Posted on 05/03/2015 9:06:06 PM PDT by Mmogamer
According to Family, Grace Lee Whitney has passed away peacefully this past weekend May 1, 2015 in her Coarsegold home.
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Madera County, California.
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Roddenberry has a history of such activity as bedding the actresses that were on his productions. He even married one of them.
RIP
Kirk never hit that, I don’t think. He didn’t think it was ethical to bed his yeoman.
I don’t mean to speak ill or her but she sure didn’t age well, by the time the movies came around....ok she was 50 but...
She aged better than Scotty though, he set phasers to pie and big macs.
Grace Lee Whitney unfortunately got shafted. The character started out as little more than eye candy, but she could have been developed over three seasons if they had gone that route. Certainly if you had asked Roddenberry who the "major" characters were at the debut of the show in 1966, he would have named Rand before Uhura (a promo still from the pilot shows Kirk, Spock, and Rand). Of course, they'd never admit that today.
Yeah, that thing she wore was just about long enough to be a shirt ...
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I was never clear on what her job was supposed to be.
heh heh
Yeoman in the Navy is/was an peronal or administrative assistant (secretary). She was assigned by Starfleet to Kirk.
Aww... damn sad to hear it. Very pretty woman. Always liked her character in Star Trek.
RIP, Grace.
Nigel Terry who played King Arthur in Excalibur, just died too. He was a bit younger though.
I remember the episode where they were infected with some kind of skin disease, and she said “Captain, look at my legs...” as she tried to hide the sores.
I remember being very sad at that scene... I was a kid when it on prime time.
I recall watching Star Trek original run on Friday nights when I was a kid, it was at 930pm or 10pm on NBC and my parents were already in bed.
Then in the 70s they were replayed on our local TV station every day after school, by the 1980s or so I had seen them so many times they were completely boring.
Once in a while one comes up that I still like.
” I was a kid when it on prime time.”
I was 11-12. Loved the original ST.
RIP, gal.
I remember her as a celebrity guest on “Make Me Laugh” (1979–1980).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_Me_Laugh
Was a game show where a group of comedians tried to make contestants and one celebrity guest laugh. IIRC the comedian who was tasked with trying to make her laugh was Kip Addotta. His routine started with “ Ooo Star Trek. Every time I saw you on the show I just wanted to beam off.” She started laughing immediatly.
Yep. Lots of starlets. But I’ve sometimes seen folks then carry this over and imply (unfairly and inaccurately) that the actresses who guest-starred on “Trek” were similar casting-couch scenarios. That would hardly be the case. Actresses like Madlyn Rhue, Barbara Luna, Nancy Kovack, Joanne Linville, and the dozens of others had solid tv careers going on, and would have slapped the snot out of Roddenberry had he made them such a lewd proposition.
Such actresses hardly had any great ‘need’ to be guesting on “Star Trek.” They had a steady stream of employment via other shows always awaiting them... Gunsmoke, The FBI, The Virginian, Judd for the Defense, Man from UNCLE, Laredo, Mannix, and countless others. Maybe some of these actresses were more vulnerable to such casting-couch propositions when they were younger and unknown, but NOT by the time they were guest-starring on “Star Trek.”
Yeah, good points to note.
Yes, I’ve never seen that film (Pretty Maids all in a Row) in its entirity, but have seen large chunks of it several times, before invariably turning it off in disgust. It’s usually touted as a dark comedy, but that just clouds over what seemed to actually be a really ugly, nasty piece of work.
Yo, man! she’s hot.
I watched ST in re-runs so many times I could tell which episode it was in about 5 seconds. I’d watch it just as much now if it was on. (Maybe I should get the DVDs).
I remember it being on NBC because of the peacock with all the colors in it... we’d just gotten a Motorola Console Color TV, and I was frigging amazed at the fact that yes... there WAS color on TV...
Hard to imagine that in my lifetime, there was black and white TV. Kids now have no recollection of a time before laptops, cell phones, and Playstations...
RIP, Yoeman.
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