VARIETY ANNOUNCES UPCOMING DANNY LA RUE FILM!

VARIETY:  LONDON -- Leopardrama, the fiction arm of London and New York-based Argonon, is bolstering its film slate with a new title about Brit female impersonator and entertainer Danny La Rue.

Pic, which has development funding from the British Film Institute, is being penned by Martyn Hesford, who wrote the BBC's "Fantabulosa," based on the life of British comic actor Kenneth Williams, and an adaptation of "The Old Curiosity Shop" for commercial network ITV.

Leopardrama is talking to helmers and thesps.

La Rue made a career out of his comic vaudeville drag act, rising to fame in the 1960s through celebrity impersonations of Elizabeth Taylor and Zsa Zsa Gabor. He hosted his own TV series, broke records with his weekly Saturday night live show from the London Palladium and featured in theater productions in London's West End such as "Oh, What a Lovely War" and "Hello, Dolly."

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