Word: baddeley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Angela Baddeley, 71, stage and screen actress for 60 years, mostly in supporting roles, who found a new career as the crotchety cook, Mrs. Bridges, second-in-command of the class-conscious squadron of servants in BBC-TV's Upstairs, Downstairs series; of the effects of flu and bronchitis contracted while starring as Madame Armfeldt in the musical A Little Night Music; in Essex...
...most annoying nitwits of the new situation travesties. In Good Life, a stockbroker and his wife (Larry Hagman and Donna Mills) check out of the bourgeoisie for the presumed comforts of becoming scrape-prone butler and cook to an anachronistic family of plutocrats (David Wayne and Hermione Baddeley). The plot smacks of those 1930s films that had fun with the Depression. Teddy Bears attempts to cash in on the nostalgia binge for the by-now-boring '20s, playing the gangland speakeasy scene for slapstick laughs. An apter title for this show would be The Unwatchables...