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Irene Mary Wetton (26 July 1936 – 10 November 1998), better known by her stage name Mary Millar, [1] was an English actress and singer best remembered for her role as the second actress to play Rose in the successful BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances from 1991 to 1995 and for originating the role of Madame Giry in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical The Phantom of the Opera.
From the second series, Mary Millar replaced Shirley Stelfox as Rose, and David Griffin joined the cast as Emmet Hawksworth, Elizabeth's brother. During the course of the programme, 44 episodes of Keeping Up Appearances aired over five series, between 29 October 1990 and 25 December 1995.
Keeping Up Appearances is a British sitcom created and written by Roy Clarke. It originally aired on BBC1 from 1990 to 1995. The central character is an eccentric and snobbish middle-class social climber, Hyacinth Bucket ( Patricia Routledge ), who insists that her surname is pronounced "Bouquet". [ 1 ]
Shirley Rosemary Stelfox (11 April 1941 – 7 December 2015) was an English actress, known for her portrayal of the character Edna Birch, a moralising busybody in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale, and as Rose, the vampy sister of the snobby and overbearing Hyacinth Bucket in the first series of the comedy series Keeping Up Appearances.
Tewson, an only child, was born on her father's twenty seventh birthday in Hampstead, London, on 26 February 1931. [1] [2] Her father, William (1904–1965) was a professional musician and played the double bass in the BBC Symphony Orchestra; [3] her mother, Kate (née Morley, 1908–1999), was a nurse, the daughter of footballer Haydn Morley, who captained The Wednesday in the 1890 FA Cup ...
Kristin Davis is looking back on her Melrose Place days.. In the latest PEOPLE cover story, the Sex and the City alum, 59, reflects on her storied career in television and gets candid about the ...
In the midst of Disney's commercially and critically successful renderings of fairy tales, women authors were working away behind the scenes to whip up their own bold takes. The conventions of the genre -- violence, fantasy, and morality – were gobbled up, roiled, rearranged fluidly, and spit back out anew.
"Nobody ever told us to hold up progress or anything like that," Buxer added. "In fact, there was a lot of pressure from Michael to get this done." In late summer 1993 -- either immediately before or just after the Chandler allegations emerged, depending on whom you ask -- Jackson's team sent a finished soundtrack to Sega for processing.