Reclusive Actress, Bainbridge Island Resident Dorothy Provine Dies

Kitsap Sun ^ | April 27, 2010 | Rachel Pritchett

[EveningStar]

Dorothy Provine, part Hollywood blond bombshell and part girl next door, has died.

The Bainbridge Island resident and former film and television actress succumbed to emphysema on Sunday morning at Hospice of Kitsap County in Bremerton, according to her husband, veteran director Robert Day.

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[Puppage]

[MNnice]

Holy crap, I was her neighbor for two years and didn’t even know it.

RIP Ms. Provine.

[y6162]

I rememember watching her on TV. She was cute.

[N. Theknow]

A favorite from Blake Edwards' movie "The Great Race" Miss Lily Olay.

From The Great Race (1965)
Leslie: Are you a native of Burracho?
Lily Olay: I ain't no native, I was born here!

[massgopguy]

She was also “Pinky” Pinkham!

[skimask]

She played Sid Cesars wife in Its A Mad Mad Mad Mad World, which was one of the funniest movies ever made.

[skimask]

I stand corrected she was Milton Berle’s wife Emiline.

[chimera]

Very sad. I remember watching her in the old TV show about The Roaring 20s. I had such a huge pre-teen crush on Dorothy Provine, you wouldn't believe it. I'd watch the show especially to see Dorothy do one of her flapper numbers as “Pinky” Pinkham, never failing to be amazed and delighted at the somewhat unusual and unknown (at the time) sensations her appearance would induce in my fevered adolescent physiology. My parents noticed this and were merciless in their teasing (”Oh, now we know, she's your girlfriend...”). Don't I wish...:-)

[GOP_Muzik]

I remember her as Milton Berle’s wife in “It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World”, the one who discovered the giant ‘W” first while sitting on the park bench. Ethel Merman was her b!tch-on-wheels mom who never shut up and she had the hilarious crazy hippie brother named Sylvester. God I loved that movie.

She had a good career, RIP.

[Argus]

Her brother in that movie was played by Dick Shawn, later to make an impression playing cracked hippie director LSD in Mel Brooks’ THE PRODUCERS. Shawn later died on stage doing his one-man show. He was one of a kind.

[Red in Blue PA]

[Vendome]

Must have been a real recluse. Never heard of her.

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP. She just dropped off the radar screen in the ‘60s...

[LucyJo]

I had forgotten about her! But, I remember her from my childhood. Condolences to her family.

[xp38]

She was also in another funny movie called Who’s minding the mint. It’s about a mint worker trying to fix a mistake by breaking into the mint at night in DC. She is part of the caper and there is a memorable scene where they are sliding under a photo electric light beam alarm on the floor and her boobs are too um prominent and might set off the alarm so they have to flip her over.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Her last appearance was when she was 39.

[mywholebodyisaweapon]

What a woman she was! RIP.

[tlb]

May her next of kin have the presence of mind to lay her to rest under a Big W.

Flapper Pinky from the Roaring 20s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjBoBtViwmI