Honours, Memorials and Books
Holloway was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1960 New Year's Honours list for his services to entertainment. In 1978 he was honoured with a special award by the Variety Club of Great Britain.
There is a memorial plaque dedicated to Holloway in St. Paul's, Covent Garden, London, which is known as "the actors' church". The plaque is next to a memorial to Gracie Fields. In 2009 English Heritage unveiled a Blue plaque at 25 Albany Road, Manor Park, Essex, the house in which Holloway was born in 1890. There is a building named after him at 2 Coolfin Road, Newham, London, called Stanley Holloway Court.
Holloway entitled his 1967 autobiography Wiv a Little Bit of Luck after the song he performed in My Fair Lady. The book was ghost-written by the writer and director Dick Richards and was published in 1967. He oversaw the publication of three volumes of the monologues by or associated with him: Monologues (1979); The Stanley Holloway Monologues (1980); and More Monologues (1981).
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