{"id":7146,"date":"2023-06-23T17:37:38","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T16:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennydenton.com\/?p=7146"},"modified":"2023-06-23T17:37:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T16:37:40","slug":"anthony-newleys-mother-grace-one-extraordinary-lady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennydenton.com\/?p=7146","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Newley&#8217;s Mother Grace One Extraordinary Lady"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Surrey England <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Time &#8211; 1999 &#8211; 2002<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Name &#8211;  Frances Grace Newley<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Looking after<em> <\/em>Gracie<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kennydenton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_1951-2-scaled.jpeg?resize=765%2C1077&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7376\" width=\"765\" height=\"1077\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kennydenton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_1951-2-scaled.jpeg?w=1816&amp;ssl=1 1816w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kennydenton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_1951-2-scaled.jpeg?resize=213%2C300&amp;ssl=1 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 765px) 100vw, 765px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After Tony Newley passed away in April 1999, Sue and I would take his mother, Gracie, out every Saturday morning for her favourite meal and as a true cockney it had to be jellied eels for Gracie, although Sue and I never partook in this particular delicacy as we would enjoy our own personal favourite &#8211; pie and mash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had been going to one particular pie and mash shop, Cooke\u2019s in The Cut, since the 1960s and I was well known to the owner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It would usually close at 2pm on Saturdays but if we were running late, I would phone the owner and he would just say \u201cknock on the window and I\u2019ll open up for you\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once we were inside he would pull the shutters back down to stop anyone else coming in, we were very well looked after.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kennydenton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Cooke-Pie-amd-Mash-Shop-.png?resize=941%2C495&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7399\" width=\"941\" height=\"495\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A tour around the East End<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After our wonderful feast we would take a little tour of the East End, it was where Gracie grew up and she loved to see it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amazingly she would recollect certain street names and we would try and find them for her, it was a lot of fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On one occasion we took her to Victoria Park in Tower Hamlets<em>, <\/em>on the way there she asked us if the bandstand was still there, on arriving, much to her delight, we discovered it was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gracie began to reminisce about her father playing in the band on Sundays, back in 1913 when she was a young girl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She had a vivid memory of the whole area from those early days, pretty amazing considering that she hadn\u2019t visited it for some seventy years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was a true pleasure listening to Gracie&#8217;s memories, recounting her life and what a life she had led!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Did you know Orson?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During our conversations it became apparent that I knew several people Tony had known. People such as Frankie Vaughan, who I had worked with in the studio and we were good friend of the family. There was also Tommy Steele, who I didn\u2019t really get on with. <em>Gracie<\/em> just assumed that I knew most of Tony\u2019s friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She would always make us smile saying things like,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDid you know Peter?\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPeter?\u201d I would reply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPeter\u2026 Peter Sellers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNo Gracie, but I would have loved to\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe always came round when he had had women trouble, he always had women trouble\u2026 always.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHow about Orson, Orson Welles?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNo Gracie!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe was a lovely man, such a lovely man.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When we returned to her home in Esher, we would always see her to her seat in her favourite room, it was full of Tony\u2019s photos, awards, posters and a massive collection of memorabilia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gracie told us, she always sat there for the rest of the evening speaking to Tony, telling him all about her day out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"690\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kennydenton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Newley-plaque.jpg?resize=690%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kennydenton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Newley-plaque.jpg?resize=690%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 690w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kennydenton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Newley-plaque.jpg?resize=202%2C300&amp;ssl=1 202w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kennydenton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Newley-plaque.jpg?resize=768%2C1140&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kennydenton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Newley-plaque.jpg?resize=1034%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1034w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kennydenton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Newley-plaque.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Christmas with Gracie<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every Christmas Day Gracie would have dinner with Tony\u2019s ex-wife Joan Collins\u2019s, the following day she would come and have lunch with us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During her visit to us on Boxing Day 2001 she told us she had a meeting with a nice man, Garth Bardsely, who was writing a book about Tony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I told her I had also made a small contribution to the book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Grace went on to say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI told him everything you know, no good making stuff up, but when you read it, you won\u2019t ever want to talk to me again.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhy not?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWell, I was a scarlet woman!\u201d she replied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sue and I both roared with laughter and told her she really shouldn&#8217;t worry, whatever was in the book, it would make no difference to us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During lunch, Gracie went on to tell us that J<em>oan<\/em> was getting married on the 17th February and although she had been invited, she really didn\u2019t want to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs I\u2019m on my own, I will just be sat in a corner somewhere with no one to talk to.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then Gracie surprised us all by asking if our son Nathan, who she absolutely adored, would be her chaperone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nathan accepted gracefully, forgive the pun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A sad turn of events<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Saturday the 10th February, a week before the wedding, we took Gracie out as usual and she seemed her normal self.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The next day I phoned to see how she was but she sounded awful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I asked if she would like Sue and me to come over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gracie said, \u201cI\u2019d love you to but I don\u2019t wanna spoil your Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cGracie we will be over in 30 minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When we arrived we could tell she was not herself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She asked Sue if she would make her favourite lunch, chicken stew, which she was only too pleased to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gracie only managed to eat a small amount and then asked us to help her back to her armchair in Tony\u2019s award room where we sat chatting with her until around 6 o\u2019clock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gracie, then asked us to help her into her living room and said,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou should be both heading home now, I\u2019ll be fine, Annie will be here soon.