I think I had vaguely heard of Elaine Stritch before but just listened to a fabulous interview with her on Radio 4’s Front Row. She is, as my grandparents would have said, a pistol.
Her voice and accent are incredibly similar to my grandmother’s – I may just think this because I have not known a lot of older ladies from the Northeast of the US – but it certainly brings her back. My grandmother would have been 100 this year.
I went to a one woman show she did a few years back. She was amazing – wore just a man’s white shirt and highheeeled shoes. She may be old enough to be a grandmother several times over but she’s still a dame at heart and as she proved that night, in body as well.