It's hard to believe that the Wednesday Afternoon Fine Arts League is all gone. Shirley Mitchell, who played Lucy and Ethel's gossipy friend Marion Strong on I Love Lucy, has died. She was 94 and is believed to be the last surviving adult cast member from the classic 1950s sitcom. (Doris Singleton, who played Carolyn Appleby, just died last year.) The actress' sister-in-law, fellow thesp Nancy Olson, told The Hollywood Reporter that Mitchell died Monday of heart failure at her home in Westwood. Though Mitchell actually only appeared in three episodes of I Love Lucy (replacing the original Marion, Margie Liszt), she truly played a key role even in absentia: During a fight with...
- 11/14/2013
- E! Online
Shirley Mitchell, who played Lucy Ricardo’s friend Marion Strong on the classic CBS sitcom I Love Lucy, died Monday. She was 94. Remembered as Lucy’s friend with the funny laugh, Mitchell appeared in three episodes of I Love Lucy after joining the cast in 1953. She was believed to be the last recurring adult cast member following the deaths of Doris Singleton in 2012 and Peggy Rea in 2011. Mitchell appeared on numerous TV shows in the 1950s and ’60s including Bachelor Father starring John Forsythe, Please Don’t Eat The Daisies as neighbor Marge Thornton, Petticoat Junction and The Beverly Hillbillies. She also appeared as Clara Appleby, the wife of henpecked husband George Appleby (Red Skelton) on The Red Skelton Hour. In 1972, she voiced Laurie Holiday on the Hanna-Barbera cartoon series The Roman Holidays and last year voiced Betty White in Betty White & The Huntsman. On the film side, Mitchell appeared...
- 11/14/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
While carrying the George Zimmerman murder trial live this afternoon, CNN accidentally broadcast the defendant's full social security number, home address, and phone number on national television. Sanford police detective Doris Singleton was in the midst of testifying about her interview with Zimmerman following his detention when the prosecuting lawyer pulled up a copy of the "narrative report" for the court to view. The court pool feed then showed, in close-up, as the lawyer zoomed in on Zimmerman's personal information.
- 7/1/2013
- by Andrew Kirell
- Mediaite - TV
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By Harvey Chartrand
Mr. Lucky: The Complete Series is now available for the first time ever as a 4-dvd box set from Timeless Media Group… all 34 episodes, with a running time of about 840 minutes. Mr. Lucky– created by writer/director Blake Edwards (Peter Gunn) – ran for only one season (from 1959 to 1960), even though it was a hit with viewers.
This adventure/crime drama is a sort of Peter Gunn Lite, featuring a lush, organ-powered theme song by Henry Mancini (a bonus CD of Mr. Lucky’s soundtrack is included in the set), an assortment of shady characters aboard a floating casino, and competent acting by series regulars John Vivyan (as suave professional gambler Mr. Lucky), Ross Martin (as his sidekick and business partner Andamo), Pippa Scott (as Mr. Lucky’s girlfriend Maggie Shank-Rutherford) and Tom Brown (as Lieutenant Rovacs, Mr. Lucky’s...
By Harvey Chartrand
Mr. Lucky: The Complete Series is now available for the first time ever as a 4-dvd box set from Timeless Media Group… all 34 episodes, with a running time of about 840 minutes. Mr. Lucky– created by writer/director Blake Edwards (Peter Gunn) – ran for only one season (from 1959 to 1960), even though it was a hit with viewers.
This adventure/crime drama is a sort of Peter Gunn Lite, featuring a lush, organ-powered theme song by Henry Mancini (a bonus CD of Mr. Lucky’s soundtrack is included in the set), an assortment of shady characters aboard a floating casino, and competent acting by series regulars John Vivyan (as suave professional gambler Mr. Lucky), Ross Martin (as his sidekick and business partner Andamo), Pippa Scott (as Mr. Lucky’s girlfriend Maggie Shank-Rutherford) and Tom Brown (as Lieutenant Rovacs, Mr. Lucky’s...
- 2/15/2013
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
I Love Lucy actress Doris Singleton, Lucy Ricardo’s snooty, class-conscious neighbor in the highly popular ’50s sitcom, died Tuesday, June 26. Doris Singleton was 92. Initially, Singleton was a big-band singer and radio actress. In the early ’50s, she started appearing on the new medium of (commercial) television. She is best remembered as I Love Lucy‘s pretty, smartly dressed, meticulously coiffed Carolyn Appleby, always doing her best to appear above her two frumpier, lower middle-class, bourgeois neighbors: Lucille Ball’s aforementioned Lucy Ricardo and Vivian Vance’s Ethel Mertz. Doris Singleton: Busy TV actress In addition to I Love Lucy, Doris Singleton was guested in dozens of [...]...
