#Nina Baden Semper

[ozu-teapot]

The Love Ban | Ralph Thomas | 1973

Madeline Smith, Nina Baden-Semper, Hywel Bennett

#Madeline Smith #Nina Baden-Semper #Nina Baden Semper #Hywel Bennett #Ralph Thomas #The Love Ban #1973 #It's a 2'6'' Above the Ground World

[kwebtv]

Nina Baden-Semper as Barbie Reynolds, Jack Smethurst as Eddie Booth, Rudolph Walker as Bill Reynolds and Kate Williams as Joan Booth in "Love Thy Neighbor"

#Love Thy Neighbor #TV #Nina Baden-Semper #Jack Smethurst #Rudolph Walker #Kate Williams

[thethirdromana]

Dracula's roommates, in gifs

All gifs by talented tumblr gif-makers, commentary by me. I haven't seen most of the films so all commentary is on vibes alone.

Dracula (1931)

Full marks for spookiness, and here we have a book-accurate two brunettes and a blonde. I'm impressed by the amount of fabric that these ladies are collectively wearing, especially given that the front hem of their dresses is longer than floor-length. I wonder how many takes they had where they just tripped up and faceplanted the spooky stone floor?

Brides of Dracula (1960)

There are only two brides in this, as part of the plot is the acquisition of a third bride. The main vibe these two give me are of a sleepover just as the edibles are kicking in. They seem very friendly. Might get the munchies later though.

Dracula (1968)

It's hard to tell from the gif, but this is what Wikipedia claims to be the only version where one of the brides of Dracula is black (on the left, played by Nina Baden-Semper). I'm surprised more adaptations don't do this, given the physical description we get only requires that two are dark and one fair. Sadly they don't get any dialogue in this, just some expressive hand-movements.

Count Dracula (1977)

Dear lord, could this be more 70s?? The hair, the dresses, the makeup, even what I assume is a cod-medieval tapestry could only be from one decade. I don't much like the kind of brattish submissiveness happening in this gif (ymmv, of course). But apparently one of them is French, which is fun.

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

Interesting how much more active the brides become as the years go on. I mean, the lip-licking is right there in the text, but this feels very full on compared with the coquettish earlier brides. They do look fabulous though - so fabulous that all other brides follow the same model from this point onwards.

Dracula 2000 (2000, unsurprisingly)

A modern-day Dracula provides us with some modern-day brides, though in essence they're much the same as the 1992 ones. I have never seen anyone on Tumblr ever mention this film, which makes me suspect that it's atrocious.

Van Helsing (2004)

Dracula starts off with three brides in Van Helsing but if I remember correctly, they don't appear on screen at the same time (if they do, I couldn't find a gif of it). I kind of wish they'd gone for the period-ish costumes of the ballroom scene for the brides, but instead we get 1992 again, in both costume and general red-lipped vampishness.

#dracula daily #may 16 #brides of dracula

[mariocki]

Machinegunner (HTV, 1976)

"You must be hard up."

"Oh, Christ, what's the matter with me then?"

"Would you like me to tell you?"

#Machinegunner #Classic tv #Single play #htv #Bob Baker #Dave Martin #Leonard rossiter #Nina baden semper #kate o'mara #Ewen solon #Colin welland #Timothy preece #Gay rose #June barrie #Shaun curry #Hal galili #Ishaq bux #Earle Anthony #Geoffrey matthews #Patrick dromgoole #Eric wetherell #Presumably this feature length one off was made with an eye to a potential series. It certainly feels that way and the characters played #By rossiter and semper are interesting enough and just likeable enough to make the prospect an interesting one #If that was the case it didn't happen. Perhaps rossiter didn't want to be tied to a series again (having just finished rising damp) or #Maybe this just wasn't received well enough. Very plausible because although entertaining this is a flawed bit of telly. Baker and martin #Were best known for their contributions to children's telly at this point and rossiter (although a fine dramatic actor) had become #Associated with light comedy. The problem is that this is in places a fairly grim and bleak piece so the result is a bit all over the place #Sometimes very adult and dark; sometimes trying to be light and farcical. It would be improved i think by picking a side and sticking to it #Also an issue is some very offensive language and racist dialogue. Some of it is i suppose related to the plot (whether or not that excuses #It is another matter) but one truly horrible outburst by rossiter's character (our supposed hero) really sours the rest of the play

[donmarcojuande]

Nina Baden Semper in the Callan episode ‘Amos Green Must Live’

#nina baden semper #nina baden-semper #beautiful women #callan #thames television #1970s #UK TV

[s-t-a-r-b-u-r-s-t]

#nina baden semper

[thisbluespirit]

Jonathan in the castle in Dracula (TV 1968).

