Passing angels....

Some of the wonderfully talented ladies of the past who all celebrated their birthdays in February. They're gone - but their contributions to the entertainment world will make them live forever in our memories:



Ida Lupino: 2/04/1918 - 8/03/95


Lana Turner: 2/8/21 - 6/29/95


Audrey Meadows: 2/8/24 - 2/3/96


Gypsy Rose Lee: 2/9/14 - 4/26/70


Carmen Miranda: 2/9/1909 - 8/05/1955


Dame Judith Anderson: 2/10/1898 - 1/3/92


Eva Gabor: 2/11/26 - 7/4/95


Kathleen Freeman: 2/17/1919 - 8/23/01


Merle Oberon: 2/19/1911 - 11/23/79


Ann Sheridan: 2/21/1915 - 1/21/67


Margaret Leighton: 2/26/1922 - 1/13/76


Mary Frann: 2/27/1943 - 9/23/98


Dinah Shore: 2/29/1916 - 2/24/94

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How would you like to spend a weekend in Habana?

love me some Carmen!

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Kathleen Freeman! I loved her - awww, no wonder you are the celebrity of the day!

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I'm going to knock this back up to the top this morning. These ladies deserve it. I had intended to post it first thing yesterday morning and I was somehow....distracted! LOL. At any rate, here they are for all of us to remember!

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I think we can all pick out a favorite performance by one or all of these wonderful performers. For me it was Merle Oberon in "Wuthering Heights". When I was 14 my grandmother gave me that book and I immediately fell in love with Heathcliff and I became Cathy - haunting the moors! When I saw the William Wyler classic, I thought the casting was sheer perfection! She'll always be Cathy to me and any attempts to remake it have only resulted in poor imitations.

(Having said all that - who do I admire most? Absolutely IDA LUPINO! She was a magnificent actress and became a powerhouse winning director at a time when women just didn't do those things. Bravo Ida for opening those doors!)

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Ida Lupino was in my Grandfather's favorite movie which Glebby already mentioned..."They Drive By Night"..he loved when they tried bringing her into the courtroom and she starts screaming.."Don't let me go through those doors !!!". I will never forget that as long as I shall live.

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love me some Carmen!

"Quanta le gusta le gusta le gusta...."

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I thought it would be fun to bump last year's "Passing Angels" threads, get another look.
Thanks Mamie!

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I would like to add my own passing angel for the month of February.



Andrea King: 2/1/1919 - 4/22/2003

She was an actress and star at Warner Bros. in the mid-1940s. Voted the most photogenic actress by the still gallery photographers on the entire Warners lot for the year 1945... She starred with Ida Lupino in "The Man I Love," Helmut Dantine both in "Hotel Berlin" and "Shadow of a Woman," Peter Lorre and Robert Alda in "The Beast With Five Fingers," Dennis Morgan in "God Is My Co-Pilot," Robert Montgomery in "Ride the Pink Horse," and she played Lillian Russell in the musical "My Wild Irish Rose." She also appeared in the "Lemon Drop Kid" with Bob Hope, "Band of Angels" with De Carlo and Clark Gable, and many other films and TV appearances throughout her career.

And she was one of my best and closest friends for the first 16 years I lived in Los Angeles. She was my true "Auntie Mame." Think turbans, long cigarette holders, un-PC fur coats from another era, bright red lipstick... and she always made heads turn, wherever we went. There was more than just a passing resemblance to Mame, since she even played Rosalind Russell's daughter in "Roughly Speaking."

She would also loan me her car for auditions when I first moved out here from NY and didn't have wheels... she gave me endless encouragement... she picked up restaurant checks when I didn't have two nickels to rub together. We eventually wrote a book together, and traveled up north to visit my mom for Christmas one year. She was "family," as much as any blood relative could ever be.

I've been missing her quite a lot lately, even though she passed away nearly 4 years ago now. I miss her incredible, unmatchable sense of humor. (Think of the title character in the Drowsy Chparone. She literally walked into a McDonald's once, and only once, and asked, "Where's the bar?")

I've also been "celebrating" her all this month in my rotating av photos. I'll go back to Montgomery Clift next month, don't worry. I've actually been getting PMs about that! (In fact, Andrea and Monty appeared together on Broadway in a hit play called "Fly Away Home" when they were mere kids... hence the connection between us and how we met...)

But for this month, it's my own personal mini-Andrea Tribute.

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Updated On: 2/25/07 at 11:56 AM

Thanks, Miss Penny!

I was very lucky indeed, and I know it.

Through her eyes, I was able to glimpse the old "Hollywood." I met many of the legendary old-timers who were still around from the late '80s through 2003, she would point to buildings and houses and say, "I played poker there with Dorothy Parker, Estelle Winwood and Aggie Moorehead." Things like that.

Now that she's gone, Hollywood is so much more of a modern contemporary big city to me. I don't see the ghosts and the glamour years around anymore. I felt connected to all of that, through her. The history was alive through her. And for those 16 years, The Comedy Store was Ciro's. The Virgin Megastore was Schwab's...

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Ah, Schwab's. I loved that place.

There's hardly anyone left from the old days. It saddens me.

Thank goodness we still have Luise Rainer, Kitty Carlysle Hart...and Meinhardt Raabe!!!

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Film director, writer, actor, essayist, but most of all, fan.

FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT
February 6, 1932 - October 21, 1984

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Updated On: 2/25/07 at 01:42 PM

I don't want to wait eleven months to post during the appropriate month, so hopefully this is allowable, if a bit belated...



Sharon Tate: 1/24/43 - 8/9/69

Updated On: 2/25/07 at 02:04 PM