“They were the untouchable stars with a magical air who sprang from the silver screen long before the days of TV, DVD and videos, and often their private lives had as much mystique and tragedy as the scripts of the films in which they starred,” says Graham Smith in his latest ‘Down Memory Lane’ feature for Third Age.

“With the death in 2008 of Patricia Kirkwood in a West Yorkshire nursing home the curtain came down on probably the last great survivor of the golden age of pre-war British musical stars.”

Read Graham’s complete feature, Stars are Dimming from a Golden Age of Music.