Worthy Site Footnotes

This post is to give a creditable mention to scenes that cannot be properly described as topless but are nonetheless fairly revealing.

It's a shame not to give some of these scenes a mention on the main site especially when they can sometimes seem more revealing than a number of "proper" topless scenes of the carefully-filmed-and-edited variety.  But regrettably I think it would get a bit too subjective to choose whether such scenes were good enough to include or not and decisions would probably vary depending on how high-profile the actress was and whether she had already done any "proper" nudity that might make the mention seem superfluous.

A while ago I did experiment with adding a handful of entries which I flagged as "Noteworthy Non-Nudity" scenes but I quickly realised that it wouldn't really work and so did not continue.

For this post I've selected a couple of collages depicting scenes that might have made it.

Laura Aikman in BloodMonkey (2007)

I can't tell for sure if she is wearing a bra under her shirt although it doesn't look like she is.

Anna-Louise Plowman in My Life In Film (BBC3/2004)
This scene almost made it but it was just a bit too carefully filmed.  Nonetheless it is her most revealing scene that I know of.




I have more examples if this posting theme is of any interest (?). 
(Since I hardly get any comments I don't really know what people think of this blog)

Some Uncredited Roles To Be Identified #1

Here are two scenes which remain as outstanding queries as far as identifying the actress involved goes. Usually with uncredited roles there is nothing to go on which helps in any way, but for the two I've listed here my research has uncovered some possibilities to consider.
　
　
Grease Monkeys (BBC3/2003)
Comedy Drama Series

UPDATE: This has now been solved - see post 18th Jan 2014 - Grease Monkeys Update.

　
　
Frankie Boyle's Tramadol Nights (C4/2010)
Stand-up and sketch show
Episode 2

In episode 2 of this 6-part series, there was a Doctor Who pastiche entitled "The Time Travelling Professor" in which a college professor and his student companions travel in time and become stranded in the past. One of the companions called "Terrence" is seemingly a man replete with a beard but in the end turns out to be a woman and opens up her shirt to reveal she has breasts.

She had some dialogue, however, the cast list only included two female names who are both known and neither were the one playing "Terrence".
Listed Cast for episode 2: Frankie Boyle, Jim Muir, Tom Stade, Robert Florence, Thaila Zucchi, Laurence Saunders, Kirstin McLean, Kevin Guthrie, Albert Boat.
The name "Albert Boat" only appears in episode 2 and I can find no references to this person being in anything else, so it is possible it could be a pseudonym.

On a casting website I found one uncredited actresses called Eleanor Gibson listed for "The Frankie Boyle Show" in 2009 (which the Kaleidoscope guide says was the working title for Tramadol Nights). She lists herself as being a "supporting artist (in) various sketches". Because of the male disguise makeup the woman in the sketch was wearing it's not possible to spot a clear resemblance (or conversely be able to definitely rule her out) and so this is currently only a very low possibility based purely on her being the only uncredited role I've found for this series. There were other sketches throughout the series with miscellaneous parts that she might alternatively have been part of, and the likelihood is probably greater that it is not her although the possibility remains.

Here is a face picture of "Terrence" from the sketch. If anyone does have information on who it was playing "Terrence" that would be useful.

Unknown Drama #4

This query is for an unknown drama from another retained clip.  The actress involved was identified by the clip collector as model Mandy Montgomery.

The clip includes the opening moments of the programme which has a graphic informing us that subtitles are available on Oracle p888.  This helps slightly by narrowing it down to an ITV or Channel 4 programme shown prior to the end of 1992.  Oracle was commercial television's equivalent of the BBC's Ceefax until it was replaced by the service called "Teletext" at the start of 1993.

That puts an upper bound on it although in fact it is likely to be from much earlier than this.  If it is indeed Mandy Montgomery she was best known in the 1980s as one of the glamorous "Grumblegirls" who appeared on the Grumbleweeds TV show which ran from 1983 to 1987 (the other girls were Sally Wilde and Tracey Dixon).  So it seems likely the unknown drama is from a similar period.  Furthermore two other known clips posted at the same time were from 1985.

From the one and only online picture I was able to find of Mandy Montgomery it certainly looks like it could be her so there is no reason to doubt that identification which I can only assume was publicised at the time.  If she was listed in the programme's end credits then that credit has not made it to IMDB or other sources that I have checked.

From what is present in the clip it seems to involve a group of twenty-something friends (who may be involved in arranging parties) staying at a manor house belonging to grandmother of one of the group.  It has a present day setting.  They have a party and later there is a bit on the lawn outside at night in which the two of the girls drunkenly strip - although this is seen from a distance with their backs turned with only some side of Mandy Montgomery's left breast seen.

At the very end of the clip there is a snippet of a seated man and woman in another location and on the wall behind is what looks like an election poster with the name "Blyberg" on it - this may (or may not) be from the same programme.  (It could be an overrun to the start of another clip).

There are some good face shots of some of the actors and actresses in it during the party scene but I don't recognise any of them.  I thought one of the actresses perhaps resembles a young Michelle Holmes but I can't find anything she was in from the mid to late 1980s that this might be.

