Inimitable, luxuriantly breathy and slyly mellifluous, Fenella Fielding, graced and sidled across the West End stage and our television screens for near on sixty years. There was always something exotic and possibly louche about Fenella and men adored her. Immortalised in this succulent scene in 'Carry On Screaming', as Mistress Valeria draped on a divan. A quintessential sixties femme fatale. Fenella Fielding OBE died on this day 2018, aged 90. | Bernie Briffa

Carry On Screaming (1966). Fenella Fielding's 'mind if I smoke' gag was 'borrowed' from Morticia Addams in a 1964 episode of The Addams Family, which in turn, was 'borrowed' from a 1955 episode of The George Gobel Show, with Maila Nurmi, on smouldering duty as "Vampira". (@TheStingisBack) | Touted Folly