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Recently actress/singer Eydie Gorme passed away at the age of 84.  In this post we remember her and also remember twenty-five other people that were not only marvelous legends in their own right but also guest stars on "Here's Lucy."  The series was the 3rd weekly program for the redhead and ran from 1968 to 1974 on CBS producing 144 episodes.  All of the people listed below have been remembered on this blog more than twice I'm sure...but they are all worth it.  In some cases the performers appeared as themselves or as characters.  Some of them appeared more than once.

Jack Benny (1894-1974)
Wally Cox (1924-1973)
Milton Berle (1908-2002)
Ed McMahon (1923-2009)
Paul Winchell (1922-2005)
Eddie Albert (1906-2005)
Eva Gabor (1919-1995)
Robert Cummings (1910-1990)
Shelley Winters (1920-2006)
Ricardo Montalban (1920-2009)
Lawrence Welk (1903-1992)
Jackie Gleason (1916-1987)
Van Johnson (1916-2008)
Dinah Shore (1916-1994)
Ginger Rogers (1911-1995)
Patty Andrews (1918-2013)
Liberace (1919-1987)
Danny Thomas (1912-1991)
Jackie Coogan (1914-1984)
Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011)
Richard Burton (1925-1984)
Sammy Davis, Jr. (1925-1990)
Vincent Price (1911-1993)
Art Linkletter (1912-2010)
Johnny Carson (1925-2005)

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