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What do you want for Christmas ?

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RolloTheRed

RolloTheRed Report 23 Jul 2014 18:24

The funny and talented Dora Bryan is no longer with us.
I hope she gets her wishes.

As well as being a first rate comedienne Dora starred in the classic "Taste of Honey". I guess most people remember her as Dolly in Absolutely Fabulous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YeypQtgiWM

<3

Researching:
The Man In the High Castle

Sirius

Sirius Report 23 Jul 2014 18:31

Oh that's a shame :-(

Researching:
My inner contradictions

MotownGal

MotownGal Report 23 Jul 2014 19:28

Oh that is sad news.

She was a real trouper, and go do high kicks right into her eighties.

Loved her in A Taste of Honey, she had the feckless mother down to a tee.

<3

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TessAkaBridgetTheFidget

TessAkaBridgetTheFidget Report 23 Jul 2014 19:39

As two of the Beatles have gone before her - she may get her Christmas wish.

Loved her in taste of Honey. And so funny in other roles.

Researching:
Woodhouse and Trilloe from Herefordshire; Lockyear and Date from Somerset, Thomas and Edwards from Glamorganshire and Monmouthshire, also Argyll, Tipperary, Limerick, Cork

Guinevere

Guinevere Report 23 Jul 2014 19:44

Very talented actor. Brilliant in A Taste of Honey.

Researching:
Lowestoft and North Suffolk, Monmouthshire, Breconshire, Somerset

MotownGal

MotownGal Report 24 Jul 2014 20:33

The obit. in The Times today was very interesting. It seems she had quite a troubled life.

She lost three babies, was addicted to prescription drug, was depressed at varying stages in her life, and booked herself into AA.

However, she had a long, enduring happy marriage until her husband died after 54 years of wedded bliss.

A very talented lady, and very underated in my view.

Who can forget her in the Carry On films?

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Barbara

Barbara Report 24 Jul 2014 22:49

Was she in the Carry on films?

Researching:
TOWNEND (Middleton, Todmorden, Liversedge, Heckmondwike, Birstall), DAWSON, SHOWLER

GeordiePride

GeordiePride Report 25 Jul 2014 00:40

I think she was in Carry On Sergeant

GP

MotownGal

MotownGal Report 25 Jul 2014 12:07

She was GP, she was working in the NAAFI and went googled eyed over Kenneth Connor.

I think she may have been in a St Trinian's film too.

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