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I'm Ann Blyth For Hostess

Smart cookie or just embarrassing career choice?

by Anonymousreply 110June 15, 2021 5:05 PM

[quote] Smart cookie or just embarrassing career choice?

Or maybe an irrelevant thread topic.

by Anonymousreply 1June 8, 2021 12:23 PM

What comes after Eldergay? Ancientgay?

by Anonymousreply 2June 8, 2021 12:38 PM

I just dont think the cupcake buying public was all that impressed.

by Anonymousreply 3June 8, 2021 12:41 PM

Sad what actress are reduced to

by Anonymousreply 4June 10, 2021 7:14 PM

r1

Go change your depends gramps

by Anonymousreply 5June 10, 2021 7:14 PM

R4: “Hostess” and “reduced” are opposites. Trust me.

by Anonymousreply 6June 10, 2021 7:21 PM
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by Anonymousreply 7June 10, 2021 7:28 PM

"With this twinkie money I can get away from you. From you and your chickens and your pies and your kitchens and everything that smells of grease. I can get away from this shack with its cheap furniture. And this town and its dollar days, and its women that wear uniforms and its men that wear overalls."

by Anonymousreply 8June 10, 2021 7:31 PM
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by Anonymousreply 9June 10, 2021 7:33 PM

You think just because you made a little money you can buy Hostess Fruit Pies and a new hairdo and some expensive clothes and turn yourself into a lady. But you can't, because you'll never be anything but a common frump whose father lived over a grocery store and whose mother took in washing.

by Anonymousreply 10June 10, 2021 7:34 PM

My mother - a common junk food spokeswoman!

by Anonymousreply 11June 10, 2021 7:34 PM

Veda: [kissing check] Well, that's that! Mildred: I'm sorry this had to happen; sorry for the boy, he seemed very nice. Veda: Oh Ted's all right really. Did you see the look on his face when we told him he was going to be a father? [laughs] Mildred: I wish you wouldn't joke about it. Veda: Mother, you're a scream, really you are. The next thing I know you'll be buying HOSTESS CUPCAKES Mildred: I don't see anything so ridiculous about that. Veda: If I were you, I'd save myself the trouble.

by Anonymousreply 12June 10, 2021 7:35 PM

[quote]Smart cookie or just embarrassing career choice?

Ann Blyth has never spoken of her people, where she came from, so perhaps it was natural for her to make embarrassing career choices.

by Anonymousreply 13June 10, 2021 7:41 PM

Personally, Ann’s convinced me that alligators have the right idea. They eat their cupcakes.

by Anonymousreply 14June 10, 2021 7:44 PM

Smart!

I had no idea who she was as a child other than a snack cake pitchwoman, and I loved her for unwrapping the cakes and serving them on a platter!

by Anonymousreply 15June 10, 2021 7:59 PM

R5 Wait, is this thread about Ann Blythe or June Allyson?

by Anonymousreply 16June 10, 2021 8:02 PM

R6 My father told me Ann Sothern always had to wear black because she had gained so much weight, and now I’m gay!

by Anonymousreply 17June 10, 2021 8:05 PM

Ann Blyth made my pussy as moist as a snack cake!

by Anonymousreply 18June 10, 2021 8:06 PM

It could have been worse. She might have become the Hostess Ho-Ho woman.

by Anonymousreply 19June 10, 2021 10:14 PM

Those commercials made me really see her for the first time in my life. And she’s cheap and horrible.

by Anonymousreply 20June 11, 2021 1:02 AM

I had to look up Ann Sothern because while the name rang a bell, I couldn't remember much about her. On Google results they have the people also ask section...

[Quote]What happened to Ann Sothern?

[Quote]Death. On March 15, 2001, Sothern died from heart failure at her home in Ketchum at the age of 92. She was buried in Ketchum Cemetery. Sothern has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: for motion pictures, found on 1612 Vine Street; and television, on 1634 Vine Street.

by Anonymousreply 21June 11, 2021 1:21 AM

Ann Southern got fat.

Joan kept her figure and died young. She was 68?...72?...77?...ETERNAL?

