Goodbye, Mrs. Slocombe
She was one of the most recognizable faces on television — and “I am unanimous in that.”
Mollie Sugden, who played Mrs. Slocombe on the famous UK comedy series, Are You Being Served?, passed away yesterday at the age of 86.
This comes just a little over four months after her co-star, Wendy Richards (Miss Brahms), died of cancer.
Frank Thornton, who played Captain Peacock in the comedy, told the BBC: ‘Mollie, of course, was an excellent comedian.
If you can play comedy, you can play anything - you can play tragedy as well. And if you can only play tragedy, you can’t play comedy. She was a jolly good actress.’
Mrs. Sugden had been ill for some time, and, to some, she lost a lot of her will to recover when her husband, William Moore, died in 2000.
In honor of and tribute to this wonderful lady with such a tremendous sense of humor, here’s Part I of The Erotic Dreams of Mrs. Slocombe:
Part II comes up tomorrow … ’til then …
see ya on the flip side!
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