My Favourite Actresses And Female Stars Of The Seventies

Hi guys, Welcome back to Big Blog Theory, I hope you’re all doing well. Today I’m going to be talking about some of my favourite actresses and female sitcom stars of the seventies. A little while ago, I did a post about some of my favourite actors and male sitcom stars. I didn’t have enough time to talk about all of them.

I’ve got way more favourite male actors of the seventies who also deserve a mention, like Paul Eddington, Richard Briers, Brian Murphy, Norman Eshley, Tony an holt, Michael Crawford, Peter Bowles. So many great actors and male sitcom stars. This post, I’m going to be discussing some of my favourite actresses and female sitcom stars.

The first actress from the seventies that I would love to start with is Yootha Joyce. She has starred in quite a few things here and there, but she was mostly known for starring in a TV show called George And Mildred alongside Brian Murphy. I absolutely love George And Mildred, it’s such a good show. I’ve been binge watching this show for the last couple of months, watching episode after episode, I’ve literally been having this show on a loop, it’s so good and so much fun to watch. They’re just the funniest and they’re so good on screen together. I’ve had the pleasure of discovering this wonderful show and watching it and now I’m obsessed with it. George and Mildred are an ill matched couple and Mildred wants love and affection and George doesn’t really give a crap or he does it’s just a facade. Every single episode, she’s like this close to almost murdering him, ha ha. This show is just the best, George and Mildred was the spin off to Man About The House. Man About The House got such a positive response and it was a big success when it came out and the people who watched the show loved George and Mildred and they loved the way they interacted with one another, they decided to give them their own show. Those two shows are just absolutely brilliant. George and Mildred is just great, cosy TV, it’s very lovely and I can’t get enough of it. An absolute well loved classic. The schemes they get up to, their snobbish neighbours that live next door to them. Their son Tristram is just hilarious, I always enjoy watching him and I look forward to seeing what he’ll come out with next. He’s so unfiltered and adorable and bright for his age, curious, always asking questions about things he shouldn’t know about. The actor who plays him must be about 50 something now, it’s crazy. But yeah, I love this show, it just puts a huge smile on my face. I love everyone who’s involved in the show, Brian Murphy who played George, Obviously Yootha who played Mildred, Roy Kinear who played Gerry, the con man who’s always getting them into all sorts of messes, hilarious, especially the scene with the shower saying it’s going to be like the shower scene in Psycho, I’m laughing now just thinking about it. Their next door neighbours, Jeffery Four mile was really awful but really funny, I love Norman’s work.

I just love her, she was absolutely amazing, a terrific actress. She slayed her role as Mildred Roper, I just love her. I’m literally watching an episode of George and Mildred right now as I write this post, it’s probably not a very good idea because I’ll just be watching it for hours and I’ll forget about this post. I’ve discovered some of her other work. She’s been in a few episodes of Step toe and son, she was in this film that came out in the sixties called Sparrows can’t sing with Dame Barbra Windsor which is another old film I love. So many famous British comics in that film. Literally everyone is in it. That’s another great old film that I recommend. She was just incredible and there’s not one bad thing to say about her. Sadly, she’s no longer with us, I think she died in the early eighties. A great loss to us all and to British TV. Such a shame, I really loved her, she just shined in everything she was in even if it was just a small role.

I have read David Barry’s memoir. David Barry played the role of Frankie Abbot in the TV series Please Sir. I have read his book talking about his time working on the show a few months ago and I really loved it. Obviously me being a huge fan of Please Sir.I found it a very interesting, eye opening read. He talked about his experiences of meeting Yootha whilst filming the George and Mildred spin off film. It was really emotional for me to read and it brought a tear to my eye. There was this part where she would tell him about her happy place, her dream place where she always dreamed of going to, find her place in Devon and settle down happily but she never did. And then he wrote something along the lines of ” I hope she found her dream place in the end” I always just loved that. Such a beautiful memoir about a dear friend. She was just an amazing, lovely, incredible, inspiring woman. I recommend you to check her out if you love stuff like this.