- 6/29/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Los Angeles — Actress Doris Singleton, who played one of Lucy and Ricky Ricardo's lesser-known neighbors on "I Love Lucy," has died. She was 92.
Lucie Arnaz, daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, confirmed the death in a post on her Facebook page. Singleton died Tuesday, the same day as writer-director Nora Ephron, and Arnaz acknowledged them both in her post, writing, "They were loved and appreciated and will be missed."
Singleton's death also was reported by Variety and the Hollywood Reporter.
Her character, first called Lillian Appleby and then Caroline Appleby, appeared in 10 episodes. She was Lucy's neighbor, the wife of a radio station owner.
"She was sort of Lucy's nemesis" because both had young sons, Singleton said in a 2005 interview for the Archive of American Television of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation. "There was a rivalry there but she had to be nice, Lucy had to be nice to Caroline,...
Lucie Arnaz, daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, confirmed the death in a post on her Facebook page. Singleton died Tuesday, the same day as writer-director Nora Ephron, and Arnaz acknowledged them both in her post, writing, "They were loved and appreciated and will be missed."
Singleton's death also was reported by Variety and the Hollywood Reporter.
Her character, first called Lillian Appleby and then Caroline Appleby, appeared in 10 episodes. She was Lucy's neighbor, the wife of a radio station owner.
"She was sort of Lucy's nemesis" because both had young sons, Singleton said in a 2005 interview for the Archive of American Television of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation. "There was a rivalry there but she had to be nice, Lucy had to be nice to Caroline,...
- 6/29/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Doris Singleton, who was a recurring guest star as Lucy and Desi's meddling neighbor on the 1950's-era sitcom "I Love Lucy," passed away on Tuesday (June 26) in Los Angeles. She was 92.
In addition to playing Lucy and Desi's neighbor, Carolyn Appleby, Singleton also guest-starred on scads of TV classics, including "The Munsters," "Dick Van Dyke," "Gomer Pyle," "Gunsmoke" and "The Twilight Zone." Singleton's husband of 60 years, TV writer/producer Charles Isaacs, passed away in 2002, according to Us Weekly.
Lucy Arnaz -- Desi and Lucy's daughter -- took to Facebook to share her condolences for Singleton (and writer/director Nora Ephron, who also died on Tuesday):
"A day of saying hasta luego to two great ladies, Nora Ephron and Doris Singleton," she wrote (Singleton passed away on the same day as the legendary screenwriter). "May they both fly swiftly heavenward and enjoy a blissful rest for jobs well done down here.
In addition to playing Lucy and Desi's neighbor, Carolyn Appleby, Singleton also guest-starred on scads of TV classics, including "The Munsters," "Dick Van Dyke," "Gomer Pyle," "Gunsmoke" and "The Twilight Zone." Singleton's husband of 60 years, TV writer/producer Charles Isaacs, passed away in 2002, according to Us Weekly.
Lucy Arnaz -- Desi and Lucy's daughter -- took to Facebook to share her condolences for Singleton (and writer/director Nora Ephron, who also died on Tuesday):
"A day of saying hasta luego to two great ladies, Nora Ephron and Doris Singleton," she wrote (Singleton passed away on the same day as the legendary screenwriter). "May they both fly swiftly heavenward and enjoy a blissful rest for jobs well done down here.
- 6/29/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Actress Doris Singleton, best known for playing Lucy and Ricky Ricardo’s neighbor Carolyn Appleby on the iconic 1950s sitcom "I Love Lucy," has died, reports People magazine. She was 92.
Lucie Arnaz, the daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, confirmed Singleton's death in a statement on her Facebook page, People says, noting its timing with the death of flimmaker Nora Ephron earlier this week.
Singleton appeared in 10 episodes of the 1951 to 1957 sitcom after meeting the show's star, Lucille Ball, before a performance of "My Favorite Husband," the radio show that preceded "I Love Lucy," The Hollywood Reporter notes. Ball invited Singleton to join the show a few years after they met, casting her as the wife of a radio station owner played by Hy Averback.
Trained as a vocalist and ballet dancer, Brooklyn-born Dorothea Singleton performed with the American Ballet Theater and the Art Jarrett's orchestra in the late 1930s,...
Lucie Arnaz, the daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, confirmed Singleton's death in a statement on her Facebook page, People says, noting its timing with the death of flimmaker Nora Ephron earlier this week.
Singleton appeared in 10 episodes of the 1951 to 1957 sitcom after meeting the show's star, Lucille Ball, before a performance of "My Favorite Husband," the radio show that preceded "I Love Lucy," The Hollywood Reporter notes. Ball invited Singleton to join the show a few years after they met, casting her as the wife of a radio station owner played by Hy Averback.
