[Bounci]

This week's Pat of Appreciation comes from the Doctors film series, and in particular Doctor at Sea (1955), which featured a young Brigitte Bardot. However, the lady that features in this video is Jill Adams, who here plays a rather tipsy girl who ends up as a surprise package for Dirk Bogarde's Dr Simon Sparrow when he goes to his cabin to bed after a ship's party and finds Adams in his cabin. This being Dirk Bogarde, he isn't having any of it, and attempts to wake her up by giving her a couple of firm slaps to her backside to rouse her (well, that would be my excuse). This doesn't entirely work, but the scene where Bogarde attempts to get her back into her own cabin is amusing enough, and I've left that on the end of the video for you to enjoy. Certainly Jill Adams looks a treat here.

As for Jill Adams, she started out as a window dresser and then sketch artist for the shop in the 1940's, and when a model failed to arrive for a shoot, Jill had to step in and thus started her modelling career. In 1953 she was discovered again, and quickly moved into acting, which she proved surprisingly adept at, and had an array of hits including The Constant Husband (1955), Private's Progress (1956), The Green Man (1956) and Brothers in Law (1957), and although her career was beginning to wane by the 1960's she was noticeable as WPC Policewoman Passworthy in Carry on Constable in 1960. She retired from acting in 1966, and died in 2008, aged 77.