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PRIDE OF OUR ALLEY: THE LIFE OF DAME GRACIE FIELDS, VOLUME I: 1898-1939 (HARDCOVER EDITION) by Sebastian Lassandro

ISBN 9781629334219

“What has Gracie Fields got to do with anything?”

—Alan Bennett, The History Boys

In this new in-depth biography of the Queen of Hearts of her generation, discover in great detail the answer to Alan Bennett’s question.

From humble beginnings above a fish and chip shop in Rochdale to the beautiful Isle of Capri, follow the complete story of the Queen of the British Music Halls and her seven-decade career. Discover how a mill girl from a Northern English industrial town conquered stage, screen and radio and became Hollywood’s highest paid film star of the 1930s.

With hundreds of previously unpublished stories, facts, photographs and interviews, Pride of Our Alley tells the story of Our Gracie Fields for the first time in its honest, factual entirety.

Sebastian Lassandro first heard the music of Gracie Fields when a school student. Over ten years later, he is a now a recognised and renowned expert on his subject and tender of the eternal flam

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Dame Gracie Fields, DBE (January 9, 1898–September 27, 1979), born Grace Stansfield, was an English/Italian singer and comedienne who became one of the greatest stars of both cinema and music hall.
Born over a fish and chip shop owned by her grandmother in Molesworth Street, Rochdale, Lancashire, she made her first stage appearance as a child in 1905. Her two sisters, Edith and Betty, and brother, Tommy, all went on to appear on stage, but Gracie was the most successful. Her professional debut in variety took place at the Rochdale Hippodrome theatre in 1910 and she soon gave up her job in the local cotton mill.
She met comedian Archie Pitt and they began working together. Pitt would come to serve as her manager and the two married in 1923. Their first revue in 1915 was called Yes I think so and the two continued to tour Britain together until 1922 in the revue Mr Tower of London.
Her most famous song, which became her theme, "Sally," was worked into the title of her first cinema film, Sally in Our Alley (1931), which was a major box office hit. She went on to make severa

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The Official Gracie Fields

‘Our Gracie’ by Bert Aza, Pitkins Books, 1951

The first biography of Gracie. Features photographs from both Bert Aza’s collection, and her own. Telling Gracie’s story from her childhood right up to 1951, interlaced with personal stories from Bert, her manager for over 30 years.

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‘Sing As We Go’ by Gracie Fields, 1960

Gracie’s autobiography, shadow written by Joan Reeder. The book provides many intimate stories from Gracie’s life, her birth in Rochdale to her Hollywood years and ultimately her semi-retirement on Capri with Boris. Whilst an in-depth look at Gracie’s life from her own perspective, she omits many key details of her life, and sometimes offers conflicting stories. However, this is the best primary source telling the life of ‘Our Gracie’ in her own words.

The book was reprinted a few times: in America, in paperback and in large print. Footage exists of Gracie recording an audio-book edition of her book, but thi