Sunday, May 2, 2010

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS ... DOROTHY PROVINE PASSES

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS ...

DOROTHY PROVINE PASSES

Actress-Dorothy-Provine-dead

Dorothy Provine, best-known for her roles as Milton Berle's wife and Ethel Merman's daughter in the all-star cast film It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and as the high-kicking flapper on the 1960s TV series The Roaring 20's, has died. She was 75.

Her husband of 43 years, Robert Day, said yesterday that Provine died of emphysema Sunday APril 25 at a hospice outside Bremerton, Wash. He said there wouldn't be a funeral.

"She was so beautiful," Day said from his home in Washington.

Provine's movie credits also include TheBonnie Parker Story; Good Neighbor Sam; The Great Race; Live Fast, Die Young; Never a Dull Moment; Riot in Juvenile Prison; and That Darn Cat!

Provine played leggy flapper Pinky Pinkham on ABC's The Roaring 20's from 1960 to '62, and she also appeared on shows such as Hawaiian Eye, Mike Hammer, Sugarfoot, 77 Sunset Strip and Wagon Train.

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

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