Fear of Fanny - BBC 2006
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- The life of Fanny Cradock (Julia Davis), Britain's most famous chef from the 1950s to the 1970s.
Director: Coky Giedroyc
Screenwriter: Brian Fillis
Music: Miko Giedroyc
Cinematography: David Marsh
Producer: BBC
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Growing up in the 1960s, my mother viewed Joan Crawford and Fanny Cradock - and weirdly, Mrs Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor - as the epitome of the divine feminine. Fortunately, the NHS introduced psychotherapy into its arsenal of mental health services in the 1970s, and so I'm almost over it.
Your comment had me laughing aloud. Joan Crawford still exerts a kind of Mommy Dearest fascination.
I think all those women might have been called psychopaths or at the very least malignant narcissists nowadays. I grew up in the 60's too, a very different world eh!
Very similar woman too.
She'd have loved Ru Paul
@@jakecavendish3470 totally agree!
Being in America, I had no idea who Fanny Craddock was. I saw the thumbnail picture on TH-cam and assumed this was a movie with a drag queen as a star so I watched it. At first I thought it was high camp. Then I realized they were serious, and that it wasn’t a drag queen starring in the role, what a good movie. Thank you.
LOL. i consider fanny to be an honorary drag queen
I was really hoping that Johnny's "And may all your doughnuts turn out like Fanny's" would pop up somewhere.
Sadly that's just an urban myth! I wish it was true...brilliant :-)
For a second I tought it was a documentary and I was like wow she is pretty and looks like Julia Davis haha
So much work has gone into this ravishing production but the sound of Fanny's voice is so painfully absent.
Enjoying watching and I agree the actress hasn’t got the right voice.
true, the actress does a good job but her eyes arent nearly beady enough and she doesnt have the same severity in her voice
It was about three octaves deeper, like a man's basically
I agree. Julia's is too high
Agreed, Fanny looked and sounded like a man in drag, and although Julia did her best the voice just wasn't deep enough so you wouldn't have instantly known who she was portraying. But interesting to watch nevertheless
A spellbinding piece of television. Bravo
The genius of Julia Davis and Mark Gatiss is intoxicating , just watched this for the second time, probably not the last.
4 times now , and not ruling out a 5th .
@@barrycarrigan5584😂Bet you're on the 6th by now?
You are a GEM for uploading this in higher quality.
Haha, thanks - it took me a while to find, and when I did, I had to share it with everyone :)
Thank you very much for uploading. ❤
Couldn't be any higher in quality, unless it was Olivia Coleman and Martin Freeman
@@BLINDTUBEMARES Two very overused individuals at present. Julia Davis is not seen on our screens enough.
Mark Gattis is a brilliant actor
The erratic behaviour is spot-on; my grandmother knew her and said she was a raging alcoholic and what would now probably be diagnosed as deeply bioplar or schizophrenic, which is pretty sad really. She once found her wandering around the street with no shoes on in the early 1970s going on about how German spies were living in the church hall.
You felt bad for husband Johnny craddock who suffered in silence for years with her temper xnd her assistants who suffered on TV.
I didn't know about the alcohol she lived quite a long time despite that
I read that she used to physically abuse johnny 😢she would take her frustrations out on him he worshiped her so he stuck around.
Recently, it was revealed that Fanny was using amphetamines during the day and phenobarbital to sleep..
And let me guess you’re late granny was too much of a lady to go to the papers and sell her story when the news of the world et cetera had tried to bribe staff of fanny Craddock to sell stories on her of what a bitch she was and what a horrible person she was and none of them never bought and that’s because she was none of those things
Oh this is BRILLIANT!!!! The fantastic Julia Davis and Mark Gatiss . Im so thrilled to see this again , i saw it when it was first broadcasted and loved it back then. Thank you! Its hilarious 😂 i remember Fanny Craddock on the tv when i was young, with her stuffed boiled eggs and other canapés 😂😂
You have to accept how bizarre life is in order to take it seriously.
What a joyous find this film was!
Missed it the first time around, so thank you SO much for this.
Wonderful film. Julia Davis can play anything. I always thought Fanny Craddock seemed a deeply unhappy person, even tho her hubby obviously adored her, so this was a fascinating watch.
Shes quite mad I don't think this actress captures that very well. She looks more like David Bowie. And she hasn't got the mad eyes going on. She mustn't have that madness in her.
Bowie frozen as Ziggy, unable to move on . Ever strutting pouting and grinning.
My memory has the real Fanny struck mad as a painted Jonah, sprung from the whales spout in a half untied straight jacket.
Julia Davis and entire cast are brilliant, xxxx
Thanks for uploading this. I love Julia Davis but missed the program when it was first aired. X
I cannot tell you how glad I am someone has uploaded this. I missed it when it first aired on BBC2 and I’ve been searching for it in full for so long!!
