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	'''Aimi MacDonald''' (born 27 February 1942) is a Scottish actress and dancer. She is best known for her role as ''"The Lovely" Aimi MacDonald'' in the television [[sketch comedy show]] ''[[At Last the 1948 Show]]'' ([[Associated Rediffusion\|Rediffusion]], 1967).		'''Aimi MacDonald''' (born 27 February 1942) is a Scottish actress and dancer. She is best known for her role as ''"The Lovely" Aimi MacDonald'' in the television [[sketch comedy show]] ''[[At Last the 1948 Show]]'' ([[Associated-Rediffusion\|Rediffusion]], 1967).

	==Background and early career==		==Background and early career==

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{{Short description|Scottish actress and dancer}}
{{Distinguish|Amy Macdonald}}

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| birth_name = Aimi Anne Sheila MacDonald
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1942|2|27}}
| birth_place = [[Glasgow]], [[Scotland]], [[UK]]
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| other_names = Aimi McDonald<ref>{{IMDb name|0531597}}</ref>
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| spouse = Jimmy Mulidore (? – ?) (divorced; 1 child)
| children = Lisa Mulidore<ref name=Benny>[http://www.runstop.de/who04.html Benny's Place – Who's Who of Hill's Angels – Page 4]</ref>
| known_for = ''[[At Last the 1948 Show]]''
| occupation = Actress, dancer
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'''Aimi MacDonald''' (born 27 February 1942) is a Scottish actress and dancer. She is best known for her role as ''"The Lovely" Aimi MacDonald'' in the television [[sketch comedy show]] ''[[At Last the 1948 Show]]'' ([[Associated Rediffusion|Rediffusion]], 1967).

==Background and early career==
Aimi MacDonald's [[Scottish people|Scottish]] father was a [[Doctor (title)|doctor]]. Her mother was English. She is the youngest of three daughters.<ref name="The Oldie, March 2007">''The Oldie'', March 2007</ref>

MacDonald went to [[Ballet schools|ballet school]]<ref name="The Oldie, March 2007"/> and entered showbusiness at 14. She was a dancer, working during her teens in Great Britain and the United States.<ref name="The Mating Game 1972">Theatreprint programme for ''The Mating Game'' (Apollo Theatre, London, 1972)</ref> While performing with a troupe in [[Las Vegas, Nevada|Las Vegas]], she met [[Elvis Presley]] at the [[Silver Slipper]] casino, remarking years later that he would "[[jam sessions|jam]] with the rest of them" and on his ability as a [[jazz guitarist]].<ref name="The Oldie, March 2007"/>

MacDonald married an American musician at 17 and they had a daughter named Lisa.<ref name=Benny /><ref name="The Oldie, March 2007"/> The marriage did not last and MacDonald returned to Great Britain, appearing during the 1960s in musicals in [[London's West End]] and in [[cabaret]].<ref name="The Mating Game 1972"/> She played in the first London production of the musical ''[[The Boys from Syracuse]]'' (Jewel Courtesan) in 1963 at the [[Theatre Royal, Drury Lane]], alongside [[Bob Monkhouse]] and [[Ronnie Corbett]].<ref>London Cast Recording. The Boys from Syracuse. Decca Record Company Limited, 1963. LK 4564.</ref> She recalled that she had to keep working to support herself and her daughter and that this was sometimes a struggle.<ref name="The Oldie, March 2007"/>

== ''At Last the 1948 Show'' ==
MacDonald came to national attention in ''[[At Last the 1948 Show]]'', for which she had been spotted by [[David Frost]].<ref name="The Oldie, March 2007"/> At the opening and closing of the show and between longer sketches, she would present short pieces on the theme of her loveliness. Her excitable, squeaky voice was likened to "a choir of frantic mice".<ref>See ''The Oldie'', March 2007</ref> Forty years later, a journalist referred to MacDonald as "bubble-and-squeak Aimi".<ref>William Hall in ''The Oldie'', March 2007</ref> As of 22 July 2022, she and [[John Cleese]] are the only living cast members of the show.

