R.I.P. Dina Merrill
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Re: R.I.P. Dina Merrill
I remember her best on screen in Desk Set and The Courtship of Eddie's Father and in the 1983 Broadway revival of Rodgers & Hart's On Your Toes in which she sang a lovely version of "The Heart Is Quicker Than the Eye".
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Re: R.I.P. Dina Merrill
Presumably many people are in line with Precious Doll -- only having a vague sense of who Dina Merrill is -- but, back in my younger days, she was quite prominent: appearing in popular movies like Operation Petticoat and Butterfield 8, and, as far as I recall, being a fairly frequent game show celebrity contestant. She also had a well-known marriage to Cliff Robertson.
In those days, she was a Republican -- as you'd expect from the daughter of E.F. Hutton -- but I believe a Republican of the Eisenhower ilk, as she was associated with a number of socially liberal causes over the decades.
In those days, she was a Republican -- as you'd expect from the daughter of E.F. Hutton -- but I believe a Republican of the Eisenhower ilk, as she was associated with a number of socially liberal causes over the decades.
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For some bizarre reason I've always confuses Dina Merrill with Nina van Pallandt. Probably because they both appeared in Robert Altman's A Wedding which was a couple of years after I became obsessed with cinema.Big Magilla wrote:I always thought she was undervalued and underutilized, but the she had all those social commitments that kept her busy.
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I always thought she was undervalued and underutilized, but the she had all those social commitments that kept her busy.
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R.I.P. Dina Merrill
"I want cement covering every blade of grass in this nation! Don't we taxpayers have a voice anymore?" Peggy Gravel (Mink Stole) in John Waters' Desperate Living (1977)