Stanley Holloway

Stanley Holloway
Holloway in 1974, by Allan Warren
Born	Stanley Augustus Holloway (1890-10-01)1 October 1890 Manor Park, England, UK
Died	30 January 1982(1982-01-30) (aged 91) Littlehampton, West Sussex, England, UK
Occupation(s)	Actor, comedian, singer
Years active	1907–1980

Stanley Augustus Holloway, OBE (1 October 1890 – 30 January 1982) was a celebrated English stage and film actor, comedian and singer. He was famous for his comic and character roles on stage and screen, especially that of Alfred P Doolittle in My Fair Lady. He was also renowned for his recordings of comic monologues and songs, which spanned his seventy-year career.

Early life

He was born at 25 Albany Road, Manor Park, Essex — now in the London Borough of Newham — and attended the Worshipful School of Carpenters in nearby Stratford. His mother Florence Mary Holloway Née Bell (1862-1913) was a housekeeper and his father George Augustus Holloway (1860-1936) was a lawyer's clerk. He had one sister called Amelia Florence Holloway (Millie) (1887 -1949).

He was named after Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841–1904), who was a Welsh journalist and explorer famous for his exploration of Africa and his search for David Livingstone. His middle name was taken from his paternal Grandfather Augustus Holloway (1829-1884) who was a brush maker from Poole, Dorset.

His first job was as at the age of fourteen, working as a junior clerk in a boot polish factory called "Everitts Nutta and Jetta" where he earned ten shillings a week. He then left and trained as an infantry soldier in The London Rifle Brigade. After that he returned to civvy street and back into the role of a clerk, this time at Billingsgate fish market. While working there, he began his performing career as "Master Stanley Holloway -- The Wonderful Boy Soprano", from 1908. His professional career began in 1910, performing in concert parties in English east coast seaside resorts, including Walton-on-the-Naze and Clacton-on-Sea where he appeared for three years in Bert Graham and Will Bentley's concert party at the West Cliff Theatre in 1911.

In 1913 he was recruited by established comedian Leslie Henson to feature as a support in Henson’s own, more prestigious concert party called "Nicely, Thanks". Holloway often spoke of his admiration for Leslie Henson and admitted that had it not of been for Henson, his career could have turned out a lot differently. The two became great friends and often consulted each other prior to taking jobs. Henson's death in 1957 came at a time when Holloway was experiencing a career high in My Fair Lady which had started on Broadway in 1956. Holloway regretted immensely the fact Henson died before My Fair Lady became a success and that he had never got to see him in the role of Alfred P. Doolittle. In his 1967 autobiography, Holloway dedicated a whole chapter to Leslie Henson whom he descibed as being "The greatest friend, inspiration and mentor a man could have had".

In the late months of 1913 he decided to become a singer and went to Milan to train his Baritone voice, where he was coached by a Maestro named Signor Ferdinando Guarino. However due to a number of factors such as a lack of money, a yearning to start a career in light entertainment and the prospect of World War One breaking out, he returned home after six months.

In 1915, he enlisted in the Connaught Rangers infantry regiment. Upon joining he was immediately commissioned as a second lieutenant because of his previous training as a private in the London Rifle Brigade. The great war took Holloway to France where he fought in the trenches and helped bring down an enemy plane and capture the crew. A member of Holloway's regiment, Michael O 'Leary won the VC for gallantry in the face of the enemy. He survived the war and would later work as a doorman for The Dorchester Hotel.

Although an estimated 2,500 members of this regiment were killed during the Great War, Holloway survived and upon demobilisation resumed his singing and acting career by appearing in London's music halls and theatres, performing at the Winter Garden as Captain Wentworth in Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse's Kissing Time in 1919, and as Rene in A Night Out in 1920. After the war he joined the Royal Irish Constabulary in 1920, but left by the beginning of 1921 in the midst of the Anglo-Irish War.

He found his first major success in The Co-Optimists which ran for 500 performances from 27 June 1921 until 4 August 1927 and was then filmed in 1929. An extremely rare recording of this can be seen on the following link. From 1929 he developed his comic song and monologue repertoire, which launched his recording career with records of his own created character, "Sam Small," and Marriott Edgar's "The Ramsbottoms". These records then went on to sell world wide.

Holloway established himself as a BBC radio personality in 1923 and developed his solo act throughout the 1920s while continuing his involvement with the musical theatre and The Co-Optimists. He was cast as Bill Smith in the London production of Vincent Youmans's musical comedy Hit the Deck (1927), in Song of the Sea (1928), and in Coo-ee (1929). He began recording his monologues for the phonographic market in the early 1930s. Based on colourful "Northern England" characters named Albert and the Ramsbottoms (by George Marriott Edgar) and "Sam Small" (whom Holloway created), these remarkable recitations were couched in rhyming stanzas. Apart from speaking the monologues, Holloway would often sing the verses, carefully sticking to the words but always characterising them in his own special way. Other contributors who would write with Holloway included Greatrex Newman, R. P. Weston, and Bert Lee.

