Barrie Youngfellow is DEAD TO ME!

[quote]She was married to her husband of 39 years, Sam, who was almost as important to her as her dogs and cats.

I can sympathize.

Oh geez - my youth - she is still young to me - and buy did she do a great pivot,,

Boy not buy

Will Crystal Bernard comment?

She could, R4 but nobody will care.

R2 What was the great pivot?

What was the cause of death? Just old age?

She seemed to retire from acting after "It's A Living" wrapped

r6, you must be new here. It's what she does in the It's a Living opening (all versions)

I guess she may not be young and healthy.

It’s A Funeral!

Awww this makes me sad. Barrie and the other ladies made me laugh as a gayling, and also as an adult when I rediscovered IAL on Logo and later on AntennaTV. Godspeed, Barrie.

I always thought the hotel they worked in looked like stacks of coins for Scrooge McDuck.

IIIIIIIIIT'S AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA COFFIIIIIIIIIIINNNNN!

THR obit:

Death's not the French Riviera

Believe me, death's not a CHARITY BAAAAAAALLLL ...

It isn't all a great big bed of roses bundled at the casket.

As morbid as it sounds, I'm relieved to know she is dead and this isn't a tacky belated April Fools thing.

Will her headstone read 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝕭𝖆𝖗𝖗𝖎𝖊 𝖄𝖔𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖋𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖔𝖜 𝖆𝖘 𝕵𝖆𝖓?

Well, this sucks. I always liked her, she was in quite a few things when I was a kid, including a made-for-TV Christmas movie called "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear" that our local ABC station played every Christmas Day for several years in a row.

She also guested on "Filthy Rich," which is a DL fave for the six or seven of us on here who remember the show.

r21 And who could forget her star turn(see what I did there?) as DL fave/icon Joan Crawford in the film "Moviola," about the search for the perfect actress to play Scarlet O'Hara.

r21...

She was Joan in The Scarlet O'Hara Wars! I'd forgotten all about that, r22.

And r23, thank you. I saw that fourteen million times as a kid.

Well, that's the way the traffic flows.

[quote][R21] And who could forget her star turn(see what I did there?) as DL fave/icon Joan Crawford in the film "Moviola," about the search for the perfect actress to play Scarlet O'Hara.

In GOWNS BY TRAVILLA.

The Scarlett O'Hara War

May Barrie get the "AND" credit in Heaven.

R14 you're awful.....but OMG I just cackled at that one. I could totally hear their voices singing that line.....

Which one of you bitches wrote this on the guestbook of her obit?

[quote] Much sympathy to Barrie's family and community. I´m just a fan of Barrie's from her wonderful, vivacious TV work. I just wanted to say her performances really brightened my time growing up in the 80s and my friends all loved her on It's a Living/Making a Living too. Glad she lived a happy life in Woodstock and wish her loved ones healing and peace. Signed, Child of the 80s Sends Condolences

When I was in JR High school and new I would become a fabulous actress pursued for my talent, charm and beauty (it didn’t happen - I’m doing laundry today) - anyway in JR High the Moviola Miniseries was such a thrill! I haven’t seen it in years - I’m sure it would be cheesy compared to my memory of it. I remember being disappointed on how the real Garbo and Gilbert were so different from Moviola - Barry Bostwick played John Gilbert - Barry Bostwick was so sexy in everything he was in back then. …..Sorry for the low road - I guess Barrie Chase is no longer Young and Healthy!

Knew not new!!!

And was the broad who played Lucille Ball in Moviola a stripper? With a name like Gypsy DeYoung she may as well have been.

Is Barbara Barrie OK?

She had a great pivot but it couldn't last forever. Of course it wasn't the best in the business.

Well, Susan @ r35, I'd say the most *spirited* pivot would have to go to Miss Travolta.

Well, it looks like *I* get the last pivot now.

her career

Law & Order

Goodbye Barry Wheelbarrow!

I am old as my mothers balls at 43, almost 44 and don't have christ fuck of an idea who you are.

I bless the 100 year old men here and their love for you- Barry Wheelbird-

Apparently, you will turn on a bitch on a dime and read her for filth.

I will see you at the gates of heaven soon!

Love you girl, and all of the 120 year olds here!

Put the bottle down, r40.

Paul Kreppel, Sam Freed, Jane Curtin and Fred Grandy were in a comedy group together in the early 70's called The Proposition.

Marc Sotkin who worked for It's a Living and The Golden Girls posted a tribute.