Thank you!!
Glad to be of service! I had been searching for it for ages when I stumbled across it - I just had to share it to TH-cam for others to enjoy 😄
A lost masterpiece! I came here after hearing Rob Brydon on Off Menu 👍
He did a good series with Julia Davis called Human Remains which is worth a watch if you can find it!
Rob brydon is in it but the bbc has buried it and refuses to release on dvd.
Loved Julia Davis in Human Remains, Nighty Night (obvs), Hunderby, Camping & Sally4Ever 💕
Me too! Of all of those though, Sally4Ever is my favourite - what a wonderfully awful character. Julia is a genius!
What a brilliant cast! Thanks for the upload!
Julia Davis is the most extraordinary actress. Maggie Smith 20th century. Julia and Tilda 21st century.
I just found this.
Omg, I needed this!!
First time watching this & julia is amazing and cast are great to. Love this & i loved nighty night. But this is somthing els. ❤😂🎉.
I missed this when is was first broadcast. Good God. Julia is AMAZING in this. Hats off. What a performance.
Just wish she'd shaved her eyebrows off instead of just covering them with makeup. It wasn't very effective.
She's very bad in this. Voice, accent, over the top acting, no subtlety of Fanny's mannerisms... So bad it hurts.
Absolutely brillamt . Thank you .
Fabulously entertaining!..thanks for the upload.
I have no idea of whom what biographical account is this. However, the acting is enticing two days before Christmas and I am captured by her delivery.
Crazy 'ol Fanny. Led a sticky life and came to a sticky end. Still, this was a fun watch.
85 isn't a bad innings for a bird who lived on red wine and amphetamines
Jason Watkins, awesome actor
You are right....he is so versatile....comedy, tragedy and everything in between....truly great.
Super fantastic watched it years ago and revisited today hope your scones all turn out like fannys!
So glad I found this movie Sp well produced and acted Costume Design was superb As a child we watched this woman on TV it is interesting to know of her private persona. Thank you.
Excellent thanks 🙏
This amazing piece of tv matches just how grotesque that woman’s life and behaviour was. No one but Davis and Gatiss could capture that.
Thank you x
FANTASTIC
Fanny was much more bombastic and forceful with a deeper, smokers voice.
I often call my husband Johnny when we cook together in their memory! 😂 loved them so much, even though she was a right battle axe 🪓 😂.
odd, when i call my wife fanny, she's not so keen.
@@GavTatu 🤣
The real Fanny was way more glamerous and had a quite hypnotic aura about her - One you started wtching her that was it you were hooked
Never knew about this woman until her birthday a few days ago, and I suppose this is a good portrayal of a woman both tortured and controlling. Thanks!
I seem to recall Benny Hill did a sketch as Fanny Craddock with Bob Todd as Johnny!
He did 2 of them. And referenced them in another sketch.
Fanny Craddock seemed a lot larger than life & out there than this makes her out to be
Totally agree there's a level of thespian acting going on here that doesn't quite work.
Thankyou. X
Excellent 💯
Loved this movie 💜
Something about her appearance reminds me of David Bowie in the 70s.
That's exactly what I was thinking. The video for Life On Mars springs to mind
Class a. Production/acting "everything".
I love fanny ❤
I sure can't do without either
(Spoilers for Fear of Fanny)
I STRONGLY suggest anybody who watches this go STRAIGHT original 'interview' of Fanny and Gwen after watching this.
I was born on the 80s and hadnt really heard of Fanny growing up so i came into this movie with a clean sheet as it were. I am not a fan nor a 'hater' of hers. But after watching this movie i was definitely not a fan after watching the gwen Scene.
The movie makes out she was very rude and obnoxious to Gwen. However, if you watch the orignal scene.... Fanny wasnt anywhere NEAR as rude as this movie makes out if you watch the whole context.
She was actually quite friendly and polite to Gwen but a bit too honest and blunt. She was giving her more professional advice more than anything.
She was explaining to Gwen about how each course should compliment the next course rather than just making each course random meals.
The comment where she says "Youre amongst professionals now" isnt meant (in context) to be rude or a knock her on food but rather advice that while this is okay in the home on a professional level she would need to look at doing it differently.
Gwen, in the original, even trys to say to Fanny that she is wrong and i think this is what causes Fanny to pull some of the faces shortly after.
I have seen Mary Berry be FAR more rude and obnoxious.
And don't forget about Elizabeth David who was a great cook in the 60&,70,s she introduced spices and unusual herbs
Yes, one should definitely compare this ridiculous scene with the original. The filmmakers made Fanny into a monster.
Can any of you tell me the name of the show with that interview? I'd really like to see it.
Gwen Troake's Banquet / The Big Time (1976)@@susandavorn3249
I love fanny.
