Classic Corrie Les Dawson and Ena Sharples Pt1

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Classic Corrie Les Dawson and Ena Sharples Pt1

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A clip from a 1993 Coronation Street special. Les Dawson narrates a feature on classic character Ena Sharples, played by Violet Carson. Part 1.

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@DeepScreenAnalysis 14 жыл бұрын

Violet Carson was a stunning genius in this role! A seamless master at blending the tragic and the comic, to create a fully rounded, fascinating character. Her monologue about being taken to the mill as a child is devastating and poetic - some of the most beautiful, tender acting I've ever seen, anywhere. Whatever 'Street' exists today, has nothing to do with what we see here. This was a different show - it lived and died with Carson.

@patagualianmostly7437 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, Violet Carson was magic: In her old age cast into a monster, TV hit (at that time) and took it all in her stride and made her character the bedrock of the show that was Coronation Street. How sad they sold it off as a flagship of social commentary, simply for better ratings than that pale imitator Eastenders... Simply unforgivable. But hey... that's TV folks... it's all about ratings...not quality.

@Fcutdlady Жыл бұрын

I would love to have seen a this is your life on violet carson

@richardwilson1234 13 жыл бұрын

Just remember that everyone was young once. And if you are young now, good luck, and your turn will come, faster than you realise. So enjoy life. Happy 50th birthday Coronation Street.

@SuperFerdie1965 5 жыл бұрын

I absolutely loved Ena Sharples.

@waltercrawford1934 11 жыл бұрын

Les Dawson - there will never be another. Thanks for a great upload.

@StandUp555 12 жыл бұрын

Those were the days .... of real actors ! Ena Sharples ( Violet Carson ) was one of the Greats.

@shadeharison 4 жыл бұрын

ena s hair net has since been turned in2 womens thongs,,lol

@stegatops1 7 жыл бұрын

How good was Ena Sharples........." Half a dozen fancies....but no eclairs!" love it.

@RoystonMayoh 7 жыл бұрын

It's so good to see this clip after so many years, produced by Mark Wells and Directed by me (RoystonMayoh) The whole show had a wonderful atmosphere as it was bring made by people who just loved the subject. I think you can see here the reverence that Les has for this most iconic of series.

@joshsheekey5512 4 жыл бұрын

Royston Mayoh I wish I was around back then to see Coronation Street as it originally was with wonderful actress like Doris Speed, Pat Phoenix and Violet Carson. It’s my ambition to follow in the steps of my dad Melvyn Hayes one day and go in to television more along the presenting route than that of an actor best wishes Josh

@maxcowell3920 3 жыл бұрын

I was very lucky to see this as a very young boy - I'm astonished at just how good the acting is- far more believable than the current style with writing that was conciously poetic - and, I believe, performed LIVE! Thank you for that whole decade - it certainly gave a small child a fantastic introduction to life's "characters" Violet Carson's little reminisce about her first day at the factory should be a master class in how to produce a lasting effect through art....... I must try to get hold of these early shows again - amazing... every single performance has drive and interest.......

@Freddyfox2000 8 жыл бұрын

Those were the days with Ena in the snug!

@markywillsmusic 13 жыл бұрын

this is actually better than the corrie now, no joke.

@YouTubeIsAssHo 3 жыл бұрын

All soaps are a joke now, all written for teenagers, or adults with a teenage mentality, with boring young characters, instead of interesting older ones with multidimensional life stories. Stopped watching Coronation Street about 30 years ago.

@patagualianmostly7437 3 жыл бұрын

Spot on Dave: Corrie was a million miles better than that crap Eastenders...why on earth did they lower the standard of the script and the acting quality? It's done the viewing public no favours whatsoever. They are all rubbish now...because someone would not stand firm in front of management bullying for "ratings". How damn sad. Sold its soul for the sake of American Style "Ratings".... Corrie would have seen off the rubbish that was and still is Eastenders.....but no, they are all, now, one and the same. All characterisation has been lost...never to return. Doris Speed. Violet Carson...their characters still exist in life...but will never be seen... sold out to the "ratings". What a crock of crap we accept as entertainment these days.

@xr6lad 2 жыл бұрын

@@KZfaqIsAssHo you’ve hit it on the grass. Soaps are written for immature adults and teens. One dimensional. Could be made out of card board. And nasty.

@LOAWORKS 14 жыл бұрын

'arf a barm cake an' drippin' for me brekfast! Awww... bless... I love this woman!

@DeepScreenAnalysis 13 жыл бұрын

@Aspergianstar2009 - absolutely correct. There's no depth to the characterization anymore. The show rarely gets into the psychology of the various characters as any good soap opera is obliged to; rather, it plots out the events for the characters instead of allowing them to drive the narrative themselves. As a result, we have things like ridiculous tram explosions and sensationalist plots.... because the characters as written are simply not interesting enough anymore - they are all mundane.

@DameHoracia 7 жыл бұрын

A time when the writer was great and the women were portrayed as tough and strong and proud. What happened? Modern middle class writers with no clue, that's what happened..... What a shame, things should evolve and get better not go down hill...