#gif #dracula #jonathan harker #Corin Redgrave #dracula (tv 1968) #1960s #book adaptations #horror #period drama #vampires #Denholm Elliott #brides of dracula #mystery & imagination #margaret nolan #nina baden-semper #valerie muller

[spryfilm]

DVD review: “Love thy neighbour” (1972-1976)

DVD review: “Love thy neighbour” (1972-1976)

“Love thy neighbour” (1972-1976) Television/Comedy Fifty-three episodes Created by: Vince Powell and Harry Driver Featuring: Jack Smethurst, Rudolph Walker, Nina Baden-Semper, and Kate Williams Joan Booth: “Nobody dances at work socials. It’s mainly drinking to music.” Released on DVD is the early 1970s long running comedy “Love thy neighbour” (1972-1976) which sought to analyse in its own…

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#dvd #dvd new zealand #dvd review #DVD reviews #dvd television #DVDReviews #Harry Driver #Jack Smethurst #Kate Williams #Love thy neighbour #Love thy neighbour dvd #Nina Baden-Semper #Rudolph Walker

[killerscartv]

Love Thy Neighbour (Full TV Series) 1972 - 1976

A British television sitcom broadcast from 13 April 1972 until 22 January 1976. The series spanned eight series and 53 episodes (plus an unaired pilot included here). The principal cast consists of Jack Smethurst, Rudolph Walker, Nina Baden-Semper, and Kate Williams. In 1973, the series was adapted into a film of the same name, and a later sequel series was set in Australia. Created and largely written by Vince Powell and Harry Driver, and was based around a suburban white working class couple (Eddie and Joan Booth) in Twickenham and a black couple (Bill and Barbie Reynolds) as next-door neighbours. One of the leads, Rudolph Walker, who played Bill Reynolds, wrote for The Guardian in 2001, it is about "a black guy and a white guy being damned stupid" The theme song, "Love Thy Neighbour", was composed by Mack Gordon and Harry Revel and sung by Stuart Gillies. Since 1972, when Love Thy Neighbour was first transmitted, it has been criticised for its politically incorrect handling of issues of racism, it was made in an era when Britain was perceived to be struggling to come to terms with mass immigration. Its writers stated that each episode included both anti-white and anti-black sentiment, in this "mutual racism", racist attitudes were "shown as a reciprocal, inevitable and petty process". The views of the main white male character (Eddie Booth, played by Jack Smethurst) were presented so as to make him appear ignorant and bigoted and were contrasted with the more tolerant attitude of his wife. "In nearly every show, the white neighbour was shown to be wrong", Rudolph Walker wrote in 2001. The main male black character (Bill Reynolds, played by Walker) was better educated, although also stubborn and capable of using insulting phrases, such as the terms "Honky", "Snowflake", "Paleface" or "Big White Chief" to describe his white neighbour (often in response to being called "nig-nog" or "Sambo"). The comedy invariably fixated on the "Blackness" of Bill and Barbie or rather, "television's interpretation of Blackness (limbo-dancing, voodoo/Black magic)." Repeats of Love Thy Neighbour have not been seen on British terrestrial television for many years. Rudolph Walker, who defends the series, regrets the programme's reputation in a "very politically correct climate" and asked in 2003 why "We can't take the piss out of each other and laugh".

#love thy neighbour #full tv series #1972 - 1976 #jack smethurst #rudolph walker #nina baden-semper #kate williams #vince powell #harry driver #mack gordon #harry revel #stuart gillies

[magicmenageriestuff]

My Pop Life #184 : Mystery Band - Lord Kitchener

My Pop Life #184 : Mystery Band – Lord Kitchener

Mystery Band   –   Lord Kitchener     Pan beating all night in de dry river, We all hearing but can’t see this orchestra      Another thing confusing the whole public : you can only hear the pan when rain fall We hearing pan – but can’t see the band  * First things first.  Pan = Steel pan.  The national music of Trinidad.  Steel Band Music.   Various stick fighting and bamboo-based African…

