Leslie Gore Died

[JaxRed]

Lung Cancer at 68. Sure I'm sniffling ..... I'll cry it f I want to.

[redsmetz]

Here's the Times' obit. Very interesting career. I was unaware she and her brother were nominated for an Oscar for a song in the movie "Fame."

http://nyti.ms/1FUKgCa

[JaxRed]

I actually met/worked with her. Back in day I worked in Dayton for Kenley Players that would do summer theater in Memorial Hall (does that exist anymore?), each week would be usually one big star and a bunch of pro actors you've never heard of. She was the star one week when I was there.

[redsmetz]

I actually met/worked with her. Back in day I worked in Dayton for Kenley Players that would do summer theater in Memorial Hall (does that exist anymore?), each week would be usually one big star and a bunch of pro actors you've never heard of. She was the star one week when I was there.

Apparently it closed twenty years ago: http://www.kenleyplayershistory.com/timeline.htm

I see it was a production of "There's a Girl in My Soup" co-starring with Bill Bixby in 19...... :)

[JaxRed]

Nice site. At least one error in it because it doesn't show the production of "soup" in Dayton in 1970. But it was. My years were (for sure) 1970, 1971, and part of 1972. But I got the gig thru my HS Drama teacher and I graduated in 69. Don't remember working with those stars, though. The stars ranged from being very nice to huge jerks. Bill Bixby was very nice.

[Roy Tucker]

I actually met/worked with her. Back in day I worked in Dayton for Kenley Players that would do summer theater in Memorial Hall (does that exist anymore?), each week would be usually one big star and a bunch of pro actors you've never heard of. She was the star one week when I was there.

Hey! I saw her in that run at Kenley Players. I was in high school and took the future ex-Mrs. Tucker.

Paul Lynde was king at that place.

[JaxRed]

I met my wife there. She was an usherette. I was young and skinny, 2 traits that are long gone.

I think this is me in the background of this interview starting at about 3:15


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sox0Sn0VMs8

[Roy Tucker]

I met my wife there. She was an usherette. I was young and skinny, 2 traits that are long gone.

I think this is me in the background of this interview starting at about 3:15


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sox0Sn0VMs8

Pretty cool.

The Kenley Players were quite the bomb in Dayton during that era. The Marion's Pizza on Patterson has lots of classic B+W photos of the stars that cycled through, albeit mostly second line.