Holloway signed up to the Aza Agency in the Summer of 1935, having been introduced to them by Gracie Fields. Gracie was married to Archie Pitt, who was the brother of Bert Aza. Bert was married to Lilian Aza, who was godmother to Holloway's son, Julian.

Notable films and performances

Holloway made his motion picture debut in 1921, appearing in a silent movie called The Rotters. He spent the 1930s appearing in a series of cheaply made movies, but which included some notable work such as Squibs (1935) and The Vicar of Bray (1937) . He also recorded "With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm", a ditty by R. P. Weston and Bert Lee about the ghost of Anne Boleyn haunting the Tower of London, seeking revenge on Henry VIII for her beheading.

His career changed again in 1941 when he played in a major film production of George Bernard Shaw’s Major Barbara. He then took patriotic, morale boosting, light comic roles in The Way Ahead (1944), This Happy Breed (1944) and The Way to the Stars (1945). After World War Two he had notable roles in the smash hit Brief Encounter, and a cameo role as the grave digger in Laurence Olivier's Hamlet. He would then transfer the role to the stage with Alec Guiness and John Gielgud in 1951.

Holloway became a mainstay of the Ealing Comedies produced at Ealing Studios, making ten films with the studio in total. He started his association with the studio in 1934 first appearing in the fifth Gracie Fields vehicle Sing As We Go. That same year and as a result of the success of the monologues he had started to record, he was allowed to bring his creation Sam Small to the big screen for the first time in "D'Ye Ken John Peel?" A year later Holloway appeared in "Play up the band" (1935) which featured Sam Small for the second time, although the films were not connected. It would then be a further nine years until he was back at Ealing Studios where in 1944 saw his return in Champagne Charlie alongside Tommy Trinder. From then on he made, Nicholas Nickleby (1947), Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948) - Ealing's first Technicolor film, Another Shore (1948) and classics like Passport to Pimlico (1949), The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) and The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953). His final film with the studios was Meet Mr. Lucifer in (1953). He repeated his hugely successful role as Alfred P. Doolittle in the screen version of My Fair Lady in 1964 which had become his signature film role, earning him an Academy Award Nomination — losing, however, to Peter Ustinov for his role in the 1964 film Topkapi

North American career

Holloway went to the US early on in his career in 1913 to take part in the concert party "The Grotesques". However, due to the The Great War he returned home.

The next time he would work in America would be forty years later. At the start of 1954 Holloway signed a contract with The Old Vic and travelled to New York to appear as Bottom in the Shakespeare play Midsummer Nights Dream. It was there that he was spotted by talent scouts and approached for the part of Alfred. P. Doolittle in My Fair Lady which started two years later. His film output had made him enough of a public name in the United States that in 1956 he was cast as Alfred P. Doolittle in the Broadway stage smash hit My Fair Lady, after James Cagney had turned it down. He had a long association with the show, appearing in the original 1956 Broadway production, the 1958 London version, and the film version in 1964. Because of his success on Broadway, Holloway was signed to play the part of Poobah in the comic opera The Mikado, alongside his friend Groucho Marx in 1960, which resulted in a huge success.

In 1962 he signed up to play the role of an English butler, called Higgins, in a pilot television sitcom called Our Man Higgins. Holloway enjoyed the role immensely but the viewers didn't. It managed one season and was scrapped because of poor figures. In 1964 he again appeared on-stage in Philadelphia in Cool Off!, a Faustian spoof.

He returned to the US a few more times after that to take part in the Dean Martin show three times and the Red Skelton show twice. He also appeared in the 1965 film In Harms Way, alongside John Wayne and Kirk Douglas. He was nominated for Broadway's 1957 Tony Award as Best Supporting or Featured Actor (Musical) in My Fair Lady.

Personal life

Holloway was married twice, the first being to Alice "Queenie" Foran. They had met in June 1913, in Clacton-on-sea whilst he was performing in a Concert party and she was selling charity flags on behalf of the RNLI. Queenie was made an Orphan at the age of sixteen and this was something Holloway felt a strong connection with as his mother had died that year and he had lost contact with his father. He married Queenie in the November of 1913.

