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    Wedding Bells and Chimney Sweeps

    By Bruce Montague

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    The wedding; that special day of happiness, love, and dodgy DJs—marred only by the odd drunken uncle. But have you ever wondered about the stories behind all the customs, jokes, and and quirky rituals we now take for granted?  Wedding Bells and Chimney Sweeps is treasure trove of fun facts, myth, superstition, and old wives’ tales about the happiest—and often most eventful—day of all. A perfect gift to dip into for eager brides-to-be, nervous grooms, or dubious fathers-in-law, Wedding Bells is bound to amuse, astonish—and even appall. This is a book to delight even the least romantic reader.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn Blake
    Release dateJul 1, 2014
    ISBN9781784180423
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    Wedding Bells and Chimney Sweeps
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    Bruce Montague

    After National Service attached to 656 Squadron, RAF, in Malaya, Bruce Montague trained at the RADA. In his early twenties, he joined the Old Vic where he appeared in several plays with Vivien Leigh. He has acted in over 300 TV productions but is probably best known for his five-year run in the popular BBC sitcom Butterflies as Wendy Craig’s would-be lover, Leonard. More recently he returned to the theatre in musicals such as Fiddler on the Roof with Topol at the Palladium, Oliver! (as Mr Brownlow – three years at the Palladium), and Phantom of the Opera (two years at Her Majesty’s). His latest TV appearance was as a guest star in New Tricks, and he will play Flo Ziegfeld in the West End production of Funny Girl, the first revival of the musical for fifty years. He has written several plays for the theatre and a number of scripts for the BBC, as well as screenplays, and he has written the lyrics and libretto for new musical, The Mistress, based on the scandalous affair between Admiral Lord Nelson and Emma, Lady Hamilton. His other books (all published by John Blake) include Wedding Bells and Chimney Sweeps, Birds, Bees and Educated Fleas, and The Book of Royal Useless Information, which he co-wrote with the late Noel Botham. He lives in Hove and has been married for fifty-three years to the actress Barbara Latham.

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