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Miss Shirley Brahms was a fictional character from the BBC1 comedy show, ''Are You Being Served?''. She was played by Wendy Richard. ==Role== Miss Shirley Brahms, born 1954 (age in the show: 18-31), is the junior ladieswear assistant. Known for her Cockney accent, Miss Brahms is sometimes unintelligible to the person with whom she is speaking, but often puts on her best voice when answering the telephone. Under Mrs. Slocombe's guidance, she becomes a more useful assistant throughout the series, though the hierarchy of Grace Brothers is such that she would have moved up only when Mrs. Slocombe left, if ever. Attractive and voluptuous, she is never receptive to advances of older men. In one incident, when she was approached to participate in a store-wide ''Holiday Girl'' contest with the assumption that she would easily win, Miss Brahms refuses, mainly because one of the prizes is a vacation aboard the yacht of old Mr. Grace, who had previously made lecherous advances toward her. In spite of their age difference of 28 years, Miss Brahms's best friend is Mrs. Slocombe; they are often seen gossiping and going against the management. While she is proud of her working-class roots, she bemoans her present existence and yearns for a more glamorous and exciting life. Several episodes show that she can put on a convincingly posh, although since he vocabulary and syntax don't improve with her voice, this is often more a hindrance than a help. Miss Brahms's largest sale occurs when Mrs. Slocombe, who had temporarily replaced Mr. Rumbold, is ''not'' by her side. Miss Brahms often makes reference to her swinging social life and the mores of the times (such as not wearing a bra and sleeping in the nude), usually to the disdain (but interest to see if it attracted men) of Mrs. Slocombe and the immediate interest of either (or all) Mr. Humphries, Mr. Spooner, and Mr. Lucas (and sometimes Captain Peacock, Mr. Harman/Mr. Mash, and the Grace brothers). Wendy Richard also played a character named Shirley in ''Dad's Army''. When she joined the cast of ''Are You Being Served?'', her character's name was changed to Edith Perry to avoid confusion with Miss Brahms. 〔Wendy Richard No S with Lizzie Wiggins〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Miss Brahms」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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