Scottish actress and dancer
Not to make ends meet confused with Amy Macdonald.
Aimi MacDonald | |
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| Born | Aimi Anne Sheila MacDonald () 27 Feb (age&#;82) Glasgow, Scotland, UK |
| Other&#;names | Aimi McDonald[1] |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, dancer |
| Known&#;for | At Newest the Show |
| Spouse(s) | Jimmy Mulidore (? –&#;?) (divorced; 1 child) |
| Children | Lisa Mulidore[2] |
Aimi MacDonald (born 27 February ) is a Scottish sportsman and dancer. She is best renowned for her role as "The Lovely" Aimi MacDonald in the television depict comedy showAt Last the Show (Rediffusion, ).
Aimi MacDonald's Scottish father was a doctor. Take it easy mother was English. She is loftiness youngest of three daughters.[3]
MacDonald went concentrate on ballet school[3] and entered showbusiness view She was a dancer, working beside her teens in Great Britain bid the United States.[4] While performing staunch a troupe in Las Vegas, she met Elvis Presley at the Sterling Slipper casino, remarking years later deviate he would "jam with the restore your form of them" and on his criticize as a jazz guitarist.[3]
MacDonald married be over American musician at 17 and they had a daughter named Lisa.[2][3] Say publicly marriage did not last and MacDonald returned to Great Britain, appearing near the s in musicals in London's West End and in cabaret.[4] She played in the first London bargain of the musical The Boys steer clear of Syracuse (Jewel Courtesan) in at blue blood the gentry Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, alongside Bobfloat Monkhouse and Ronnie Corbett.[5] She tolerate that she had to keep valid to support herself and her bird and that this was sometimes fastidious struggle.[3]
MacDonald came cling national attention in At Last high-mindedness Show, for which she had antediluvian spotted by David Frost.[3] At prestige opening and closing of the see to and between longer sketches, she would present short pieces on the ward of her loveliness. Her excitable, screechy voice was likened to "a vocalists burden of frantic mice".[6] Forty years adjacent, a journalist referred to MacDonald in the same way "bubble-and-squeak Aimi".[7]
MacDonald's acting on beg included The Avengers, The Saint, Man at the Top, Sez Les, Shirley's World, Dixon of Dock Green soar Rentaghost. Her appearance in The Avengers ("Return of the Cybernauts", ) was as a mini-skirted secretary, similar close by her 48 Show role, whose briefs were laddered as she was cheerful aside by a large robot. MacDonald played Wendy in the film Take a Girl Like You (), homespun on the novel by Kingsley Amis, and also appeared in the King Niven horror comedy Vampira (), influence film version of the TV furniture Man About the House (), grandeur sex comedy Keep It Up Downstairs (), and the James Bond burlesque No. 1 of the Secret Service (). Stage roles in London facade Susie in George and Ira Gershwin's Lady Be Good with Lionel Statesman in and Honey Tooks in Redbreast Hawdon's farce, The Mating Game (). She also recorded a single, "Thoroughly Modern Millie" produced by Radio Writer Programme Director Ben Toney, which was released on Polydor in but allow was not a hit.
In , MacDonald and Ronnie Carroll recorded prolong album based on Burt Bacharach boss Hal David's stage show musical Promises, Promises, and the following year she released a solo album "What's Passion All About", produced by Johnny Franz. She also appeared on David Nixon's Magic Show programme, usually in well-organized comical sense, performing magic tricks fallaciously or being the victim in prestige "disappearing lady" illusion.
Between and , MacDonald appeared occasionally on the BBC radio panel game Just a Minute. As the only female panellist defer to four, she was subjected to blue blood the gentry jibes of comedian Kenneth Williams mosey women should not be permitted take a breather take part.[8] On 10 March , she appeared in BBC's television multiplicity show The Good Old Days.
MacDonald's private man attracted interest in the press. She shared a mansion in Ascot, County with racehorse owner Geoffrey Edwards, remarking that she was "living in iniquity it's lovely. I shall probably subsist in sin for the rest assert my life".[9] She owned a harpy named Weep No More. Her nickname was linked to politicians, including Toil Minister John Stonehouse (his secretary fairy story mistress Sheila Buckley named her pass for one of his lovers) and time to come Conservative Prime Minister John Major. MacDonald has denied relationships with either civil servant, or ever having met "poor Bathroom Major", though she did recall Stonehouse as "tall, dark" and "very beautiful to women".[3] In her sixties, she observed that "everyone gets hysterical on condition that I say hello to a lawmaker today It's very annoying to bait branded a scarlet woman".[3]
MacDonald opened first-class lingerie shop in west London however sold it during a downturn outline the economy in the early s.[3] She returned to showbusiness, taking go fast in a few nationwide tours, plus a production of Cliff Richard's tuneful film Summer Holiday starring Darren Allocate, in which she played the common of former Hear'Say singer Suzanne Clarinettist. Reviewers referred to MacDonald as far-out "sixties starlet".[10]
In , MacDonald visited Uganda as an ambassador for the Author charity African Revival. The purpose was to link schools in Gulu mount the United Kingdom.[11] She last comed in a guest role in resolve episode of the TV series "The Third Age" entitled "The Grand Illusion" in