@Cool2BCeltic 13 жыл бұрын

For years I called her "that formidable looking old lady with the hair net". As a kid I had a dream where I was alone in my parents' living room and Coronation Street was on the TV. In the dream I tried helping myself to a piece of cake that was on the living room table and Ena Sharples shouted "put it back" to me from the TV set.

@shadeharison 4 жыл бұрын

her hair net has since been turned in2 womens thongs,,lol

@auteurmobile 13 жыл бұрын

You had to actually TALK to each other in those days. Lucky.

@1lordthorpe 14 жыл бұрын

Child-hood memories. I loved Les Dawson. I loved Ena, fabulous acting, bit of a culteral time capsule when Annie Walker calls her Mrs Sharples. Imagine Ena doing the black bottom! Good stuff! Thank you Ms or Mr tvordj.

@juliepownall2000 5 жыл бұрын

When Corrie was great great characters traditional pubs ....the good old days 😉

@alimantado373 7 жыл бұрын

Les Brought the North down South .. Love his humour :) Ena Sharples .. blast from the past :)

@Dallas-Nyberg 13 жыл бұрын

A wonderful piece of television history - This show was very popular here in Australia. I remember watching it with my Mum when I was just a kid - I still miss those days, this video bought it all back for me - in a nice comfortable way - thanks for posting

@valerieabbott6911 6 жыл бұрын

Cat jumps out in front of Les Dawson in the old days that have been lunch priceless

@wellybobs4403 3 жыл бұрын

I remember my Gran agreeing with lots of things she said as we watched it on her massive 12 inch black and white telly in 1966. The whole world was in Black and white and getting a new coat was a major expense which not everyone could afford. All the available jobs were dangerous or dirty and usually both. Ilike thousands of others we paid in and contracted with the government to a pension scheme that they reneged on and still kept all our money.

@trevorthompson7604 5 жыл бұрын

Ena sharples a legend great acting brilliant story lines when coronation st was great

@paulwild3676 2 жыл бұрын

“I knew it had to be gone through.” People could do with that attitude today.

@andrewhubbard4044 3 жыл бұрын

The good old days when life was simple no Globalisation or Internet when you could laugh and nobody got offended and life without lockdowns and covid wish I could turn back time

@lanny1076 3 жыл бұрын

we never stop growing up do we...that hit hard 💜

@henson001 13 жыл бұрын

A literate script written by someone with an ear for dialogue and an eye for character. Current soaps are too caught up in the mill of ratings and gossip mags for them to have this high quality.

@janesmith9024 Ай бұрын

Wonderful. The yeaqr I was born (my mother loved the show an then I did) and now I almost feel I am Ena...

@Tenderness1959 4 жыл бұрын

brings back so many good memories!!!

@paulwild826 9 жыл бұрын

The confrontations between Elsie and Ena were priceless. They tried to create a similar scenario between Pat and Peggy in EastEnders. Not in the same league. Ena and Elsie never said anything to each other that wasn't true and there was a wonderful honesty about their set to's. Violet Carson and Patricia Phoenix were legends.

@arrblue94 9 жыл бұрын

Paul Wild they did

@Mandeley100 8 жыл бұрын

Now there's something you never EVER see on Coronation Street these days. Real acting by real actors who knew their business. Nowadays it's just tired old hangers-on (like William Roache and Barbara Knox), no talents who got lucky (like Michael LeVell and Sally Dynevor) and the utterly useless (just about everybody else).

@75MalcolmX 4 жыл бұрын

There is a saying in italian that when the water in the toilet is flushed only the nasty long turds remain. Roach is a stronzo.

@patagualianmostly7437 3 жыл бұрын

Barbara, I would say was great for many years....but has long passed her sell-by date: She is not, and never will become the great character actress that Violet Carson as Ena Sharples was. But...in reality...that is what should happen: It's supposed to be a street of real people after all. As for Bill Roache...well...the best that can be said is that he is not acting. But, hey, he won a court case to prove otherwise. We are law-abiding here. But many of the cast (From 4 years ago as is your post) left me simply in awe.... HTF do they get away with it? Micheal leVell...dear-oh-dear...If he's an actor I'm up for doing brain surgery wearing boxing gloves...(I like a challenge.) Sally: DOH! Ditto! Gail: DOH! Ditto....and...yeah... most of them are simply crap. Money for old rope.... For heaven's sake: Put some PASSION into your work: Make like you're an actor, not a scenery prop. And for heaven's sake: Tell the scriptwriters to get back to making Corrie like it was Coronation Street. Not a ratings chaser with stupid sensational impossible story lines: Get quality back & show us what you can do with a decent script!. It Ain't Rocket Science.

@Fronika 14 жыл бұрын

Oh Ena! Poor old Minnie.

@jimmorrison5493 2 жыл бұрын

Good Lord, that was ACTING

@petyrkowalski9887 5 жыл бұрын

Look at the quality of that stone cladding....luxury.

@Zlervo Жыл бұрын

Les Dawson's impression of Ena Sharples was fantastic 😂

@Darylc992 11 жыл бұрын

I remember Corrie in Black and White sat in front of a roaring coal fire.... that's when we were Great Britain !!!

