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Word: houseparlormaid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slight license, and I warmed up the relationship between them." Despite previous Emmy Award-winning roles in other series-as Fleur Forsyte, Becky Sharp in Vanity Fair and Sarah Churchill in The First Churchills -Hampshire, 34, was still only the third candidate for Glencora. Pauline Collins, the saucy under-houseparlormaid Sarah of Upstairs, Downstairs, demanded more money than the producers wanted to pay, and Hayley Mills, the second choice, had just had a baby and felt she lacked energy for such a demanding role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Pallisers: In the Trollope Topiary | 1/31/1977 | See Source »

...therefore, have been in a spirit of democracy as well as commerce that Producer John Hawkesworth authorized a series of pop paperback "autobiographies," which purport to reveal "the never-before-told secrets" of Hudson, the butler, Head Houseparlormaid Rose and the renegade Sarah. But good grief! As coopered up into print by a quartet of British writers, the earlier lives of the fascinating Bellamy servants have been drowned in tears and treacle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Roads to Eaton Place | 4/28/1975 | See Source »

...tumbling at the Bellamys'. Lady Marjorie is hardly dead in the Titanic disaster, and ne'er-do-well Son James is planning to marry his father's typist. Upstairs is distraught; downstairs, aghast. Pale green eyes narrowing in her pretty vixen's mask, head Houseparlormaid Rose Buck voices the general anxiety: "A stranger has been in my linen closet. I don't know if I'm still wanted here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Everything's Coming Up Rose | 11/25/1974 | See Source »

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