They had four children: Joan, born on Stanley's Twenty - fourth birthday in 1914, Patricia (b. 1920), John (b. 1925), and Mary (b. 1928) Years previously, Queenie had inherited some property in Southampton Row London., from her wealthy mother when she died and would receive regular payments from the tennants who lived there. During the First World War, whilst Holloway was away fighting in France, Queenie began to have money troubles as the tennants cheques were not being received. Through desperation she approached several loan sharks in order to survive, thus incurring a huge debt, of which Holloway knew nothing about. By this time she had started to drink heavily as pressures from the war, being a lone parent and bringing up four children on virtually no money, had all taken their toll. She eventually succumbed to her addiction and died from Cirrhosis of the Liver in 1937 aged 45. Little is known about the children from his first marriage, although it is known that the youngest daughter Mary worked for British Petroleum for many years and elder son John worked as an engineer in an electrics company.

His second marriage was on 2 January 1939 to Violet Marion "Laney" Lane (affectionately otherwise known as "Gee Gee") an actress and Chorus dancer from Leeds. Holloway totally adored Violet and said of her;

"Technically i am committing lawful bigamy. Not only is she my wife, she is also my manager, my lover, my cook, a mother to my children, my chauffeur and my best friend"

They had one son, Julian (b. 1944) who also became an actor and is best known for appearing in the Carry On films. He appeared in a total of eight films between 1966 and 1976. Julian is now a successful voice actor in the US mainly in computer-generated imagery films and best selling computer games for the Playstation 3 and X Box consoles.

Stanley, Violet and Julian were inseperable and travelled around the world when Stanley was working abroad. They lived in a sprawling country house in the tiny village of Penn, Buckinghamshire. Holloway owned a few properties that included a flat in St. John's Wood, North West London, for when he was working in the Capital and a flat in Manhattan during the My Fair Lady broadway years. The final years of his life were spent living in Angmering-on-sea, West Sussex with his beloved wife Violet.

In the 1965 film In Harm's Way, Holloway starred opposite the American actress Patricia Neal. Little did they know that twelve years later Neal's daughter Tessa Dahl and Holloway's son Julian would have a brief relationship and produce a daughter, the model and author Sophie Dahl.

Stanley Holloway had many friends in showbusiness and forged close friendships with people such as Leslie Henson, Gracie Fields, Maurice Chevalier and Laurence Olivier.. Whilst working in America he became close friends with Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Burgess Meredith and Groucho Marx..

Holloway was still performing well into his eighties touring Asia and Australia in 1977 with the "Pleasure of His Company", a Noël Coward tribute show, and made his last appearance performing at the Royal Variety Performance at the London Palladium in 1980 aged 89. He died of a stroke 18 months later at the Nightingale nursing home in Littlehampton, Sussex, on 30 January 1982, aged 91. He is buried along with his wife Violet, who died in 1997, at St. Mary the Virgin Church in East Preston, West Sussex

Stanley Holloway's Grave - [1].

Family History

The acting and performing roots in Holloway's family could be traced back to his great-uncle Charles Bernard (1830-1894), his maternal grandmothers brother, who was a Shakespearean actor, vocalist and Theatre manager. Charles Bernard was the father of Oliver Percy Bernard OBE MC (8 April 1881 – 15 April 1939) who was an English architect, and scenic, This would make Oliver Percy Bernard and Stanley Holloway Second Cousins. Oliver would later go on to design sets for Sir Thomas Beecham's Ring Cycle at Covent Garden.

Stanley Holloway's Paternal grandfather, Augustus Holloway (1829-1884), was an orphan and was brought up by the Stone family, who lived at 139 West Street (since named West Way), Poole, Dorset. The head of the house was a local Sailmaker named John STONE, who had three children of his own and was married to Mary Stone.. When he grew up, Augustus became a respectable shopkeeper within Poole, running his own brush making business. He eventually had four children with his wife, Sarah, whom he married in 1855. William, Charles, Arthur, and George. According to the 1871 census, Sarah's grandfather, Moses Moore (1771-1848) lived with the family in Poole. At the age of 22, Augustus' youngest son, George, (Stanley's Father) moved to Manor Park as the lure of job opportunities in london, made the capital a very attractive area to live.

George became a lawyers clerk and worked for city lawyer, Mr. Charles Bell. The two became close and Charles would eventually take the young George under his wing treating him like a son. It was then arranged that a courtship should take place between George and Charles's daughter, Florence Bell. The two married in 1886 and had two children Amelia b. 1887 and Stanley Holloway b. 1890.

Stanley's mother, Florence Mary Holloway Née Bell ), was a housekeeper and dress maker, Sadly she died young, aged 51, in 1913 when the young Stanley was twenty-three years old . When his mother died, the family began to drift apart. By now, his sister Millie had married and moved away, Stanley was in Clacton-on-sea starting his performing career and father George had left and was never seen or heard of again.. The uk Births marriges and deaths register shows George. A Holloway death being registerd in 1936.

