To the younger ones, surely, his name doesn’t ring a bell. Actress Judy Farrell has died at the age of 84. For those over 50, your name, first of all, refers (and will always refer) to Capable, the nurse MIXTUREthat satirical comedy with a profound anti-war message, which aired on CBS between 1972 and 1983.
The actress’s son, Michael Farrell, told the portal tmz extension that the actress died last Sunday (April 2) in hospital, having suffered a stroke nine days earlier.
When Farrell appeared in the series MIXTURE was married to series star Mike Farrellwho joined the cast in 1975 as surgeon BJ Hunnicutt.
Furthermore MIXTUREFarrell’s acting career also included guest star appearances in other hugely popular television series such as Super Agent 86 (be smart) AND the partridge family (The partridge family).
As for cinema, he has worked in films JW Coop (1971), Chapter two (1979) and Long term relationship (2006). Following the Farrells’ divorce in 1983, she married actor and producer Joe Bratcher.
in memory
another star of MIXTURELoretta Swit, who played Nurse Margaret Sensual lips Houlihan paid tribute to Farrell in a statement broadcast via Fox News.
The Vietnam War in satire
For the little ones, MIXTURE is an American television series that aired on CBS between September 17, 1972 and February 28, 1983.
is inspired by Robert Altman’s film of the same name and at the same time based on the novel of the same name by Richard Hooker.
The film would win the coveted and prestigious Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1970 and in the delivery of the Oscars ended up taking the statuette for Best Adapted Screenplay.
It is regarded as one of the most important anti-war milestones in television history.
To understand the plot and its satirical humour, one must place oneself in the United States of the 1970s, when society was marked by the -disastrous- participation of the great northern power in the so-called Vietnam War, which was taking place in which the Series; so and all, it is worth clarifying, the storyline of the series focused on an earlier war – the Korean Warjust as violent.
popular phenomenon
A popular phenomenon, the series has become one of the most successful and longest-running series in the United States, with eleven seasons and a total of 251 episodes.
Just the final episode of the series, broadcast in 1983, kept Record television ratings in the United States (125 million viewers) for more than a decade.
North American TV scholars judge it at the end of MIXTURE as responsible for the same kind of expectation that, many years later, will generate the farewell to authentic classics of the sector such as Seinfeld, friends OR the Sopranosin figures three convincing examples.
Source: Clarin
