Obit: Honor Blackman (1925-2020)

Subject: RE: : Honor Blackman
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 06 Apr 20 - 01:12 PM

How sad. RIP

Subject: RE: Obit: Honor Blackman (1925-2020)
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 06 Apr 20 - 01:26 PM

"Kinky Boots" well qualifies this obit to be upstairs in the music section...

Subject: RE: Obit: Honor Blackman (1925-2020)
From: fat B****rd
Date: 06 Apr 20 - 01:39 PM

Part of my 60s youth in The Avengers.
RIP Miss Blackman

Subject: RE: Obit: Honor Blackman (1925-2020)
From: Gurney
Date: 06 Apr 20 - 04:20 PM

The woman who made it obvious to me that not all older women are mummies.    R.I.P.

Subject: RE: Obit: Honor Blackman (1925-2020)
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 07 Apr 20 - 05:41 AM

egads, she was born the same year as my mother & I never knew.

A hero my mother's age!

BBC obit

Subject: RE: Obit: Honor Blackman (1925-2020)
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Apr 20 - 10:29 AM

"She did, however, do better in the theatre, particularly in musicals. She was in the 1981 stage revival of The Sound of Music, which starred Petula Clark and opened to rave reviews. She also appeared in A Little Night Music, On Your Toes and Nunsense.

In 2005 she toured as Mrs Higgins, in a production of My Fair Lady, before taking over from Sheila Hancock in a West End production of Cabaret."

Subject: RE: Obit: Honor Blackman (1925-2020)
From: GUEST,Jerry
Date: 07 Apr 20 - 12:58 PM

Did she not also used to sing jazz and folk parodies on ‘That Was The Week That Was’, which tended to be on too late in the evening for a school kid like me at the time, but that would have predated, and possibly paved the way for, all the Folk scene comedians in the Seventies?

Subject: RE: Obit: Honor Blackman (1925-2020)
From: GUEST,guest
Date: 07 Apr 20 - 03:53 PM

Wasn't that Millicent Martin ?

Subject: RE: Obit: Honor Blackman (1925-2020)
From: GUEST,Hootenanny
Date: 07 Apr 20 - 03:58 PM

It was indeed Millicent Martin.

Subject: RE: Obit: Honor Blackman (1925-2020)
From: GUEST,Jerry
Date: 07 Apr 20 - 05:28 PM

Yes, sorry, senior moment there. She did play Daphne’s Mother in Frasier, which no one seems to mention.