#PETERCUSHING : Sherlock HOLMES! This rare photograph was shared this weekend at the FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE to an enormous response of LIKES and comments! Once again, proving that Cushing's interpretation of probably the most popular detective in the world... is still just as popular as ever!
PETER CUSHING 'Past Forgetting' . . the publishing of Cushing's First
autobiography . . 'Peter Cushing An Autobiography' in 1986.. was such a
surprising and success to both him and his publishers, that another
volume was quickly written and published in 1988, 'Past Forgetting'
contained stories and anecdotes from his career before and after his
time with Hammer films and his success appearing in fantasy genre
cinema.
MANY READERS FELT they wanted more, and maybe had his health improved,
we may have also have received a third volume? A short time after the
Peter Cushing Centenary in 2013 both the volumes were repackaged and
published as 'Peter Cushing : The Complete Memoirs', with some new
photographs... this book sold out within days, copies flew off the
shelves in bookshops and drained the publisher!
ONE OF THE MANY positive things about
the publishing of Peter autobiographers was, for both volumes he
'stepped out' and made signing sessions at book stores around the
country. After a what was almost a 15 year period of quite reclusive
living, leaving home in Whitstable only to work... Cushing was shocked
by the love, affection and gratitude he received from the his public.
ABOVE: A LOVELY STORY from one of our followers and friends at the FACEBOOK fan page, Jake! : RIGHT HERE!
FOR THE NEXT FEW YEARS, it was common to
see him on his bike in his home town, eating in public and appearing on
chat shows and radio.. writing the books would be and were indeed, as
his good friend Sir John Mills told him, 'Wonderful therapy'! . .. So,
I am curious as to how many of us at the FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE actually own a copy, of either or both or the
combined book..and have read it? I have therefore, requested everyone to feel free to snap a selfie of you or
your book and share with us at the page! Who would have thought, so many copies! 😮😀 Stay Safe everyone... love and take care 😉 - Marcus