Later on in life Stanley Holloway became the paternal Grandfather of the Model and Author Sophie Dahl.

Miscellanea

• In 1960 Stanley Holloway became an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
• There is a building named after him at 2 Coolfin Rd, Newham, London E16 called Stanley Holloway Court
• Holloway lived in four houses in total within the London Borough of Newham while growing up. In July 2009 the first English Heritage blue plaque in his honour was erected at 25 Albany Road, Newham, the house where Holloway was born in 1890.[2]..
• Holloway was the original choice to play Admiral Boom in Mary Poppins, but he turned the role down due to his working commitments on My Fair Lady. The role went to Reginald Owen.
• During the west end run of My Fair Lady Holloway and Rex Harrison were leaving The Theatre Royal by a back exit to avoid the rush. Rex Harrison had a reputation for being very abrupt with his fans. One night there was an old woman standing alone outside the door. When she saw Harrison, she asked him for his autograph. He told her to "Sod off", and she was so enraged at this that she rolled up her program and hit Harrison with it. Holloway congratulated him on not only making theatre history, but, for the first time in world history, "the fan has hit the shit."
• Holloway would often get confused with the American actor Sterling Holloway due to the similarity in the names and both would occasionally receive job offers meant for the other.
• Holloway became one of a dozen actors who would frequently appear on stage in the plays of William Shakespeare others were the already established Shakesperian actors Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud and Peter Ustinov. This was a fact that amused Holloway greatly as he classed himself in no way a Shakesperian Actor. After playing "Bottom" in A Midsummer Nights Dream, he was quoted as saying " I had aspirations to reach the top of my trade instead I find myself having reached Bottom!"
• Holloway often appeared alongside The Crazy Gang and even acted as a temporary replacement for Bud Flanagan from time to time when Bud had to pull out for contractual reasons.
• His co- star from the stage versions of My Fair Lady, Julie Andrews, was born on the same day as Holloway - 45 years later - 1st October 1935.
• There is a memorial plaque dedicated to Holloway in St. Paul's, Covent Garden, London, which is also known as "The Actors' Church". It is situated next to a memorial for Gracie Fields.[3].
• In the 1934 film Sing as We Go, which Holloway made with Gracie Fields at the helm, there were two references made to his success with the then recently recited Monologues, "The Lion and Albert" and "Sam Pick Oop thy Musket". Near the beginning of the film, whilst on the way to Lime Street in Blackpool, she stops to ask for directions from a policeman - played by Holloway. When he says he doesn't know, Gracie responds by saying "All right Sam, pick oop thy musket". The second reference is half way through the film. Upon arriving at a circus Gracie stops at a large cage occupied by a huge lion. "Hey! Where's young Albert," she asks. The lion lets out a big roar and descends to the back of the cage, leaving Fields to run off in the direction of the circus.
• Gert and Daisy, in tribute to Holloway, recorded Mrs. Stanley Holloway in 1934, a monologue written and recited in the same style in which Holloway himself would perform in. The record was a spoof of "Sam, pick oop thy musket" where Gert played the part of Stanley Holloway's wife in a supermarket, and was having to deal with Stanley who had dropped a shopping basket on the floor, and was refusing to pick it up. During the monologue the words "Sam, pick oop thy musket" were changed to "Stan, Pick oop thy Basket". There would also be references to "The Lion and Albert" "The Co-Optimists" and many of the monologues in which Holloway recorded throughout the late 20's and early 30's..
• The lion's name in the famous monologue "The Lion and Albert" (which was written by Marriott Edgar for Holloway) was Wallace. It was named after Edgar's half-brother Edgar Wallace, a famous crime writer and playwright in the early 20th century.
• Sir Henry Morton Stanley, whom Holloway was named after, is often remembered for the immortal line uttered to Livingstone upon finding him: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?". As a nod to his namesake, Stanley Holloway recorded an album called "Stanley I Presume..." in 1965.

