He left for a theatre tour of Australia in a Brian Rix farce, leaving his wife behind. Stanley Baxter, Actor: Crooks Anonymous. He died aged just 26 and Stanley was heartbroken. I wrote to Stanley Baxter at his home, requesting an interview. 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Can you tell me where they are? Friday afternoon. What none but his closest friends realised was that Baxter was desperately unhappy, his personal life a battlefield. His last was Mother Goose, at the Kings Theatre, Glasgow, in 1991. But he didnt tackle the issue. Baxter appeared alongside Jimmy Logan and Rikki Fulton in extravagantly-produced shows with Ziegfeld-scale sets and dancing girls, but also made his first BBC television appearance in 1951. Surely his peers would wish to pay homage? Sometimes that provides the extra spurt of energy or imagination needed to unearth a story. Tayside & Stirling. Baxter began to turn work down not playing Captain Hook in a production of Peter Pan opposite Lulu, not appearing with Cannon and Ball at the Palladium. The star, who is best. Those who didnt want to be troubled with it could simply take it at face value. See the complete profile on LinkedIn and discover Moira's connections and jobs at similar companies. In an extract publicised by The Scotsman, Stanley said he tried to split from Moira, who died in 1997, when she wanted to get married. And the new rules dont apply just to celebrities on the A-List: newsreaders and weather girls must also be prepared to have the minutiae of their lives subjected to close scrutiny, or at the very least have Loyd Grossman look through their keyholes. Stanleys marriage to Moira became difficult over the next few years, as she struggled with mental health issues and was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Meanwhile, if you think about it, if you changed out of your pyjamas if you wear any into your clothes, then got to the theatre and for the rest of the afternoon you had 32 dress changes to make, then you go out for a cup of tea and change again, then you do 32 in the evening. Add a New Bio Also known as Moira Spouses Stanley Baxter (1951 - 1997) Died 1997 Edit Submitted on July 23, 2013 Citation Use the citation below to add to a bibliography: Style: MLA Chicago APA "Moira Robertson." She kept calling for him and my mother wasnt too happy about this. Moira Robertson & Stanley Baxter, 1962 British actress Moira Robertson (year of birth unknown-1997) and her husband, British comedian and actor Stanley Baxter, at Clerkenwell Magistrates Court in London, England, 5th March 1962. She may have worshipped Stanley but she never got herself worked up if her husbands white shirts were dry in the morning or not. He had to get on with his life. Stanley Baxter has come out as gay at the age of 94. Would he like to explain why? Pull out the pin, and its every man for himself. But of course I should have been stronger. MORE : Inside the love life and Strictly Come Dancing romances of Giovanni Pernice, MORE : Saira Khan claims lockdown does not work during heated clash with Loose Women co-stars, Brendan Fraser didnt speak to Dwayne The Rock Johnson on set of The Mummy Returns for pretty good reason, Kate Moss talks proudly about nickname she earned in Ireland unaware its actually an insult, Did we hear that right? She then went to their new Glasgow flat to cook spaghetti for his supper.". Kenneth asked Stanley what future he could expect if he married Moira Robertson. I explained a great part of the problem was Moira. Data returned from the Piano 'meterActive/meterExpired' callback event. The show featured interviews about his life alongside new comedy material including a skit about the Queen's Christmas speech. There are many gay people these days who are fairly comfortable with their sexuality, fairly happy with who they are. We hope you've really thought about how important it is., And I said nonchalantly, Oh, not nowadays. It was all I ever dreamed of.. For a nation still mourning the loss of Eric Morecambe, Baxter another survivor of the gentler, pre-television days of variety theatre seemed ready to succeed to the title of Britains Favourite Comedian. It was a golden period for British film-making, and he appeared in mildly successful black-and-white movies like the Highland comedy Geordie and Very Important Person, in which he starred alongside James Robertson Justice and Leslie Phillips. View Moira Robertson's profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. 'She would think the television was talking to her.' This wasnt unrestrained hyperbole. Beaten with sticks.'. I kept getting those sheeps eyes every time she passed me in the theatre and she appeared to be heartbroken. 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But Stanley couldnt contain his sexual frustrations. Well, if I do, perhaps yours will be the one. Then, in early autumn, I heard that Channel 4 was working on a compilation of the best of Baxters television shows, to be screened this Christmas. He was also aware of the need to have a cover. "However, Moira was very, very upset. May 2021 - Present1 year 9 months. moira@scoliosisbracing.co.za +27 76 883 9526 Virginia Way Offices 0 Hamman Street Stellenbosch There was to be no further co-operation. