Sims' early interest in being an actress came from living at the railway station. In 1. 94. 6, Sims first applied to RADA, but her audition was unsuccessful. Her first audition included a rendition of Winnie the Pooh. She did succeed in being admitted to PARADA, the academy's preparatory school, and finally, on her fourth attempt, she graduated and was trained at RADA. She graduated from RADA in 1. One of her first stage performances was in the 1. The Happy Ha'penny, opposite Stanley Baxter at Glasgow's Citizens Theatre. Sims made her first film appearance in Will Any Gentleman? Sims became a regular in the Doctors series, which was produced by Betty E. Box, and was hence spotted by Box's husband Peter Rogers. She had a small part in the 1. Carry on Admiral, unrelated to the later Carry On series and with no other cast members in common with the series. In 1. 95. 8, Sims received a script from Peter Rogers; it was for Carry On Nurse. The film Carry On Sergeant had been a huge success at the box office and in the autumn of that year, Rogers and director Gerald Thomas began planning a follow- up. She first starred in Carry On Nurse, then Carry On Teacher, followed by Carry On Constable and Carry On Regardless, and this sealed her future as a regular Carry On performer. Following a bout of ill health, Dilys Laye had to be brought in to take her place in Carry On Cruising at very short notice; however, Sims rejoined the team with Carry On Cleo. Her role in this was to set the tone for the rest of the Carry On films. Sims' characters evolved from objects of desire in the early films to frumpy, nagging wives in the later ones, epitomised by the Emily Bung role in Carry On Screaming. Following the success of Carry On Cleo, she stayed with the films all the way though to the final one in the original series, Carry On Emmannuelle. Sims appeared in 2. Carry On films in all; she did not return for the one- off revival film, Carry On Columbus (1.
Joan Sims AKA Irene Joan Marion Sims ( – 27 June 2001), best known as Joan Sims, was an English actress, best remembered for her roles in the Carry On films, for playing Madge Hardcastle in As Time Goes. Doctor Who actor Mary Tamm's husband dies hours after her funeral. Joan Sims and Ronnie Barker. From there she moved on to television work and film, her first feature film being Tales That Witness Madness with Kim Novak. Joan Sims gets even better with this book and I LOVED her first book. Her trio of sleuths (mother, daughter, grandaughter) are real, and funny, and bright. The mystery is so compelling, I had to keep. After the Carry On series ended in 1. Sims continued to work on television. She appeared opposite Katharine Hepburn and Laurence Olivier in the award- winning 1. Love Among the Ruins and had a recurring role as Gran in the BBC comedy series Till Death Us Do Part. From 1. 97. 9 until 1. Mrs Bloomsbury- Barton in Worzel Gummidge for Southern Television. Also in 1. 98. 6, Sims appeared in the long- running BBC science fiction series Doctor Who in the four episodes of The Trial of a Time Lord: The Mysterious Planet as Katryca. In 1. 98. 7 she joined the cast on And There's More and was paired up with Nicholas Smith for a number of sketches for each episode as an old couple. In 1. 98. 9, she appeared as a medium in the video for Morrissey's . This was worsened by the deaths of her agent Peter Eade, her best friend Hattie Jacques and her mother, all within a two- year period, after which she fell into alcoholism. Sims suffered from Bell's palsy in 1. However, her alcoholism was beginning to dominate life in her rented Kensington flat, and she described herself as . Offered the opportunity to write her autobiography, she took a role in the BBC television film The Last of the Blonde Bombshells, alongside Dame Judi Dench and Olympia Dukakis. Sims, like her fellow Carry On star Kenneth Williams, never married. Williams, who was homosexual, did however propose a marriage of convenience to her, which she promptly declined. Sims entered hospital in November 2. Her lifelong friend and stand- in Norah Holland spoke of the doctors' amazement at her strength and courage throughout her final illness. On 2. 7 June 2. 00. Norah Holland spoke to her gently about Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacques and their time on the Carry On films. She died with Holland holding her hand. She was cremated at Putney Vale Crematorium, and her ashes scattered in the grounds there. Quite a lonely existence, I understand.
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