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Lady Don't
Fall Backwards by Joan Le Mesurier
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Prologue
I am
a great believer in fate. There are some things that lie in wait for
us with our name on them. There are some people who, from the first
time we meet them, seem to fit like familiar old friends. The moment
my son David was first put into my arms, I said, through the mists of
analgesia, 'I know that face.' It was the same with my first husband,
Mark Eden - I knew at once who he was. On meeting John Le Mesurier,
who was to become my second husband, I felt as if I had put on a comfortable
old coat. But in the case of Tony Hancock, I experienced a shock of
recognition. |
Coming
as I do from the 'who's going to look at you?' school of thought, I
graduated naturally with the belief that if anyone looked at me at all
I would be lucky. I spent most of my formative years trying to make
people not only look at me, but like what they saw. It was not until
quite recently that I took a good look at myself. Armed with a massive
lack of self-confidence, I had been under the illusion that everybody
out there knew something I did not, that they were in on some joke that
I had failed to understand. However, in spite of this handicap, I always
found I was drawn intuitively towards certain people and away from others. |
In
this respect I have seldom been wrong, except for a few expensive mistakes
made, I hasten to add, in a deliberate attempt to hurl myself lemming-like
at life. In short, I was a pushover. The surest way of getting me into
bed was a well-timed line, and the sexiest thing about a man has always
been his sense of humour. As for me, looking back at my life, I know
that without a sense of humour there were times when I might have gone
under. The funniest thing of all is sometimes the hardest thing to laugh
at, namely, oneself. |
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Joan
Le Mesurier
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Joan Le Mesurier lives in Ramsgate, Kent and Portugal. She is also the author of another, more recently and updated (published in 2001), memoir of her life with John Le Mesurier entitled Dear John. Her home has two Comic Heritage plaques on the outside wall - one for Tony and one for John. |
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There were two publications of this particular book. They date from: 1988 to 1989, and are as follows:
This book can be found, but you may have to look harder, it won't just fall into your lap! |
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