Stephen Perry Fry (14 July 1924 – 29 June 2002) was a South African rugby union player, most often playing as a flanker. Fry played rugby for his home town of Somerset West and provincial rugby for Western Province. He won 13 caps for the South African national team (the Springboks), and captained the country in four matches against the British Lions.
Personal history
Fry was born in Somerset West in South Africa in 1924. He was one of five brothers; one of whom was killed flying in the Battle of Britain. The others were, Dennis who also toured with the Springboks in 1951, Alec his twin, and Robert. Fry served South Africa during the Second World War, and on his return studied at the University of Cape Town, gaining a BSc in Engineering and qualified as an engineer. A keen sportsman, he is described as a first-class athlete and was a half-blue at the University.
Fry married Bettie, and they had two children, Juliet and Mark. He harboured ambitions to be a jazz pianist.
Seven years later in 1929 Fry made his return to Hampshire, marking it with a match against Derbyshire. Fry would go onto play 26 matches spread over three County Championship matches up to 1931.
Fry could not emulate the attacking philosophies of his father in first-class cricket. In his career Fry scored 508 runs at an average of 10.58, with a single half century which yielded his highest first-class score of 78. As a wicketkeeper Fry took sixteen catches and made one stumping. His retirement from first-class cricket followed his final match of the 1931 season which came against Warwickshire. During that season Fry stood in for Lord Tennyson to captain Hampshire in a few County Championship matches, one of five captains that season.
"Minnie the Moocher" is a jazz song first recorded in 1931 by Cab Calloway and His Orchestra, selling over a million copies. "Minnie the Moocher" is most famous for its nonsensical ad libbed ("scat") lyrics (for example, "Hi De Hi De Hi De Hi"). In performances, Calloway would have the audience participate by repeating each scat phrase in a form of call and response. Eventually Calloway's phrases would become so long and complex that the audience would laugh at their own failed attempts to repeat them.
The lyrics are heavily laden with drug references. The character "Smokey" is described as "cokey", meaning a user of cocaine; the phrase "kicking the gong around" was a slang reference to smoking opium.
The November 22, 1951 issue of JET magazine gives this account of the "Minnie" on whom the song was based: Minnie "The Moocher" has died. She was a familiar figure In downtown Indianapolis. A 82-year-old woman whose real name was Minnie Gayton, she acquired the quaint nickname of "The Moocher" by regularly begging food from grocers and carting it off In a baby buggy. She slept in doorways, on porches and in garages. During the record-breaking blizzard, her body was found on a porch, blanketed with snow. She died from exposure.
The cartoon opens with a live action sequence of Cab Calloway and his Orchestra performing the instrumental "Prohibition Blues". Then Betty Boop gets into a fight with her parents, runs away from home with her friend Bimbo, and sings excerpts of the Harry Von Tilzer song "They Always Pick on Me" (1911) and the song "Mean to Me" (1929).
Betty and Bimbo end up in a cave where a walrus, with Cab Calloway's voice, sings "Minnie the Moocher" and dances to the melancholy song. Calloway is joined in the performance by various ghosts, goblins, skeletons, and other frightening things. Betty and Bimbo are subjected to skeletons drinking at a bar; ghost prisoners sitting in electric chairs; a mother cat with skull-like eyes feeding her equally empty-eyed kittens; and so on. The film ends with Calloway performing the instrumental "Vine Street Blues".
Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie in "Jeeves and Wooster".
I DO NOT OWN "Jeeves and Wooster"! ;(
published: 25 Jul 2010
Jeeves and Wooster- mini the moocher
Jeeves and Wooster... hugh laurie singing mini the moocher... love this clip :)
published: 01 Feb 2010
Minnie the Moocher, Hugh Laurie, OST Jeeves and Wooster
Hugh Laurie sings again Minnie the Moocher...I like it!! :D never heard it before..but I love it now^^
published: 06 Aug 2008
Minnie The Mocher - Jeeves and Wooster (subtitulado)
Una canción de Hugh Laurie que ahora canta junto con Band From Tv
Oh dios el mas grandioso musiko, cantante, actor, escritor... Bueno 1 personaje completo, la neta habrá algo que este señor no sepa hacer???
published: 04 Aug 2010
Jeeves and Wooster, in a nutshell...
A summary of the entire "Jeeves & Wooster" series in roughly 6 minutes.
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P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves (played by Stephen Fry) and Bertie Wooster (Hugh Laurie) have been lauded as one of the greatest comic double acts of all time. Set in the late 1920s-1930s, "Jeeves and Wooster" (1990-1993) follows the hilarious misadventures of Bertram Wilberforce Wooster — a young, affable English gentleman of the idle rich — and Jeeves — Bertie's omniscient and resourceful valet. Jeeves discreetly takes control of his "mentally negligible" employer's life, while Bertie Wooster finds himself pushed and reeled into countless imbroglios, fiascoes, and romantic entanglements led by his hapless friends and imperious aunts. But each disaster is drawn to its own satisfactory conclusion through a concatenation...
published: 11 Oct 2021
Jeeves & Wooster 'Puttin' on the Ritz
Bertram Wooster attempts to sing Irving Berlin's 'Puttin' on the Ritz' in the episode 'Honoria Glossop Turns Up'.
published: 25 Apr 2015
Robbie Williams | Minnie The Moocher (Official Album Audio)
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published: 18 Nov 2013
Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry Playing the Piano I
Clip from "Jeeves and Wooster".