Musical , Theatre and Concert Party Credits

Stanley Holloway appeared in the following Musical theatre productions:-

• 1913 : Nicely, Thanks! - Concert party in which he first met Leslie Henson
• 1919 : Kissing Time
• 1920 : A Night Out
• 1921–1926 : The Co-Optimists
• 1927 : Hit the Deck
• 1928 : Song of the Sea
• 1929 : "Coo-ee"
• 1929–1930 : The Co-Optimists
• 1931 : Savoy Follies
• 1934 : Three Sisters
• 1935 : Here We Are again
• 1936 : All Wave
• 1938 : London Rhapsody
• 1940 : Up and Doing
• 1942 : Fine and Dandy
• 1952 : Mr Lord Says No
• 1954 : A Midsummer Night's Dream, Broadway
• 1956 : My Fair Lady, Broadway production
• 1958 : My Fair Lady, London production
• 1960 : Laughs and Other Events, Broadway
• 1961 : Oliver as Fagin - Broadway
• 1964 : Cool Off, Broadway production
• 1972 : Siege

Film and TV appearances

• 1921 : The Rotters : Arthur Wait
• 1929 : The Co-Optimists
• 1933 : Sleeping Car : Francois
• 1933 : The Girl from Maxim's : Mongicourt
• 1934 : Love at Second Sight : PC
• 1934 : D'Ye Ken John Peel? : Sam Small
• 1934 : Lily of Killarney : Father O'Flynn
• 1934 : Road House : Donovan
• 1934 : Sing As We Go : Policeman
• 1935 : Play Up the Band : Sam Small
• 1935 : Squibs : Constable Charley Lee
• 1937 : Sam Small Leaves Town : Richard Manning
• 1937 : Song of the Forge : Joe / Sir William Barrett
• 1937 : The Vicar of Bray : The Vicar of Bray
• 1937 : Cotton Queen : Sam Owen
• 1939 : Sam Goes Shopping : Sam / Narrator
• 1941 : Major Barbara : Policeman
• 1942 : Salute John Citizen : Oskey
• 1944 : This Happy Breed : Bob Mitchell
• 1944 : The Way Ahead : Pvt. Ted Brewer
• 1944 : Champagne Charlie : The Great Vance
• 1945 : The Way to the Stars : Mr. Palmer
• 1945 : Brief Encounter : Albert Godby
• 1945 : Caesar and Cleopatra : 'Belzanor
• 1946 : Wanted for Murder : Sgt. Sullivan
• 1946 : Carnival : Charlie Raeburn
• 1947 : Meet Me at Dawn : Emile
• 1947 : Nicholas Nickleby : Vincent Crummles
• 1948 : Snowbound : Joe Wesson
• 1948 : One Night with You : Tramp
• 1948 : Hamlet : Gravedigger
• 1948 : The Winslow Boy : Comedian
• 1948 : Noose : Insp. Kendall
• 1948 : Another Shore : Alastair McNeil
• 1949 : Passport to Pimlico : Arthur Pemberton
• 1949 : The Perfect Woman : Ramshead

• 1950 : Midnight Episode : Professor Prince
• 1951 : One Wild Oat : Alfred Gilbey
• 1951 : The Lavender Hill Mob : Alfred Pendlebury
• 1951 : The Magic Box : Broker's Man
• 1951 : Lady Godiva Rides Again : Mr. Clark
• 1952 : The Happy Family : Henry Lord
• 1952 : Meet Me Tonight : Henry Gow: Fumed Oak
• 1953 : Fast and Loose : Mr. Crabb
• 1953 : The Titfield Thunderbolt : Valentine
• 1953 : The Beggar's Opera : Mr. Lockit
• 1953 : A Day to Remember : Charley Porter
• 1953 : Meet Mr. Lucifer : Sam Hollingsworth / Mr. Lucifer
• 1955 : An Alligator Named Daisy : The General
• 1956 : Jumping for Joy : Captain Jack Montague
• 1959 : Alive and Kicking : MacDonagh
• 1959 : No Trees in the Street : Kipper
• 1960 : The Mikado (TV) : Pooh-Bah
• 1960 : An Arabian Night (TV) : Ibrahim
• 1961 : On the Fiddle : Mr. Cooksley
• 1961 : No Love for Johnnie : Fred Andrews
• 1961 : Meet Mr Holloway (TV)
• 1962 : Our Man Higgins (TV) : Higgins (1962–63) (unknown episodes)
• 1964 : My Fair Lady : Alfred P. Doolittle
• 1965 : In Harm's Way : Clayton Canfil
• 1965 : Ten Little Indians : Det. William Henry Blore
• 1966 : The Sandwich Man : Park Gardener
• 1966 : The Dean Martin Show (TV) : Himself (2 episodes)
• 1967 : The Dean Martin Show (TV) : Himself (1 episode)
• 1968 : Thingumybob (série TV) : Bob Bridge
• 1968 : Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter : George G. Brown
• 1969 : Target: Harry : Jason Carlyle
• 1969 : Run a Crooked Mile (TV) : Caretaker
• 1969 : If It Moves It's Rude: The Story of the Windmill Theatre (TV) On-screen Participant
• 1970 : The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes : Gravedigger
• 1971 : Flight of the Doves : Judge Liffy
• 1972 : Up the Front : Vincento
• 1973 : Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (TV) : Poole
• 1976 : Journey Into Fear : Mr. Mathews

