In Memoriam

Happy Birthday! Ethel Waters (1896) Dale Evans (1912) Barbara Bel Geddes (1922) Michael Landon (1936) John Candy (1950) At Rest: John Houseman (1988) River Phoenix (1993) Rosalind Cash (1995) 

Happy Birthday! Ruth Gordon (1896) Hugh Reilly (1915) Hamilton Camp (1934) Ed Lauter (1938) At Rest: Steve Allen (2000) Robert Goulet (2007) 

Happy Birthday! Fanny Brice (1891) Hope Emerson (1897) Lew Parker (1907 or 1910) Neal Hefti (1922) At Rest: Lloyd Bochner (2005) 

 Happy Birthday! Elsa Lanchester (1902) Douglas Seale (1913) Dody Goodman (1914) Jack Soo (1917)

This is yet another post I am sad to write... I just saw this lady last week on reruns of "The $25,000 Pyramid."  So sad... I don't think there is any question that she is best known as Carol Bondurant on "The Bob Newhart Show" from 1972 to 1978 and as the voice of Edna Krabappel on "The Simpsons" a role which she played on a recurring basis from 1990 until her passing.  Her role as Mrs. Krabappel earned her an Emmy win in 1992. In 2001 she also played Maggie Hawley on the President George W. Bush spoof series "That's My Bush!" Among her television guest work credits are appearances on "Bewitched", "The Brady Bunch", "The Love Boat", "Fantasy Island", "Magnum, P.I.", "Murder, She Wrote", "Gimme a Break!", "ALF", "Night Court", "Full House", "The Young and The Restless", "Murphy Brown" and "7th Heaven....

Happy Birthday! Jack Carson (1910) Frederick De Cordova (1910) Teresa Wright (1918) Ned Wertimer (1923) Carrie Snodgress (1945) At Rest: Lew Parker (1972) Allan "Rocky" Lane (1973) Rex Stout (1975) Morey Amsterdam (1996) 

November 1, 1942 - October 25, 2013 In Memoriam Remembers: Marcia Wallace 

Happy Birthday! H.B. Warner (1875) Jackie Coogan (1914) 

Happy Birthday! Leo G. Carroll (1886) Cecil Elliott (1887) Al Lewis, writer (1912) Billy Barty (1924) Anthony Franciosa (1928) Jeanne Cooper (1928) At Rest: Forrest Tucker (1986) Vincent Price (1993) Mildred Natwick (1994) Richard Harris (2002) Marcia Wallace (2013)

October 24, 1915 - November 3, 1998 In Memoriam Remembers: Bob Kane 

Happy Birthday! Mira McKinney (1892) Gummo Marx (1893) Hayden Rorke (1910) Frank Sutton (1923) Johnny Carson (1925) At Rest: Lou Jacobi (2009) 

Happy Birthday! Curly Howard (1903) Annette Funicello (1942) At Rest: Cleavon Little (1992) Mary Wickes (1995) Arthur Hill (2006) Soupy Sales (2009) 

October 21, 1920 - October 14, 1997 In Memoriam Remembers: Hy Averback 

Happy Birthday! Bela Lugosi (1882) Arlene Francis (1907) Barney Phillips (1913) John Anderson (1922) Jerry Orbach (1935) Earl Hindman (1942) At Rest: Joel McCrea (1990) Burt Lancanster (1994) Christopher Stone (1995) Jack Elam (2003) Jane Wyatt (2006) 

Happy Birthday! Sam Flint (1882) Tor Johnson (1903) David Lewis (1916) Bob Sweeney (1918) LaWanda Page (1920) Robert Reed (1932) At Rest: Martha Raye (1994) Phyllis Kirk (2006) Tom Bosley (2010) 

 June 6, 2008 - October 18, 2013 Celebrating 1000 posts... In the past five years there have been a lot of names on this blog...each post was a sweet and sad reminder of the great talent that was here and then left us.  Here are just a few... Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz Vivian Vance William Frawley Gale Gordon Doris Singleton Eve Arden Jane Wyman George Reeves Estelle Getty Beatrice Arthur Rue McClanahan Carroll O'Connor Jean Stapleton Sherman Hemsley Isabel Sanford Mike Evans Mel Stewart Roxie Roker Franklin Cover Zara Cully Paul Benedict Ned Wertimer Donna Reed Kathryn Card Elizabeth Patterson Eddie Albert Eva Gabor Eleanor Audley Cesar Romero Frank Gorshin Burgess Meredith Eartha Kitt Neil Hamilton Stafford Repp Alan Napier Madge Blake George Sanders Anne Baxter Vincent Price Cliff Robertson Otto Preminger Jeanne Cooper Chao-Li Chi Mel Ferrer Lana Turner Barbara Bel Geddes Jim D...