One on life’s many unsolved mysteries.

by Anonymousreply 22June 11, 2021 2:04 AM

But I needed the money, dammit: Because maybe I was having a baby...and maybe I wasn't?!

by Anonymousreply 23June 11, 2021 2:51 AM

R6 & R22 All this discussion about Ann Sothern suddenly reminded me that perhaps my first male crush on TV was an actor on The Ann Sothern Show named Jack Mullaney. The show ran from 1958 to 1961, so if I saw it only on the first run, let's just say I HAD to have been born that way. More likely, I saw the it on reruns but still in the 1960s. I thought he was handsome and likeable, and he gave me a warm feeling. Now I have to find the recent thread on first TV crushes, where this post really belongs!

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by Anonymousreply 24June 11, 2021 2:57 AM

Unless you marry the CEO, it's just an embarrassing career choice.

(Besides, how do you get the vodka into the Twinkies?)

by Anonymousreply 25June 11, 2021 3:02 AM

[quote]R22 Ann Southern got fat. Joan kept her figure and died young.

The difference is, Ann S. could actually act. Unlike the Widow Trog.

by Anonymousreply 26June 11, 2021 3:07 AM

Selling cheap cupcakes, you should be ashamed!

We sell fatburgers in this family!

How dare you make endorsement deals without me!

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by Anonymousreply 27June 11, 2021 3:24 AM

[quote]The difference is, Ann S. could actually act. Unlike the Widow Trog.

Quick! Name an Ann Sothern movie!

by Anonymousreply 28June 11, 2021 4:44 AM

The Whales of August. Cry Havoc. A Lettter to Three Wives. The Maisie series.

And I think she was in a Tree Grows in Brooklyn… or was that Joan Blondel?

by Anonymousreply 29June 11, 2021 4:51 AM

I figured you would know where to find the Ding Dongs and the Twinkies!

by Anonymousreply 30June 11, 2021 5:01 AM

[quote] Quick! Name an Ann Sothern movie!

Name a successful Joan Crawford TV series.

by Anonymousreply 31June 11, 2021 5:47 AM

Television series!?

Miss Joan Crawford is A MOVIE STAR!

by Anonymousreply 32June 11, 2021 2:07 PM

Ann Sothern - mother of Tisha Sterling, a 60's/early 70's frequent guest star.

by Anonymousreply 33June 11, 2021 2:47 PM

I'd rather cut off my hand than do commercials for Hostess cupcakes!

by Anonymousreply 34June 11, 2021 3:52 PM

[quote]Name a successful Joan Crawford TV series.

Feud

by Anonymousreply 35June 11, 2021 4:39 PM

Cheekbones and an overbite are nice, but they can’t pay the bills. A girl’s got to do what a girl has got to do.

Those kids are far less handsy than Mario!

by Anonymousreply 36June 11, 2021 4:48 PM

Who the hell is Ann Blyth?? OP, why do assume we know who the fuck she is?

What does grandma Cher have to do with any of this?

by Anonymousreply 37June 11, 2021 4:53 PM

Ignorance is not a good look on you, R37.

by Anonymousreply 38June 11, 2021 4:54 PM

[quote] What does grandma Cher have to do with any of this?

It's the secret to that Lori Davis hairspray.

by Anonymousreply 39June 11, 2021 5:01 PM

[quote]My father told me Ann Sothern always had to wear black because she had gained so much weight, and now I’m gay!

That's a lie. I just stood behind things.

by Anonymousreply 40June 13, 2021 4:35 PM

Vivian Vance and Ann Sothern were the only two people to stand up to my mother

by Anonymousreply 41June 13, 2021 4:36 PM

Charlene, from Designing Women, on Ann Blyth

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by Anonymousreply 42June 13, 2021 4:37 PM

R42 I remember this episode. That scene was hysterical. Charlene was my favorite.

by Anonymousreply 43June 13, 2021 4:39 PM

About 10 years ago, Ann Blyth came to the Castro Theater in SF for a screening of Mildred Pierce. She was very nice and genuine and seemed like a decent person.

They showed one of her Hostess commercials and all the queens in the audience erupted in applause.

by Anonymousreply 44June 13, 2021 4:42 PM

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by Anonymousreply 45June 13, 2021 4:55 PM

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by Anonymousreply 46June 13, 2021 4:55 PM

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by Anonymousreply 47June 13, 2021 4:56 PM

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by Anonymousreply 48June 13, 2021 4:56 PM

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by Anonymousreply 49June 13, 2021 4:56 PM

Ann Blyth being interviewed about "Mildred Pierce" at the Castro Theatre screening in 2006. She looked great.

