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* RealSongThemeTune: The film opens and closes to ''Young Love'' by Frankie Avalon.
* TitleDrop: The title comes from a line near the start of the film, where Frankie uses Dennis as a meat shield after a gunman enters the bar Dennis works in.

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* RealSongThemeTune: The film opens and closes to ''Young Love'' by Frankie Avalon.
* TitleDrop: The title comes from a line near the start of the film, where Frankie uses Dennis as a meat shield after a gunman enters the bar Dennis works in.
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''Frankie Howerd: Rather You Than Me'' is a one-off television {{Biopic}} drama about the career of comedian Frankie Howerd and his relationship with his partner Dennis Heymer. The programme was part of the BBC's ''Curse of Comedy'' season, which was a series of individual dramas about the turbulent private lives of famous British comedians.

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''Frankie Howerd: Rather You Than Me'' is a one-off television {{Biopic}} drama about the career of comedian Frankie Howerd Creator/FrankieHowerd and his relationship with his partner Dennis Heymer. The programme was part of the BBC's ''Curse of Comedy'' season, which was a series of individual dramas about the turbulent private lives of famous British comedians.
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* FagHag: Jane, who says she finds the experience of being a hag "quite agreeable" when Frankie asks her if she's worried that being his beard

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* FagHag: Jane, who says she finds the experience of being a hag "quite agreeable" when Frankie asks her if she's worried that being his beardbeard has damaged her prospects.
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''Frankie Howerd: Rather You Than Me'' is a one-off television {{Biopic}} drama about the career of comedian Frankie Howerd and his relationship with his parter Dennis Heymer. The programme was part of the BBC's ''Curse of Comedy'' season, which was a series of individual dramas about the turbulent private lives of famous British comedians.

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''Frankie Howerd: Rather You Than Me'' is a one-off television {{Biopic}} drama about the career of comedian Frankie Howerd and his relationship with his parter partner Dennis Heymer. The programme was part of the BBC's ''Curse of Comedy'' season, which was a series of individual dramas about the turbulent private lives of famous British comedians.
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* BlitzEvacuee: Dennis was evacuated as a kid, during which time he thought his mother had died. It wasn't until after the war that he found out that she was alive and that she wanted him to believe she was dead because she ran off with another man.

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* BlitzEvacuee: BlitzEvacuees: Dennis was evacuated as a kid, during which time he thought his mother had died. It wasn't until after the war that he found out that she was alive and that she wanted him to believe she was dead because she ran off with another man.
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''Frankie Howerd: Rather You Than Me'' is a one-off television {{Biopic}} drama about the career of comedian Frankie Howerd and his relationship with his parter Dennis Heymer. The programme was part of the BBC's ''Curse of Comedy'' season, which was a series of individual dramas about the turbulent private lives of famous British comedians.

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* BlitzEvacuee: Dennis was evacuated as a kid, during which time he thought his mother had died. It wasn't until after the war that he found out that she was alive and that she wanted him to believe she was dead because she ran off with another man.
* DomesticAbuse:
* FagHag: Jane, who says she finds the experience of being a hag "quite agreeable" when Frankie asks her if she's worried that being his beard
* {{Gayngst}}: Frankie is unable to separate being gay from the abuse he suffered at the hands of his father.
* LoveAtFirstSight: The moment when Dennis and Frankie first catch sight of each other is overplayed with Frankie telling a joke about a young gamekeeper seeing a beautiful girl in the woods.
* MommasBoy: Frankie.
* RealSongThemeTune: The film opens and closes to ''Young Love'' by Frankie Avalon.
* TitleDrop: The title comes from a line near the start of the film, where Frankie uses Dennis as a meat shield after a gunman enters the bar Dennis works in.

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