I DO NOT OWN "Jeeves and Wooster"!
published: 26 Jul 2010
Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry Playing the Piano II
Clip from "Jeeves and Wooster".
I DO NOT OWN "Jeeves and Wooster"!
Una canción de Hugh Laurie que ahora canta junto con Band From Tv
Oh dios el mas grandioso musiko, cantante, actor, escritor... Bueno 1 personaje completo, la...
Una canción de Hugh Laurie que ahora canta junto con Band From Tv
Oh dios el mas grandioso musiko, cantante, actor, escritor... Bueno 1 personaje completo, la neta habrá algo que este señor no sepa hacer???
Una canción de Hugh Laurie que ahora canta junto con Band From Tv
Oh dios el mas grandioso musiko, cantante, actor, escritor... Bueno 1 personaje completo, la neta habrá algo que este señor no sepa hacer???
A summary of the entire "Jeeves & Wooster" series in roughly 6 minutes.
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P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves (played by Stephen Fry) and Bertie Wooster (Hugh Laurie) hav...
A summary of the entire "Jeeves & Wooster" series in roughly 6 minutes.
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P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves (played by Stephen Fry) and Bertie Wooster (Hugh Laurie) have been lauded as one of the greatest comic double acts of all time. Set in the late 1920s-1930s, "Jeeves and Wooster" (1990-1993) follows the hilarious misadventures of Bertram Wilberforce Wooster — a young, affable English gentleman of the idle rich — and Jeeves — Bertie's omniscient and resourceful valet. Jeeves discreetly takes control of his "mentally negligible" employer's life, while Bertie Wooster finds himself pushed and reeled into countless imbroglios, fiascoes, and romantic entanglements led by his hapless friends and imperious aunts. But each disaster is drawn to its own satisfactory conclusion through a concatenation of intriguing coincidences.... or so they would seem. Until, that is, the silent force behind every "coincidence" is revealed to be none other than the brilliant and inimitable Jeeves.
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Edited compilation of Jeeves & Wooster clips and scenes, in the style of a film trailer.
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Stephen Fry Hugh Laurie television show sitcom British comedy drama film movie Jeeves and Wooster trailer fanvid tribute
A summary of the entire "Jeeves & Wooster" series in roughly 6 minutes.
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P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves (played by Stephen Fry) and Bertie Wooster (Hugh Laurie) have been lauded as one of the greatest comic double acts of all time. Set in the late 1920s-1930s, "Jeeves and Wooster" (1990-1993) follows the hilarious misadventures of Bertram Wilberforce Wooster — a young, affable English gentleman of the idle rich — and Jeeves — Bertie's omniscient and resourceful valet. Jeeves discreetly takes control of his "mentally negligible" employer's life, while Bertie Wooster finds himself pushed and reeled into countless imbroglios, fiascoes, and romantic entanglements led by his hapless friends and imperious aunts. But each disaster is drawn to its own satisfactory conclusion through a concatenation of intriguing coincidences.... or so they would seem. Until, that is, the silent force behind every "coincidence" is revealed to be none other than the brilliant and inimitable Jeeves.
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Edited compilation of Jeeves & Wooster clips and scenes, in the style of a film trailer.
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Tags:
Stephen Fry Hugh Laurie television show sitcom British comedy drama film movie Jeeves and Wooster trailer fanvid tribute
Una canción de Hugh Laurie que ahora canta junto con Band From Tv
Oh dios el mas grandioso musiko, cantante, actor, escritor... Bueno 1 personaje completo, la neta habrá algo que este señor no sepa hacer???
A summary of the entire "Jeeves & Wooster" series in roughly 6 minutes.
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P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves (played by Stephen Fry) and Bertie Wooster (Hugh Laurie) have been lauded as one of the greatest comic double acts of all time. Set in the late 1920s-1930s, "Jeeves and Wooster" (1990-1993) follows the hilarious misadventures of Bertram Wilberforce Wooster — a young, affable English gentleman of the idle rich — and Jeeves — Bertie's omniscient and resourceful valet. Jeeves discreetly takes control of his "mentally negligible" employer's life, while Bertie Wooster finds himself pushed and reeled into countless imbroglios, fiascoes, and romantic entanglements led by his hapless friends and imperious aunts. But each disaster is drawn to its own satisfactory conclusion through a concatenation of intriguing coincidences.... or so they would seem. Until, that is, the silent force behind every "coincidence" is revealed to be none other than the brilliant and inimitable Jeeves.
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Edited compilation of Jeeves & Wooster clips and scenes, in the style of a film trailer.
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Tags:
Stephen Fry Hugh Laurie television show sitcom British comedy drama film movie Jeeves and Wooster trailer fanvid tribute
Por onde andará Stephen Fry Por onde andará Stephen Nínguem sabe do seu paradeiro Nínguem sabe pra onde ele foi pra onde ele vai Stephen may be feeling all alone Stephen never do this again Come back home Se correr o bicho pega Stephen