==Other work==
MacDonald's acting on television included ''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Avengers]]'', ''[[The Saint (TV series)|The Saint]]'', ''[[Man at the Top (TV series)|Man at the Top]]'', ''[[Sez Les]]'', ''[[Shirley's World]]'', ''[[Dixon of Dock Green]]'' and ''[[Rentaghost]]''. Her appearance in ''The Avengers'' ("Return of the Cybernauts", 1967) was as a [[miniskirt|mini-skirted]] secretary, similar to her ''48 Show'' role, whose [[tights]] were laddered as she was swept aside by a large [[robot]]. MacDonald played Wendy in the film ''[[Take a Girl Like You (film)|Take a Girl Like You]]'' (1970), based on the novel by [[Kingsley Amis]], and also appeared in the [[David Niven]] horror comedy ''[[Vampira (1974 film)|Vampira]]'' (1974), the film version of the TV series ''[[Man About the House (film)|Man About the House]]'' (1974), the sex comedy ''[[Keep It Up Downstairs]]'' (1976), and the [[James Bond]] spoof ''[[No. 1 of the Secret Service]]'' (1977). Stage roles in London included Susie in [[George Gershwin|George and Ira Gershwin]]'s ''[[Lady Be Good (musical)|Lady Be Good]]'' with [[Lionel Blair]] in 1968 and Honey Tooks in [[Robin Hawdon]]'s farce, ''The Mating Game'' (1972).
She also recorded a single, "Thoroughly Modern Millie" produced by Radio London Programme Director Ben Toney, which was released on Polydor in 1967 but it was not a hit.

In 1969, MacDonald and [[Ronnie Carroll]] recorded an album based on [[Burt Bacharach]] and [[Hal David]]'s stage show musical ''[[Promises, Promises (musical)|Promises, Promises]]'', and the following year she released a solo album "What's Love All About", produced by [[Johnny Franz]]. She also appeared on [[David Nixon (magician)|David Nixon]]'s ''Magic Show'' programme, usually in a comical sense, performing magic tricks incorrectly or being the victim in the "disappearing lady" illusion.

Between 1968 and 1983, MacDonald appeared occasionally on the [[BBC]] radio panel game ''[[Just a Minute]]''. As the only female panellist of four, she was subjected to the jibes of comedian [[Kenneth Williams]] that women should not be permitted to take part.<ref>[http://deanbedford.tripod.com/jam138.html Welcome to "Just a Minute"]</ref> On 10 March 1977, she appeared in BBC's television variety show ''[[The Good Old Days (British TV series)|The Good Old Days]]''.

==Press stories and later life==
MacDonald's private life attracted interest in the press. She shared a mansion in [[Ascot, Berkshire]] with [[racehorse]] owner Geoffrey Edwards, remarking that she was "living in sin... it's lovely. I shall probably live in sin for the rest of my life".<ref>Quoted in ''The Oldie'', March 2007</ref> She owned a racehorse named Weep No More. Her name was linked to politicians, including [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] Minister [[John Stonehouse]] (whose secretary and mistress Sheila Buckley named her as one of his lovers) and future [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] Prime Minister [[John Major]]. MacDonald has denied relationships with either man, or ever having met "poor John Major", though she did recall Stonehouse as "tall, dark" and "very attractive to women".<ref name="The Oldie, March 2007"/> In her sixties, she observed that "everyone gets hysterical if I say hello to a politician today... It's very annoying to be branded a scarlet woman".<ref name="The Oldie, March 2007"/>

MacDonald opened a lingerie shop in west London but sold it during a downturn in the economy in the early 1990s.<ref name="The Oldie, March 2007"/> She returned to showbusiness, taking part in a few nationwide tours, including a 2003 production of [[Cliff Richard]]'s musical film ''[[Summer Holiday (1963 film)|Summer Holiday]]'' starring [[Darren Day]], in which she played the mother of former [[Hear'Say]] singer [[Suzanne Shaw]]. Reviewers referred to MacDonald as a "sixties starlet".<ref>See, for example, {{cite web |url=http://archive.southwalesargus.co.uk/2003/7/25/66548.html |title=Get set for a summer holiday (From South Wales Argus) |accessdate=22 February 2007 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120206153042/http://archive.southwalesargus.co.uk/2003/7/25/66548.html |archivedate=6 February 2012 }}</ref>

In 2007, MacDonald visited [[Uganda]] as an ambassador for the London charity [[African Revival]]. The purpose was to link schools in [[Gulu]] and the United Kingdom.<ref>''CSMA Motoring & Leisure'', September 2007</ref> She last appeared in a guest role in an episode of the TV series "The Third Age" entitled "The Grand Illusion" in 2013.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb name|0531597}}
* MacDonald's daughter {{IMDb name|0611871|Lisa Mulidore}}

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[[Category:Scottish musical theatre actresses]]
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