Monologues and music

• "Sam, Sam, Pick oop thy Musket" – written and performed by Stanley Holloway (1927)
• "Sometimes I'm Happy (Sometimes I'm Blue)" by Vincent Yeomans – performed by Stanley Holloway for the musical Hit the Deck (1927)
• "Join the Navy" – performed by Stanley Holloway for the musical Hit the Deck (1927)
• "Song of the Sea" – performed by Stanley Holloway for the musical Song of the Sea (1928)
• "Old Sam" – written and performed by Stanley Holloway (1929)
• "'Alt! Who Goes There?" – written and performed by Stanley Holloway (1930)
• "Beat the Retreat on thy Drum" – written by Weston and Lee, performed by Stanley Holloway (1931)
• "One Each Apiece All Round" – written and performed by Stanley Holloway (1931)
• "Brahn Boots" – written by Weston and Lee, performed by Stanley Holloway (1931)
• "The Lion and Albert" – written by Marriott Edgar performed by Stanley Holloway (1932)
• "Hi-De-Hi" – performed by Stanley Holloway (1932)
• "Three Ha'pence a Foot" – written by Marriott Edgar, performed by Stanley Holloway (1932)
• "King John" – written by Stanley Holloway (1933)
• "Sam's Medal" – written by Mabel Constanduros and Michael Hogan, performed by Stanley Holloway (1933)
• "Old Sam's Party" – written by Mabel Constanduros, performed by Stanley Holloway (1933)
• "Careless Talk" – with Leslie Henson and Stanley Holloway (1933)
• "Runcorn Ferry" – written by Marrott Edgar, performed by Stanley Holloway (1933)
• "Many Happy Returns" – written by Archie de Bear, performed by Stanley Holloway (1933)
• "Gunner Joe" – written by Marriott Edgar, performed by Stanley Holloway (1933)
• "With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm" – written by R.P Weston and Bert Lee, performed by Stanley Holloway (1934)
• "Marksman Sam" – written by Marriott Edgar, performed by Stanley Holloway (1934)
• "Signalman Sam" – written and performed by Stanley Holloway (1934)
• "The Return of Albert" – written by Marriott Edgar, performed by Stanley Holloway (1934)
• "Hand in Hand" – performed by Stanley Holloway (1934)
• "Sam's Parrott" – written by V.F. Stevens & Lauri Bowen and performed by Stanley Holloway (1934)
• "The Beefeater" – written by R.P Weston and Bert Lee, performed by Stanley Holloway (1934)
• "The Famous Name of Small" – written by V.F. Stevens and Lauri Bowen and performed by Stanley Holloway (1935)
• "Sam Drummed Out" – written by Weston and Lee, performed by Stanley Holloway (1935)
• "Sam's Sturgeon" – written by Ashley Sterne, performed by Stanley Holloway (1935)
• "Sam Small at Westminster" – written and performed by Stanley Holloway (1935)
• "St George and the Dragon" – written by Weston and Lee, performed by Stanley Holloway (1935)
• "Down Below" – witten by Sydney Carter and performed by Stanley Holloway (1936)
• "The Jubilee Sov'rin" – written by Marriott Edgar, performed by Stanley Holloway (1937)
• "The 'Ole in the Ark" – written by Marriott Edgar, performed by Stanley Holloway (1937)
• "Albert and the 'Eadsman" – written by Marriott Edgar, performed by Stanley Holloway (1937)
• "The Battle of Hastings" – written by Marriott Edgar, performed by Stanley Holloway (1937)
• "Jonah and the Grampus" – written by Marriott Edgar, performed by Stanley Holloway (1937)
• "My Word, You Do Look Queer" – written by Bob Weston & Bert Lee, performed by Stanley Holloway (1938) re recorded in (1960)
• "The Parson of Puddle" – written by Greatrex Newman, performed by Stanley Holloway (1938)
• "Green-Eyed Dragon" – written by Greatrix Newman and Wolseley Charles, performed by Stanley Holloway (1938)
• "Sam Small's Shelter" – (never recorded). written by Stanley Holloway and published (c.1939)
• "Old Sam's Christmas Pudding" – written by Marriott Edgar, performed by Stanley Holloway (1939)
• "The Recumbent Posture" – written by Marriott Edgar, performed by Stanley Holloway (1939)
• "The Negro Preacher" – performed by Stanley Holloway (1939)
• "Albert Evacuated" – written and performed by Stanley Holloway (1940)
• "Yorkshire Pudden!" – written by Weston and Lee performed by Stanley Holloway (1940)
• "Marksman Sam" – written by Marriott Edger and performed by Stanley Holloway (1940)
