Passing angels....

[Mamie]

Posted: 2/1/06 at 7:36pm

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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[Elphaba]

Posted: 2/1/06 at 7:41pm

I love Dinah Shores house here. She and George Montgomery were majore donors to the Desert Museum, and a ton of the furniture he built for their house is there, along with his art. The man was truly gifted.

http://www.psmuseum.org/collectionpages/american_western_george_montgomery.shtml

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[Elphaba]

Posted: 2/1/06 at 7:43pm

How would you like to spend a weekend in Habana?

love me some Carmen!

[YouWantitWhen????]

Posted: 2/1/06 at 8:11pm

Anyone else think Gypsy Rose Lee bears a striking resembles to Bernadette Peters in taht photo?

[cheezedoodle]

Posted: 2/1/06 at 8:15pm

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

[Kitzarina]

Posted: 2/1/06 at 8:20pm

I LOVE this thread! I loved the January thread and I love this one too.

I agree with cheezedoodle. This is EXACTLY why you are celeb of the day

[Mamie]

Posted: 2/2/06 at 7:27am

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!

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 2/2/06 at 7:31am

I loved Lana Turner..of course she is in my favorite old movie ..."An Imitation of Life".

[Mamie]

Posted: 2/2/06 at 7:41am

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!)

[Glebb]

Posted: 2/2/06 at 8:02am

Mamie, thank you for this thread.
Those pictures are quite the morning treat.
You are correct (of course), Merle is the perfect Cathy!
Am I correct in remembering a movie called "They Drive By Night" in which Ida gets dragged away kicking and screaming at the end?
Also, Ida is the director of one of my all time favorite films - "The Trouble With Angels" in which one of our February girls appears. You know who. "Smile Gyps. Show us your talent."
Each portrait you posted is like a breath of perfection.
To quote Jesse in Andy Worhol's "HEAT" - 'Nothin like the old actresses."

-edit- for a PS -- Best avatar ever Elphaba. That is one hot Tsarevitch!

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[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 2/2/06 at 8:14am

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.

[Mamie]

Posted: 2/2/06 at 8:38am

Just the other day I saw her in one of old "Twilight Zone" episodes. She played an aging actress who was so caught up in the old days - when she was queen of the silver screen - that she ended up leaving the real world and entering the film. She kind of reminded me of a beautiful, not quite over the top Norma Desmond.

I also have to give a nod to the wonderful Kathleen Freeman. I just saw Jerry Lewis' "The Ladies Man". Jerry just loved her. He said something to the effect that when he could get the right team together, he knew he would have a hit. Top of his list was 'my girl Katie'.

[Jane2]

Posted: 3/1/06 at 10:45am

love me some Carmen!

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

[mominator]

Posted: 3/1/06 at 10:45am

Another huge fan of "Wuthering Heights" and Merle was just so perfect. ***sigh*** I just may have to try to rent it this weekend.

[Glebb]

Posted: 2/25/07 at 9:11am

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

[DG]

Posted: 2/25/07 at 10:13am

Thanks, Mamie - and Glebby

[best12bars]

Posted: 2/25/07 at 11:56am

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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[miss pennywise]

Posted: 2/25/07 at 12:14pm

You were so lucky to have someone like this in your life, Best. It's very sweet of you to honor her in this way.

[best12bars]

Posted: 2/25/07 at 12:46pm

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...

[Mamie]

Posted: 2/25/07 at 1:09pm

Thank you all. I think you started something good here, Glebby. We'll just revive each month's angel post, with some additions. How about some of the gentlemen? (I did this VERY fast so I apologize for all the missing angels and less-than-spectacular images!)

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

Clark Gable (2/01/1901 – 11/16/1960)


Red Buttons (2/05/1919 – 7/13/2006)


James Dean (2/08/1931 – 9/30/1955)


Jack Lemmon (2/08/1925 – 6/27/2001)


Ronald Coleman (2/09/1891 – 5/19/1958


Lorne Greene (2/12/1915 – 9/11/1987


Gregory Hines (2/14/1946 – 8/09/2003


Cesar Romero (2/15/1907 – 1/01/1994


Sonny Bono (2/16/1935 – 1/05/1998


Alan Bates (2/17/1934 – 12/27/2003


Jack Palance (2/18/1919 – 11/10/2006


Lee Marvin (2/19/1924 – 8/29/1987


John Mills (2/22/1908 – 4/23/2005


Robert Young (2/22/1907 – 7/21/1998


George Harrison (2/24/1943 – 11/29/2001


Johnny Cash (2/26/1932 – 9/12/2003


Tony Randall (2/26/1920 – 5/17/2004

(This wasn't my favorite picture of Tony - but I couldn't resist the inscription!)

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Updated On: 2/25/07 at 01:09 PM

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 2/25/07 at 1:15pm

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!!!

[Mamie]

Posted: 2/25/07 at 1:26pm

Too true, MP.

best12bars - I can't thank you enough for adding Miss King to the thread. She most definitely was (and probably IS) an angel!

This reminds me - PLEASE, if anyone has someone they want to see added to this thread, please do so. I do this so fast that I'm only too aware of the fact that I'm only brushing the surface. If you aren't able to add photos yourself but you know of one on the net or you have one on your hard drive, send me an IM and I'll post it for you. This is a good place for us all to remember our angels.

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 2/25/07 at 1:42pm

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

FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT
February 6, 1932 - October 21, 1984







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[Mamie]

Posted: 2/25/07 at 1:49pm

He was so beautiful! Not to mention the incredible talent. (For those who just recently crawled out of the cave - this is the wonderful Francois Truffaut.

[Mythus]

Posted: 2/25/07 at 2:04pm

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



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