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Reclusive Actress, Bainbridge Island Resident Dorothy Provine Dies
Kitsap Sun ^
| April 27, 2010
| Rachel Pritchett
Posted on 04/28/2010 11:08:15 AM PDT by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at kitsapsun.com ...
TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: bremerton; dorothyprovine; obituary; washingtonstate
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To: Borges
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posted on
04/28/2010 11:08:36 AM PDT
by
EveningStar
(Karl Marx is not one of our Founding Fathers.)
To: EveningStar
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posted on
04/28/2010 11:09:35 AM PDT
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: EveningStar
Holy crap, I was her neighbor for two years and didn’t even know it.
RIP Ms. Provine.
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posted on
04/28/2010 11:11:24 AM PDT
by
MNnice
To: MNnice
I rememember watching her on TV. She was cute.
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posted on
04/28/2010 11:22:06 AM PDT
by
y6162
To: EveningStar
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!
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posted on
04/28/2010 11:27:35 AM PDT
by
N. Theknow
(Kennedys: Can't fly, can't ski, can't drive, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best.)
To: N. Theknow
She was also “Pinky” Pinkham!
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posted on
04/28/2010 11:28:28 AM PDT
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: EveningStar
She played Sid Cesars wife in Its A Mad Mad Mad Mad World, which was one of the funniest movies ever made.
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posted on
04/28/2010 11:29:17 AM PDT
by
skimask
To: EveningStar
I stand corrected she was Milton Berle’s wife Emiline.
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posted on
04/28/2010 11:32:28 AM PDT
by
skimask
To: EveningStar
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...:-)
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posted on
04/28/2010 11:33:51 AM PDT
by
chimera
To: EveningStar
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.
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posted on
04/28/2010 11:34:55 AM PDT
by
GOP_Muzik
(If all the world's a stage then I want different lighting)
To: GOP_Muzik
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.
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posted on
04/28/2010 11:41:46 AM PDT
by
Argus
To: EveningStar; All
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posted on
04/28/2010 11:46:48 AM PDT
by
Red in Blue PA
(Thinking of using 911 for protection? Google "Brittany Zimmerman")
To: EveningStar
Must have been a real recluse. Never heard of her.
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posted on
04/28/2010 12:03:11 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
To: EveningStar; Perdogg; Clintonfatigued; Impy; AdvisorB
RIP. She just dropped off the radar screen in the ‘60s...
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posted on
04/28/2010 4:59:24 PM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
To: EveningStar
I had forgotten about her! But, I remember her from my childhood. Condolences to her family.
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posted on
04/28/2010 5:05:20 PM PDT
by
LucyJo
To: skimask
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.
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posted on
04/28/2010 5:21:34 PM PDT
by
xp38
To: fieldmarshaldj
Her last appearance was when she was 39.
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posted on
04/28/2010 11:48:56 PM PDT
by
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
(Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of.-- Idylls of the King)
To: EveningStar
What a woman she was! RIP.
To: EveningStar
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posted on
04/30/2010 10:19:58 PM PDT
by
tlb
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