It's a Living is one of those shows that no one connected with ever seems to want to talk about. They did a 40th anniversary on one of the retro stations two years ago, and they didn't get anybody to come in and do guest promos or anything. It's never brought up in interviews with Sheryl Lee Ralph. She talks more about that wretched last season of Designing Women she was in, even participating in an all-star reading of the Designing Women pilot episode. They rerun an old Johnny Carson episode where both Susan Sullivan and Sheryl are guests, and Sheryl brings up how she shoots IAL for three weeks out of a month, but it's never mentioned that Susan was on the show at one point.

And honestly, watching the show in recent years in reruns, I never realized how much TGG borrowed heavily from it. Plots, jokes, even sets!

OMG I just remembered she was the rock star who wanted Andy Travis (and Andy's Huge Cock) to leave WKRP and be on the road with her.

I had completely forgotten about that show until now. It’s surreal not to think or remember something for 30+ years and then boom.

I’m in touch with one of her cousins. His Facebook page is filling with tributes to Barrie filled with memories of all the people who knew her, mine included. As a teen, Barrie Rivchun became a local legend for her performance as Peter Pan. For years children would show up at their front door hoping to meet Peter. Barrie’s mother would keep a jar of glitter by the door so even though Peter wasn’t home, they could get a sprinkle of fairy dust. Barrie was a wonderful woman from a wonderful family.

R46, that's so sweet and so nice to hear.

R46, that sounds so awesome of her to do that for kids.

I hope her passing was peaceful and she is serving up A level pivots in heaven.

R46 Anyone DL'ers might know?

Awe, this makes me sad. For once, I have nothing bitchy to say.

She was a good actress. Sorry to learn this info.

Have Ann Jillian’s original breasts commented yet?

From Paul Kreppel's Facebook page:

It is with great sorrow, infinite love & light I share the following from Sam Freed, our dearest Barrie Youngfellow’s amazing husband. Barrie was very private about her health, but let me say she never lost the twinkle in her eye or that wonderful laugh these last years. She loved the life she was blessed with…. xoxo Barrie Youngfellow Freed passed this past Monday night. She was 75. She called Woodstock, NY her home since 1989. She loved the town and the friends she met there. Before retiring she worked as an actress on stage and television starring on the long running series “It’s a Living”. Born in Cleveland, Ohio where she performed the title role in several productions of Peter Pan. She could fly with the best of them. She was the best of friends and had many loyal ones. Loved a good story and a nice bottle. Had a great laugh that confirmed her sense of life. Even during her decline she could shoot off a good one liner. She was so nourished by the care and kindness and love that she received from the staff at Ten Broeck Rehab. Thank you, Catskill. She was married to her husband of 39 years, Sam, who was almost as important to her as her dogs and cats. She is survived by her sister heide rivchun of Cleveland and her sister Kim Rivchun of Providence, RI. In lieu of a donation please give someone a loving hug.

Richard Kline:

Hey Paul…so saddened by this news. Barrie was a terrific actress. When they asked me to play her husband on IAL I was thrilled. She emanated joy and love of craft. May she rest in peace.

She never paid me back for the sunglasses I bought her last summer even though I mailed her a copy of the receipt. She had it coming.

Ill bet she had alheimers or something similar. That stated in the announcement that even "through her decline" she was still able to throw out one liners...or something to that effect, yet they decline to say what she died from.

Can anyone shed light on the town of Woodstock? Is it quaint? Snowbound in winter?

The famous concert didn't actually take place there, r57.

R46- Just lovely. And I apologize for calling everyone here 120 years old.

Sorry all. R46- Truly, a gem of MEMORY AND SHE WAS CLEARLY A BELOVED LADY!

We were in a song performance class together in the mid-1970s and she was very good and very nice.

Will her ashes be dispersed from the roof bar of the Bonaventure Hotel?

It *was* a living...

Why I love coming here is the random DL obsessions with random 70s/80s actors like this.

I only know her from that TC ep where she doesn’t want to tell Jack she’s living with “two men,” I would never know in my life her name where it not for DL lore.

I think she’s probably shaving a few years off her age though. I don’t really see the point once you’re dead.

[quote]I had completely forgotten about that show until now. It’s surreal not to think or remember something for 30+ years and then boom.

How could you have not thought about her in 30 years when she is DL ROYALTY???

Will there be a tribute to her at the Grammys?

I’ll be sad if Jamie Lee Curtis doesn’t highlight her next year during the Oscar’s In Memoriam segment.

I'm not getting Joan vibes...

