Posted on 02/20/2005 12:37:53 PM PST by drt1
LOS ANGELES - Actress Sandra Dee died Sunday, according to a published report. She was 63.
Her son Dodd Darin, who's father was actor-crooner Bobby Darin, told CNN the actress had been hospitalized to undergo treatment for kidney disease and pneumonia before she passed away on Sunday morning.
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I'd have been happy to have the studio rename me "Carrot Top" had that been my real name - Darin had no bitch there; he got off easy.
Poor Sandra had been an alcoholic and pill popper for a lot of years and only recently had tried to get her life in some kind of order.
It was said that for many years she hardly ever left her apartment and had a very lonely life. Seems she suffered greatly after Bobby Darin died and that led to her long spiral down.
So, by saying that you are not surprised by her derelict life leading to an early and sad end that you now don't think that she brought it on herself (deserved it)?
Your twisting the words here. I pointed out what happened to her and that she had been working on turning her life around. But I also had been aware that she had battled throat cancer and she had kidney failure and was on dialysis. So from that perspective I wasn't to surprised to know she had passed away. I knew she had some very serious health problems.
I certainly wasn't taking any joy in her misfortune and it is a terrible shame that she let her depression get to the point that she was addicted to alcohol and pills. But she started dealing with it and was doing better, it's just that all those years did take a toll and her health suffered for it.
Find something else to rant about rather than your imagined slighting you think I had of her.
I was a big fan of hers when I was a kid and it depresses me when I see another icon from my youth gone and way too soon at that, 63 is just too Damn young to die in this day and age.
I heard some promotional spot they aired on my local "Oldies" station, but never really thought about it after the program had ended.
Both of them seem to have led interesting-if not always pleasant-lives.
Yes there is a new movie "Beyond the Sea" with Kevin Spacey playing Bobby Darin.
Yes, now I recall the snippets that have been released, thus far.
Is it in theaters now?
You dissemble.
Bump to read.
"I'd Rather Be Rich" is one of my favorites.
103-" it depresses me when I see another icon from my youth gone ".
I remenber her in "A Summer Place", and still love to listen to the theme.
It is scary - how we no longer are in the summer of our years, but entering the winter. It makes you stop and think, where did they go?
He's only made one movie that is actually watchable.
Well, DO YA?
I never did watch that movie. Always meant to, because I had heard it was good.
I don't know what it is about Spacey. He just creeps me out.
You're not the only one, believe me.
I always liked her.
RIP, dear sad and tortured soul.
She's one I saw in person a good many years ago.
Very thin, but oh so beautiful.
I never knew Sandra Dee has a problem with Alcohol.I loved her movies when I was a young girl and I thought she was so beautiful.
Rest in peace sweet lady..
The movie is "Beyond the Sea", and it is the best movie I've seen in about 10 years. Kevin Spacey produced it, wrote it, stars in it, and does all his own singing and dancing. He employs a very sophistcated and unusual method of moving the story line -- you just have to see it. I was pleased to learn that Sandra Dee saw it and loved it -- said she wouldn't change a frame of the movie.
If you remember Darin and Dee, you will love the movie. The music, staging, casting, acting are wonderful. I really don't know why it is not up for several Oscars.
Very sad... what a sweetheart..
OMG he is the spitting image of his dad....
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