• "Pukka Sahib" – Sketch by Reginald Purdell (Based on The Green Eye of The Little Yellow God by Milton Hayes) Recited by Stanley Holloway (1940)
• "The Return of Albert" – written by Stanley Lupino and performed by Stanley Holloway (Albert Comes Back) (1940)
• "Sam's Christmas Shopping" – written by Pulham J. Sherman and performed by Stanley Holloway (1940)
• "Sam Goes to It" – written by Marriott Edgar, performed by Stanley Holloway (1941)
• "No Like-a da War" – performed by Stanley Holloway (with piano accompaniment by W.T. Best) (1941)
• "Uppards" – written by Marriot Edgar, performed by Stanley Holloway (1941)
• "The Future Mrs. 'Awkins" – originally performed by Albert Chevalier (1898), covered by Stanley Holloway in (1942)
• "Guarding the Gasworks" – written and performed by Stanley Holloway (1942)
• "My Missus" – originally performed by Stanley Holloway (1943)
• "Albert and His Savings" – written by Marriott Edger, performed by Stanley Holloway (1944)
• "Sam's Guggle Box" – written by Stan Masters and Harry Stogden and performed by Stanley Holloway (1951)
• "With a Little Bit of Luck" – words and music by Lerner and Lowe performed by Stanley Holloway from My Fair Lady (1956–1964)
• "Get Me to the Church on Time" – words and music by Lerner and Lowe performed by Stanley Holloway. From My Fair Lady (1956–1964)
• "Going To The Derby" – written by unknown recorded by Stanley Holloway (1954)
• "My Lord Tomnoddy" – written by R. H. Barham (c.1820) performed by Stanley Holloway (1954)
• "Act On The Square Boys" – written and Originally performed by Alfred Vance in 1866 recorded by Stanley Holloway (1954)
• "If I Had A Donkey" – written by unknown recorded by Stanley Holloway (1954)
• "The Workhouse Boy" – written by unknown recorded by Stanley Holloway (1954)
• "Married To A Mermaid" – written by James Thomson and David Mallet c.1740 performed by Stanley Holloway (1954)
• "A Motto For Every Man" – written by D.K.Gavan and first performed by Harry Clifton recorded by Stanley Holloway (1954)
• "Shelling Green Peas" – written and performed by Harry Clifton in 1865 recorded by Stanley Holloway (1954)
• "Hey! Betty Martin" – written by unknown recorded by Stanley Holloway (1954)
• "All Around My Hat" – written by unknown c.1820 recorded by Stanley Holloway (1954)
• "Poor Old Horse" – written by Billy Patterson 1868 recorded by Stanley Holloway (1954)
• "Champagne Charlie" – written and performed by George Leybourne in 1867 recorded by Stanley Holloway (1954)
• "On Strike" – written by Charles Pond (1906) Recorded by Stanley Holloway (1957)
• "Sweeney Todd the Barber" – written by Weston and Lee, performed by Stanley Holloway (1957)
• "Bouncing Ball" Stanley Holloway accompanied by The Gobbledegook Symphony Orchestra Music by Milton Kaye (1957)
• "The Gobbledegook" Stanley Holloway accompanied by The Gobbledegook Symphony Orchestra Music by Milton Kaye (1957)
• "The Lion Tamer" Stanley Holloway accompanied by The Gobbledegook Symphony Orchestra Music by Milton Kaye (1957)
• "Sven Svensen" Stanley Holloway accompanied by The Gobbledegook Symphony Orchestra Music by Milton Kaye (1957)
• "The Frog, The Duck, The Fish" Stanley Holloway accompanied by The Gobbledegook Symphony Orchestra Music by Milton Kaye (1957)
• "Wooden Shoes" Stanley Holloway accompanied by The Gobbledegook Symphony Orchestra Music by Milton Kaye (1957)
• "Ump-Diddle-Diddle" Stanley Holloway accompanied by The Gobbledegook Symphony Orchestra Music by Milton Kaye (1957)
• "The Elephant Alphabet" Stanley Holloway accompanied by The Gobbledegook Symphony Orchestra Music by Milton Kaye (1957)
• "Pete Petersen's House" Stanley Holloway accompanied by The Gobbledegook Symphony Orchestra Music by Milton Kaye (1957)
• "The Longest Train" Stanley Holloway accompanied by The Gobbledegook Symphony Orchestra Music by Milton Kaye (1957)
• "Why the Giraffe Laughed" Stanley Holloway accompanied by The Gobbledegook Symphony Orchestra Music by Milton Kaye (1957)
• "The Dancing Bear" Stanley Holloway accompanied by The Gobbledegook Symphony Orchestra Music by Milton Kaye (1957)
• "The Street Watchman's Story" – by Charles J. Winter (1910) first recorded by Bransby Williams (c.1914) re recorded by Stanley Holloway (1957)
