Joan Sims Overview:

Character actress, Joan Sims, was born Irene Joan Marion Sims on May 9, 1930 in Laindon, Essex. Sims died at the age of 71 on Jun 28, 2001 in Chelsea, London .

Joan Sims was a cheery-looking, fair-haired British actress with a distinctive light voice and pinched lips. Almost entirely in comedy parts --- at first as curvaceous, man-hungry cockneys, sometimes with assumed upper-class accents, and later, with added weight -- she was a key member of the Carry On comedy team, usually playing nagging wives. She vanished from the cinema with the demise of that series.

(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Illustrated Dictionary of Film Character Actors).

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Joan Sims Quotes:

The Khasi of Kalabar: [Lady Ruff Diamond has the photograph] I must take that with me now
Lady Joan Ruff-Diamond: Then take me with it
The Khasi of Kalabar: But what about your husband?
Lady Joan Ruff-Diamond: Oh, we don't want him!
The Khasi of Kalabar: Will he not be displeased that you come away with me?
Lady Joan Ruff-Diamond: Oh, of course
[tearful]
Lady Joan Ruff-Diamond: My poor Sidney will be ever so upset!
The Khasi of Kalabar: Oh, do not worry unduly, before many days he and the others will all be dead
Lady Joan Ruff-Diamond: [happy] Oh well, that's alright then, innit!


Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond: Tell Major Shorthouse to call me an elephant.
Lady Joan Ruff-Diamond: He needn't bother I'll do it. You're an elephant!


Ellen Moore: I feel wonderful Mr Carver, I had no idea having one's appendix out could be so exhilarating. I feel ten years younger.
Frederick Carver: Splendid! Splendid!
Ellen Moore: Be honest now. Do I really look like a woman of forty?
Frederick Carver: You really feel as young as that?
Ellen Moore: No, that's what I am!


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Joan Sims Facts
Developed a drink problem in the early 1980s after the death of her good friend, Hattie Jacques, her agent and her mother. She eventually had to go into hospital to recover from her alcoholism.

Sold her more substantial home in Fulham several years earlier, complaining of money problems and expressing fears that she would be bankrupt.

Became a good friend of Katharine Hepburn during the filming of Love Among the Ruins (1975) (TV). Hepburn allowed her to use her caravan during filming breaks, although she did tick her off for smoking. Sims later described working on this film as one of the high points of her whole career.

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