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Annie was Gracie carer, she came in first thing in the morning and then again in the evening to help her get ready for bed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We phoned Annie to tell her Gracie was unwell and as we were leaving could she come over a bit earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unfortunately she couldn\u2019t.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We decided to wait with Gracie until she arrived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A short while later Gracie started to cough and rather alarmingly we noticed she was coughing up blood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We were very concerned and immediately phoned Annie again. She said,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cShe be fine, she\u2019s been like this before, you just go and I will be there later.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the next ten minutes Gracie was getting worse so we phoned for an ambulance and called Annie back to let her know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ambulance arrived and the crew attended to Gracie. They decided she should go to hospital so placed her on a stretcher and headed out to the ambulance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just as she was being put in to the ambulance, she held her hands out to Sue and me and said,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThank you both for everything I don\u2019t think I will see you again.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I said, \u201cDon\u2019t you be silly, you will and don\u2019t forget you have a wedding to go to soon.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just then Annie arrived, shouting at the ambulance crew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhere are you taking her? Do you know she has private health insurance?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the paramedics explained, \u201cWe will be taking her to Richmond Hospital, which is an NHS hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We went to visit Gracie at the hospital on the following Wednesday. She had know my mother was ill and despite her own predicament Gracie, sitting up in bed asked us as soon as we entered the room<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHow\u2019s your mum?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cShe\u2019s fine Gracie, but how are you?\u201d&nbsp; we asked<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI just wanna go home.\u201d She replied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We could see she was still weak and assured her they would let her go home as soon as they thought she was well enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whilst we were there Tara Newley, Tony\u2019s daughter with Joan, arrived. On seeing Gracie and hearing her wish to return home she asked us to help her get out of the hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We suggested that she speak to the doctors and if they say it\u2019s OK we would drive her home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The request was denied by the hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tara then suggested we get her a wheelchair and just leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I explained, in the politest way, there is a reason they need to keep her here so we can&#8217;t go against professional advice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tara wasn&#8217;t happy but as she couldn&#8217;t do it by herself she really had no choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tony&#8217;s partner Gina returned home a few days later from the USA to organise Gracie&#8217;s return home, complete with a full hospital bed and an IV drip on a stand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We sent a huge bunch of flowers and Gina told us, because Gracie couldn\u2019t speak she had explained to her that they were from us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Everyone knew that these were Gracie&#8217;s last days and we were all hoping that she wouldn\u2019t pass away before, or on the day of, Joan\u2019s wedding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Grace, passed away on the 19th, the day after the wedding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">RIP Frances Grace Newley \u2013 We were so proud to have known you<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"786\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kennydenton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/AN-APPre-anocmant.jpg?resize=786%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kennydenton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/AN-APPre-anocmant.jpg?resize=786%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 786w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kennydenton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/AN-APPre-anocmant.jpg?resize=230%2C300&amp;ssl=1 230w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kennydenton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/AN-APPre-anocmant.jpg?resize=768%2C1001&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kennydenton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/AN-APPre-anocmant.jpg?resize=1179%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1179w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kennydenton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/AN-APPre-anocmant.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 786px) 100vw, 786px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gracie was buried at Long Ditton Cemetery Surrey a few weeks later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"743\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kennydenton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Our-Tribute.jpg?resize=743%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kennydenton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Our-Tribute.jpg?resize=743%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 743w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kennydenton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Our-Tribute.jpg?resize=218%2C300&amp;ssl=1 218w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kennydenton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Our-Tribute.jpg?resize=768%2C1058&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kennydenton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Our-Tribute.jpg?resize=1115%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1115w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kennydenton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Our-Tribute.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 743px) 100vw, 743px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A short time after the funeral Gina returned home in the USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A few months later she phoned us to ask if we would go to the home in Esher and collect all of Tony\u2019s 16mmm and 8mm film cans as the house was being sold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We stored the cans at our studio in Chiswick for several months, it seemed no one knew what to do with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With Gina\u2019s blessing, I finally managed to contact the <em>British Film Institute<\/em> who were happy house this wealth of material.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We remained dear friends with Gina and saw her regularly when she returned to her home in the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gina, sadly passed away on the 25th May 2017 and was cremated in the Kingston Crematorium, her ashes were returned to the USA to take her place alongside her true love, Tony Newley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gina, like Grace never got over losing Tony, her heart was broken when he died and remained in pieces until the day she passed away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With Gina&#8221;s passing, this would be the end of an era, of wonderful friendships, with Tony, Grace and Gina, years filled of good times and fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We miss them all dearly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Anthony Newley &quot;Bringing Back A Memory&quot; A Tribute To His Mum Gracie Newley\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nOEo6Iwdnt0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Below is a link to my YouTube channel Denton115 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