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No! Thank You!

Tom it's sad all of the actors and actresses that you and I grew up with are gone or disappearing... those that are taking their places are not worth my and have the class of a horse turd.

Much agreement here.

I agree.

She also played Thurman Merman's Grandma in "Bad Santa".

"Let me get you some sandwiches..."


I also got a kick out of the small role she did in Beavis & Butt Head Do America.

"Oh yeah, there's lots o' slots in Vegas!"

"Uh huh huh huh... Lots o' sluts in Vegas? Uh huh huh huh..."

It was so cool that she was all for reprising her role the Broadway version of Young Frankenstein.
Unfortunately in the end they felt that the demands of a Broadway schedule may be too demanding for her age.

Such a shame. What a legend. RIP, lass!

I'm the Queeeen of Mean! I'm the Meanest Queen you've ever seen! You should have no doubt, about my CLOUT! I'm the Queeeen...of MEAN!!!

They are DROPPING LIKE FLYS!!! I loved her performance in Young Frankenstein

Thank you for doing this, rabbi-tom. You honor her in doing this.

Cicely Tyson died today.
She was 96.

Awww man and yet another legend is gone but never forgotten. Cicely Tyson two of the best we had on this planet. RIP Miss Leachman and Miss Tyson😓😓😓

We also lost Cicely Tyson today.

Leachman won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for The Last Picture Show movie. Entered the Miss America contest in 1946. Also played Nurse Diesel in High Anxiety and Madame DeFarge in History of the World Part I as well as Frau Blucher (horses whinnying) for Mel Brooks. Bill Mumy's mother in The Twilight Zone story "It's A Good Life".

*Marty Feldman eyes* "Blucher!"

*WHINNY!*

Glue!

Also passing was children's show (Wonderama) and game show (The $64,000 Challenge in the 1950s and The Movie Game in the 1970s) host Sonny Fox at age 95

So *she* was the voice of Momma Dola. ~smacks forehead~ I *thought* she sounded familiar. I guess I was just too focused on Mark Hamill as the voice of Muska.

What is Ovaltine?

Its a malt chocolate powder mix you add to milk.

Ah

Ovaltine came before NesQuik. Ovaltine was famous for sponsoring 1930s-1940s radio shows for Kids such as Little Orphan Annie and offering decoder rings for several proof of purchase seals from their products' jars.

Make your own chocolate milk.

Stay close to zhe candles... zhese steps... can be treacherous...

I SUGGEST ya PUT ON A TIE...!

“Frau Blücher” was a tongue-in-cheek nod to Hanna Arendt, who had a brief and intense love affair with Martin Heidegger, one of the founders of Existentialism and a unapologetic Nazi. She fled Germany in 1933 after Hitler’s rise to power. She later met and married Martin Blücher but the association with Heidegger, who was influential in integrating Nazi policies into German universities and who never apologized for his Nazi years. In one of her later books, “Eichmann in Jerusalem,” she coined the term “the banality of evil.” The book itself caused some consternation in Jewish intellectual circles and Mel Brooks’ character in “Young Frankenstein” is, I think, a satirical reference to a person who’s past is tainted by a personal relationship to one so nefarious it *still* scares the horses. Or something...

Good Lord, celebrities usually die in three's but their suddenly dropping like flies here!

"Yes, yes! Say it! He vas...my boyfriend!"

Ooof...more and more legends leave and there's fewer that even remotely hold a candle to them.

I hope Tom, this trend slows...this had better not be the year we lose Betty White, or her Majesty Queen Elizabeth
Or Mark Hammil. Or...GAH!! NO MORE DEATHS OF GOOD PEOPLE!!

I hope so too, especially when it comes to Betty White.

She really did an excellent job playing Daisy May "Granny" Moses in the remake of the Beverly Hillbillies.

Surprised to learn she was in Lassie as Timmy's foster Mom when they ran the early series on MeTV.

No more rolls in the hay.

Love that film, she will be missed. Whinny indeed.

You have to wonder what she was doing to those horses.

i just now remember that scene and her delivery
"some warm ...milk....perhaps?" one day i should re watch that movie so its not just fragments of memory

I watched YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN at the local theatre in my town back in the summer of 1974. I saw it at least 6 times... and left me rolling in the aisles. I watched her on the Mary Tyler Moore Show when it first ran on the air. This was before VHS Tapes and cable... I have Young Frankenstein in both Laserdisc and in DVD. It's a classic... and love the fact it was filmed in glorious black and white. Thank God for film and tape... she will always be preserved in her prime... never growing old. Thats the miracle of film and tape. R.I.P.
I can imagine Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn, Peter Boyle and Cloris reunited in Heaven and laughing.

Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles were amazing movies.

I didn't realize how many of the Studio Ghibli films she was in as a voice actor.

My favorite role of hers was Granny Clampett in the Beverly Hillbillies Movie right alongside Jim "Ernest P. Worrell" Varney.

Man it's sad to hear that she passed away.
I learned that she also did some voice work in Miyazaki's Castle in the Sky as the Pirate Captain. I never realized she was the one in Young Frankenstein.


....BLUCHER!

Yeah Blucher was one of m'fave charaters she played... think her last acting role was as Zorya Vechernyaya in the series 'American Gods' and her character was killed... a later episode that had scenes of her charaters' funeral wait was dedicated to Cloris...I imagine it must've been really easy ta shed tears and express grief fer all the actors in that episode...

Walk well on that Good Red Road for you are loved... *howls then bows head respectfully*

Ruhe in Frieden, Frau Blucher.

Very funny woman. It's a shame she supported PETA though.