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Shirley Jean Rickert dies at 82; child star of 'Our Gang' comedies
LA Times ^
| February 12, 2009
| Dennis McLellan
Posted on 02/14/2009 9:45:15 AM PST by lowbridge
Shirley Jean Rickert, a former child actress who was the cute little blond with the spit curls in "Our Gang" comedies in the early 1930s and later became a long-haired burlesque stripper known as Gilda and Her Crowning Glory, has died. She was 82.
Rickert, who in recent decades went by her married name of Measures, died Friday after a long illness in a nursing home in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., said her daughter, Melody Kennedy.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: littlerascals; ourgang; shirley
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posted on
02/14/2009 9:45:15 AM PST
by
lowbridge
To: lowbridge
“Our Gang” movies are great. Also a testament to how poor America really was at one point in time - and how all the stuff we have now and all the housing bubbles/financial bubbles and money everywhere did not make us a better country...
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posted on
02/14/2009 9:56:17 AM PST
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam anthe Nazis raisd we want to kill them)
To: lowbridge
So sad. My mother grew up watching them during the depression....I did as a child....and my boys LOVE the ‘Our Gang...Little Rascals’ collection we have.
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posted on
02/14/2009 10:08:04 AM PST
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(Obama dozed.....people froze.)
To: lowbridge
From Our Gang films to burlesque.
RIP Shirley.
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posted on
02/14/2009 10:18:04 AM PST
by
Reagan Man
("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")
To: lowbridge
later became a long-haired burlesque stripper known as Gilda and Her Crowning Glory,Exactly, (ahem) was her (cough cough) "crowning glory"?
To: LiberConservative
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posted on
02/14/2009 11:07:47 AM PST
by
Redbob
(W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
To: lowbridge
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posted on
02/14/2009 12:41:08 PM PST
by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
To: windcliff; onedoug
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posted on
02/14/2009 12:44:58 PM PST
by
stylecouncilor
(The black man is keeping me down!)
To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
Wow! I haven’t thought of Our Gang strips in years. I just passed the 50 mark and thought that they were all long gone by now. Hats off to this lady. By the photos, she was a darling little girl.
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posted on
02/14/2009 8:46:17 PM PST
by
Desron13
(If you constantly vote between the lesser of two evils then evil is your ultimate destination.)
To: Reagan Man
"By the photos, she was a darling little girl..."OK, by this photo she was also a, ahem... a darling woman as well.
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02/14/2009 8:49:11 PM PST
by
Desron13
(If you constantly vote between the lesser of two evils then evil is your ultimate destination.)
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