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. I was just ringing for you. Its a long season in Scotland, it runs from November through to February. Not to the Press. We are doing this to improve the experience forour loyalreaders and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. Free UK delivery on orders over 15. where are we up to? Those ads you do see are predominantly from local businesses promoting local services. At Robertson Baxter, our clients are looked after by a full team of experts, including their adviser, we are consultants, confidantes, life coaches, jargon-busters, family friends - the list goes on!. Yes, was the terse reply. And, meanwhile, my deadline had passed, and there were other things to do. Meanwhile, on January 15, 1951, the engagement became national news, yet this didnt really register with Stanley. Award-winning interviewer, writer and broadcaster. Should he push aside the attention of this attractive, classy young woman? She recovered in hospital and wrote to her husband, insisting, 'I'll never do something so foolish again.' And he reads the Independent. Its hard to know if the invigorating sea air or simply timing resulted in Moiras declaration, but she announced she wished to have a full-blown sexual relationship with her leading man. After four months of waiting out this covid stuff, our spring shutdowns are starting in summer, and. Bringing businesses together in the emerging, disruptive technology space across; FinTech, Quantum Technologies and Quantitative Trading Technologies through face to face and virtual meetings and events. Home of the Daily and Sunday Express. Its Christmas, he said. Stanley would indeed come to regret it for the rest of his life. He's willing to let the world decide for itself. By that time, I had so many tender feelings for her, he explains. Stanley was up for the challenge. Just let me ask you one thing. Baxter was 46, and thought their two-day fling would be no more than a brief encounter. They became lovers. 'If you can sing, dance, play a musical instrument or whatever,' the announcement read, 'please apply'. Pinnwnde sind ideal zum Speichern von Bildern und Videoclips. What had happened to Stanley Baxter? Stanley Baxter (pictured) was married for 46 years, but he reveals in his new autobiography beneath his cheerful exterior lies a man tortured by the fact he is gay. It was real weakness on my part.. Stanley Baxter as panto dame May 1985:Baxter was desperately unhappy, his personal life a battlefield as he constantly lived in dread of being exposed in the press as a gay man. There had been no mystery about the retirement, said Lennie, who talked about the physical demands of changing costumes so often. And as the years progressed, the medicated Moira and Stanley became close again. And they were birched! With silk gloves up to his armpits and a tiara, he announced himself as the Duchess of Brendagh and delivered a Christmas message that talked of the Queen Mum as a priceless antique. A lot is at stake, including your children, your assets, and your financial future. The Real Stanley Baxter by Brian Beacom is published by Luath Press Ltd, 20. Of all those stories, it is hard to imagine anything more sad than this one. No. Stanley and Moira worked on a range of productions at the Citz together but the spring of 1949 saw the company move down to Ayr for the summer season and Stanley and Moira had lots of fun together. A search through the IoS cuttings library unearthed a few mentions of Baxter, one of them an unexpected tribute from Andy Bell, lead singer with the pop group Erasure and another man given to wearing extravagant frocks. Moiras role, however, was reduced from Actress to Wife. Early on, Stanley had hinted at his preference to Moira. Certainly not Kenneth Williams: 'I remember sitting with him in an Italian restaurant, and telling him that I was very low. It was becoming obvious that the real Stanley Baxter was as studiously hidden as his Lycra supports. contact the editor here. Kenneth Williams was among the first to be told and he couldnt believe his ears. Baxter is appearing on a charges of. Stanley managed to survive the threat to his career just and Moira, as expected stood by her man. He has a talismanic quality that makes people feel hes very much in touch with their lives, and then suddenly, out he zooshes looking really rather sexy. And we never really discovered who he was, other than a brilliant character actor and impersonator; as the rules of celebrity changed, he simply refused to play by them. . Look, do you mind? In December 1965, Baxters wife Moira suggested that Williams and her husband should go on holiday together in Beirut. . Yes I did, and I spoke to you through my agent. Perhaps that is why hardly anyone noticed when, after 1985, he left the television spotlight altogether, just as the glare was getting hotter. A life without stress you cannae whack it! However, it was Moira who was determined to take the relationship to the next stage. He first asked me to write his biography more than 20 years ago, but was emphatic that he did not want it to appear while he was alive. If there were someone I were interested in, I could bring them home. Therapy proved useless: his psychiatrist, learning that he was married, advised him simply to return to his wife. Just to talk to a faithful hand that takes all the chaff and grain together, keeps whats worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blows the rest away. Baxter resolved to repress his sexuality when he returned to Glasgow two years later to live, as he put it, 'as a straight actor'. . . He said: Anybody would be insane to choose to live such a very difficult life. 