Trained as a vocalist and ballet dancer, Brooklyn-born Dorothea Singleton performed with the American Ballet Theater and the Art Jarrett's orchestra in the late 1930s,...
- 6/28/2012
- by Jessica Cumberbatch Anderson
- Huffington Post
Actress Doris Singleton, best known for playing Lucy and Ricky Ricardo's neighbor Carolyn Appleby on the iconic 1950s sitcom "I Love Lucy," has died, reports People magazine. She was 92.
Lucie Arnaz, the daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, confirmed Singleton's death in a statement on her Facebook page, People says, noting its timing with the death of flimmaker Nora Ephron earlier this week.
Singleton appeared in 10 episodes of the 1951 to 1957 sitcom after meeting the show's star, Lucille Ball, before a performance of "My Favorite Husband," the radio show that preceded "I Love Lucy," The Hollywood Reporter notes. Ball invited Singleton to join the show a few years after they met, casting her as the wife of a radio station owner played by Hy Averback.
Trained as a vocalist and ballet dancer, Brooklyn-born Dorothea Singleton performed with the American Ballet Theater and the Art Jarrett's orchestra in the late 1930s,...
Lucie Arnaz, the daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, confirmed Singleton's death in a statement on her Facebook page, People says, noting its timing with the death of flimmaker Nora Ephron earlier this week.
Singleton appeared in 10 episodes of the 1951 to 1957 sitcom after meeting the show's star, Lucille Ball, before a performance of "My Favorite Husband," the radio show that preceded "I Love Lucy," The Hollywood Reporter notes. Ball invited Singleton to join the show a few years after they met, casting her as the wife of a radio station owner played by Hy Averback.
Trained as a vocalist and ballet dancer, Brooklyn-born Dorothea Singleton performed with the American Ballet Theater and the Art Jarrett's orchestra in the late 1930s,...
- 6/28/2012
- by Jessica Cumberbatch Anderson
- Aol TV.
I Love Lucy star Doris Singleton has died at age 92. The actress passed away on Tuesday (June 26), according to Variety. Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz's daughter Lucie Arnaz also confirmed Singleton's death while paying tribute to Nora Ephron on her Facebook page. Lucie wrote: "A day of saying hasta luego to two great ladies, Nora Ephron and Doris Singleton. May they both fly swiftly heavenward and enjoy a blissful rest for jobs well done down here. They were loved and appreciated and will be missed." The actress got her start in show business by dancing with the New York City (more)...
- 6/28/2012
- by By Justin Harp
- Digital Spy
Doris Singleton, a character actress and comedian best known as Lucy and Ricky Ricardo’s neighbor - and Lucy's frequent frenemy - Carolyn Appleby on I Love Lucy, has died, Lucie Arnaz, the daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, confirmed. "A day of saying hasta luego to two great ladies, Nora Ephron and Doris Singleton," Arnaz wrote on her Facebook page. "May they both fly swiftly heavenward and enjoy a blissful rest for jobs well done down here. They were loved and appreciated and will be missed." Singleton was 92 and died Tuesday in Los Angeles, reports Variety. Playing the competitive neighbor Appleby,...
- 6/28/2012
- by Stephen M. Silverman
- PEOPLE.com
Actress Doris Singleton died yesterday at the age of 92. She was best known for her recurring role as Lucy Ricardo's "friend" Carolyn Appleby on I Love Lucy.
After being featured as a teen dancer with the American Ballet Theater, Singleton became a vocalist with Art Jarrett's orchestra in the late 1930s. She had a distinctive voice and that led her to establish a career in radio, working with George Burns, Gracie Allen, Bob Hope, and Jack Benny.
She met Lucille Ball prior to a performance of My Favorite Husband, the radio show that preceded I Love Lucy. Singleton acted in 10 episodes of the classic I Love Lucy sitcom and appeared on Ball's later shows, as well as the 1980 special, Lucy Moves to NBC.
Singleton went on to guest on dozens of other classic TV shows like...
After being featured as a teen dancer with the American Ballet Theater, Singleton became a vocalist with Art Jarrett's orchestra in the late 1930s. She had a distinctive voice and that led her to establish a career in radio, working with George Burns, Gracie Allen, Bob Hope, and Jack Benny.
She met Lucille Ball prior to a performance of My Favorite Husband, the radio show that preceded I Love Lucy. Singleton acted in 10 episodes of the classic I Love Lucy sitcom and appeared on Ball's later shows, as well as the 1980 special, Lucy Moves to NBC.
Singleton went on to guest on dozens of other classic TV shows like...
- 6/28/2012
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
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