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Article: WEEKEND TV: My Finney valentine!; Sue Johnston reveals her life-long adoration of her new co-star Albert Finney.(Features)
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- Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
- Article date:
- October 27, 2001
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Byline: TV Writer MARION McMULLEN
SHE was just a starry-eyed schoolgirl when Sue Johnston first set eyes on Albert Finney on the Warwickshire stage.
But the handsome young actor made such an impression that she and her swooning friends became fans in an instant.
"I was about 16," remembers the blushing Royle Family star, "and I went with the school to a matinee at Stratford to see Olivier in Coriolanus. But he'd broken his leg so they announced, to groans ...