The next actress I would like to talk about is Paula Wilcox. She was known for starring in a number of TV programmes and stuff here and there. I know her from The Lovers and Man About The House. Two great shows and she was amazing in both of them, I’ve always really liked her. Always lit up the room with her wonderful personality and she was gorgeous and she was a wonderful actress. I recommend you to check her out. The Lovers was a great show, I adore The Lovers. It’s a sitcom about this couple living in Manchester, she was in this show starring alongside Richard Beckinsale, both incredible and I loved their chemistry on screen, I love Richard even more now that I’ve discovered his really old poetry book full of lovely beautiful tributes that people made about him and I just love it, I’m obsessed with it, so beautiful.

The next actress I love is Hattie Jacques. Hattie was known for starring in the Carry on films. I’ve always loved her in the Carry On films. She has been in other films and TV programmes here and there. Starring in two Norman Wisdom films. Follow A Star in which she played the role of Norman’s opera teacher giving him elocution lessons, those scenes crack me up. And another being The Square Peg which is another fave Norman Wisdom film. She was great in both. I also know her from The TV show Sykes which she did with Eric Sykes in the mid to late seventies. Brilliant show, I love Sykes, it’s so funny. You had such a great cast, you had Derrick Gyler, Richard Wattis, Joan Sims and so many other great actors and actresses. Sykes will always be my favourite show. Hattie and Eric are siblings in the show and they got up to all sorts of schemes and havoc. Great show, one of my favourites. Peter Sellers also made an appearance in one of the episodes too. He played one of Eric’s old school friends who’s a criminal and he’s on the run and he turns up at their house and tries to get Hattie to marry him. It was so funny, I love that episode. I was not expecting him to turn up. I’ve always really liked Hattie, obviously a lot more now because I’ve been watching all of the carry on films, I really adore her. Sadly no longer with us but she’ll always be remembered for her amazing work in film and television

The next actress is Penelope Keith. I really adore Penelope, she was just awesome. There were times when she didn’t even need to say a word, her facial expressions said it all. The Good Life was a show I got into two months ago, I really enjoyed watching this show. It was a slice of the seventies, Tom and Barbra played by Richard Briers and Felicity Kendall. Both take it upon themselves to run a farm in their back garden and continue to drive their neighbours Margot and Jerri mad. I loved Jerri, he just made every scene he was in just hilarious. My favourite character in The Good Life, he always made me laugh every time. Paul Eddington was a brilliant actor, I also loved him in Yes Minister a few years later. Penelope was just fantastic in everything she was in, I also loved her in To The Manor Born which is another brilliant show. Both great TV programmes, very lovely and easy to watch. Penelope was a gem of an actress and I was very fortunate to discover her at my age. One of my favourite comedy actresses, I’m sure there’s a lot more stuff she’s starred in that I’ve not discovered yet and that’s what I’m most excited about. It’s always fun going down some weird rabbit hole and discovering something you’ve never seen before and then turning around and saying ” Oh yeah, that’s my new favourite film or that’s my new favourite TV show. And then you ask yourself why you haven’t watched this years ago. I do this all the time. A great time for comedy and I know there’s been a lot of dross as well but we remember the good stuff. The good outweighs the bad every time in my opinion. So many great actors, so many great actresses, so many great writers, directors, comics that deserved to be remembered for their amazing contribution to the industry. Whether it’s film or television. Some great talent. British humour can’t be taught, you either have it or you don’t, these guys had it.

Two of my favourite things, Film and television. I find that field very fascinating and I love new discoveries whether it’s an old TV show from the sixties, seventies and eighties and falling in love with it, it’s so much fun. All these films and TV shows have shaped me into the person I am today and they’ve shaped my sense of humour. I love that I get to educate you guys on my classic TV and film knowledge even if you don’t have any interest in it. I do hope I’m not boring you at all, I do hope this information and my blog posts will become useful and help you in some way to learn and find out more about the seventies and what makes me tick. And if not then I’m still grateful for you stopping by and visiting my blog. Okay, carrying on.

