How Blackpool welcomed much-loved Sir Bruce Forsyth, Gracie Fields and Adam Faith to the warmth of its glittering heyday
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There are 15 names deserving a mention but we'll go for the more recent ones, starting with Brucie.
Sir Bruce Forsyth (1928-2017) was on the Blackpool show scene when he was only 18, as the pianist with Jack Jackson's band in a revue called Mayfair Merry-Go-Round for a week at the old Palace Theatre in August, 1946.
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Hide AdFame and fortune as host of ITV's Sunday Night at the London Palladium brought him to the resort to head the 1960 summer season of Bernard Delfont's Show Time at the North Pier.
He was next here to star for the summer season in The Big Show of 1967, at the Opera House.
Later local appearances were in his one-man show at the Opera House for one night in October, 1977, and An Evening With Bruce Forsyth at the Grand Theatre in May, 1989.
An equally well-loved entertainer of an earlier generation, Gracie Fields (1898-1979), had a 50-year span of Blackpool shows, starting with a juvenile troupe in 1914 (venue uncertain).
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Hide AdShe was a star when she next came to the resort, at the old Palace Theatre in 1923, with her husband-to-be Archie Pitt in a touring revue called Mr Tower of London.