• "Petticoat Lane" – performed by Stanley Holloway (1960)
• "Sing a Song of London" – written and originally performed by Ambrose and performed by Stanley Holloway and the original west end cast (1960)
• "Tommy the Whistler" – originally performed by Tommy Steele, covered by Stanley Holloway (1960)
• "A Dark Girl Dressed in Blue" – originally performed by George Robey, covered by Stanley Holloway (1960)
• "Any Old Iron" – (music by Charles Collins lyrics by Terry Sheppard) first performed by Harry Champion in 1911 covered by Stanley Holloway (1960)
• "A Bachelor Gay" – written by Harold Fraser-Simson, originally performed by Harry Welchman (1932), covered by Stanley Holloway (1960)
• "Petticoat Lane" – performed by Stanley Holloway (1960)
• "Comedy Tonight (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum)" – written by Stephen Sondehiem, covered by Stanley Holloway (1960)
• "Where Did You Get that Hat" – Words and music by James Rolmaz in c.1888, performed by Stanley Holloway in 1940 and 1960
• "If You Were the Only Girl in the World" – by Clifford Grey first recorded by George Robey and Violet Lorraine (1916) and by Stanley Holloway (1960)
• "Two Lovely Black Eyes" – performed by Charles Coburn (1886), covered by Stanley Holloway (1960)
• "The Galloping Major" – performed by George Bastow (1906), covered by Stanley Holloway (1960)
• "Lily of Laguna" – written by Leslie Stuart, performed by Eugene Stratton (1898), covered by Stanley Holloway (1960)
• "Pick a packet or two" From Oliver! words and music by Lionel Bart recorded by Stanley Holloway and the original broadway cast (1961)
• "Reviewing the Situation" From Oliver! words and music by Lionel Bart recorded by Stanley Holloway and the original broadway cast (1961)
• "I'd do Anything" From Oliver! words and music by Lionel Bart recorded by Stanley Holloway and the original broadway cast (1961)
• "I Live In Trafalgar Square" – written by C.W. Murphy, first performed by Morny Cash in 1908, covered by Stanley Holloway (1962)
• "Hello! Hello! Who's Your Lady Friend?" – written by David Worton & Bert Lee, sung by Harry Fragson (1911), covered by Stanley Holloway (1962)
• "The Little Shirt My Mother Made for Me" – first recorded by Marty Robbins, covered by Stanley Holloway (1962)
• "You Can Do a Lot of Things at the Seaside" – written in 1901 by unknown, performed by Stanley Holloway (1962)
• "And Yet I Don't Know!" written in 1882 by unknown, performed by Stanley Holloway in (1962)
• "I'm Shy, Mary Ellen, I'm Shy" – written and performed by Jack Pleasants in 1912, covered by Stanley Holloway (1962)
• "Oh, I Must Go Home Tonight!" – first performed by Billy Williams in 1908, covered by Stanley Holloway (1962)
• "Eving's Dorg 'Ospital" – written and performed by Stanley Holloway (1962)
• "The Spaniard That Blighted My Life" – first recorded by Billy Merson in 1911, covered by Stanley Holloway (1962)
• "My Old Dutch" – written by A.C.Ingle, first performed by Albert Chevalier in 1910, covered by Stanley Holloway (1962)
• "Let's All Go Down the Strand" – (words and music by Harry Castling and C. W. Murphy), covered by Stanley Holloway (1962)
• "It Were All Green Hills" – written and performed by Stanley Holloway (1974)
• "The Magna Charter" – written by Marriott Edgar, performed by Stanley Holloway (1975)
• "Albert's Reunion" – written and performed by Stanley Holloway (1978)

Autobiography

He entitled his 1967 autobiography Wiv a Little Bit of Luck after the song he performed in My Fair Lady.

Sources

• Holloway, Stanley (1967). Wiv a little bit o’ luck: The life story of Stanley Holloway. London: Frewin. ISBN B0000CNLM5. OCLC 3647363. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help) Also published as Holloway, Stanley (1967). Wiv a little bit o’ luck: The life story of Stanley Holloway. New York: Stein and Day. OCLC 1373117. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)

External links

• Stanley Holloway at IMDb
• Stanley Holloway at the TCM Movie Database
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• Stanley Holloway at the BFI's Screenonline
• Stanley Holloway at Find a Grave