Mr Selfridge : Dolly Sisters eish!

Dolly Sisters eish!

These sisters are crazy i'm not sure if I like them yet.

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Oh, I am sure that I DON'T like them. Every time they're on screen, I am reminded of a quotation from the old US series Cheers (1982).

[Carla, about Diane] "Whenever she talks, it makes me want to shove a rat in her mouth and sew her lips shut." (I'm not sure of the correct wording, but I believe I have paraphrased it well enough to make my point.)

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I can't like them because they are big trouble for Harry. 100x worse than Ellen Love.

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Too bad Selfridge is too blind to see when he's being used.

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Too true.

Though if the preview is any indication, it looks like he wakes up from his delusion about them this week.

The preview has him saying something to Lady Mae and his friend basically telling him, yeah, you just figured it out?

Oh well, it was inevitable he'd be running around town like that. The mythical dream of a pair of twins, one on each arm, is the best way to swan around pounding your chest about aren't you the lucky man then?

Even though he was only involved with one sister, the public image was Harry having it off with a set of twins. Huge ego boost for him and evidently worthy ANY price--even when he couldn't afford it.

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Watching this show recently has been similar to going to an AA meeting and hearing the same newcomer talk about the jackpots that other people have gotten them into, not realizing at all that THEY are the common denominator to all these problems. Someone give Harry a 2 pence so he can buy a clue. Harry is the classic egomaniac with an inferiority complex and is the source of ALL his problems. You know things are bad when Miss May is the voice of reason. And when combined with Miss Mardle setting the woman's movement back another decade each episode with her perennial doormat behavior, yes, it is becoming pretty depressing to watch (though the 1920's Olsen Twins dance at the end was a good sign. ;-) In my perfect world, Mardle's response to Mr Crabb should been one my lawyer used to suggest, a telegram saying "FU!, strong letter to follow."

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Can't stand them. They always seem to be on the booze and so over the top when on screen and they don't amuse me either.

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They are not fictional characters created for your delectation, but depictions of real people and events.

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Yes indeedy, in fact one of the few actualities in this season. The Dolly Sisters did tap Harry Selfridge for money for gambling and cost him a fair old packet and he did allegedly have an affair with Rosie Dolly.

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Although they would have been at least 35 yrs old at the time depicted, while the actresses appear rather younger.

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The timeline in the show is somewhat tenuous. In Season 4, Mr. Grove was shown celebrating 20 years at Selfridges. Selfridges opened in 1909 and if he was there 20 years, that would make the year 1929. However, Harry's mother died in 1924 - is this the year that series 4 is taking place in? If so, the Dolly sisters would be 32.

One other thing, in 1924 Harry is 66 years old. Jeremy Piven doesn't look much older than he did in the beginning of the series (The real Harry Selfridge opened the store when he was over 52). I really think they should have greyed his hair up much more to make him look older.

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I have decided i don't like them.

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Oh I can't stand them, and hate the way they took advantage of Harry Selfridge. It really is sad watching his demise.

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Too true! His demise is painful, even though the demise of Jeremy Piven's wooden acting and high school acting expressions I won't miss. HA

Have been wondering with only a few eps left if we will see an epilogue at the end of the finale--or even a last 10 minutes or so of the finale--Harry at the end of his life living in the flat in Putney with his daughter.

It would be hard to truly finish out the whole life story without that, it seems.

Though the scope of the show has been only his "life" from the time he built the store. So, maybe they'll conclude with when he gets kicks out of the store's hierarchy forever, and that will be that.

But still, it would be nice to really show the end for him in Putney. Sad as it was.

The flat development he died in these days is very borderline posh--and expensive. But back in the '40s, probably not at all I'm guessing.

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Remind me of the Gabor sisters and the Hilton sisters.


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Not to mention the Kardasians.

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Ironically there was also Constance, Norma and Natalie Talmadge, three sisters who were actresses of sorts and today, only Natalie stands out for marrying Buster Keaton, who is the only one known today.

Hearing about them on Buster Keaton: A Tough Act To Follow, I looked them up to see they all became alcoholics, it seems.

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I'm watching it in America, and tho I haven't spoiled the show, I have read up on Selfridge and discovered he essentially died in poverty with only his oldest daughter tending to him, so yea, he self-destructed.

I checked on him again after the Dollies were shown and by George, they were real as well and ended with equally abysmal lives, so they are well worth hating. In the end, they get their just desserts.

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I think that is the point of them for you to not like them.

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The Dolly Sisters were very real and were part of the downfall for Harry Selfridge. The depiction of the are purely an invention of old Hollywood. The biopic, The Dolly Sisters (1945), starred Betty Grable and June Haver. They are both blond with that all American look about them, so popular in 1940's America. In reality, they were very dark haired, maybe black, I've not seen a color photo of them. The hair style was a straight bob ala Coleen Moore and Louise Brooks. They were Hungarian so I'm left wondering, where'd they get their American accents? Even as they are introduced in Mr Selfridge, it doesn't seem they they've been to the US yet. That's my big complaint about the dicpiction of them.

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In reality, they were very dark haired, maybe black...The hair style was a straight bob ala Colleen Moore and Louise Brooks


https://au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/marie-claire/news-and-views/celebrity/a/5874123/the-dolly-sisters-double-trouble/

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Thanks for the link. Good article.

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Wikipedia says they emigrated to the US with their parents in 1905. They were thirteen.
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