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Dear John - Joan Le Mesurier

Description: ISBN 0283063726 / Genre: Biography / Author: Joan Le Mesurier / Hardcover / 288 Pages / Book is published 2001-09-07 by Sidgwick & ... more

Dear John - Joan Le Mesurier ... Jackson Ltd

Newest Review: ... more about an actor I only really knew from Dad's Army, but had always liked in the role and felt he was a genuinely ... more

... "nice bloke". I was soon swept up into the story and read steadily over the next few days, without my interest waning. As the title suggests, the book is written as a tribute to John and includes copies of several letters he both wrote and received during the latter years of his life. These are often amusing and make a nice break from the usual chunks of standard text, but I still preferred the parts where Joan reminisced about her life with him and some of the things they did together. John worked steadily...more

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Dear John - Joan Le Mesurier: Don't Panic! It's a John Le Mesurier Biography! (589 words)
by - written on 09/07/08 (Very useful, 127 readings)
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I really enjoy reading biographies and always find I learn a lot about the subject that I didn't know before. Recently, I read the Hattie Jacques biography by Andrew Merriman. Hattie was once married to Dad's Army star John Le Mesurier and I had a biography on him in my ever-growing 'To Be Read' pile, so I chose that to read next. I felt it would add an extra dimension to what I had learned about Hattie's life - and indeed it did. Dear John is written by Joan Le Mesurier, who married John after he split up from Hattie Jacques. Joan has also written Lady Don't Fall Backwards, a memoir of her time with Tony Hancock, a TV adaptation of which was recently shown on ... Read the complete review