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Judy’s final hurrah Lamb’s tragic return EXCLUSIVE By Robert Firth
ACTOR Larry Lamb failed to show at the Marbella Film Festival, after he had to rush to the bedside of his seriously ill brother, Wesley. The Gavin & Stacey actor was due to appear on the final day of the festival for the premiere of his new film Brighton. However Lamb, who is a regular visitor to Spain, had to make a sharp return to the UK before the film, about a working class couple who take a disastrous day trip to the seaside. The festival’s director, Mac Chakaveh, confirmed that a ‘family tragedy’ had forced the 72-year-old actor to ‘cancel at the last minute.’ Brighton director Stephen Cookson later told the Olive Press: “His brother is on his deathbed.”
Gritty
He had earlier stood in for Lamb during a talk at the festival on Sunday, in which he revealed how the gritty drama almost never was. “Catastrophically, three days before filming we lost a major financier,” he said. “We we were really in the shit.” Lamb, who lives in London, has been a regular visitor to Spain for much of his life and even lived for a year here in the 1980s. “I know the country well but don’t go for beach holidays, I go to get up in the mountains, get out in the country or visit historic places of interest,” he recently revealed. He also confirmed in 2016 who he had a daughter Vanessa living in Murcia with his former wife Anita.
EXCLUSIVE: As Hollywood’s Judy gets plaudits worldwide, the Olive Press unearths a remarkable little-known trip the star made to Torremolinos months before her death HOTLY-TIPPED for Oscar glory, Judy tells the story of the final months of Judy Garland famous for playing Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz. Packing out cinemas around the globe, actress Renee Zellweger is said to have played ‘the performance of a lifetime’. But, oddly, the film doesn’t reveal the sad story of her honeymoon in Torremolinos following her marriage to fifth husband Mickey Deans, a nightclub manager 12 years her junior. This is despite many believing he was responsible for her death from an overdose 50 years ago in June 1969, just three months later. The Olive Press has unearthed a series of photos of the actress on her April honeymoon in the resort, which was in the Sixties THE place
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HONEYMOON: But Judy was pensive during trip
RENDITION: Zellweger plays ‘performance of life’ By Karen Livermore
to go. The remarkable set shows her looking pensive despite the splendid sunshine, chic bars and restaurants which attracted Hollywood’s biggest stars including Ava Gardener, Liz Taylor and Antony Quinn. They were meant to stay for a long weekend at the Hotel Melia, however, it ended up being longer and, as it turns out, it was far from an idyllic
romantic break. A gruelling comeback tour was taking its toll, with audiences not knowing if they were going to get a virtuoso performance or a shambling chaotic one from the erratic star. The singer/actress’s battle with drugs, alcohol and eating disorders were well known, of course, and audiences swung between giving her standing ovations and throwing bread rolls. Ignoring the advice of doctors, Mickey Deans felt a few days relaxing in the sun would do
her more good than being taken to a clinic. But it didn’t go to plan, as, according to biographer Scott Schecter, she arrived in Torremolinos in a bad way and went straight to bed. Then, when she finally got up later that evening she slipped in the bathroom, bruising herself. And the next morning she fell asleep on the bathroom floor with Deans having to break down the door to get her out. A doctor was called to the hotel, continued Schecter, who then changed her medication and suggested she should be admitted to hospital. However, this was overruled by her husband, who insisted she would be better staying in the hotel. A few days later, she made an
Back to life
PRINCESS Diana returned from the other side during a trip to Malaga at the weekend. Her lookalike Emma Corrin (right) was recreating her 1983 spring tour of Australia, as part of the fourth series of Netflix hit The Crown. Dressed in a polkadot pink dress with a garland of flowers around her neck, the actress, 23, appeared alongside Josh O’Connor, 29, who plays Prince Charles. Olivia Coleman also features in the show as the Queen. The third series, which features scenes from Sotogrande, meanwhile, launches November 17.
apparent recovery and the couple were spotted at infamous Torremolinos nightclub Tiffany, where Judy signed autographs and seemed in good spirits. Indeed, she told fans she was determined to get well and enjoy her holiday. Cancelling their planned return they spent a few extra days driving along the coast in a classic Fiat. While Deans later told friends it was ‘therapeutic’ for her, on the last evening, Judy came crashing down, apparently talking to herself and behaving irrationally. Yet again, rather than take her to hospital, Deans booked a flight and took her back to London.
Mismanaged
Just three months later Mickey found her dead in the bathroom of their London home. She was just 47 years old. Despite having earned millions during her career, years of mismanagement of her financial affairs meant her estate was just US$40,000 (€35,000 in today’s money). Generous bequests in her will couldn’t be fulfilled as her estate had been in debt for years. Her daughter Liza Minelli famously worked to pay off her mother’s debts with the help of family friend Frank Sinatra.
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