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She was early and paced nervously up and down the cutlery department waiting for Maurice to appear and knowing that the stares she was getting from customers were the stares of recognition for a well-known actress, and from assistants wondering when she would make up her mind what she wanted to buy.

On the dot of five, Maurice arrived. Pauline agreed, but first she had to buy the cutlery she had told John she needed and in her nervousness left her bank card on the counter. Instead she phoned Pauline the next day and asked her if she would like it sent on. In that brief meeting, Pauline had spelt out the difficulty we were going to have in springing the surprise on John.

The day we had earmarked he would be filming most of the day at Pinewood Studios before heading straight for the West End and the evening performance. We thought of surprising him in the dramatic setting of the famous film studio in the village of Iver, Buckinghamshire.

But we abandoned that because it would mean too long a wait between the moment of surprise and the actual show. A wait we always like to keep to a minimum. We then thought of surprising him on stage at the theatre. But that would be too late. We had to plump for the middle of the road. And road was the operative word. The busy A40 en route from Pinewood to London. He made something of a comeback in the film, " Calendar Girls ".

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On the train he meets an American prisoner, Packy, who's obsessed with escaping. Brooks tries to temper Packy and reminds him that escaped prisoners are shot if recaptured. Packy is insistent despite Brooks' warnings. Brooks is assigned to care for Lucy the elephant. The German caretaker in charge of Lucy is asked to train Brooks in his new job.

At first, Brooks hates the assignment, considering the large amount of animal waste to be cleaned daily. However, he eventually becomes attached to Lucy the elephant. After a devastating bombing raid that kills some of the animals and zoo staff it is decided to evacuate the surviving animals.

Lucy is scheduled to be transported by train to Innsbruck, Austria. On the departure day, the train is commandeered by a moody SS Colonel, for his troops. The colonel jokes that Brooks can walk the elephant all the way to Austria, if he wishes. The joke gives Brooks the idea of walking the elephant to Austria, with two armed guards and a Polish maid as cook.

The Munich Zoo director, worried for Lucy's safety, agrees to evacuate her and send her to Austria on foot. Two soldiers provide the armed guard. One is Willy,a friendly Austrian soldier, and the other is Kurt,a brutal German soldier who gets drunk often, insults everyone and threatens to shoot the elephant. The group leaves Munich on a sunny day but the voyage to Austria isn't a promenade in the park when they start running into trouble. In , she released her autobiography, titled Letter to Louise.