If any of the actors or actresses seen in the screencaps below can be identified that may well be enough to zero in on the title of the programme.

Mandy Montgomery from the Programme + a poster image of her



Other Actors in the Programme



Possibly from the same programme

Uncredited Model in Various 1990s Programmes

There is a bit-part actress/model whom I have noticed cropping up in a number of programmes from a certain period in the 1990s up to 2000.  Some of the roles have involved topless nudity and others have just been glamorous/sexy roles - but she has never been credited for any of them.  She has a quite distinctive "Frances Barber" type of look to her and it seems to me it is the same woman each time.

Here is a log of her appearances that I have noted:-

Screen One: Two Golden Balls (BBC1/1994) - one-off drama

She is one of five auditioning actresses hoping to get a part in the porn movie being made, all uncredited and non-speaking.  She has no nudity in this.

Touch and Go (BBC2/1998) - one-off drama
She plays a topless woman in a brothel corridor gesturing to Martin Clunes as he walks by.

Roger Roger (BBC1/1999) - an episode from series 2
She plays a topless dancer at a wild hedonistic party.

The Secret World Of Michael Fry (C4/2000) - 2-part drama (25/Apr/2000; 02/May/2000)
She plays a sex worker and is referred to with the character name of "Diane" although she is not credited.  She has no nudity in this one.

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Holby City (BBC1/2000) - ep: Into The Woods (9/Mar/2000)
A site contributor, who has also noticed the same woman, has told me he has also seen her in this episode of Holby City playing a stripogram - she had several lines of dialogue in it but again was not credited. (I have no images from this one).


It's possible she is a well known nineties model who I just don't know about, so if anyone can put a name to her that would be useful.  Or if you have spotted her in anything else then I can add them to the list.

Actresses to be Identified #1

Here are a couple where an actress with a speaking role still (as far as I know) remains unidentified.


Skins
Series 1, Episode 1, (Jan 2007)
The identity of the actress playing the woman in the house opposite to Tony who parades around naked remains a mystery.  She has some dialogue and her husband calls her Miriam - however she is not mentioned in the end credits.

A bit confusingly there is another completely different off-screen "Miriam" mentioned in the same episode (a schoolgirl friend or sister of one of the guest characters) which seems an odd scripting conflict since there was no story reason for it.  It's possible perhaps that the name wasn't scripted and the exhibitionist woman was called "Miriam" because that was her real name used for convenience - but that's only a wild guess.

She seemed to be a capable actress (rather than a model) but I've never noticed her in anything else.  The actor playing her husband was John Arthur and he was credited as "Middle Aged Teacher" although he was in another scene as well with a larger role.  Neither she nor he appeared in any subsequent episodes.

Dialogue that mentions the other Miriam:
ABIGAIL: (to Tony) Are you sill coming to my party tonight?  It would be safe if you did.  My parents are in Cloisters.
TONY: Sounds great.
ABIGAIL: After 8.30 because Miriam has to get back from her cello recital.

Miriam's dialogue:
HUSBAND: For God’s sakes, what are you doing, Miriam? Why do you have to get up so early?
MIRIAM: Just getting ready.
HUSBAND: Anybody would think you wanted the neighbours to see you. Do you hear me, woman?
MIRIAM: Yes, darling.

Miriam's Face

UPDATE Sept 2014 - She has now been identified as Louise Downie
See Blog Post: Now Identified: Uncredited "Miriam" Character from Skins Episode 1




Living TV Trailer
(The earliest reference I have to this was in Nov 2000, so it may be from then or a bit earlier)

A young woman dashes from her ground floor flat wearing just her briefs to collect her morning post from the communal front door mat.  But her flat door slams shut behind her and she is left stranded in the communal hallway severely underdressed - then to add to her woes there is a ring on the front door bell and she hastily decides to hide in the understairs cupboard until it is all clear whilst a male tenant from upstairs comes down to answer the door - but the caller turns out to be a meter man and her hiding place is where the meter is located and when they open the cupboard door they discover her and she tries to act nonchalantly about her predicament.

This was a specially made trailer meant to encourage viewers to watch the Living TV satellite channel.  It was not (as far as I can tell) a trailer for a specific programme.

UPDATE: She has been identified as Helen Goldwyn (see Comments)

Chrome Compatibility Issue Sorted

If you're a Chrome user you may like to know that the Rare Films part of the site should now display OK. 

I've always used Internet Explorer and I only recently tried the site out in Chrome and discovered the "card" style formatting I had used on the Rare Films section was being completely ignored by Chrome making the information look like an disorganised mess.

The problem turned out to be semi-colons I had put between each class element in the style sheet which Chrome wasn't liking.  Admittedly I thought they needed to be there because the example I originally worked from had them and Internet Explorer was, and still is, fine with them.  But I took them out and it now seems to be OK on Chrome and still works exactly the same on IE.

There are a number of other slight differences in the way the two browsers render other parts of the site but those are not so ungainly and don't affect usability.