[quote]Nicola Pagett, who portrayed the rebellious daughter Elizabeth Bellamy on the acclaimed 1970s British miniseries Upstairs, Downstairs, died Wednesday of complications from a brain tumor, The Guardian reported. She was 75.
What was on her victrola?
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | March 5, 2021 2:32 AM |
Bummer.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | March 5, 2021 2:40 AM |
That makes me sad.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | March 5, 2021 2:44 AM |
This makes me feel old. Of course, she feels dead so I guess I win.
My mom adored this show and I'd watch it with her. I have tapes of it she recorded with her handwritten summaries on each tape. I can't bring myself to throw them away.
Yes, I just made her death all about me.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | March 5, 2021 4:42 AM |
Hopefully Philip’s next.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | March 5, 2021 5:30 AM |
She had a huge mental breakdown and became a fantasist and stalker, derailing her career long-term, poor woman. Though obviously not fun for the man she persecuted.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | March 5, 2021 12:10 PM |
I am sad to hear that. Nicola Pagett was a lovely young actress.
However I'm pretty sure she wasn't Lady Elizabeth, but rather Miss Elizabeth. (Likewise Mr James.) Her mother had a hereditary title but (at least during the episodes NP was in), her father was plain Mr. That's why Mama was Lady Marjorie, not Lady Bellamy.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | March 5, 2021 12:27 PM |
That’s a shame. Such good singers. All the brothers.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | March 5, 2021 12:29 PM |
[quote] What was on her victrola?
Why, the Bellamy Brothers, of course.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | March 5, 2021 12:29 PM |
I LOVED ( 1971-1975) Upstairs Downstairs. It's hard to believe Miss Elizabeth was 75 years old!
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | March 5, 2021 12:34 PM |
Wow, I recently completed watching Anna Karenina on Pluto and she was on my mind (although Stuart Wilson, the guy who played Vronsky, has been on my mind more).
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | March 5, 2021 1:04 PM |
"Upstairs Downstairs" is running at the moment on a retro channel here in Ireland and the U.K. Elizabeth just married Ian Oglivie, an Oscar Wilde sort of character. Tears before bedtime! Fine actress, beautiful voice. "Upstairs Downstairs" was so well written and acted but looked so cheap or threadbare. Shot in awful 1970s video.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | March 5, 2021 1:18 PM |
Let us hope her Upstairs, Downstairs costar Lesley-Anne Down is alright (?)
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | March 5, 2021 1:37 PM |
She was so beautiful in her youth but she was seriously bipolar and it ruined her career.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | March 5, 2021 2:16 PM |
I felt sorry for her character when she married the gay husband.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | March 5, 2021 6:43 PM |
She had a gay husband?
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | March 5, 2021 8:20 PM |
I'd forgotten it was Labour press officer Alastair Campbell she was obsessed with.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | March 5, 2021 9:11 PM |
"Miss Lizzie didn't ask me to join her when she went to New York. I don't know how it happened. When I came to she was lyin (sic) in that cold bath water, lookin (sic) all bluish-like. AND MY HAND ON HER THROAT! Oh, God! What have I done!" - Statement of Rose Buck, Head House Parlour Maid at 165 Eaton Place. Currently awaiting trial for Murder in the first degree.
Sir Geoffrey Dillon will not be representing for the defence.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | March 5, 2021 11:47 PM |
Speaking of him, I always disliked Sir Geoffrey Dillon. He looked like a mole man.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | March 6, 2021 12:47 AM |