Books: Moore the Merrier ; the Friendship of Rena Fruchter and Her Family Helped Dudley Moore Achieve a Certain Peace in His Last Years, Despite Being Seriously Ill with a Rare Brain Disease. Simon Evans Met Her

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Many people will remember Dudley Moore as the diminutive star of the hit films10 and Arthur, and as the long-time comedy partner of Peter Cook, both in the timeless Sixties TV series Not Only But Also, and on the expletive-ridden Derek and Clive LPs of the Seventies.

There was, however, a very different Dudley Moore - the former Cambridge organ scholar who went on to become an accomplished composer and pianist, be it with established classical repertoire or the glorious free-wheeling jazz trio that, in this country at least, made him such an influential figure for successive generations of pianists.

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Books: Moore the Merrier ; the Friendship of Rena Fruchter and Her Family Helped Dudley Moore Achieve a Certain Peace in His Last Years, Despite Being Seriously Ill with a Rare Brain Disease. Simon Evans Met Her

It is the musical Dudley that is celebrated in this affectionate portrait by Rena Fruchter, herself an accomplished pianist. Rena and her family would eventually supp...

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