The British Greats (TV Series)

Gracie Fields (1980)

Barry Norman: Self - Presenter

Quotes 

• Barry Norman : When Gracie fields died, she was buried in Capri, her adoptive home, and beside her grave there's a small memorial tablet that says simply "Our Gracie" - and that's what she was - our Gracie, Britain's Gracie, a national institution.

• Barry Norman : Somebody once defined the quality that makes a star as "that little something extra". What Gracie had was that little something extra, and then a little something extra on top of that: warmth, perhaps, humanity, talent, personality. Whatever it was, if you could bottle it and sell it, you'd make a fortune overnight. And whatever it was, it helped to make Gracie Fields, incomparably, the most popular entertainer Britain ever had.