Dudley Moore like Jude the Obscure - from Dagenham County High wins an apprenticeship to Magdalen College Oxford (his mother, when he was born, looked at his club foot & said "this isn't my son"). The BBC said on his death: His humble origins & Dagenham twang made him feel inadequate among the upper-class students . When playing piano in the College Chapel his self- doubt whispered : You shouldn't belong here . With one leg shorter than the other he used to use one of his mother's shoes to reach the pedals. This was the kind of thing Peter Cook made Dud an emotional killing from. But Dud did a generic same with Dagenham in the Derek & Clive sketches. Unlike Jude a door opened HOLLYWOOD & years later from his balcony - Hawaiian shorts and brandy - he wrote 42 letters back to his schoolteacher in Dagenham to say he always thought they were basically kind of the same
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