunday Night at the London Palladium, making Bruce a star in a few weeks. But it had been a long slog since his debut as a fourteen-year-old 'Boy Bruce the Mighty Atom' in 1942, then wartime work for the Red Cross and National Service, and playing every theatre, concert party, summer season, double act and review known to man.

Bruce's first-ever account of his whole life is chock full of anecdotes, honest appraisals of tough times, failed marriages and affairs, comments on entertainment and what it took to be a comedian at the height of his powers.

'In the gameshow of life, Brucie hasn't just won the TV, the golf clubs and the hostess trolley. He's won the cuddly toy as well' Mirror

 

Contents

Acknowledgements
What a Year
Good Game Good Game and Crumpet Night?
What Do You Do For a Living?
Just When Youre Not Expecting
The Regeneration Game
What Tangled Webs We Weave
Epilogue
Index
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Bruce Forsyth was a successful TV entertainer and host. He lived in Surrey.