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by Anonymousreply 50June 13, 2021 4:59 PM

r50 That's TCM's King of Noir--Eddie Muller.

by Anonymousreply 51June 13, 2021 5:45 PM

The pies in those commercials look enormous. They’ve shrunk.

by Anonymousreply 52June 13, 2021 6:26 PM

[quote]The pies in those commercials look enormous.

So do the people who made a steady diet of them.

by Anonymousreply 53June 13, 2021 6:44 PM

R52 As many DLers can tell you, Hostess cakes aren't the only things that have shrunk over the years.

by Anonymousreply 54June 13, 2021 8:45 PM

r24 Jack Mullaney was a gay character actor who was often seen on TV in the late 50s through the early 70s. He had roles on the Ann Sothern Show, Ensign O'Toole, It's About Time and My Living Doll (with Julie Newmar). He usually played a bumbling young man reminiscent of Jerry Lewis but better looking and not as manic. He also worked on two Elvis movies, Spinout and Tickle Me, and other movies of the 60s.

He died from a stroke in Hollywood in 1982 at age 51. He was survived by a sister.

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by Anonymousreply 55June 13, 2021 9:10 PM

Ann is still around. One time my stepmother implied one of her old society-lady friends knew Ann, so I have this fantasy of one day meeting her. You never know!

by Anonymousreply 56June 13, 2021 9:46 PM

Ann Blyth also had a beautiful soprano singing voice, featured in "Kismet" and a remake of "Rose Marie", but movie musicals were on the way out by the time her studio starting putting her in them. She toured in musicals, and a friend of mine said she was excellent as Maria in "The Sound of Music".

by Anonymousreply 57June 13, 2021 9:50 PM

She more or less put her career on hold when she married and had five kids in nine years.

I guess she took whatever she was offered after that point.

by Anonymousreply 58June 13, 2021 10:09 PM

Creepy right winger who thought Jane Fonda shouldn't have won the Oscar because of her politics.

Carol Burnett parodied her commercials at 1:35

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by Anonymousreply 59June 13, 2021 10:32 PM

R55 I hadn't realized that Jack Mullaney was gay. Maybe I had prepubescent gayling gaydar.

by Anonymousreply 60June 13, 2021 11:12 PM

[quote]Who the hell is Ann Blyth?? OP, why do assume we know who the fuck she is?

We just had a thread with SIX-HUNDRED replies about BETTY HUTTON!

I think it's safe to assume we know who Ann Blyth is!

by Anonymousreply 61June 13, 2021 11:38 PM

The strange thing about Ann Blyth's career was that she gave a sensational performance for Warner Bros. in MILDRED PIERCE as a raging and oversexed teenaged bitch in 1946 but then more or less disappeared until she resurfaced in the early 1950s at MGM as a sweet and virginal ingenue in musicals like ROSE MARIE and KISMET.

I never understood what happened in the intervening years. Why wasn't she typecast after playing Veda?

by Anonymousreply 62June 13, 2021 11:49 PM

For the Ann Sothern fans (and I'm the biggest), check her out on youtube singing "The Last Time I Saw Paris" in MGM's LADY BE GOOD. The song won the Oscar that year and her rendition is flawless and heartbreaking. She's also fun in Technicolor singing and dancing with a lot of chorus boys to "Where's That Rainbow?" in MGM's TIL THE CLOUDS ROLL BY.

by Anonymousreply 63June 13, 2021 11:53 PM

When Ann Blyth appeared at the Castro, she was so beautiful. Her lovely smile lit up the room. She was so warm and gracious, too.

by Anonymousreply 64June 13, 2021 11:58 PM

Seems she was really cast against type as Veda. Interesting!

by Anonymousreply 65June 13, 2021 11:59 PM

I'm sure she felt right at home among all of the cream-filled Twinkies.

by Anonymousreply 66June 14, 2021 12:00 AM

#7, I love her 1970s mom look and harvest gold kitchen. Are those her real kids? The youngest looks like Veda: The Early Years.

by Anonymousreply 67June 14, 2021 12:01 AM

At one point, Ann Blyth was in a terrible toboggan accident which broke her back, so she was out of commission for over a year at one point. Fortunately, she recovered.

by Anonymousreply 68June 14, 2021 12:07 AM

Ann Sothern is superb in the tv version of "Lady in the Dark" with DL fave Carleton Carpenter in the Danny Kaye role.

by Anonymousreply 69June 14, 2021 12:08 AM

[quote] Fortunately, she recovered.

