Friday, April 30, 2010

'Mad World' actress Dorothy Provine dies at 75 (AP)

LOS ANGELES – Actress Dorothy Provine, most appropriate well known for her roles as Milton Berle's mother as well as Ethel Merman's daughter in "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" as well as a high-kicking flapper in a 1960s TV series "The Roaring 20s," has died. She was 75.

Her father of 43 years, Robert Day, pronounced Friday which Provine died from emphysema upon April twenty-five at Silverdale's Hospice of Kitsap County, about 10 miles northwest of Bremerton. He pronounced there won't be a funeral.

"She was so beautiful," Day pronounced from his Bainbridge Island home in Washington

Provine's movie credits additionally embody "Bonnie Parker Story" as well as "Live Fast, Die Young" in 1958, "The thirty Foot Bride of Candy Rock" as well as "Riot in Juvenile Prison" in 1959, "Good Neighbor Sam" in 1964, "That Darn Cat!" as well as "The Great Race" in 1965 as well as "Never a Dull Moment" in 1968.

Provine played leggy flapper Pinky Pinkham upon ABC-TV's "The Roaring 20s" from 1960 to 1962, as well as she appeared upon such shows as "77 Sunset Strip," "Hawaiian Eye," "Sugarfoot," "Wagon Train" as well as "Mike Hammer."

Besides her husband, Provine is survived by her son Robert Day as well as her sisters, Susan Cameron of Silverdale as well as Patricia Coldiron of California.



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