RIP, continued

Suzan Farmer (1942-2017) aged 75. During my absence some big hitters have departed the  scene,  who have been praised enough (Sir Bruce Forsyth, Jerry Lewis - I would have nothing good to say about him), so we focus on those lesser mortals who get overlooked.

Suzan was one of those 60s girls who carved a niche on television and mainly Hammer films and who worked until 1980. A nice pleasant blonde - not one of the swinging IT girls (though she did marry Ian McShane), I particularly liked her in DRACULA PRINCE OF DARKNESS in 1966 where she and Barbara Shelley make the mistake of staying overnight at that odd castle ... other roles include RASPUTIN THE MAD MONK, 633 SQUADRON, DANGER MAN, THE SAINT, and more.

More than a Hammer Scream Queen then, she was part of that bevy of attractive 60s actressses it was a pleasure to see, like Isobel Black, Suzanne Neve, Mary Peach, Anne Bell, Ann Lynn, Celia Bannerman and the ubiquitious Gwen Watford, Vivian Pickles and imperious Margaret Courtenay.

Sabrina (1936-2016) aged 80. Too young to  Srememberabrina? (me too)  - ask your dad. The glamour model was a 1950s British TV fixture, in those Arthur Askey comedy shows where she had nothing to do much apart from showing off those stupendous 41" bosoms. A less talented Belinda Lee or Shirley Eaton, Sabrina kept in the public eye, moved to America and married a doctor in Hollywood and rather enjoyed the high life- quite good for Norma Sykes from Stockport. She died last November but her obituary has just been published.