The celebrity body count continues to rise - Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, Billy Mays, Karl Malden, Gale Storm, Fred Travaleno - but only one death this past week really socked me in the gut.Mollie Sugden - most well known for playing the unbelievably "colorful" Mrs. Slocombe in the Brit Com "Are you being served?"
- has died at the age of 86.I can remember discovering this show on PBS as a teenager and howling my ass off. And Mollie's foil, a Mr. Wilberforce Clayborne Humphries , was probably the first gay man I ever saw on television.
I own most of the series on DVD now and I watch it when I am cleaning, ironing or just need some mindless laughs.
Mollie was a consummate comedienne and we are all better for having known her. She entertained generations.
Godspeed, Mollie.
A tribute
Grace and Favour: "Rotten bitch"
("Are you being served again" in US)
2 comments:
She was a genius. I think the only one left now from the cast is "Jug Ears". Wendy who played Shirley Brahms died in February. So happy they worked together, they gave so many of us so much joy. Funny thing is I posted a "pussy" joke earlier without knowing she'd died. I'm glad you mentioned it.
Hugz
I remember it well too screening here in the 70's.
7th floor....going up!
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