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[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 12/31/08 at 12:22pm

Ok, let's just go for it: a medley of Mrs Slocombe's best "p*ssy" lines:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wwo1mXZTZgI

[DefyingEDCT]

Posted: 12/31/08 at 12:30pm

I was looking for that video earlier!
I guess it was taken down and put back up because before it was named
"P*ssy Montage"

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 12/31/08 at 12:39pm

"P*ssy Montage" would be a great drag name.

But I digress . . .

[nmartin]

Posted: 12/31/08 at 1:43pm

Please welcome to the stage the fabulous talents of...
Miss P*ssy Montage!

[DefyingEDCT]

Posted: 1/5/09 at 4:08pm

-- did anyone see the Australian version of it?
Ive always wanted to see the American pilot version of it but it was never realeased!

[alterego]

Posted: 1/6/09 at 8:27am

I saw the Australian version. It had Mr Humphries travelling to Australia working at the local equivalent of Grace Brothers (they couldn't use the Grace Brothers name as in Sydney there was a Grace Bros Department Store).

Everything was pretty much the same as the original, the set, the characters, though they had different surnames. I think only one of the actors might be familiar (to older posters here). The Mrs Slocombe type role was played by Australian soprano June Bronhill. June Bronhill worked a lot in operetta and musicals in London in the 1950's and 1960's (The Merry Widow, Robert and Elizabeth and was Mother Abbess in the Petula Clark Sound of Music in the 1980's). I'm not sure but I think that Frank Thornton (Captain Peacock) may also have appeared in this. At the time of filming John Inman was touring Australia in the play Pajama Tops.

I saw Molie Sugden in a play here (Australia), it was a murder/mystery comedy called Find The Lady. I've never seen anyone work so hard onstage (crawling around, running up and downstairs) to get a laugh. This was about 25 years ago...and she wasn't young then!

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 1/6/09 at 10:36am

And did she get the laughs?

[HamletWasBipolar]

Posted: 1/8/09 at 12:24pm

Its really hard to believe, with the exception of Granger and Mr Grace of course, that John Inman was the first one to pass away. He was the youngest of Thornton and Sungden. They didnt say but I wonder if it was AIDS related? It was supposedly something else in the press...him and Roddy McDowall maybe?

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 1/8/09 at 12:26pm

He was 71, that's not exactly dying young...

My favorite was Mr. Granger. Watching him eat soup in the canteen was hilarious!

[alterego]

Posted: 1/9/09 at 8:19am

No it wasn't AIDS related. He (Inman) was a much in demand panto Dame in later years. There are a few images about on google I believe. Yes, June Bronhill got the laughs (as Mrs Slocombe). It appears, the stage version, from time to time in community theatres here in Australia.

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 1/9/09 at 11:01am

I wanna say it was hepatitis that got Inman...but don't hold me to that.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 1/9/09 at 11:03am

I believe that's correct, Husk.