In Popular Culture
In Howard Spring's 1940 novel Fame is the Spur, later made into a 1947 film and a 1982 TV adaptation, the lead character Hamer Shawcross closely resembles MacDonald; it is the story of a working-class Labour politician seduced by power into betraying his class,.
In Graham Greene's 1934 novel It's a Battlefield, Ramsay MacDonald's name repeatedly appears in Newspapers and on billboards in reference to a visit to Lossiemouth. He is also mentioned and featured in Noël Coward's film, "This Happy Breed".
In the twenty-fourth episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus, original footage of Ramsay MacDonald entering No. 10 Downing Street is followed by a black and white film of MacDonald (played by Michael Palin) doing a striptease, revealing garter belt, suspender and stockings.
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