Man About the House (film) Man About the House (film) Man About the House is a 1974 British comedy film, a spinoff of the sitcom of the same name, starring all of the main cast of the series. It was the last in a series of big screen adaptations of popular TV shows made by Hammer Films though a "George & Mildred" film (featuring Yootha Joyce and Brian Murphy) would be made in 1980 by another studio. The Ropers learn that Mr Pluthero, a real estate developer, wants to buy their building. The roommates circulate a petition to stop the development which attracts the interest
Yootha Joyce this was to be her last work. Amidst growing concern over her health, she was admitted to hospital in the summer of 1980. Joyce died in hospital of liver failure four days after her 53rd birthday on 24 August 1980. Her co-star and good friend Brian Murphy was at her bedside. She was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium. At the inquest into her death, it was revealed that she had been drinking upwards of half a bottle of brandy a day for ten years, and that she had, in the words of her lawyer Mario Uziell-Hamilton, become a victim of