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#Aldwyn Roberts #Bacchannal Time #Day-O #Dr Jit Samaroo #Eastenders #Empire Windrush #felix cross #H.M.S. Victory #Harry Belafonte #Laventille #Love Thy Neighbour #Michael Buffong #Moon On A Rainbow Shawl #Nina Baden Semper #Panorama #Peter Attard #Raisin In The Sun #Rudolph Walker #Steelpan #Superblue #The Possee #The Renegades #Til Death Us Do Part #Trinidad

[monstroushq]

I would love to see some applications for POC roles! How about Nancy from Oliver Twist (who was played by Sophie Okonedo in the 2007 BBC production of Oliver Twist)? Maybe she knows some of the murder victims, and is especially on edge, being a lady of the night herself? Or Aleera, one of the three “brides” of Dracula (who was played by Nina Baden-Semper in a 1968 TV adaption of Dracula)? Remember that you can cast any canonically white character with an actor of colour, and it would be great to see some diversity of casting!

#appless rp #new rp #vampire rp #period rp #historical rp #mw

[kwebtv]

Love Thy Neighbor - ITV - April 13, 1972 - January 22, 1976

Sitcom (53 Episodes)

Running Time: 30 minutes

Stars:

Jack Smethurst as Eddie Booth

Rudolph Walker as Bill Reynolds

Nina Baden-Semper as Barbie Reynolds

Kate Williams as Joan Booth

Keith Marsh as Jacko Robinson

Tommy Godfrey as Arthur Thomas

Paul Luty as Nobby Garside

#Love Thy Neighbor #TV #Sitcom #1970's #ITV #Jack Smethurst #Rudolph Walker #Nina Baden-Semper #Kate Williams

[mariocki]

Mystery And Imagination: Dracula (4.3, Thames, 1968)

"Tempt me not! The souls that you have damned forever cry for vengeance, and will not be stilled!"

#mystery and imagination #dracula #1968 #thames #classic tv #denholm elliott #james maxwell #suzanne neve #corin redgrave #susan george #bernard archard #joan hickson #hedley goodall #michael da costa #nina baden semper #bram stoker #patrick dromgoole #some images gratefully stolen from @lost-spook #an interestingly pared down adaptation which combines some characters (renfield and harker) omits some #and blurs aspects of others. but brilliantly cast and walloping along. also extraordinary for the sheer sensuality #and sexuality which is pretty rare for 60s tv. at least this blatant it is. a risqué adaptation with the scantily clad #brides and the remarkable seduction of mina by lucy really standing out. talking of lucy george is just wonderful #as she begins to fall under draculas spell and we see flashes of a forbidden and violent temper. but then its all beautifully #cast not least poor james maxwell who is having just a terrible few days. on paper elliott struck me as an odd choice for the count #but he delivers wonderfully. neve is excellent especially once she comes under the spell and corin redgrave is having a whale of a time #and lovely bernard archard! he's so often stuffy or sinister so its nice to see him play against type. this was really very engaging as a #version. i will say the effects are pretty poor (the bats more than anything) but the cast sell it and the putting down of lucy is gleefull #grotesque. some interesting direction that again pushes the sensuality aspect to the fore. and wlw? in my 60s tv? yes please #good good i hope they all live up to this (but doubt it somehow)

[mariocki]

Callan: Amos Green Must Live (3.5, Thames, 1970)

“A man’s life is in danger!” “Exactly! Only the man I’m thinking about happens to be small, shabby, and he smells fit to blow a bank! And you bailed him out, you remember Sir?” “Oh, him.” “Oh him, him, yes, him! Well he happens to be missing, Sir!”

#callan #callan rewatch #callan spoilers #edward woodward #william squire #russell hunter #patrick mower #annette crosbie #corin redgrave #stefan kalipha #nina baden semper #frank coda #a very interesting episode #exploring the moral complexity of callan's work #he has to protect a right wing politician #whose views he clearly finds distasteful #this has aged poorly tho in some regards #what was acceptable language then is distinctly uncomfortable now #racism tw #if anyone should watch #redgrave is repellent as the politician #and kalipha more than a little sympathetic as the suoposed villain #cross unsurprisingly seems to agree with redgrave #no shade on pat mower but cross simply isn't as well drawn a character as meres #i feel anthony valentine would have had a lot more impact in this ep