Stepping into the spotlight

by Molly Weir

190 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1975

About the author

Mary Weir, known as Molly Weir was a Scottish actress and author.

Reviews

[Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all) · Rating 3 out of 5]

This volume of Weir's memoirs is sub-titled "The ITMA years" and yet we discover that she participated in a single season of ITMA. about six weeks. Of course it was the stepping-stone that led her from being a local personality in Glasgow to national attention, but "The Happiest Years of Your Life" ran for two years in the West End, and she played in most of the performances. We also discover that Weir spent many years writing scripts for various BBC Radio programmes, including Children's Hour.
I never cease to be amazed by the British celebrity tendency to publish several volumes of autobiography. Ghost written or not, this one is a light, cosy evening read, if we ignore the author's Scots Presbyterian fear and dislike of Catholicism, about which she obviously knew very little. Her version of how a friend converted and became a religious sister revealed more about herself than she knew.