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Profile of Mollie Sugden
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Mollie Sugden |
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21st July 1922 |
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Keighley, Yorkshire, England, UK |
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Mollie Sugden (born July 21, 1922 in Keighley, Yorkshire) is a British comedy actress who found fame as saleswoman Betty Slocombe in the popular British sitcom Are You Being Served? (1972 - 1985).
A regular in the popular 1960s sitcom, Hugh and I, she also portrayed stout Northern women in Coronation Street (recurring as Nellie Harvey from 1969 to 1976 and mentioned in dialogue for years after that) and The Liver Birds (as Thelma Hutchinson from 1971 to 1979). After her success in Are You Being Served?, a Britcom about the life of employees who worked in an department store, she was given her own vehicle, Come Back, Mrs Noah, but it was unsuccessful and ended after one series.
Her trademark in Are You Being Served? was her bright fluorescent colored hairdo, which was a different color on every episode. (In the early episodes of the show, there was no budget for wigs, so Sugden dyed her hair a different color each week.) In a long running series of comments in the show she was always referring to problems with her "pussy" - referring, of course, to her domestic cat.
A regular character in the comedy television series Little Britain Liz, is a woman who bores everyone with the tale of being Mollie Sugden's bridesmaid. In one episode Liz and her husband Clive are in a restuarant and see the real Mollie Sugden (making a guest appearance in the series), but when Mollie denies knowing her, Liz hurls a knife in her back.
She was married to the actor William Moore from 29 March 1958 until his death in April 2000. They had two children and five grandchildren. Sugden has for many years lived on the Isle Of Man.
Sugden was recently commemorated in a documentary that aired on PBS called Celebrating Mollie Sugden: "An Are You Being Served?" Special.
In 2003, Mollie Sugden had a small guest appearance, where she was murdered in the comedy show Little Britain
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