Originally Posted by
westgrandboulevard
I was wondering how Jean Alexander was doing only just a few days ago.
Jean's own natural speaking voice and manner was so different from her portrayal of the gossip and busybody, Hilda Ogden.
When her screen husband Stanley died [[following the death of actor Bernard Youens) Jean told the producers that she didn't cry very easily, and would find it difficult to display any grief on camera.
However, the resulting scene where Hilda is sorting Stanley's personal effects is one of the most quietly simple, moving scenes ever shown on 'Coronation Street'.
Nearly half the UK population watched as Hilda left Coronation Street at Christmas 1987, one of the highest viewing audiences in British television history.
Jean Alexander's ability to inhabit the persona of Hilda Ogden was acting of a very high order.
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