RIP Eileen Brennan
RIP Eileen Brennan
Joined: 12/31/69
Joined: 12/31/69
RIP Eileen Brennan#2
Posted: 7/30/13 at 2:54pmhttp://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/actress-eileen-brennan-dies-595503
RIP Eileen Brennan#2
Posted: 7/30/13 at 2:54pm
NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! I'm Miss Peacock right now.
RIP Eileen Brennan#3
Posted: 7/30/13 at 2:59pm
She'll be wearing ribbons down her back in heaven...
R.I.P.
RIP Eileen Brennan#4
Posted: 7/30/13 at 3:03pm
From her Hello, Dolly! days ...
RIP
I thought she was enormously talented.
Singing (or La-La-La-ing) La Vie En Rose
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Joined: 12/31/69
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
RIP Eileen Brennan#6
Posted: 7/30/13 at 3:38pm
Thanks for the laughs Eileen. Rest in peace wonderful lady.
(I always thought she'd be a fantastic Miss Hannigan! And she was a hoot as Zandra on Will & Grace.)
RIP Eileen Brennan#7
Posted: 7/30/13 at 3:39pm
One of the greatest and at the same time criminally underrated actors in Hollywood's history. She was a tremendously gifted actress. Terrible loss.
One of Ms. Brennan's last acting gigs was the role of Jack's acting coach on Will and Grace. She was hysterically funny. Easily one of the best guest stars on the show. May she R.I.P.
Eileen Brennan sings La Vie en Rose: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R-D45baMcU
RIP Eileen Brennan#8
Posted: 7/30/13 at 3:53pmOne of my absolute favorite things about Private Benjamin. RIP
RIP Eileen Brennan#9
Posted: 7/30/13 at 4:04pm
Oh no! Terrible news.
One heck of a funny lady.
In 'Murder by Death' she was a brilliant sidekick for Peter Falk.
A very sad day.
RIP Eileen Brennan#10
Posted: 7/30/13 at 4:28pm
Maybe she was poisoned!
Seriously though, I'll miss her.
RIP Eileen Brennan#11
Posted: 7/30/13 at 5:43pm
I would have loved to have seen her onstage, esp. in "LITTLE MARY SUNSHINE, HELLO DOLLY! & ANNIE. She had her share of physical accidents. She was hit by a car & seriously injured & while playing Miss Hannigan in a summer stock production of "Annie" in Kansas City she broke her leg again after falling from the stage during rehearsals.
Updated On: 7/30/13 at 05:43 PM
RIP Eileen Brennan#12
Posted: 7/30/13 at 5:50pm
Carol Channing statement on Eileen Brennan, her 'Hello, Dolly' co-star :
"Eileen was a brilliant actress and I respected her work. I truly wish we had kept more in contact over the years," Channing said. "As is the case in this industry, you so often lose touch with each other. She will be missed."
Goldie Hawn statement on Eileen, her 'Private Benjamin' & Rowans Laugh-In co-star :
"We have lost my old friend Eileen Brennan. No one ever made me laugh more! Now I cry. Please keep singing darling from on high. Rest"
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rest in peace Eileen. I personally loved her in Babes in Toyland as Mother Goose. she was amazing in everything she did.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmZKyAuZWIc&feature=youtu.be&t=28m35s
RIP Eileen Brennan#13
Posted: 7/30/13 at 5:54pmI find this genuinely distressful! I never had the good fortune of meeting Miss Brennan, but I loved her in everything I saw her do.
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/07
RIP Eileen Brennan#15
Posted: 7/30/13 at 9:26pmThis makes me extremely sad, she was such an incredible talent. She will always be Mrs.Peacock to me, but everything she did was great. R.I.P
RIP Eileen Brennan#16
Posted: 7/30/13 at 9:58pm
Color me ignorant... Just learned tonight that she originated the role of Irene Molloy in HELLO, DOLLY! Wow. I definitely have a soft spot and tremendous admiration for those actors who created roles that became legendary in musical theatre. It was the first musical in which I ever performed.
And yes, she was a rip-roaring riot in WILL & GRACE.
God bless and RIP, Ms. Brennan.
RIP Eileen Brennan#17
Posted: 7/30/13 at 10:00pmSad to hear this. For some reason I remember her most as Miss Bannister in Pippi Longstocking.
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/03
RIP Eileen Brennan#18
Posted: 7/30/13 at 11:02pm
Didn't she spend some time on Laugh-In as well? This thought just crossed my mind...wouldn't she have made a sensational Miss Hannigan?
Rest In Peace.
RIP Eileen Brennan#20
Posted: 7/31/13 at 5:57am
RIP Eileen Brennan
She had elegance, she had built in elegance.
Loved this lady, firstly, when I was young, as a comic actress in films. It was years later when I started to collect OBC recordings, I discovered she could sing too!
RIP Eileen Brennan#21
Posted: 7/31/13 at 6:43am
Here's Eileen from a 1968 summer stock production of WHERE'S CHARLEY? at Melody Top in Milwaukee. She was billed on the playbill cover as Eileen ("Sock It To Me") Brennan, from her time on LAUGH-IN.
RIP Eileen Brennan#22
Posted: 7/31/13 at 1:08pmThanks for posting the photo, BroadwayDan! I saw that production and was thrilled to see the actress whose work I'd previously admired in the original HELLO DOLLY and in the tour of MIRACLE WORKER.
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