Hattie

Reveals how the home life of the larger-than-life Carry On actress Hattie Jacque was blown apart by a secret sexual liaison with her handsome young driver while she was married to Dad's Army star John Le Mesurier.

Cast

Ruth Jones

as Hattie Jacques

Robert Bathurst

as John Le Mesurier

Aidan Turner

as John Schofield

Jeany Spark

as Joan Malin

Graham Fellows

as Eric Sykes

Marcia Warren

as Esma Cannon

Stephen Critchlow

as Gerald Thomas

Lewis Macleod

as Eamonn Andrews

John Bell

as Robin Le Mesurier

John Reader

as Kim Le Mesurier

Reviews

CinemaSerf

Ruth Jones is on good form here as the British screen legend Hattie Jacques but I really couldn’t help but feel that the character she presented was a far cry for the amiable one we saw on screen and television in the 1960s. Perhaps that is because she was married to comedy actor John Le Mesurier (R...

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