Spoiler alert!

by Anonymousreply 70June 14, 2021 12:14 AM

Ann Sothern put on a lot of weight also because she had a bad reaction to a tainted blood transfusion at one point, and she was hospitalized for a quite a while.

Susan Peters, unfortunately, was shot in an hunting accident, was paralyzed, made one more film, did some theater and tv and died young and then starved herself to death. Very sad, talented lady.

by Anonymousreply 71June 14, 2021 12:20 AM

oops: starved herself and then died.

by Anonymousreply 72June 14, 2021 12:21 AM

required viewing for an Ann Blyth thread /

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by Anonymousreply 73June 14, 2021 12:36 AM

Jack Mullaney appears in the movie version of "South Pacific" as a character known as "the Professor." In this scene, he's the only actor wearing a shirt.

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by Anonymousreply 74June 14, 2021 12:49 AM

R74 As did I. Maybe because, in addition to being cute, he didn't seem the type to beat the shit out of me, like the GIs, because of the feelings I had. Of course, I couldn't have known way back then that many of the other actors playing GIs may have been gay.

Welcome to DL Therapy, where stream-of-consciousness posts take threads all over the place!

by Anonymousreply 75June 14, 2021 1:11 AM

Mullaney had a hot career throughout the 60s and then it suddenly stopped cold in the early 70s. His friends said he was bewildered about why casting agents just stopped calling. Apparently his Gilligan-type image didn't fit in anywhere. He spent the last 10 years of his life scrounging for work in Hollywood until he was hit with two strokes, the second killing him.

by Anonymousreply 76June 14, 2021 2:26 AM

Blyth's Baubles...

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by Anonymousreply 77June 14, 2021 2:32 AM

[quote]Ann Blyth also had a beautiful soprano singing voice, featured in "Kismet" and a remake of "Rose Marie", but movie musicals were on the way out by the time her studio starting putting her in them.

Ann Blyth's final movie appearance was the starring role in "The Helen Morgan Story." Although Blyth was a talented singer, Morgan was remembered for her torch songs, so Blyth's singing was dubbed by Gogi Grant (remembered mostly for her hit song "The Wayward Wind"). But anyone who has seen the real Helen Morgan in the 1936 movie version of "Show Boat" knows she was more of a soprano herself and sounded nothing like Gogi Grant.

by Anonymousreply 78June 14, 2021 2:43 AM

Polly Bergen did a far more convincing portrayal of Helen Morgan in an early (1950s) TV version of her life. Polly did her own singing.

by Anonymousreply 79June 14, 2021 3:06 AM

Ann Sothern's first sitcom PRIVATE SECRETARY was required viewing for young gaylings of the 1950s.

She played Susie McNamara, private secretary to handsome Peter Sands, played by Don Porter, who ran a Manhattan talent agency. I learned how to dial a phone with a pencil as well as how to eavesdrop by holding a drinking glass between my ear and a door.

by Anonymousreply 80June 14, 2021 3:10 AM

I loved Ann Sothern as The Countess on The Lucy Show

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by Anonymousreply 81June 14, 2021 3:39 AM

Polly

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by Anonymousreply 82June 14, 2021 3:51 AM

^ That's just too much dress for that song, Polly.

by Anonymousreply 83June 14, 2021 3:56 AM

It's also too much Polly for that song.

by Anonymousreply 84June 14, 2021 4:10 AM

Go to L

by Anonymousreply 85June 14, 2021 4:11 AM

Perfect response, R85.

by Anonymousreply 86June 14, 2021 4:17 AM

Ann Blyth's "Baubles, Bangles and Beads" is superb, her voice is fantastic.

