Seventeen-year-old Liverpudlian Freda Kelly was an ordinary girl who worked in an office typing pool and spent her off-hours hanging out at the Cavern—which she describes as smelling like disinfectant (the toilets overflowed), rotten fruit (it was near a wholesaler), and sweat—and listening to bands. She especially loved the Beatles. In 1963, Brian Epstein, the Beatles’s manager, chose her to work as the Beatles’s personal secretary and to run their fan club because she took the fans seriously and kept the band’s secrets with absolute integrity. Freda never wrote a book or did interviews after the Fab Four broke up, and she has lived a modest life with the same down-to-earth sincerity with which she performed the world’s greatest job. In Good Ol’ Freda she tells “one of the last true stories of the Beatles you’ll ever hear.” (The film’s soundtrack includes four vintage Beatles recordings.)  LB