Marti caine

[George 1978]

You can tell that "Marti Caine" sounds very much like a stage name - she always felt to me as a caricature just like how male comedians would parody female artistes, the Grumbleweeds for example. I suppose that is how she managed sucess as an entertainer - her first husband was her agent, I believe.

She got the New Faces of 86 job because she won the ATV version over a decade earlier. Derek Hobson used to do the 1970s version of New Faces and also ATV Today in the Midlands circa 1974 - I cannot imagine Marti Caine presenting Central News circa 1986, even though one of the presenters, later MP, Anna Soubry was doing the Nina Myskow thing watching on in the balcony and giving her verdict on the latest act. To be fair, we wouldn't have had Joe Pasquale had we not have had Marti Caine.

[Twocky61]

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That's her in the Campari adverts

[amethyst]

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Wasn't it Marti Cain who was "From Luton Airport?"

Do you mean Lorraine Chase

[Twocky61]

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Wasn't it Marti Cain who was "From Luton Airport?"

[darren]

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here she is rich.

http://youtu.be/CCP_sq2B01o

I was a bit young to remember her but her life story is worth one of those BBC4 docudramas.

[Richard1978]

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I was a bit young to remember her but her life story is worth one of those BBC4 docudramas.

[Trickyvee]

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She always had that purple tinted hair. I always said "When I grow up I am going to have my hair coloured like Marti Caine's!" and I have at times but I don't seem to be able to pull it off like she did. I like the story about the origin of her stage name. It's an abbreviation of 'tomato cain' put forward by her husband.

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I liked her. She had a 'give em a chance' appeal to herself with the contestants on New Faces...she was also very pretty until the cancer ravaged her.

[darren]

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you where talking to som,eone about her this morning.

whats the odds on that.hehe



i must be psychic.


Yep she was all those things.
she presented new faces from 86 to 88.

she also had her own show the marti caine show from 77 to 81.

apparently she had to have a bucket to be sick in before every time she went live on new faces when she presented it.

I was only talking to someone about her this morning, how odd!

Wasn't a huge fan of her's tbh. She was one of those rare all rounders wasn't she, singer, comedienne etc I remember when she hosted the relaunch of 'New Faces' and Spitting Image, in there usual cruel way made a very funny puppet of her that resembled one of those tv pepperami models in a ginger wig!

[DoctorQui]

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I was only talking to someone about her this morning, how odd!

Wasn't a huge fan of her's tbh. She was one of those rare all rounders wasn't she, singer, comedienne etc I remember when she hosted the relaunch of 'New Faces' and Spitting Image, in there usual cruel way made a very funny puppet of her that resembled one of those tv pepperami models in a ginger wig!

[darren]

marti was born 25th of january 1944 in sheffield england

she passed away on the 4th of november 1995 from cancer.


the uk's clown queen of comedy during the 80s, Marti Caine's brand of humour combined an appealing dizziness with an endearing vunerability. Often compared to America's Phyllis Diller, she paved the way for women working in British light entertainment, both in nightclubs and in television.

Born Lynn Shepherd in Sheffield, Caine attended several schools in Yorkshire before working as a model, croupier and petrol pump attendant. At 18, she made her first professional appearance as a comedienne in a club in Rotheram and spent the next 15 yrs playing the Northern working men's club circuit.

She became an overnight household name at the age of 30 on the TV talent show, "New Faces (1973). Viewers loved her gawky figure and glamorous looks and she went on to star in her own BBC2 TV show, "The Marti Caine Show (1979), throughout the eighties.

In 1982, Caine spent 18 months starring in a stage show in South Africa which caused uproar from anti-apartheid demonstrators and, for a time, she was blacklisted by the United Nations.

During the latter part of her career, she combined TV work with stage shows in Britain and, for 3 yrs from 1986, was a judge on Central TV's "New Faces"(1973. She was popular in pantomime and made the part of the "Red Queen" in "Snow White and The 7 Dwarfs" her own, playing in Cambridge, Bath, Bournemouth and London.

A gifted and talented comedienne, Caine was an incisive and intelligent performer who often surprised her critics with her depth as an actress.

her last role was in the 1995 tv film call up the stars where she played gracie fields.