Coral Browne was famous throughout the theatre world for her raunchy wit and her lightning fast ability to give a pithy and usually hilarious reply. Any additions to my already good collection would be appreciated.

hi angel - sorry i havent any coral browne stories to further yr collection - but i would really appreciate it if i could share the ones u already have??

Commenting on the affair between fellow actors Sir Godfrey Tearle and Jill Bennett she said: "I could never see what he saw in her, until I watched her eat corn-on-the-cob at Le Caprice!"

When the amputee gossip writer Radie Harris threatened to sue her, Coral's retort was "She hasn't a leg to stand on!"

When an effemanite optician and fan refused to take any money from her for repairing her glasses she remarked to her friend as she was departing the shop: "Silly c**t, I was going to give him enough to buy himself a woman - not that he'd know what to do with her!"

Sorry, you'll have to wait till the book's released. See todays's Media Release posted on the site.

Alan Bennett's Diaries have some wonderful Coral stories. One involved her coming out of a church in central London when one of her friends spotted her and launched into a gossipy story. Coral's unholy response was "Not now! Can't you see I'm in a fucking state of grace?"

Classic Coral Browne. I'm a long time fan of Joan Rivers and only found out she was Coral Browne's best friend about 2 years ago, after I read Victoria Price's book for research for a Vincent Price website. They're a perfect match for each other. It follows that I'd become a Coral Browne fan.

This isn't a very active site but it should become one after release of my book "Another Coral Browne Story" to be published in June 2006 by New Holland (Aust) Pty Limited. I am hoping for an almost simultaneous launch of the book in the U.K. Barbara Angell.

I'm happy to hear that your book will be out soon and am looking forward to reading it. It will help to send more traffic here. It seems the ceiling had been reached a while ago for the number of visitors to this site. coralbrowne.com has been number 1 on Google and Yahoo for the search term "Coral Browne" for almost a year. I checked the web stats and the average monthly number of unique visits is about 1000 for the past year. Some of the most popular referrers are listed below for November.

Rank- Referrer- Visits

1 - images.google.com/imgres - 34
2 - www.google.com/search - 24
3 - search.msn.com/results.aspx - 20
4 - images.search.yahoo.com/ -17
5 -search.yahoo.com/search - 14
6 -216.131.78.238/aquafans/ - 10
7 -images.google.ca/imgres -10
8 - images.google.co.uk/imgres - 10
9 - www.google.co.uk/search -10
10 - images.google.de/imgres - 9

So, you see, there was only 24 people on Google and 14 people on Yahoo searching for Coral Browne last month.