Quote: Billy Bunter @ 16th August 2024, 9:40 PM
Really? I've not read that.
Oh yes! Notorious for it, groping the ladies and making lewd suggestions
I've read that in a number of articles, including the excellent one by Graham McCann from 4 years ago, and apart from him being an committed Communist, I quote:
"Miles Malleson was considered to be, to put it bluntly, a sex pest............."
"Young female performers grew used to expecting, and evading, his lascivious overtures from the start to the finish of each production with which he was involved. On one particular occasion at the 1959 Edinburgh Festival, when Judi Dench and Maggie Smith were appearing together alongside Malleson in a Restoration comedy called The Double Dealer, the pair of them ended up locking themselves in the lavatories between the matinée and evening performances in order to avoid his unwelcome but persistent advances ('He was always after us,' Dame Judi later confirmed)."
It's a long chronicle, but the details of his "other life", can be read in full near the end of the article
I also like the idea that he was so vain, if he was required to wear a wig for a part, he would wear it on top of his own toupée, and I remember seeing one of his very early films with him completely bald, before I presume he fancied himself as a ladies' man
https://www.comedy.co.uk/features/comedy_chronicles/miles-malleson/