'I couldn't put up with very long periods of not being with men,' he says frankly. ', Stanley was terrified. Nobody would tell me. Their relationship was fraught with difficulty Williams called it a very shaky ship but it was underpinned by deep affection. Mary Brennan sees nothing surprising about Baxter being so jealous of his privacy. Ive been in audiences where women in their sixties would sit there and say, with absolute envy: Ooh, look at them legs. Her favourite memory is of one entrance in full rig, with craggy face underneath what looked like a mound of candyfloss. When he called her from the airport, on his return to the UK several weeks later, she didn't answer. For decades he has hated to venture out: 'I didn't want to be seen as someone who was once Stanley Baxter,' he says. It was the one and only time she had ever reacted in this way. But he hadnt been in that afternoon. Unknown to Stanley, Moira had ditched her medication and the demons raged again. Stanley had to move out, he says, for the sake of his own sanity. His relationship with Marcus deepened and continued until the younger man died of lung cancer four years ago, though the two never lived together. And then my impulse to pick up the trail again received further encouragement, when, out of the blue, one of the many former associates of Baxter with whom I had placed calls finally decided to ring me back. But fame made his clandestine life even more risky. The BBC couldnt help, and neither could London Weekend Television, for whom Baxter had made many of his most successful shows in the Seventies. She was desperate for a baby, something Baxter refused to contemplate. Anyway, here it is: a piece from a time before the internet or ubiquitous mobiles, when the celebrity age was just beginning but you still had to go to the library to look at the electoral register. In fact, Mum showed her disapproval of Moira right from the start., Stanley agrees. Aug 2017 - Aug 20225 years 1 month. Baxter is appearing on a charges of soliciting and public indecency. He is an intelligent guy, and he likes to know who hes talking to. It was in CSE that Baxter met openly gay men for the first time. I don't think you know what you're talking about and I don't think you realise that the future will be bleak for you and difficult for me., Stanley was adamant. Well see what happens. Suddenly, she raced to the front window of their second storey flat, opened it and climbed out onto the window ledge, yelling, If I can't have you then I won't settle for anyone else! Their new home, a large ground-floor flat, at 73 Clouston Street, was just a few doors along from Moiras previous flat. Stanley went on to claim Moira became very emotional and threatened to jump out of a window following his revelation, so he opted to continue the relationship and get married. My dad said This is a very big step you're taking, Stanley. WHEN DOES curiosity become intrusion? Even though Moira was dead from an overdose by this time, he was sickened at the thought that his sexuality might become common knowledge. Wherever he is, I wish him well. Well, you, really. This website and associated newspapers adhere to the Independent Press Standards Organisation's The spotlight was his. . And if I don't have a career, what do I have?' He adds that he only agreed not to break things off when she threatened to jump out the window of their flat. The rest was silence. Since graduating from the University of Tulsa College of Law in 1992, Robertson has been honored with numerous awards for her work as a Tulsa Family Law attorney. Yet, I had all sorts of excuses for developing a relationship. As a last shot I rang David White, who said I had been very naughty. One of Scotland's greatest comedians has come out as gay but admitted: "I never wanted to be, I still don't." Stanley Baxter, 94, said that he and his wife, Moira Robertson, knew that he was. We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments. We became close, without it ever being more than friendship.'. He reckoned it would at least a few years before the couple arrived at Wedding Central. Stanley was freaked out at my turning up at his house. For good. The charges were dropped, on condition that Baxter promised not to sue the police for wrongful arrest. Autumn turning to winter before my eyes, and Stanley Baxter was not at home. Margot Robbie reveals there was an entire room for pubic wigs on The Wolf Of Wall Street set, Bonnie Bartlett Daniels, 93, wife of Boy Meets World star William Daniels, 95, reveals they had open marriage, Britney Spears reveals new tattoo but admits it sucks and already needs fixing, Inside the love life and Strictly Come Dancing romances of Giovanni Pernice, Saira Khan claims lockdown does not work during heated clash with Loose Women co-stars, Do not sell or share my personal information. . Whether your divorce is contested or uncontested, Tulsa Divorce Attorney Moura Robertson has the . I dont know if you got it? hed rather not do them. It was partly a feeling of I'll show them, that I could be as heterosexual as the rest of them.. Join Facebook to connect with Moira Robertson and others you may know. His act was so daring that he was probably the first TV comedian to impersonate the Queen. In 1959, Stanley realised the writing was on the wall for variety theatre in Scotland and moved to London. Meanwhile, Moira had landed part-time work with a milliner but it didnt seem to hold her interest. He says now that he'd known for years that he found men more attractive than women, because at the Saturday morning cinema club he could not take his eyes off the half-naked Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan, rather than Maureen O'Sullivan's Jane. Help us build the largest biographies collection on the web! (Later in my quest, I rang the clubs charming PR woman. Baxter had done Shakespeare, and in 1969 he appeared alongside Sir Ralph Richardson in the original cast of Joe Ortons last play, What The Butler Saw. The star penned: "Anybody would be insane to choose to live such a very difficult life. A lot of people are interested in this. 