ElderGays - Tell Me Mrs. Thurston Howell III

You do not need to be an elder gay to know about Lovey! She was a best character on the show.

Like a diamond needs a ring!

She made tv worth watching back then!

I worshipped her.

Magnificent. She'd be my avatar.

I happily replaced my menstrual flow with a robust cash flow.

In order of my utmost respect -

1. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth ll

2. Mrs. Thurston Howell lll

She was a lot of young gaylings introduction to fabulousness... Without trying or knowing it...

"Oh, LOOK! Gillian's little friend has come to join the PAH TY!"

She was Weezy Jefferson minus the Center.

You know she was a lezbo don't you?

r9 that's irrelevant. We're talking about the iconic Mrs. Thurston Howell lll here and all the fabulousness she embodied.

Well she was fabulous at eating pussy.

[quote] happily replaced my menstrual flow with a robust cash flow.

We both had lots of old money, dear.

I, as a kid, thought her amazing and was entranced by her diamonds, especially one ring with a stone of such a high carat weight that, in some fantasy in which they'd all rapidly aged, she couldn't lift her hand while wearing it.

Ask Willard Romney dolt!

I hate the bitch!

She was polite..

This is hard work Mary Ann, sitting on these suitcases with nothing to do.

Where's room service on this God forsaken island when you need it? Oh Gilligan!

Let's be honest here, she put Jackie Kennedy to shame with her wardrobe choices. Never was she anything less than perfectly appointed for all occasions on the island. Such intuitive sartorial foresight she displayed when instructing her help as to what to pack for just a three hour cruise! "One can never rule out the unexpected"; she must have lived and breathed it!

Poor Natalie Schaeffer, she was a Broadway baby (loved the theatah) and only flew out to California for a quick payday. She never dreamed that Sherwood Schwartz's pilot for Gilligan's Island would ever get picked up.

Beat this, Betty Windsor.

I never knew her real story (NS) until I saw a TV movie about behind the scenes of Gilligan's Islands. Fun character -- great lady.

She also shaved a decade off her age, because she thought they wouldn't hire her if they knew how old she really was.

Don't forget Nat's turn on [italic]I Love Lucy[/italic] as Miss Phoebe Emerson, the snooty, shade-throwing charm-school directress:

Phoebe: Do you always wear that shade of powder? It gives you a weird, unnatural look.

Lucy: [bold]I'm not wearing powder.[/bold]

This is the lady who was George Kaufman's mistress for years, yes? Was she also a lesbian?

Of course she was magnificent...she was, after all, Queen of the Pitted Prune Bowl Parade .

She was in "Female on the Beach" with Crawford and DL fave Jeff Chandler.

George S. Kaufman was ugly as sin, but well hung.

She had her moments . . .

She inspired music videos !!

Natalie signed to do the "Gilligan's Island" pilot only because she thought it would never be picked up as a long-term series. When it was, she was surprised but then often later said it was one of her favorite acting jobs.

I loved this show. "Gilligan's Island" premiered on my 40th birthday back in 1964 so it was a real treat to laugh on such a "devastating" day. No, it wasn't really, I'm only joking. I celebrated with my family and it was just a wonderful time and then we all watched this show and laughed and laughed. Families watched TV together back then, so it was a real treat to be with my family on my 40th birthday.

Snarky r31

Mary Ann was her caretaker in real life.

They owned houses, bungalows really right next door to each other. I believe Dawn was the only beneficiary of Nathalie's estate.

She and Thurston were the only ones allowed to have sex on the island.

[quote]George S. Kaufman was ugly as sin, but well hung.

And a master at the art of cunnilingus, according to Mary Astor. Some of the less explicit pages of her diary were read out loud in court during her notorious divorce case. Among other things, she wrote that Kaufman was the sort of man she would go over a cliff for.

"We found where God lives," says scientist.

Wrong thread.

Actually, R38, God would live in a house like the Howells' if he had the money.

lol.

I wish OP would die.

R31 - we welcome you, 100-year old DL'er, back to a thread....though you are only 91 you can officially be 100.

R31 are you 91 years old?? Good on ya, if you are!

"It isn't even good enough for the late, late, late, late, late show!"

"He was like a husband to me!"

"Oh, a leeeeeeeeeeens!" Oh!

Eunice, that's what her intimate friends called her, and I used to have tea at Howell estate. I'd tell you the details but then I'd have to kill you.

Oh those Vassar girls I tell you.

I hated the bitch, she was always jealous that my name appeared before hers in the social register

"I am dying! I am dying! I am dying!"

Such magnificent acting!

My mother, my aunt, my great aunt, and my grandmother.. All their jaws dropped at what Natalie Schaeffer had to say on Viginia Graham's GIRL TALK (what The View should have been).

I remember the theme music but I don't remember what she said.

Despite her money, Lovey Howell was very tenderhearted, unlike her CBS sister Mrs. Drysdale. If the two had been switched, Gilligans Island would never have been as successful.

Natalie S. appeared in a Los Angeles production of the lesbian-themed play, THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE

Despite her portrayals of upper class women and European aristocracy, she was the daughter of Jewish immigrants

I once read a comment made about Natalie Shafer, that she always acted with her hands above her elbows. Ever since then, whenever she pops up in an old movie or tv show, I notice how true that observation was. She was never with hands down below her waist.

None of her friends knew how old she really was until just a few weeks before her death. They knew she was getting up there in age, but didn't think she was 90 years old.

Shirley Booth used to eat her pussy.

Lovey hated Janet Jackson.

R54 is right. I was watching her being interviewed and she said Janet was way to ham hocky for her. Too much junk in the trunk.

God R2, that is a camp classic!

She was much more 'ethnic' looking before she had the nose job.

Maybe we should all calm down and talk about elbow macaroni instead.

She was adorkable.

R50 is correct.

Luvey was a JEWESS.

ACH!

Lovey ein JUDEN???

"Really Thurston... Eat and Run!!!"

Interview with Natalie about a year before she died. Good to see she was still sharp and funny at that age.

Fabo, R2!