PHYLLIS NEWMAN HAS DIED AT AGE 86

She often was a guest panelist on tv's WHAT'S MY LINE ...... ? ? ? ?

Was it heroin?

R1 I love Jayne Mansfield. RIP

Oh, Ok and RIP the other lady too.

She was cute in PICNIC. 1956!

So sad. Another Broadway star from the Golden Age is gone. I met her a few years ago at the Broadway Flea market in New York.

Singing with DL fave Lauren Bacall.

as a youngster in the 60's , she just said "New York, Broadway!" to me

Isn't she the reason Streisand doesn't have a real Tony?

Somebody please contact Nick and Summer!

R8 One of the reasons. Carol Channing is the other.

Broadway Barks

RIP, Phyllis! What a grand lady!

She was on Carson many times, and, apparently, his first female guest host.

I enjoyed watching her and also Pat Carroll, also a guest panelist on several shows about the same time as Phyllis. BTW, Pat Carroll is still around at age 92. (For the younger folks, she voiced Ursula in The Little Mermaid.) RIP Phyllis Newman and long live Pat Carroll.

She played an Indian princess on Wild WIld West, kidnapped by the evil Dr. Loveless

With a furry friend

Her "I was a Shoo-In" from Subways are for Sleeping is one of the funniest songs ever and won her the Tony.

I loved her in the Follies In Concert film where she leads Who's That Woman?

And her book Just in Time: Notes from My Life is a fun read.

Sweet lady.

On her wedding day to Adolph green. Great fucking veil

Was she Randy’s mom?

R17 That number was terrible. You must've had to been there, I guess.

R19 No, but she was Alfred's and Paul's mom.

was at berkshire theatre festival I MARRIED AN ANGEL in '77 ... her son Adam was an apprentice / seemed like they had it together

Is she Olivia Newman-John's mother?

I only know her from her the Tonight Show and she was delightful. She was one of those guests Carson had on the show who weren’t plugging something.

Carson loved her because she had a lovely infectious laugh, and laughed at all his jokes. She was pretty when she was young and had a quick wit. Carson became less enamored with her as she aged, and on her last appearances he treated her rudely like she was one of his wives.

When the Tonight show was still in New York, Phyllis would fill in whenever a guest dropped out at the last minute. She always seemed to have something interesting to say.

All she did was giggle. If Dorothy had been alive she'd have been mortified that Mark Goodson thought such a person could take her place.

I remember her on That Was the Week That Was. They did a skit on investigating the State Department. They asked this guy if there were any alcoholics in the department. He said no , hiccupped , and passed out. They asked another guy if there were any Russian spies in the department. He said nyet. Then they asked Phyllis if there were any homosexuals in the department. She said no. Then they asked her her name. "Jameson, Stanley Jameson." And so it goes....

R77 pretty hip for 1965

Since some of us were born in this century what does that mean? r28

If you're under 20, why are you reading a Phyllis Newman thread, R29?

Is Pat Carroll our sister?

r30

I like ancient history

When I saw the picture on OP's page, my first thought was 'wow Diane Keaton is looking rough these days'.

On Broadway again in Broadway Bound.