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    8 hours ago, msc said:

    Yeah, the only issue I'm thinking of is that the obits might be confusing two similarly named actresses (which happens a lot). ie Ivy died but some other actress with a similar graduated at that time period. However, its equally likely (more so, imo) that the 1920s DOB was in fact utterly wrong and a whole bunch of regional papers reported it from time to time without double checking their facts.

     

    You'd be surprised how little fact checking happens at times. To pick an extreme one at random, thanks to the research of some SF mags in the 80s, there are Doctor Who fans today who think Harold Pinter appeared in a Troughton era Doctor Who under a pseudonym, because it was the name Pinter used to act back in the 1950s pre-fame. Despite the actual actor still being alive, and saying it was him (and Pinter himself saying he wasn't in Dr Who), there's still folk out there who believe it and repeat it.

     

    Anyhow, that's more of a tangent than anything.

    Pity we don't have the whole of 'The Abominable Snowman' serial to prove it outright?

    That said, there is a connection with Pinter and Doctor Who creator (or co-creator or whatever) Sydney Newman (he gave Pinter his TV break in 1960 for 'Armchair Theatre') which might have stoked the fires of that particular myth...

     

    Never mind that shit, did Dame Edna Everage appear in 'Doctor Who and the Silurians'?

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    46 minutes ago, maryportfuncity said:

     

     

    Aye, although he wasn't a founding member. Even when they changed the name to T.Rex (five albums in in 1970) they were a duo (Bolan and Finn - both dead for years). Bill Legend (Fyfield) was there from the sixth album - Electric Warrior.

    Before that of course as Tyrannosaurus Rex it was Bolan and Steve Peregrine-Took, who died in 1980 after choking on a glacé cherry!

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