Gilly Flower talents, continuing to appear in such programmes as "Z-Cars", "Steptoe and Son" and "The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin". Early in her career, Flower was also a model and seven portrait photographs taken by Bassano, in which she is modelling hats from Kembray, may today be found in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery. Gilly Flower retired from acting in 1991. Gilly Flower Gilly Flower (26 August 1908 – 17 February 2001) was an English actress and model, best remembered as the elderly Miss Abitha Tibbs in the BBC sitcom "Fawlty Towers". Gilly Flower played Miss Tibbs in
Miss Teenage America role in one of the first TV sitcom about a black couple. Donna Taylor Gann, Miss Teenage Lexington, Ky. 1966. Miss Teenage America The Miss Teenage America Pageant was a United States beauty pageant started in 1961 as a pageant for high school girls. In the 1960s and 1970s, it was usually broadcast on the CBS network around November each year. The pageant was sponsored by Dr. Pepper. The original pageant ended after 1979, and the name rights were sold to "Teen Magazine". From 1961–1967 Dallas, Texas hosted the national pageant, and it moved to Fort Worth, Texas from 1968–1973.