Obit: Elaine Stritch, July 17 (1925 - 2014)

Subject: Obit: Elaine Stritch, July 17, 2014
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Jul 14 - 06:30 PM

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-elaine-stritch-20140718-story.html

One of the funniest and most enduring performers around. She lived a long and very full life.

She made few apologies in her career, describing herself as a "Catholic, diabetic, alcoholic, pain in the ass."

RIP, Ms Stritch.

SRS

Subject: RE: Obit: Elaine Stritch, July 17, 2014
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Jul 14 - 06:35 PM

Here is her IMDb page.

Subject: RE: Obit: Elaine Stritch, July 17 (1925 - 2014)
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 17 Jul 14 - 06:58 PM

Yes, SRS, she will definitly be missed by me. Earlier this year I watched her series with Donald Sinden, "Two's Company", three episodes--in order--in the morning before I went out on my errands. Thank you YouTube. Although I was watching alone, I would often burst out laughing at the the repostes. I remembered them from the late 70s on KPBS in San Diego. Really nearly forty years ago!!!

I also saw videos of her one woman show. What a Golden Girl she would have been, not that Bea Arthur was chopped liver in that series.


RIP Elaine.

Subject: RE: Obit: Elaine Stritch, July 17 (1925 - 2014)
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Jul 14 - 07:01 PM

That program was where I first discovered her; the episodes were on the old Arts and Entertainment cable channel (when it was still mostly really good arts and entertainment)! That would have been in the mid-80s. I couldn't tell you the various plot lines now, but I remember laughing out loud through the whole series.

SRS

Subject: RE: Obit: Elaine Stritch, July 17 (1925 - 2014)
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 19 Jul 14 - 12:41 PM

What a woman!

Subject: RE: Obit: Elaine Stritch, July 17 (1925 - 2014)
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 20 Jul 14 - 12:03 PM

Good feature on her on CBS Sunday Morning today. Also, on Friday night the lights on Broadway were dimmed for a minute in her memory.

Subject: RE: Obit: Elaine Stritch, July 17 (1925 - 2014)
From: JJ
Date: 21 Jul 14 - 06:47 AM

Eileen Stritch made her Broadway debut in 1947, in "Angel in the Wings," wherein she introduced a song called "Civilization." This became an immense hit for Danny Kaye and the Andrews Sisters -- "Bingo, bango, bongo, I don't want to leave the Congo..."

Does anyone know if any recording of Ms. Stritch singing this song exists?

Subject: RE: Obit: Elaine Stritch, July 17 (1925 - 2014)
From: GUEST,Ken Brock
Date: 21 Jul 14 - 10:34 AM

Elaine Stritch sang "Civilization" on the Ben Bagley album Great Revues Revisited and also in the show (and CD and DVD) Elaine Stritch at Liberty.

Subject: RE: Obit: Elaine Stritch, July 17 (1925 - 2014)
From: JJ
Date: 22 Jul 14 - 08:05 AM

Thanks so much, Ken!

Subject: RE: Obit: Elaine Stritch, July 17 (1925 - 2014)
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Jul 14 - 05:19 PM

Fresh Air played an interview today. Listen here.