Happy Birthday! Spring Byington (1886) Irene Ryan (1902) Robert Lowery (1913) Jerry Siegel (1914) Arthur Miller (1915) Rita Hayworth (1918) Montgomery Clift (1920) Tom Poston (1921) Beverly Garland (1926) Howard E. Rollins, Jr. (1950) At Rest: Tennessee Ernie Ford (1991) Joan Hickson (1998) Joey Bishop (2007) 

Happy Birthday! Alice Pearce (1917) Michael Conrad (1925) At Rest: Leo G. Carroll (1972) Dan Dailey (1978) Cornel Wilde (1989) Shirley Booth (1992) Audra Lindley (1997) Barbara Billingsley (2010) 

Happy Birthday! Jane Darwell (1879) Fritz Feld (1900) Dick Bernie (1907) Robert Rockwell (1920) Allan Drake (1921) At Rest: John Hamilton (1958) Cole Porter (1964) Pat O'Brien (1983) Jack Narz (2008) Edie Adams (2008) 

Happy Birthday! Pert Kelton (1907) Robert Webber (1924) At Rest: Keenan Wynn (1986) Hy Averback (1997) 

Happy Birthday! Cornel Wilde (1912) Jane Dulo (1917) Robert Walker (1918) At Rest: Clifton Webb (1966) Bea Benaderet (1968) Ed Sullivan (1974) Dennis Patrick (2002) Keene Curtis (2002) Gary Collins (2012) 

October 12, 1924 - December 30, 1995 In Memoriam Remembers: Doris Grau 

Happy Birthday! Jean Vander Pyl (1919) At Rest: Chico Marx (1961) Redd Foxx (1991) Richard Denning (1998) 

Happy Birthday! Helen Hayes (1900) Florida Friebus (1909) Edward D. Wood, Jr. (1924) Richard Jaeckel (1926) Dana Elcar (1927) At Rest: Eddie Cantor (1964) Orson Welles (1985) Christopher Reeves (2004) 

Happy Birthday! Hank Patterson (1888) Alastair Sim (1900) Philip Sterling (1922) At Rest: David Dukes (2000) Louis Nye (2005) 

Happy Birthday! Kirk Alyn (1910) Ray Stricklyn (1928) At Rest: Emmaline Henry (1979) Fernando Lamas (1982) William Prince (1996) 

October 7, 1917 - July 8, 2006 In Memoriam Remembers: June Allyson 

Happy Birthday! Carole Lombard (1908) Fred Travalena (1942)  At Rest: Bette Davis (1989) Denholm Elliott (1992) Ted Bessell (1996)

Happy Birthday! Larry Fine (1902) John Hoyt (1905) Harriet E. MacGibbon (1905) Kay St.Germain Wells (1914) Allen Ludden (1917) Donald Pleasence (1919) Woodrow Parfrey (1922) At Rest: Rodney Dangerfield (2004) 

Happy Birthday! Kathryn Card (1892) Buster Keaton (1895) Robert Shayne (1900) Philip Van Zandt (1904) John Larch (1914) Jan Murray (1916) Charlton Heston (1923) James T. Callahan (1930) Christopher Stone (1942) 

Happy Birthday! Warner Oland (1879) At Rest: Roddy McDowall (1998) Florence Stanley (2003) Janet Leigh (2004) 

Happy Birthday! Groucho Marx (1890) Bud Abbott (1895) Barton Yarborough (1900) Herb Voland (1918) Moses Gunn (1929) At Rest: Paul Hartman (1973) Rock Hudson (1985) Harriet Hilliard Nelson (1994) Gene Autry (1998) Nipsey Russell (2005) 

 Happy Birthday! Ted Healy (1896) Barbara Morrison (1907) Everett Sloane (1909) Walter Matthau (1920) James Whitmore (1921) Tom Bosley (1927) George Peppard (1928) Laurence Harvey (1928) Richard Harris (1930)