March 22, 2024, at home
Happy Birthday to (Henry) Wilfrid Brambell (22 March 1912 – 18 January 1985) !!! Here he is with Paul McCartney in the 1964 Beatles movie "A Hard Day's Night." He played Paul's grandfather in the movie and was often referred to throughout the movie as being "clean." Why? Well, Brambell starred in the British sitcom "Steptoe and Son," where his character was often referred to as a "dirty, old man." This sitcom was adapted in the United States and became "Sanford and Son." My earliest childhood memory is attending the movie "A Hard Day's Night" in a movie theater during the summer of 1964, when I was three years old, with my mother, the woman who lived next door to us with her husband, and one of her two daughters who was a few years older than me. My mom was a huge Beatles fan in their early days and often played Beatles songs. I used to listen to Beatles 45-rpm records with those two girls in the basement of their house next door; I am sure that they were babysitting me. Sadly, one passed several years ago. Her parents are also deceased.
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