Carry On Nurse the most successful "Carry On" film with an estimated ten million admissions. It made an estimated $1.5 million in the US. Carry On Nurse Carry On Nurse is the second in the series of "Carry On" films with 31 entries. It was released in 1959, premiering in London at the Carlton Cinema on 5 March 1959 before going on general release nationwide from 23 March 1959. Of the regular team, it featured Joan Sims (in her "Carry On" film debut), Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Connor and Charles Hawtrey, with Hattie Jacques and Leslie Phillips. The film was written by Norman Hudis
Kenneth Williams for 1966 to 1971 and, finally, A4-sized executive desk diaries for 1972 to 1988. He claimed that writing in his diaries eased the loneliness he often felt. In April 2008 Radio 4 broadcast the two-part "The Pain of Laughter: The Last Days of Kenneth Williams". The programmes were researched and written by Wes Butters and narrated by Rob Brydon. Butters purchased a collection of Williams's personal belongings from the actor's godson, Robert Chidell, to whom they had been bequeathed. The first of the programmes said that, towards the end of his life and struggling with depression and ill health, Williams