It is surprising she didn't have a longer, starrier career. Not that she didn't work, but...

by Anonymousreply 87June 14, 2021 4:41 AM

Ann Blyth got to MGM too late. Dore Schary was in charge and not interested in frothy musicals.

by Anonymousreply 88June 14, 2021 12:05 PM

Carol Burnett on Ann Blyth

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by Anonymousreply 89June 14, 2021 2:33 PM

Gawd, a little Carol Burnett sure goes a long way...

by Anonymousreply 90June 14, 2021 5:59 PM

I really liked Carol Burnett's show as a kid. When I finally saw some reruns many years later on ME TV, I found most of her sketches unwatchable. The business of all of them breaking up during sketches was beyond tiresome and very unprofessional. They certainly seemed to be having a much better time doing those sketches than I had watching them.

by Anonymousreply 91June 14, 2021 6:16 PM

I agree R91. That TV show was dire.

I had thought Burnett was supposed to be talented because she did that show 'Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall' half a century ago.

by Anonymousreply 92June 14, 2021 11:21 PM

Burnett was talented, I suppose, but she certainly had her blind spots. To this day, she still talks about what a comedic genius Tim Conway was. I thought he was an unfunny hack in every show he ever did.

by Anonymousreply 93June 14, 2021 11:53 PM

She dragged Conway on the Tonight Show to show him off. His stupid tricks had Carol screaming in laughter, while Johnny Carson just looked puzzled.

by Anonymousreply 94June 14, 2021 11:56 PM

[quote] What comes after Eldergay? Ancientgay?

Death

by Anonymousreply 95June 14, 2021 11:56 PM

[quote] Tim Conway was … an unfunny hack

Whenever he was on 'McHales Navy' my mother would say that it's cruel to mock the mentally-retarded.

by Anonymousreply 96June 15, 2021 12:03 AM

I stopped watching Carol's show about the same time as she introduced Tim and Carol's "Boss Tudball and Mrs. Wiggins" sketches, which I found painful to sit through. I realized at that point that the show's best days were long gone and never coming back.

by Anonymousreply 97June 15, 2021 12:06 AM

[quote] Ann Sothern always had to wear black because she had gained so much weight

Look at fat Ann with the always elegant Margaret Leighton.

(Margaret is arching her eyebrows after delivering a cutting remark to the clueless, dumpy woman)

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by Anonymousreply 98June 15, 2021 12:18 AM

I think about Ms Blythe everytime I'm plowing through a box of Devil's Food Zingers chased by a box of Little Debbie Nutty Bars.

by Anonymousreply 99June 15, 2021 1:12 AM

Ann Sothern was so matronly from the 50s on, but her face was especially pretty still.

by Anonymousreply 100June 15, 2021 1:45 AM

Whenever I see Ann Blyth, I think of the Old Queens Joke:

Who played Helen Morgan in "The Helen Morgan Story"?

No one.

by Anonymousreply 101June 15, 2021 2:06 AM

Dang, I didn't know Polly Bergen could even sing.

by Anonymousreply 102June 15, 2021 2:21 AM

[quote] Whenever I see Ann Blyth

Whenever I see Ann Blyth I think of a short Vietnamese woman wearing a ton of white make-up.

by Anonymousreply 103June 15, 2021 2:22 AM

^ Watch Ann (unconvincingly) portray an Asian in this episode of Kraft Suspense Theater!

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by Anonymousreply 104June 15, 2021 2:25 AM

New here, r102?

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by Anonymousreply 105June 15, 2021 2:27 AM

[quote]I think about Ms Blythe everytime I'm plowing through a box of Devil's Food Zingers chased by a box of Little Debbie Nutty Bars.

So--on a daily basis, then?

by Anonymousreply 106June 15, 2021 2:29 AM

R106 pretty much.

by Anonymousreply 107June 15, 2021 2:34 AM

She's the patron saint of fat whores!

by Anonymousreply 108June 15, 2021 2:39 AM

Not quite, r108...

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by Anonymousreply 109June 15, 2021 2:46 AM

I'm an actress, I want to work, more importantly I like to shop. This is TV money for radio. I can't sit around waiting for a better part that probably will never come around.

by Anonymousreply 110June 15, 2021 5:05 PM
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