I used to feel sorry for poor Sarah 😂
Julia is awesome as ever
At 1 hour and 12 minutes in, when she meets the housewife who is entering the competition and tells her that her menu is too heavy, they forgot to put in that the lady was very rude to her also, refusing to take obvious advice, thats why Fanny got sharp. Then the housewife went to the guest of honour and wouldn’t stop mentioning her thick coffee desert and asked him if he sided with her or Fanny. She was an arrogant nasty woman, not like here where she is shy.
Yes!! I just watched this and went back to watch the original interview/show and I found Gwen to be quite rude. Fanny was actually polite and friendly at first and more giving her advice. I think this movie paints fanny harshly in that scene. I've seen Mary Berry be FAR more obnoxious than fanny was on that day.
Gwen wasn't rude, just defensive and confused. But Fanny was much friendlier than here. She definitely wanted to keep the upper hand but she wasn't rude, ordinary, arrogant like in this film. They made a caricature out of her. And those nasty remarks about "have any friends? living?" - that's downright lying.
@@reoreborn1209can you (or anyone else) tell me how to find that please? If you can even remember what the name of the show was then I can put it in search
Benny Hill doing a parody of Fanny and her husband was hilarious, as was hubs enjoying it. Her dear partner really had the patience of Job.
Julia Davis is genius! I must say I remember Fanny from the 70’s partly because she was on TV and partly because I had a friend at prep school called David Craddock and automatically assumed they must be related! 😂
I confess I have been terribly unkind about her… I’ve just watched a lot of her shows in the years since & they really lack any merit… her bossiness was so annoying … my hero is Keith Floyd and on reflection his style & persona wasn’t that far away from Fanny’s but so much more entertaining!
Keith Floyd was influenced by Johnny Cradock with his wine drinking.
was violently sick after watching this! intresting watch though, thank you.
The woman playing her is not a good choice. You can see her acting rather than being convinced that she is the character.
Totally agree its like a play Iver the top and ridiculous and clownish almost which is funny as a play but I'd never have guess she was playing fanny craddock if it hadn't said it in the title. Even the accent isn't right. I was just watching fanny as I always do to remind me how fucking dry a bird a turkey is! 😂😂
@@Padraigp absolutely nothing worse than a dry Fanny.
@@stephenmcconnell1000 bahahahaah! 👏 brilliant >< 😢 😭 😿 😢 😭
@@stephenmcconnell1000 Hahaha 😛🤣
Thoroughly enjoyed this play. Wonder if its true that she was just doing her schtick on that Esther Rasntzen show that destroyed her. Sad if it was just a misjudgement not real spite, contempt and arrogance
Whatever the case, Rantzen has a track record of destroying some careers while 'protecting' others. I have always regarded Silverline and Childline in particular as very elaborate covers. The reason she got so far in a (then) male world was because she was more ruthless than all the others. I cannot stand Rantzen and never could.
As a chef in his later years, that was painful to watch!
@00:39 - Rumour has it that she went into the fast food industry, burgers mainly. She did quite well by all accounts.
My memory of her was watching her on TV making impossibly difficult dishes with ingredients that were not widely available.
"I hope all your rissoles turn out like Fannys" (Johnnie Cradock)
😁
I love Julia Davies, but I think she was a little mis-cast in this. Probably needed an older actress.
Julia Davis and Mark Gatiss back together again. Just like Jill and Glen Bulb 😆
Julia Davis is too much of a babe even under the fright wig and make-up, her bone structure too perfect, to make a fully convincing Fanny. Good show however.
Good old Fanny - a bigamist twice over, “living in sin” with Johnnie, and nobody knew.
I think Julia Davies was totally miscast here. There was something sometime when Debra Stephenson played Fanny, and she was perfect. Mark Gatiss was an exceptional Johnny though.
Interestingly Psychic Dorris Collins mentioned that ,she John and Fanny were good friends in real life
This randomly came up in my TH-cam suggestions tonight. I was born in 1989, so have absolutely no memory/knowledge of Fanny Cradock. I resisted the temptation to look at her Wikipedia page to keep my interest going. I think I probably agree with a lot of other commenters in that Julia Davis is a bit too sexy to play Fanny Cradock, even lathering on the grotesque makeup I wasn't quite convinced.
What is this I need to see it!
I always wondered who did the cover of Aladdin Sane. ?
Welcome to ShowBiz Darling....
What is the music at the end.
She's made out to be an absolute horror, but if you watch some of her appearances on TV she could be quite charismatic. Two sides to her, I suppose. This 'At Home with Fanny' film isn't a flattering portrayal of her. Fun to watch though.
Wow. I remember my mother talking about the show and has some of her books but is this an accurate depiction of Fanny Craddock or is it hugely exaggerated for effect?
Thanks.
It is true. But she was entertaining God bless her. A real icon of tv at the time.
A good program but she really doesn’t have the voice.
in HEAVEN everything is fine 🎩 lass 🏴 …
Her cookery books scared me.
