Passing angels - for May

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Passing angels - for May

Posted: 5/1/06 at 11:45pm

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



Audrey Hepburn (5/4/1929 - 1/20/1993)


Alice Faye (5/5/1915 - 5/9/1998 )


Anne Baxter (5/7/1923 - 12/12/1985)


Totie Fields (5/7/1930 - 8/2/1978 )


Nancy Walker (5/10/1921 - 5/25/1992)


Dame Margaret Rutherford (5/11/1892 - 5/22/72)


Katharine Hepburn (5/12/1907 - 6/29/03)


Constance Cummings (5/15/1910 - 11/23/2005)


Maureen O'Sullivan (5/17/1911 - 6/22/1998 )


Dame Margot Fonteyn (5/18/1919 - 2/21/1991)


Susan Strasberg (5/22/1938 - 1/20/1999)


Rosemary Clooney (5/23/1928 - 6/29/2002)


Helen O'Connell (5/23/1920 - 9/9/1993)


Lilli Palmer (5/24/1914 - 1/27/1986)


Jeanne Crain (5/25/1925 - 12/14/2003)


Ginny Simms (5/25/1916 - 4/4/1994)


Peggy Lee (5/26/1920 - 1/21/2002)


Isadora Duncan (5/27/1878 - 9/14/1927)


Meredith MacRae (5/30/1945 - 7/14/2000)

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mamie4 5/14/03

Updated On: 5/2/06 at 11:45 PM

#2

re: Passing angels - for May

Posted: 5/1/06 at 11:48pm

Lovely as always, Mamie.

You chose a particularly beautiful picture of Miss Audrey. She was a true lady, inside and out

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Posted: 5/1/06 at 11:48pm

All gorgeous and talented! But, Rosemary Clooney (5/23/1928 - 6/29/2002) sticks out!!!

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Posted: 5/1/06 at 11:55pm

Thank you. I'm curious - what did you think of the pic of Kate Hepburn? I found many from when she was young, but I didn't think any of them were as beautiful as this picture. Somehow I felt like she would have prefered the older picture herself.

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Posted: 5/2/06 at 12:01am

I love it! It speaks more of who she was as an actress and a woman than a younger picture would've. She was always Kate, but I don't feel she became Katharine Hepburn until she was older.

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"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.

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Posted: 5/2/06 at 12:30am

Thanks, Mamie. I think every photo you chose truly captures the essence of each woman...at least as we knew them.

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Posted: 5/2/06 at 12:33am

Amazing photos of some amazing women. Bravo.

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Posted: 5/2/06 at 8:33am

Thank you so much. I'm bumping my own thread since I didn't get this posted until rather late yesterday.

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Posted: 5/2/06 at 8:47am

What beauty!
Thank you Mamie.

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Posted: 5/2/06 at 8:50am

So many lovely and talented women. "That's MISS Peggy Lee, if you please!"

But I can't get past the Hepburns - both Audrey and Kate. Two of my all-time favorite human beings. Ever.

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Posted: 5/2/06 at 8:59am

Glebby - I had a terrible time trying to find a portrait-type picture of Isadora Duncan. The few that I did find were dark and very unflattering. So I went for what she did best and most beautifully. I hope I did her honor with this picture!

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Posted: 5/2/06 at 9:00am

Beautiful..all so beautiful....and some left us all too early.

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Posted: 5/2/06 at 9:02am

Mamie, you did Isadora justice!
That is a picture I've never seen and it is the best I've ever seen.
Now what about my all time favorite - Margot?
Is that gorgeous or what?

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Posted: 5/2/06 at 9:04am

Mamie - as long as you didn't show Isadora in a car, I think you're safe!

And Glebb, I thought of you when I saw Margot! Margot and Rudolph . . . *sigh*

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Posted: 5/2/06 at 9:08am

Maybe we can have Rudy next March. :)

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Posted: 5/2/06 at 9:08am

Oh - I loved Margot so much! She made me a fan of the ballet when I was the ripe old age of 8 and I'll always be grateful to her for that! I wonder if I shouldn't have shown her dancing as well? She was beautiful on or off the stage.

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Posted: 5/2/06 at 9:11am

If you want Rudy (and I would have KILLED for his cheekbones!) then you're going to have to do one of these threads for the males. I just don't have the time to do them all!

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Posted: 5/2/06 at 9:12am

I have a very limited awareness of such things, but Margot will ALWAYS be the ultimate Swan to me.

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Posted: 5/2/06 at 9:13am

She took class with us in Miami (on one of her many tours) when I was a little boy. Royal blue leotard, pink tights, no leg warmers - completely gorgeous. Later that week I got to stand in the wings and watch her dance Cinderella. I met her again when she came back stage at City Center, after a performance of Nutcracker - 1987. She had silver hair and spoke with me as though we had known each other all of our lives. She is the greatest star.

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Posted: 5/2/06 at 9:15am

What a wonderful memory! It keeps her alive.

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Posted: 5/2/06 at 9:21am

Mamie - this is wonderful (again).

Love Susan Strasberg's pose.

Ohhh....Anne Baxter......wonderful.

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Posted: 5/2/06 at 9:23am

Beautiful pictures, Mamie.

...I'm amazed at how long it's been since some of them passed. It doesn't seem so long ago, yet years have gone by...

What a loving tribute.

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Posted: 5/2/06 at 10:05am

beautiful as always, Mamie! So many beautiful and gifted angels for this month! Anyone care to join me in BWW renditions of "Hey There" and "Moon River" in honor of Rosemary and Audrey?

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Posted: 5/2/06 at 10:13am

I was just thinking that with Rosemary, Peggy, Helen, Ginny, and Alice - there's some beautiful music up in heaven right now!

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Updated On: 5/2/06 at 10:13 AM

#25

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Posted: 5/2/06 at 10:14am

Count me in, katygrace!

Beautiful music there, Mamie. That's a promise!

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