Sure.
Posted on 06/12/2015 4:46:18 PM PDT by SMGFan
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actress, singer and voice of the Chiquita Banana cartoon character Monica Lewis has died.
Her former manager, Alan Eichler, says Lewis died Friday of natural causes at her home in the Los Angeles area. She was 93.
Lewis started her career as a vocalist with Benny Goodman's orchestra and went onto record several jazz hits in the 1940s. In 1950, she hit Hollywood, signing an exclusive contract for music and movies with MGM. Her film credits include 1951's The Strip with Mickey Rooney and Excuse My Dust with Red Skelton.
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Damn I’m old.
Right behind you. All the great stars and beauties of the 40’s and 50’s are sadly passing away.
93 is quite respectable. I hope to reach that ripe old age or older. Only 13 years to go.
Every time a celebrity dies I start texting my brother 20 questions to guess who. Man is he going to have a hard time guessing this one!
Prolly drive him bananas
Was shown some cartoons of her doing the banana thing when I was a kid - later in years I asked myself: Hey, they ship them in refrigerated ships, what was the deal of not putting them in the refrigerator?!
Ouch! Man! You almost deserve to be sorted for such a corny pun.
I remember Carmen Miranda as Chiquita Banana when I was a boy.
And, one day, as I was coming home from school with some friends, she pulled up in a chauffeured limousine as we were leaving a soft drink store in Scarsdale, and told her chauffeur to give us little kids 75 cents to buy candy. In those days, that was a lot of money. I’ll never forget it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFDOI24RRAE&list=PLV4Uxy1tKMe2PH2dACLmrx_puBZL6SqOE&index=2
RIP.
Sure.
Sorry to see her slip away. She had appeal.
Sorry to see her slip away. She had appeal.
cool story!
I will miss her a bunch, the USA is ripe for that kind of entertainer.
It will be very sad at her funeral when they bury her six foot, seven foot, eight feet down...
We’re both gonna get banned here...
Day oh. Day oh oh oh oh.
Peelings ... nothing more than peelings.
Trying to digest these ... daylight come,
I’m still a hoemoe.
Thank you. Thank you very much.
Harry Belafonte, Democrat Jackhandle.
Ha! The United Fruit Company introduces an exotic new fruit to America!
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