'Thankfully Moira was very understanding. And I said Well, it does worry me. A bit boring! Later, they decamped to an island outside the city. THE LEAVES on the pavement were being sucked upwards by the cold wind, or turned to mush by rain. Jacobs convinced the court that Baxter could not have been 'soliciting' when he was arrested because, apart from two policemen, there was no one else in the lavatories. So: Mr White hadnt been having me on Baxter did live in London, then. But unknown to the world, Granny and the eponymous hero had decided to marry. 'I liked her,' Baxter says. And what does the master of disguise look like now? Lara Clark, who said she was terribly sorry, but she couldnt show me round: the RAC liked to keep a low profile. But what the Daily Express didnt know was that when Stanley arrived home, with the sound of Saturday evening theatre applause still ringing in his ears, he broke down in tears. He said lots of theatrical things about how marvellous it had been to work with Baxter, with whom he still corresponded from time to time. Robertson is regarded as one of the top Family Law attorneys in Oklahoma. But although the urgency had gone, the curiosity remained. The Citz was a heterosexual theatre company. but not to publish it. Why? A porter at the club confirmed that the comedian did swim in the pool most days. Hes having a holiday with his wife, Moira. And the sex was fine not rockets going off or anything.. His biographer Brian Beacom examines why the brilliant Scots entertainer with a thousand faces refused to show his real one to the world. However, Moira was very, very upset. Can you just tell me, finally, what city he lives in? He soon gave up any pretence of being faithful, or heterosexual. I never wanted to be gay. The comments below have been moderated in advance. In the past, the journalists job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Exasperated, his ITV television bosses told him they could no longer afford his extravaganzas. You need a knowledgeable advisor and determined advocate. "Thankfully Moira was very understanding. Organisieren, kontrollieren, verteilen und messen Sie alle Ihre digitalen Inhalte. Yes, said Young. If he was only prepared to work on the radio these days, could he be a total wreck? I didn't want to know, but gradually I was falling in love.'. My names Cole Moreton, from the Independent on Sunday. By being proactive, well informed and aware of your condition this is the first step to making a difference. Sharing his guilt at the time, the veteran actor wrote: "I couldn't entertain such a thought [marriage] and I felt the relationship simply had to stop, so I broke it off. Possibly even liberation is distasteful, because it encourages people to come out and make features of themselves, whereas your social and sexual life should be, as Noel Coward had it, behind closed doors. Oh yes? Still smiling. After a meal with Baxter in October 1969, Williams wrote: At one point when I said to S. I sometimes feel I am so useless I just want to die. . . She would turn up at the stage door in Glasgow, unannounced. This would be NO life for you, married to someone who is essentially and primarily homosexual!, Moira's reaction was surprising, even to those who knew how liberal she was. There was no reply from the intercom buzzer. Yet he was, and is, missed: in England, as the funniest man on television; in Scotland where they take panto very seriously as the greatest dame of the century: a master of the double entendre and the quick, stunning costume-change. Ill let you know through my agent, OK? It had been run over in the street. 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The tracks had long been covered by this time last year, when Ian Jack, then editor of the Independent on Sunday and (being a Scot) a Stanley Baxter fan, issued his decree. Absolutely not? Having made it big south of the border, he regularly returned to direct and star in big-budget productions. Baxter was charged with soliciting for sex. Moura Robertson. Express. OK. Goodbye. Should I have taken her to Cyprus? They went on a trip to Amsterdam together in 1964, although Williams who described their sitting in clubs with a load of poofs returned to Britain early. Footnote from the present day: Stanley came out of retirement the following year, returning to our screens for a short while before slipping away again. In a 1963 entry, Williams described Baxter as disarming, honest, charming and hilariously funny all at once. .Baxter was born in Glasgow in 1928, and raised in the genteel suburb of Kelvinside. London. The Real Stanley Baxter, by Brian Beacom. It is that he has carefully, precisely and often cruelly embodied the particular woman herself. Ive often wondered how her life would have turned out had she married a devoted heterosexual husband., He adds, his voice breaking: I will never know why she loved me so much. I still dont. Hes not there anyway. . She had thought about becoming an actress herself and was very supportive of her childrens aspirations for the stage: Baxter put aside thoughts of teaching to go into the theatre, while his sister went off to work as an actress in Australia, under the name of Alice Dale.Baxter had already begun broadcasting on the wireless at the age of 14, and continued doing so even after he was called up at 17 to help the war effort by going down the mines. Yet my interest had been rekindled, my hopes raised, before being dashed against the same old stonewalling. Facebook gives people the power. But it was a whole new experience. I still dont.". Moura A.J. Fine, I said. 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