Posted on 07/01/2009 6:57:53 PM PDT by JoeDetweiler
"Comedy actress Mollie Sugden, best known for her role as Betty Slocombe in the hit TV series Are You Being Served?, has died in hospital at the age of 86 after a long illness.
The popular television star shot to fame in the 1970s comedy show packed with double-entendres, as the panto-like character of Mrs Slocombe"
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
One of my all-time favourite TV programmes. Mrs. Slocombe’s malapropisms made many a scene a laugh riot.
Those Brit comedies were the only reason I ever watched PBS, other than some of the nature shows.
Interesting that her death came so soon after the younger woman who played her co-worker in that show.
Kirk Douglas is about all that's left. Except Ernest Borgnine but he seems to be healthy as a horse.
Olivia de Havilland is alive and celebrated her 93rd birthday today. She was Melanie in Gone With The Wind and Maid Marian in Robin Hood.
Her sister Joan Fontaine is still alive too.
And my namesake, Deanna Durbin, is still going strong.
“The guy from “Streets of San Francisco” died earlier today too.”
Karl Malden was an Oscar winning actor from the old Hollywood studio days. He was in Streetcar Named Desire with Vivien Leigh and On The Waterfront with Marlon Brando. He was well known decades before “Streets of San Francisco”.
#3 in terms of celebrities that died today was former Lightweight Boxing champ and Managua, Nicaragua mayor Alexis Arguello.
Celebrity rapture.
Please no one talk about her pussy...
You wrote:
“Dang. Mrs. Slocombe is dead.”
Is it just me or has the past month just been murder on TV stars?
Has anyone checked on Liz Taylor?
You wish is my command: its the very last part of the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1hUFAu5ACs
Indeed. It is getting to the point that one asks, “Who is next?”
I am so sorry to hear it. She was such a funny lady. Many cast members from that show are deceased now. Though “Capt. Peacock” still lives, at age 88.
So many of these Britcoms were funny and intelligently written, even if a lot of the lines were quite risque. I prefer them to most of the American sitcoms of today. Though it’s hard to tell as I watch so few of them.
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45 posted on Wednesday, July 01, 2009 12:41:31 PM by Jim Robinson (Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/jimrobfr)
Given the fact that we have become such a media-based culture over the past 60 years, there will now be an increasingly frequent parade of well-known faces who will be in the news upon their death.
50 years ago, the death of a British comedic actress would have never been noticed here across the pond.
I agree with you entirely. Recently I stumbled across some British sitcom scenes on Youtube that date to may youth - I mean I was VERY young!
Shows like the Doctor series. Here is a classic scene from the first doctor series called Doctor in the House (1972): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13Xo9HkzmUQ
The guy who played Loftus was a comic genius! Sadly, the fouth doctor is dead (1999). Another actor who played a doctor in one of the series also died - Barry Evans. He stopped getting work, was forced to take up driving a mini-cab to make a living and then died under very suspicious circumstances. Charges were dropped against the man originally accused of stealing his cab. This brought back memories of things I had long forgotten!
And then there’s the Likely Lads: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12sF0cZD_3A
There are so many other great old British comedies.
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