@ashdrive 4 жыл бұрын

How lovely

@ddoc1964 4 жыл бұрын

Scott Vidal . Its that sort of twaddle that convinced the idiots we would be better off out of the EU. Outside toilets? Damp housing? Rat infested streets? How was that better? Corrie was def better back then but life in general was crap. Try to drag yourself away from from the 18th century, can you?

@christopherdrennan3511 6 жыл бұрын

One of Les Dawson's last appearances on TV.

@miladydewinter7770 Жыл бұрын

Remember watching the very first episode of Coronation Street --- not seen that show for about 60 years now.

@keithmartin2334 4 жыл бұрын

Here's something i well remember about Violet Carson ..... Many moons ago there was a show on the wireless ont Light Programme of the BBC. It was just after the war - the 2nd World War - that a quiz show was broadcast. The name? Have a Go! Wilfred Pickles was the quiz Master. Mable (the wife of Wilfred i believe) was at the table with the prize money, and who was at the piano? Violet Carson! Yes, it was then - during the late 1940's - that i first saw her when the show Have a Go was recorded in my home town way, way, way back. I pick and peck at these keys on the 26th of October, 2019.

@darganx 3 жыл бұрын

OK!! That would explain she was always on piano in the Rovers for special occasions. She was very talented indeed!

@valstockdale2418 Жыл бұрын

Wish the show was being replayed, l always watched it.

@sextant1222 8 жыл бұрын

eee i were bought up on corrie bless ena and minnie

@MrGoneTroppo 3 жыл бұрын

Minnie Caldwell - first out of the taxi, last up to the bar

@happiness4812 2 ай бұрын

4:46 she spoke to the cameraman!!!!! The beginning of how The Office was shot❤❤

@asa1973100 3 ай бұрын

The BEST OF BRITISH!!!

@winstonbrown1516 2 жыл бұрын

As for 5.28. My God! Perfect. You don't appreciate this kind of talent when you're young.

@winstonbrown1516 2 жыл бұрын

The ending of the scene upto 3.29 is just golden. Ahh, to make it look this effortless, this entertaining this wonderful. Nose to the Grindstone, then!

@merledoughty5787 7 жыл бұрын

Better then than now in Coro street

@StevenJacksonMusic 14 жыл бұрын

This was when Coronation Street was great the show is absolute rubbish now.

@sallyosullivan4603 3 жыл бұрын

It's not the same anymore, so different from when I first saw Coronation st in 1964!!🐹

@chrisparkes2179 4 жыл бұрын

4:48 suddenly we are in the queue with them

@northernpharma 6 жыл бұрын

4.48. I didn't know Ena Sharples invented breaking the fourth wall?

@puddypuss 12 жыл бұрын

funny seeing lucille hewitt again

@patagualianmostly7437 3 жыл бұрын

Yes indeed: The late Jennifer Moss. Died aged 61. A sad life indeed. Check it out on IMDB.Com....

@GreenerHill 8 жыл бұрын

If Winston Churchill was a Bulldog, Violet Carson was a Boxer!

@ianjohnson4052 7 жыл бұрын

mandeley100 - you are SO right!

@josephlandrut4154 5 жыл бұрын

vPilot Carson I remember as piano player for Wilfred Pickles on his radio show 'Have a Go'' series and also when Coronation began prior to me and my family emigrating to Australia via the £10 assisted passage scheme November 1965

@opencurtin 4 жыл бұрын

Les died in 94 so wasn’t long after this ..

@RM-lj8bv 3 жыл бұрын

Corrie was good in them old days with the strong women and lots of laughs. I don't watch it now but would if they made it like they used to. I don't want it to be like Eastenders.

@risenshine2783 2 жыл бұрын

It has gone woke its all political doctrine now

@mickeyh1961 14 жыл бұрын

@stevenjackson1958 Agree 100% with you, dont watch it anymore, no sense of humour or characters too serious & going like Eastenders depressing.

@hablin1 Жыл бұрын

My granny was one of those women 🙈🤣🤣🤣

@anonUK 13 жыл бұрын

Were Les Dawson and Violet Carson the same person?

@Cool2BCeltic 13 жыл бұрын

@silversurfers7 True

@trevorthompson7604 5 жыл бұрын

I love all these classic characters real life gossip acid tongued women brilliant actors when coronation was brilliant its rubbish today way over the top

@kjstewart4003 5 жыл бұрын

Is it milk stout? WTH is that

@kjstewart4003 5 жыл бұрын

Un color TV.

@markstevens9660 3 жыл бұрын

If only you’d lived long enough to witness what a delightful young lady your daughter became .... hahahaha .... NOT !! You’d turn in your grave !! ..... R.I.P Les 😘

@BRUTUALTRUTH 14 жыл бұрын

@RICHARDTOMLEY10WHARF LMAO!

@trevorthompson7604 6 жыл бұрын

Common ha ha ha

@davidthomas6536 3 жыл бұрын

There was a much smaller cast in those days but they were all characters and blended so well. Nowadays the story line is so weak and they overdo the political correctness. Far too many youngsters who cant act. Sad really.