All cook's are nutters.
It was fanny and Johnny , hilarious
1:10:19 The famous scene that "ended" Fanny's career and might be the highlight of this movie for some. I can't believe the bad script writing and acting. It's like a sketch, perhaps a small impersonation, not a film scene. Perhaps it would have helped if the actress watched the original scene?
actually, i thought out of the whole film this scene was one of the few accurate ones. they did a good job recreating it, sadly most of the rest of the film is made up out of whole cloth
I wouldn't even speak about "inaccuracy". The scene is absurd, over the top, not realistic and it depicts Fanny as a monster that she wasn't. But perhaps you have to depict her like this for viewers with blunt perception because if you recreate the original scene, today's viewers (desensitivized by reality shows etc.) will just shrug: "So what?"@@samhaine6804
Wow the eyebrows. They look crazy..
All the rage back then. Women would pluck til there was nothing left then pencil these weird things on 😂.
@@annoldham3018Fanny's were a bit more OTT than most though I think. Scary Matched her personality!
' i wouldn't have used quite as much fennel...' Fanny was part of the great British tradition of TV grotesques. As a child in the 70s I was mildly horrified by her. But she was on TV and that was the norm? Shocking demonstration of cross contamination and poor food hygiene?
I was very disappointed when I saw this back in 2006. Gatiss had so much real-life material to work with which was ignored, and the actress looked nothing like Fanny. She had a nose job and other nip and tucks done to make her look more telly friendly but this wasn't mentioned. Nor the fact that when they did eventually marry, it was bigamous, as Fanny's 2nd husband was still alive. Plus, she shaved 10 years off her age!
as a little kid in the 1960s when she was on TV I was more scared of her than the Daleks, even her name conjured up terrible mental images that were too much for my 5-year-old mind to cope with, her husband Johnny (another bad mental image) seemed like Dracula to me. I could imagine them sacrificing little kids like myself and cooking their body parts on TV saying what a lovely piece of marbled Aberdeen Angus, this might be where it all started, SShhmm, 65 - 66ish !
I have a fear of fanny.
Me too 😆
What a Narsassist. Everyone had to suffer at her Manic Gigantic Ego. I felt so sorry for Johnny
There is an episode of
Her and Johnny craddock as and older couple as she was very frightening even the.
There was a documentary about her and her was daughter was in it. When Johnny craddock died her daughter became her pa on the show. But franny craddock decline was obvious behind the scenes.
From the thumbnail I thought it was Davis Bowie 🤣
Flip...David Bowie looks rough, there...
Omg it’s Dawny! 😂
not surprised sum thing phishy going on all the tome
1:11:58 Frank N Furter.
In the first scene, she looks like David Bowie in his Ziggy Stardust phase…
Bowie is beautiful, utterly beautiful. She looks nothing like him.
Rula Lenska maybe 😆
What did she say at the very end?
I wouldn't use quite as much fennel
No, at 1:21:15 - just before the credits.
@@timbletiniI think she says ketchup, although I'm not sure.
@@Zoe-dr5ps Thank you! That's probably it!
@@timbletini No bother at all. Have a good day 😊👍👍
thank god for keith floyd
True even Keith said her cooking was horrible and not his type and way of cooking with her style
I finally located Gwen Troake’s coffee pudding recipe and tried it out. Absolutely vile. Instant vanilla pudding mix, whipped topping, instant coffee, and rum soaked ladyfinger biscuits. Fanny was actually being tactful.
It even sounds awful just Reading about it! I've now watched that clip several times, such a shame that was her 'downfall' didn't seem that bad?
@@justinwhite6787 From what I read, BBC execs were trying to get rid of her for a while and used the Gwen Troake backlash as a half-baked (no pun intended) excuse to fire Fanny.
@@giovannirastrelli9821 Got it! Sounds right, just finished watching the film, I thought it was really good - Julia Davis was great, and the rest of the cast. I can't get enough of watching old Fanny videos now.
That's the BBC in a nutshell. Corrupt
I agree. Each course sounded lovely but together was far too rich a menu. A lighter dessert would have been better after duck. And I love coffee desserts! 😂
Now, I’ve only really watched the Christmas show from Fanny and enjoyed it, but was she really this mean and erratic in real life?
Unbelievably, yes! Julia Davis studied hundreds of hours of footage of her, and the writers spoke to lots of people who knew her in order to make the depiction as realistic as possible. She was a proper character!
She looked 20 years younger without wigs and makeup.
She is really nothing like her. Glenn Close would have been perfect casting.
Definitely, same masculine bone structure
Ziggy stardust in the kitchen 😮
fanny looks like the queen of hearts and sounds a bit like Helena Bonham Carter aswell 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Not the real one. The real one speaks slightly differently but very noticeably this actress hasn't got it.