Mollie Sugden..

 Mollie Sugden ; 21 July 1922 – 1 July 2009 was an English comedy actress, best known for portraying the saleswoman Mrs Slocombe in the British sitcom Are You Being Served?

Aimi MacDonald..

 Aimi MacDonald (born 27 February 1942) is a Scottish actress and dancer. She is best known for her role as "The Lovely" Aimi MacDonald in the television sketch comedy show, At Last the 1948 Show

Les Dawson..

 

Marion Ramsey RIP

  Marion Ramsey (May 10, 1947 – January 7, 2021) was an American actress and singer.  She was a regular on the series Cos but was best known for her role as the soft-spoken Officer Laverne Hooks in the Police Academy films.

Rhonda Fleming..

 Rhonda Fleming was an American film and television actress and singer. She acted in more than 40 films, mostly in the 1940s and 1950s

Chris Whitty..

 Christopher John MacRae Whitty CB FRCP FFPH FMedSci (born 21 April 1966) is an English physician and epidemiologist who is Chief Medical Officer for England (CMO), Chief Medical Adviser to the UK Government, Chief Scientific Adviser (CSA) to the Department of Health and Social Care, Head of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and Gresham Professor of Physic.

John LeCarre RIP..

David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 1931-12 December 2020), better known by his pen name John le Carré (/ ləˈkæreɪ /), was a British author of espionage novels. During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked for both the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6).

Brenda Lee.

 American singer and recording artist

Olivia de Havilland RIP

Dame Olivia Mary de Havilland DBE was a British-American actress and centenarian.

Alma Cogan..

Alma Angela Cohen (19 May 1932 – 26 October 1966), known professionally as Alma Cogan, was an English singer of traditional pop music in the 1950s and early 1960s. Dubbed the "Girl with the Giggle in Her Voice", she was the highest paid British female entertainer of her era.

Marianne Faithfull...

Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull is an English singer, songwriter, and actress. She achieved popularity in the 1960s with the release of her hit single " As Tears Go By " and became one of the lead female artists during the British Invasion in the United States.

Dame Vera Lynn RIP..

Dame Vera Margaret Lynn CH DBE OStJ (née Welch; born 20 March 1917) was a British singer of traditional popular music, songwriter and actress, whose musical recordings and performances were enormously popular during the Second World War.The forces sweetheart..

Willie Thorne RIP..

William Joseph "Willie" Thorne was an English former professional snooker player.

Lulu..

Lulu Kennedy-Cairns, OBE is a Scottish singer, actress, TV personality and businesswoman. She is noted for her powerful singing voice. She is internationally known, but especially by UK audiences in the 1960s. 

Kathy Kirby..

Kathy Kirby was an English singer, reportedly the highest-paid female singer of her generation. She is best known for her cover version of Doris Day 's " Secret Love " and for representing the United Kingdom in the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest where she finished in second place.

Petula Clark..

Pop singer known chiefly for her Swinging London-era smash "Downtown," 

Susan Maughan..

Susan Maughan  is an English singer who released successful singles in the 1960s. Her most famous and successful song, " Bobby's Girl " (a cover of the Marcie Blane single), reached number three in the UK Singles Chart at Christmas time in 1962.

Millie Small RIP..

Millicent Dolly May Small CD was a Jamaican singer-songwriter, best known for her 1964 recording of "My Boy Lollipop."

Ava Gardner..

American actress..

Marina Sirtis..

Marina Sirtis  is a British-American actress. She is best known for her role as Counselor Deanna Troi on the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and the four feature films that followed, as well as other appearances in the Star Trek franchise. 

Susannah York..

Susannah Yolande Fletcher (9 January 1939 – 15 January 2011), known professionally as Susannah York, was an English actress. Her appearances in various films of the 1960s, including Tom Jones (1963) and They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969), formed the basis of her international reputation.

Helen Shapiro..

Helen Kate Shapiro (born 28 September 1946) is a British pop singer, jazz singer, and actress. She is best known for her two 1961 UK chart toppers, " You Don't Know " and " Walkin' Back to Happiness ", both recorded when she was just fourteen years old.

Karen Carpenter..

Karen Anne Carpenter was an American singer and drummer who, along with her older brother Richard, was part of the duo the Carpenters.

Catherine O'Hara...

Catherine O'Hara OC  is a Canadian-American actress who portrays Moira Rose on Schitt's Creek..

Raquel Welch..

Raquel Welch is an American actress and singer.

Christina Ricci..

Christina Ricci is an American actress and producer. 

Claire Bretécher RIP

Claire Bretécher (French: ; 17 April 1940 – 10 February 2020) was a French cartoonist, known particularly for her portrayals of women and gender issues.Her creations included Les Frustrés, and the unimpressed teenager Agrippine

Prue Leith..

Judge on the great British bake off..

Brenda Blethyn..

Brenda Blethyn OBE  is an English actress. She is known for her portrayals of working-class women with eccentric qualities. She is the recipient of several accolades, including one Golden Globe, one BAFTA, one Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress and two Academy Award nominations.This is her as Vera...the British crime drama..

Mitzi Gaynor..

Mitzi Gaynor is an American actress, singer, and dancer.

MM

First drawing of the year...
Marilyn Monroe

Twitter challenge..

Thursday Twitter challenge... 'Portrait of an Unknown Woman', painted by Ivan Kramskoi 

Claudine Auger RIP..

Claudine Auger was a French actress best known for her role as Bond girl, Dominique "Domino" Derval, in the James Bond film Thunderball .

Carol Voderman...

Carol Jean Vorderman, MBE is a British media personality, best known for co-hosting the popular game show Countdown for 26 years from 1982 until 2008

Marie Laforêt RIP

Marie Laforêt was a French singer and actress.

Twitter Portrait Challenge...

Thursday #PortraitChallenge!

The princess Nawal Toussoun, painted by Leonor Fini in 1952

Mariah Carey..

Mariah Carey is an American singer, songwriter, actress, record producer, and entrepreneur.

Audrey Tautou..

Audrey Justine Tautou is a French actress

Diana Ross...

American vocalist, music artist and actress

Alfonso Ribeiro..

Alfonso Lincoln Ribeiro Sr. is an American actor, comedian, dancer, director, game show host and television personality.

Mariza..

Mariza , born Marisa dos Reis Nunes (born 16 December 1973), is a popular Portuguese fado singer.. 

Paloma Faith..

Paloma Faith Blomfield (born 21 July 1981) is an English singer, songwriter, and actress.. Faith is known for her retro and eccentric style.

Jenny Agutter

Jennifer Ann Agutter OBE is a British actress. She began her career as a child actress in 1964, appearing in East of Sudan, Star!, and two adaptations of The Railway Children—the BBC's 1968 television serial and the 1970 film version.

Faye Dunaway..

Faye Dunaway as Bonnie Parker in the film Bonnie and Clyde...

Thursday Twitter portrait challenge..

#PortraitChallenge! ‘Portrait of a merchant’ by Jan Gossaert, 1530 https://

Greta Garbo..

Greta Garbo was a Swedish-American film actress during the 1920s and 1930s. Garbo was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, and received an Academy Honorary Award in 1954 for her luminous and unforgettable screen performances.