Passing Angels - for January (one more time)

[Mamie]

Posted: 1/6/08 at 12:20am

I wanted to update last January's angel thread with the names and faces of those who passed during the last year. Apparently I had a senior moment last January because there was no thread to update! So ....
This is dedicated to those wonderfully talented ladies and gentlemen of the past who celebrated their birthdays in January. They're gone - but their contributions to the entertainment world will make them live forever in our hearts and our memories.

Dana Andrews (1/01/1909 – 12/17/1992)


Ray Milland (1/03/1905 – 3/10/1986)


Maxene Andrews (1/03/1918 – 10/21/1995)


Zasu Pitts (1/03/1898 – 6/7/1963)


Sterling Holloway (1/04/1905 – 11/22/1992)


George Reeves (1/05/1914 – 6/16/1959)


Jane Wyman (1/05/1917 – 9/10/2007)


Loretta Young (1/06/1913 – 8/12/2000)


Danny Thomas (1/06/1914 – 2/06/1991)


Butterfly McQueen (1/07/1911 – 12/22/1995)


Elvis Presley (1/08/1935 – 8/16/1977)


Fernando Lamas (1/09/1915 – 10/08/1982


Bob Denver (1/09/1935 – 9/02/2005)


Ray Bolger (1/10/1904 – 1/15/1987)


Paul Henreid (1/10/1908 – 3/29/1992)


Sal Mineo (1/10/1939 – 2/12/1976)


Sophie Tucker (1/13/1884 – 2/09/1966)


Robert Stack (1/13/1919 – 5/14/2003)


Gwen Verdon (1/13/1925 – 10/18/2000)


Charles Nelson Reilly (1/13/1931 – 5/25/2007)


Gene Krupa (1/15/1909 – 10/16/1973)


Lloyd Bridges (1/15/1913 – 3/10/1998 )


Ethel Merman (1/16/1909 – 2/15/1984)


Shari Lewis (1/17/1934 – 8/02/1998 )


Andy Kaufman (1/17/1949 – 5/16/1984)


Cary Grant (1/18/1904 – 11/29/1986)


Danny Kaye (1/18/1913 – 3/03/1987)


Guy Madison (1/19/1922 – 2/06/1996)


George Burns (1/20/1896 – 3/09/1996)


DeForest Kelley (1/20/1920 – 6/11/1999)


Telly (Aristotle) Savalas (1/21/1922 – 1/22/1994)


Benny Hill (1/21/1925 – 4/20/1992)


Steve Reeves (1/21/1926 – 5/01/2000)


Ann Sothern (1/22/1909 – 3/15/2001)


Bill Bixby (1/22/1934 – 11/21/1993)


Randolph Scott (1/23/1903 – 3/02/1987)


Ernie Kovacs (1/23/1919 – 1/13/1962)


Sharon Tate (1/24/1943 – 8/09/1969)


John Belushi (1/24/1949 – 3/15/1982)


Charles Lane (1/26/1905 – 7/09/2007)


Donna Reed (1/27/1921 – 1/14/1986)


Troy Donahue (1/27/1936 – 9/02/2001)


W.C. Fields (1/29/1880 – 12/25/1946)


Victor Mature (1/29/1913 – 8/04/1999)


Eddie Cantor (1/31/1892 – 10/10/1964)


Mario Lanza (1/31/1921 – 10/07/1959)


James Franciscus (1/31/1934 – 7/08/1991)


Suzanne Pleshette (1/31/1937 – 1/17/200








Updated On: 1/21/08 at 12:20 AM

[Glebb]

Posted: 1/6/08 at 12:40am

Thank you so much for this bonus Mamie!
Your "Passing Angels" threads have been the best BWW has to offer.
Happy New Year with peace, good health, prosperity and much happiness to you!

Posted: 1/6/08 at 8:59am

there are so many great ones in January!!!
imgaine, Sophie Tucker & Ernie Kovacks in the same month!!!

& that photo of Jane Wyman, WOW!

thanks, Mamie!

[best12bars]

Posted: 1/6/08 at 9:03am

What an amazing group of talent! And so lovingly presented.

Thank you, Mamie!

[Mamie]

Posted: 1/6/08 at 9:28am

Thank you all for your kind words. There were just too many greats this month to let them go by without a tribute.

Who'd have thought that grand old man George Burns would be sharing a month with another gentleman who was even older than he?! Charles Lane would have been 103 this month.

(Happy birthday Loretta and Danny!)

Posted: 1/6/08 at 10:02am

Go Mamie! Thank you for this!


Some of them were just so beautiful. It's something I've laways loved about these threads: Seeing the classic beauty that is so hard to find in the present.

[wexy]

Posted: 1/6/08 at 2:31pm

Thanks again as always.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 1/6/08 at 3:30pm

Fantasic!

[NYadgal]

Posted: 1/6/08 at 7:58pm

Stunning and moving, Mamie. Thank you for this gift.

[shameless]

Posted: 1/7/08 at 8:59am

Bumpety bump bump.

[javero]

Posted: 1/7/08 at 10:04am

Thanks Mamie.

This thread always puts me in a somber mood for a few minutes but I salute you for paying homage to these angels.

[Mamie]

Posted: 1/21/08 at 11:41pm

bumped to add Suzanne Pleshette

[nitsua]

Posted: 1/22/08 at 12:00am

Were Troy Donahue and Guy Madison studs or what?

Thanks again, Mamie.

[Mamie]

Posted: 1/22/08 at 12:14am

I had SUCH a deadly crush on Troy Donahue! I used to buy all these film and teen magazines with his picture in them and then cut out the full page ones and tape them all over the walls of my bedroom. (That scene in "Grease" rings very true with me!)

In August 2001, I had the pleasure of meeting Connie Stevens at a party in New York. I told her that I was a huge fan of hers too. I told her that I had dark hair that my parents always made me cut in a dutch boy style (Just like Scout in my avatar). I thought she was the most wonderful person in the world because she had a long blond pony tail AND she got to kiss Troy Donahue. She loved the story and said he was an absolute sweetheart. He passed just a month later.

Updated On: 1/22/08 at 12:14 AM

Posted: 1/22/08 at 6:37am

i scanned this photo of young Sophie Tucker from her autobiography!
i love that devilish look on her face!

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/22/08 at 10:08am

Awww, Mamie. Don't stop. We LOVE these!

[Mamie]

Posted: 1/22/08 at 12:44pm

Well, this will be my compromise. We keep losing people and the lists will always need updating. I'll do that - just pull up the old list and add in the new names and faces. OK?



ps to tommyboy - I wasn't able to reply to your pm but I did make a note for myself to add Laurie to the April angels.

Updated On: 1/22/08 at 12:44 PM