[Bounci]

In a change to Technicolor this week to battle the February blues, this week's Pat of Appreciation comes from the Swinging 60's - more exactly, from the film Don't Bother To Knock (known as Why Bother To Knock in the USA) from 1961. The film involved Richard Todd as a womanising estate agent who falls out with his girlfriend and ends up attracting a number of women during a business trip on the continent - including a teenage girl (played by Dawn Beret, actually 20 when she did the film). And it is Dawn who features in this video in two scenes.

First she comes to say goodnight to Richard Todd in bed (sharing a room with Scott Finch, whose character is in love with Dawn), lingering at his bed hoping for a kiss, only for Todd to playfully tug her pigtail and then pat her backside to encourage her on her way out. Then she appears in a bikini with Todd on the beach, trying to get his attention. He pats her bum absent mindedly, which annoys her as she tells him it makes her "feel like a sheepdog at a show." However, she continues to try and woo him, and convinces herself that he has actually proposed to her - which proves awkward as at that moment Todd's fiancée June Thorburn (who died tragically young in a plane crash in 1967 aged 36) turns up to make amends. I've left the beach scenes on the end of the video, just because some people might appreciate seeing Dawn Beret in her bikini. Dawn herself had a active career in the 1960's, but her biggest role was in TV's Compact (1962-64), and after 1971 she disappeared from acting.