Posted on 04/05/2020 4:34:02 PM PDT by lowbridge
The actress who played the mother of the kid who got eaten in "Jaws," has passed away by a threat that's becoming more real and dangerous than a great white ... COVID-19.
Lee Fierro -- who portrayed Alex Kintner's mom, Mrs. Kintner, in the 1975 classic film -- has passed away due to complications from coronavirus ... according to Martha's Vineyard Times, which first reported her death. The first "Jaws" was shot on location there in Mass.
(Excerpt) Read more at tmz.com ...
Too soon?
The relevance to COVID crisis is that people have compared politicians (especially DeSantis, but also DeBlasio ) who wouldn’t close up for corona to the mayor of Amity Island, who wanted to keep the beaches open despite the shark.
At one point he says:
“Now look fellas, let’s be reasonable, huh? This is not the time or the place to perform some sort of half-ass autopsy on a fish! And I am not going to stand here and see that thing cut open, and see that little Kintner boy spill out all over the dock!”
As a much younger male at the time I always wondered how she got pregnant............
Well, not exactly a known actress. But she did do an iconic scene in a hit, blockbuster of a movie. If one has seen Jaws, one should know who she is.
Or just complications from the regular flu.
Olivia de Havilland still hanging in there at 103!
I remember her. I think her memorable line from the film was “you knew!” Talking to either the mayor or Roy Schieder’s character “Brody”. She came across as a hysterical screaming liberal even back then in 1975 before I knew anything about politics.
Ironside for TV.
Barbara Anderson is still around according to IMDB.
Gone too soon.
Exactly. My mother died this past February in a nursing home at age 92. We knew since Christmas, she had only weeks, two or three months at best, to live. If she had contracted COVID-19 in January, she surely would have died then. And she would have been counted as a COVID-19 death statistic.
If only any person in my immediate family had lived to be 91.
Couldn't help but see it many times but I don't remember her........sorry
Probably soon a corona virus victim.
Wait. A semi-famous person I never heard of has died at the age of 91? This sh!t is getting series now!
I do that, too. Makes it interesting.
Just last night we were watching one of those old Lon Chaney mummy movies. The pretty gal in the movie, Elyse Knox, became the mother of actor Mark Harmon, a daughter who married Ricky Nelson and another daughter who married John Delorean.
Disgusting media.
A sad life.
Son eaten. By shark.
Now this ....
She could have made it to 100.
If you look at the picture in post 2, it’s just before she slaps him.
Perhaps that will jog your memory?
Still sitting in the parlor, awaiting the arrival of her intended, Morris.
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