#anna karen

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Remembering British-South African actress, model and dancer, Anna Karen, who passed away February 22nd, 2022, as a result of a fire at her home, aged 85.

She worked as an exotic dancer and model to pay her way through drama school, appeared in Ken Loach's first feature, Poor Cow (1967), and alongside Barbara Windsor in Carry On Camping (1969), with whom she remained lifelong friends.

As a result of a role in a short-lived sitcom, Wild Wild Women, Anna Karen was cast as Olive in On the Buses in 1969. In a later interview, she recalled that the brief she was given for the character was simply 'always ill and sex mad'. She came up with the look herself, apparently based on a relative.

She appeared in all 74 episodes and three feature films. In an interview with Rabbit and Snail Films for On The Buses at the Movies, she said, leading up to the first film, the producers told the cast, "There's no money, the entire cast budget is 7 500 pounds, so don't be stroppy about it!"

The first On the Buses movie was brought in for well under 100 000 pounds and made back around 28 times its production budget. She also recalled that her favourite of the three feature films was Holiday on the Buses, with happy memories of filming at Pontin's holiday camp, Prestatyn, in amongst the camp's guests.

She later revived Olive for a reboot of The Rag Trade, appeared in The Bill, and as Aunt Sal in 54 episodes of Eastenders between 1996 and 2017.

Anna Karen was married to variety comedian, actor and stuntman, Terry Duggan (below left), from 1967 until his death in 2008.

She was the last surviving principal cast-member of On the Buses, after Stephen Lewis (Blakey) passed away in 2015.

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Things You Do When You're Bored

Using Clipdrop swap people in any image

Picture 1 - Proper Throbbing Gristle: Cosey, Genesis, Peter & Chris

Picture 2 - Fake Throbbing Gristle: Anna Karen, Larry Grayson, Kenneth Williams & Bob Grant

Boredom makes you do stuff like this :)

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2022: Anna Karen, nata Ann Harrison McCall, era un’attrice britannica di origine sudafricana . Ha ottenuto riconoscimenti per i suoi ruoli in diversi programmi televisivi e film popolari. Karen ha sviluppato un interesse per la recitazione in giovane età e si è unita al South African National Theatre all’età di quindici anni. Nel 1957, Karen sposò Richard Smart con il quale visse in Italia per…

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Blumarine Spring 1993

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Anna Sui - Spring 1993 RTW

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Runway VS Campaign Blumarine SS95

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“I wish there could have been more of Karen and those two together. If there’s one person in this world that I think that has the fortitude to handle anything Frank’s got to give, and vice versa — I mean, they’ve both been to some dark and ugly places, but it’s nothing either one of them can’t handle, and they truly accept each other for who they are. I think if there’s one person he could really connect with, it would be her.” - JON BERNTHAL

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