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kimmie
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Comedy star Mollie Sugden has died
this is sad.
| Quote: | Comedy actress Mollie Sugden has died in hospital following a long illness, aged 86.
The Yorkshire-born star of popular sitcom Are You Being Served? died in the Royal Surrey County Hospital in Guildford on Wednesday afternoon.
Frank Thornton, who played Captain Peacock in the BBC comedy, said: "Mollie, of course, was an excellent comedian. She was a jolly good actress."
Of their on-screen chemistry in the long-running BBC sitcom, he said: "You can't play comedy if you don't get on. It was a wonderful team."
Sugden's twin sons, Robin and Simon Moore, were at her bedside, according to her agent Joan Reddin.
Ms Reddin began representing Sugden in the 1960s before she became famous with her role as Mrs Slocombe.
She said: "She was a lovely, lovely person."
Sugden, who lived in Surrey, was married to fellow actor William Moore. She never fully recovered from his death nine years ago, said Ms Reddin. "They were very much in love," she said. "She started to go down when he died."
Born in Keighley, West Yorkshire, in July 1922, Sugden trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Her early career was spent in repertory theatre, where in Swansea in 1956, she met Moore. They married two years later, when she was 35 and he was 39. Their sons were born six years later.
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Forget-me-Not
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Mollie SugdenThat's sad, she's one of those favourites from your childhood.
Talking of which, (sorry Mollie) a retro tv thread would be good. As in who loved Rentaghost?
Beth
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wildgarlic
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Yeah Mrs Slocombe and her pussy having been getting a lot of talk on Facebook and the likes.
She was a star.
I think a retro tv thread would be great too. Most of the old programmes were so much better than some of the new ones.
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Julie
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I remember Mollie Sugden as Nerys Hughes' mother in 'the Liver birds' and as 'Just William's' mother.
Her characters were very similar in all of those well known series - not unlike Hyacinth B. The blue rinse brigade 
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misteralz
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| wildgarlic wrote: | | Everything from back then is better than everything now. |
Edited for accuracy. 
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wildgarlic
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Actually that isn't what I said - please do not edit my posts.
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IainC
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Even if it makes it look more accurate? 
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Julie
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It isn't actually, 'most of' does not translate to 'everything' in any language. There was nothing grammatically wrong with the way WG put it - the self appointed speech policeman is clearly no expert.
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misteralz
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I guess all of you apart from Iain missed the fact that I wasn't being serious? Although to be fair, there's been nothing original since 1994 at the very latest...
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Sassinak
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I don't know about that.When I think back to some of the absolute cr*p that was copulsary viewing when I was growing up - I shudder !!! lol
But I suppose our viewing was very much dictated by mum, who right up to her death last year, would watch every soap made, do matter how dire lol Eastenders, Corrie, Brookside, Dallas, Die-nasty, she watched them all.
I had to get married and get my own TV before I saw my first documentary lol
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Lord_Azrael
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Re: Mollie Sugden | Forget-me-Not wrote: | | a retro tv thread would be good. As in who loved Rentaghost? |
Me! I've got the first series on DVD, but it's the later ones I remember with Dobbin in!
Yes, Mollie's death is sad, I never saw the original run of Are you being served as I wasn't born until 1976 and we only got our first TV in 1981 when we came back to England, but I watched the repeats many times over the years.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who appreciates the older comedies on TV, I find many of the newer offerings very tasteless and with very little humour.
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Julie
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It's that seaside postcard humour a lot of the time, isn't it? I think that's why the carry on films were so popular, it's a very British kind of humour.
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Maria
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Hee hee - rentaghost. Now, with a memory like mine not much 'telly' stuff has managed to survive....but do i remember a theatre horse, and a man jingling a jesters wandy-thingymibob. Ho ho, did they hold their noses when they wanted to transport. Or have i because befuddled.
MrAlz - me thinks i saw that you weren't serious, but oh my, you're a brave soul even joking about editing WGadmin's post.  I'd rather chew off my my own toes.
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Julie
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Trouble is MrAlz, you've corrected so many people, so so often, in the past on their spelling/grammar, that it was a natural assumption to make.
You're a funny guy but don't keep moving the goalposts and you won't be misjudged
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