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Vale: Darlene Conley, Yvonne de Carlo

In the last week we’ve lost two legendary ladies.

Darlene Conley played the matriarch Sally Spectra on The Bole and the Beautiful. Reminding me of a camp “Bea Smith” she was the show’s big, brassy, loud lady. Think big hair and then some. Darlene always seemed to emote for the cameras long after the dialogue stopped, adding another four or five facial expressions just for the editors I reckon. She died of stomach cancer aged 72.

Yvonne de Carlo, aka The Munster’s Lily, also passed away this week. De Carlo managed to add a dash of class and elegance to this classic horror sitcom. This followed a long history in Hollywood films, including The Ten Commandments. She was lmost the same age as Al Lewis who played ‘Grandpa’ her father in the show. She died aged 84 of natural causes.

We’ll look for them in the Oscars and Emmys “In Memoriam” sequences.

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