#Sally Thomsett

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Sally Thomsett

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Man About the House: "Home and Away"

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Accidentally stumbled across this little gem - an interesting group - from left - Anna Karen and Stephen Lewis (On the Buses), Sally Thomsett, Paula Wilcox and Richard O'Sullivan (Man About the House), Mollie Sugden (Are You Being Served?) and Brian Murphy (George and Mildred).

Anna Karen, Stephen Lewis and Mollie Sugden are no longer with us - Sally Thomsett and Paula Wilcox are now 74, Richard O'Sullivan 79, and Brian Murphy is 91.

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Blonde versus brunette rivalry

Matching blondes and brunettes against each other, especially as romantic rivals, is a Hollywood technique that extends back to at least the early 1930s. In a 1932 interview with an Australian newspaper, Hollywood director Dorothy Arzner stated that lead women typically had brunette hair, while supporting women typically had blond hair.

Arzner also stated that blond women were usually cast as "fickle" types, while brunettes are cast as "deep lovers".[20]

A blonde vs. brunette rivalry exists Archie Andrews within the Archie Comics series, as the black-haired Veronica is introduced as a rival love interest of Archie Andrews

Three's Company, an ABCsitcom that ran from 1977 to 1984 featured a blonde and brunette triangle. The blonde, Chrissy Snow, was played by Suzanne Somers and the brunette, Janet Wood, was played by Joyce DeWitt.[22] 

Somers and DeWitt were continually faced with media stories that described both an on and off-screen "rivalry"[23] between the two co-stars. Both women repeatedly denied the stories and attempted to dispel "the myth that women, especially blondes and brunettes, can't get along in Hollywood."[23] 

This show was based on the British sitcom Man About the House, which likewise had brunette Paula Wilcox and blonde Sally Thomsett and Richard O'Sullivan as the man in the middle.

 2016 Washington Post article highlighted the tension between blondes and brunettes in Hollywood productions saying, "In movies, blondes and brunettes often have to battle it out."[24] In Cruel Intentions, a dark-haired Sarah Michelle Gellar spreads the rumor that her rival has fake blonde hair.[24] In Rocky IV, Sylvester Stallone battles a Russian blond nemesis named Drago.[24]The Karate Kid features Johnny Lawrence; a wealthy, golden haired villain.

[24] In Tangled, the blond-haired Rapunzel takes revenge on her black-haired step mother

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Wonderful Sally Thomsett

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stars : Dinah Sheridan, Bernard Cribbins, William Mervyn, Iain Cuthbertson, Jenny Agutter and Sally Thomsett

director : Lionel Jeffries

score 3 out of 4 stars

this was a sweet little movie with a lot of heart

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Sally Thomsett Face Surgery: Before And After Pictures

Sally Thomsett Face Surgery: Before And After Pictures

Fans wonder what happened to Sally Thomsett, who was once a household name. Where is she now, and did she get face surgery? The English Actress is best known as Phyllis Waterbury in The Railway Children and Jo in the TV sitcom Man About the House. Her other famous appearances include Janice Hedden in Straw Dogs, Jennifer Villiers in The Very Merry Widow, and Nemo Newman in Baxter! At one time,…

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Straw Dogs (1971) DoP John Coquillon

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The Railway Children (1970) Lionel Jeffries

October 1st 2022

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Man About The House: Sally Thomsett, Richard O'Sullivan & Paula Wilcox

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Man About the House | John Robins | 1974

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Man About the House (Full TV Series) -1973 - 1976

Chrissy and Jo live in a London flat together. They work for the same firm. The women find a stranger, student chef Robin Tripp, asleep in their bath the morning after the farewell party for their departed flatmate Eleanor. When he meets the two girls, Robin has been in London two days, having moved from Southampton to attend college. The girls are unimpressed with Gabrielle (Helen Fraser) as a potential replacement for Eleanor. They are taken with Robin for his culinary skills; they themselves cannot cook at all. Learning that Robin has been staying at the YMCA they easily convince him to move in, on the understanding that it will be on a platonic basis. Chrissy tells the landlord George Roper that Robin is gay to pre-empt objections to the mixed-sex living arrangement. George, in truth a sub-letting landlord placed by the council, is a miserly, spiteful and unkempt man under the thumb of his domineering and sexually-frustrated wife Mildred. In the second episode, Robin's true sexuality becomes known to Mildred. She takes out her frustrations with George's lack of class and sexual inadequacy by making suggestive remarks to Robin and frequently siding with the tenants against George. Mildred openly flirts with Robin at every opportunity. Robin frequently acts in a flirtatious manner toward Chrissy and Jo. The girls generally have no romantic interest and spurn his mild advances, and adapt to his presence in the flat. Chrissy occasionally shows attraction to Robin but they never pursue any romantic interaction. Robin's friend Larry, a lovable rogue, appears on a recurring basis through the series. In the third series, he moves into the loft apartment above the trio's apartment and is a frequent source of trouble. Another occasional cast member is George's friend, dodgy builder Jerry (Roy Kinnear). Jerry is the only supporting character to reappear in the spin-off George and Mildred. Robin's brother Norman Tripp (Norman Eshley) appears in the final three episodes of the sixth and final series, and starts a romance with Chrissy. Norman Eshley had a previous guest role in the episode "In Praise of Older Men" (Episode 3 of Series 2). Norman Tripp was mentioned in Robin's Nest in the episode "Love & Marriage" (Episode 6 of Series 2): he was going to be Robin's best man but he was absent due to having mumps and then Albert Riddle took the role. Actor Norman Eshley was a member of the main cast of George and Mildred as the Ropers' snobbish neighbour Jeffrey Fourmile. Man About the House is a British sitcom created by Brian Cooke and Johnnie Mortimer, and starring Richard O'Sullivan, Paula Wilcox and Sally Thomsett, with Yootha Joyce and Brian Murphy, that was broadcast for six series on ITV from 15 August 1973 to 7 April 1976. The series was considered daring at the time, due to its subject matter of a man sharing a London flat with two single women. The show was made by Thames Television and recorded at its Teddington studio in Greater London. It is regularly repeated on ITV3. Two spin-off series were later made: George and Mildred and Robin's Nest. In 2004, it came 69th in a poll to find Britain's Best Sitcom. The series was remade in the United States as Three's Company in 1977. A film version was released in 1974.

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Doomwatch: By The Pricking Of My Thumbs... (2.5, BBC, 1971)

"The fact remains, that Ensor misled me. I gave him time and space for pure genetic research, not to play God. And the Franklins are the stick that I'll beat him with."

"And the effect it could have on the boy, have you thought about that?"

"Of course I've thought about it. Good God, seventeen's possibly the most impressionable age after the first year. To be told... to be told - that you're different, you're marked, it's eradicable because it's in your blood. How dare anyone say that to another? But Ensor has! And compounds his action by lying to me."

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Sally Thomsett, Brian Murphy, Richard O'Sullivan, Yootha Joyce and Paula Wilcox in “Man About the House” and “Geoge and Mildred”.