Another actress from film / TV I love is Diane Keen. I love Diane Keen, she was an incredible actress. She was in a bunch of different things here and there. One show I know her from is The Cuckoo Waltz which I also really liked, partly because a really young Lewis Collins was in it, he was so cute and so funny, I loved his character. I’m sure I mentioned this show a few times on my blog before. It’s a very lovely TV show, very gentle, very seventies. I remember they had  deck chairs in their living room. It was a pretty good series. It’s about this couple who take in a lodger who is played by Lewis Collins.  they’re showing re runs on this channel we have over here called Rewind TV and they show a lot of classic TV and films like Thriller, Hammer House Of Horror, so much great stuff. I think Diane is incredible and she’s a very good actress and she’s so beautiful, I always really liked her. I would love to discover some of her other work. I recommend you check her out.

Pauline Collins is another favourite classic actress I love. I love a lot of her work on the telly. She was in Upstairs Downstairs, she played the role of Sarah, she was so funny, cheeky and smart and I just loved watching her get up to all sorts of havoc as one of the house maids in the household. There was an episode of Tales Of The Unexpected that I love starring alongside Joan Collins in the episode ” A girl can’t always have everything” I loved that one, they were both fantastic and the ending took me by surprise. Amazing bit of television with two wonderful actresses. Pauline is just an amazing, classy lady, very East End, I loved watching her in everything she was in, she’s a wonderful actress.

Another actress I love is Sally Thomsett. I know her from the classic TV show Man About The House where she played Jo. I loved her, she was just fabulous. Man About The House being my favourite show, I love it so much. She was also in this film The Railway Children, the original Railway Children because they remade it a couple of times, the original film is the one to see, it’s amazing. This was the first film that made me properly bawl my eyes out. A very beautiful, gentle, innocent family film. This is coming from somebody who cries at almost everything so there’s no surprise there, but good movies do that and it’s a wonderful thing because it means you’re so hooked with these characters and their stories. It’s such a beautiful film, the ending never fails to make me cry. A wonderful film, not just about railway trains but about family and friendship and kindness, love. A classic movie I fell in love with a few months ago. One of the most loveliest films you’re ever going to watch. Sally was so young in this film and she was fantastic. All of them were amazing, Jenny A gutter, Gary Warren, who were all siblings going through this really tough time, sticking together through the thick and thin they learn to love the railway as the journey goes on. Wonderful film, it deserves more recognition. But yeah, Sally is amazing.

The next is Michele Dotrice. Wonderful actress, really loved her in Some Mothers Do Ave Em, Playing the role of Frank Spencer’s wife and having to endure his antics. Another favourite show, so funny. I also thought she was great in And Soon The Darkness, I love that film so much. Very Creepy and I’m still shocked by the ending. Me and my dad absolutely love this film. It’s so Brian Clemens. The film is about these two nurses who go to France and ride their bikes together and the film takes a turn when one of the girls goes missing. That’s all I’m going to say about it. Fantastic film. I’ll put a link to both a short clip of the film and the opening tune.

Michele is a great actress.

Another great actress is Mollie Sudgen, I love Molly. I loved her in Are You Being Served as Mrs Slocombe. She was so funny, her and her pussy jokes, just hilarious If you know, you know. I love that show. Great actress and brilliant at what she did. She always cracks me up.

 

I’ve got so many more favourite actresses from British TV and film but I’m afraid I’m going to have to end it here because it’s going to be a very long post and I know you guys have got better things to do with your time. But thank you so much for reading my post, I hope you all have a lovely day/ night wherever you are right now. Stay safe, love you guys, stay tuned for more work here on Big Blog Theory