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Published Date: 06 July 2009
By Brian Pendreigh
FARRAH Fawcett was not a great actress. But she had an impact on popular culture out of all proportion to her acting ability. Posters of her sold in the millions.
She set the fashion for "big hair". And feminists and cultural historians now argue that she helped free female TV characters from the confines of wife, mother, girlfriend and secretary. She was no Meryl Streep, but she could get her lines right and ...



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  • Last Updated: 05 July 2009 9:05 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
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Colin Wilson,

Aberdeen 06/07/2009 17:54:21
"And feminists and cultural historians now argue that she helped free female TV characters from the confines of wife, mother, girlfriend and secretary."

Women characters on British TV were never confined in that way. They may have been those things, but were so in ways that were incidental to the character.

From the 60s and 70s, even just off the top of my head I can remember Elsie Tanner, Ena Sharples and Annie Walker (all from "Coronation Street"), Emma Peel ("The Avengers", "Take Three Girls" (plus its 80s sequel "Take Three Women"), Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward ("Thunderbirds"), "The Liver Birds" and "The Rag Trade".

 

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