Was Tracy Ullman’s Linda Granger based on Ann Jillian?

I loved her . I hope she is now in perfect health and vitality in heaven

r43, we talked about some of the episodes TGG redid from IAL (after the It's a Living writers took over TGG in the final three seasons) in the latest It's a Living thread.

I always thought Ann Jillian was gorgeous with the red hair she had in Mr. Mom.

That bleached blond shit was so dried out and brittle looking that it resembled straw under a scarecrow's hat. Plus it made her look fatter.

I'mmmmm No Longer LIVVVINNG.

[quote]I’ll be sad if Jamie Lee Curtis doesn’t highlight her next year during the Oscar’s In Memoriam segment.

If that were to happen it'd be a squeaker, R66. IMDB only lists two cinematic movies on her resume. The rest are for TV.

How many movies did Betty White have on her resume?

r74....33...and that doesnt include her tv work...strictly film.

r67 They tried to "Joan her up" makeup-wise, and she did have a good scene when she was trying to get the part of Scarlet O'Hara, throwing her weight around and then trying to be seductive. The best thing though about "The Scarlet O'Hara War" was the scene between Carole Lombard(DL fave Sharon Gless) and Tallulah Bankhead(Carrie Nye)

From Ann Jillian’s website. What the hell is a piano lecture?

Piano Lecture

Ann is always on target with her message of hope; her performance is uplifting and inspirational. Have Ann bring her pianist, and her talk remains a major lecture about life, health, and the joys of motherhood, accentuated with song. In addition to her regular series, a "mini-concert" with accompanying pianist accentuates Ann's lecture about life, health and the joys of motherhood. (Click on Program Titles for lecture programs.)

Experience

Ann Jillian is a show business veteran of 40+ years and has been receiving standing ovations as a motivational speaker since 1985.

Former first lady, Betty Ford, once said of Ann, "...Ann's message is so inspirational. It motivates us to do what we should be doing for ourselves to be happy, healthy, in love with life and everyone in it..."

Program titles are:

"Never Had A Bad Day In My Life"

"Surviving & Thriving"

"The Winner In You" Available as straight lecture or optional piano lecture.

"A Conversation With Ann Jillian."

I’d eat Paul Kreppel’s ass.

r78, he'd probably let you. Isn't he gay? I'm pretty sure that was said on here by someone who hooked up with him. I think he looks better as a handsome older guy than he did around the time of the show.

I'MMMMMM NOTTTTTTTT LIVIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING!!!

THAT'S how you do it R72.

He's 74 years old R79.

r81, ...and?

He has been with Murphy Cross for a long time.

I remember a bit of dialogue between Barrie Youngfellow as Joan Crawford and George Furth as George Cukor in "The Scarlett O'Hara Wars" that I found amusing. Cukor has just broken the news to Joan that she won't be playing Scarlett, but, to smooth things over, he tells her he has another movie he'll be directing with a part that's perfect for her. It went something like this:

Cukor: "It's called 'The Women' and I know you're going to love it."

Joan: "Hmmm. 'The Woman.' "

Cukor: "It's called 'The Women.' "

Joan: "You mean more than one?"

I'm barely 43 and I know who this bitch is.

Paul Kreppel:

Paul with Gail Edwards in 2019:

That's a cute picture r87, they both look great.

Thanks for that pic R87 – they both look fantastic; Gail in particular. I worked with her (and DL fave Annie Potts) on two stage productions in 1980, just before they both booked series – IAL for Gail and Goodtime Girls for Annie. Gail’s kept her loveliness throughout the years, and Annie looks pretty good too on Young Sheldon.

Aww, what a shame.

Well, I guess he won’t be writing the songs that make the whole world sing anymore.

I did so love Copacabana though.

Rose. It wasn't Barry MANILOW.

It was Barry GIBB.

Barry Gibb started Motown?

Oh, thanks, r91.

Then it’s not really a shame. I didn’t care for him too much.

She was such a great dancer, especially with Astaire.

Gail Edwards is having a pretty rough time of it, former-costars wise, she played Bob Saget's girlfriend (wife?) on Full House for a couple of seasons as well.

R95 somebody needs to pair her up with Will Smith.

In Barrie's honor, watching her episode of Murder, She Wrote, "Trevor Hudson's Legacy," which is one I usually skip. It's been so long 'd forgotten she was even in it. She's a tough Western gal in Montana! She shoots a rifle! And washes a truck! And...that's about it. Not a big character, but one of the few in the episode who isn't a complete asshole, so that's nice.