There Was No Sixties Mom As Beautiful As Whitney Blake

Posted by Sebrina Pilcher on Wednesday, May 8, 2024

She always looked so fashionable and beautiful.

by Anonymousreply 109January 1, 2022 9:13 PM

Why I nevah in all mah life...

How do you like my new vacuuming outfit?

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by Anonymousreply 2October 30, 2021 6:38 PM

She really did have it all. Hazel in the kitchen, multiple double-knit sweater sets and an acting range that covered all the emotions from A to B.

Small wonder then that Meredith herself is a veritable acting MasterClass.

by Anonymousreply 3October 30, 2021 6:39 PM

Barbara was not too far behind Whitney but Whitney was tops.

by Anonymousreply 5October 30, 2021 6:40 PM

More beautiful than Diahann Carroll? Not even if Whitney had a good nose job (which she didn't...)

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by Anonymousreply 6October 30, 2021 6:40 PM

Excuse me... Could Whitney dance?

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by Anonymousreply 7October 30, 2021 6:43 PM

I think she looked a little common, frankly.

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by Anonymousreply 8October 30, 2021 6:44 PM

We include links in the original post, OP

by Anonymousreply 9October 30, 2021 6:45 PM

Inger Stevens became a stepmom in the third season of "The Framer's Daughter" and was much prettier and far better actress (although she didn't get to show much on her sitcom).

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by Anonymousreply 10October 30, 2021 6:50 PM

Pretty much everyone knows what she looks like r9

by Anonymousreply 11October 30, 2021 6:50 PM

She was not only beautiful but stylish and classy.

by Anonymousreply 12October 30, 2021 6:50 PM

Funny how Whitney was portrayed by Bonnie Franklin and Meredith Baxter by MacKenzie Phillips

by Anonymousreply 13October 30, 2021 6:51 PM

Inger Stevens looked like Nelly Olson.

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by Anonymousreply 14October 30, 2021 6:52 PM

My stars, you have a lot of nerve...

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by Anonymousreply 15October 30, 2021 6:52 PM

No Chinese Modern for that gal...

by Anonymousreply 16October 30, 2021 6:53 PM

Whitney Blake was one of many "cool blondes" a casting fad that was probably kicked off by Grace Kelly and included Eva Marie Saint, Inger Stevens, Vera Miles and countless others regardless of their real hair color. Donna Reed was in that mode by the end of her series and Liz Montgomery seemed cool blonde-adjacent. Florence Henderson was part of that era even though the Brady Bunch came after "Hazel", "The Farmer's Daughter", etc.--she probably benefited from it in her earlier stage work. Blake is probably one of the more forgettable of them, despite her apparently limitless vanity.

by Anonymousreply 17October 30, 2021 6:55 PM

Here's Stevens looking more tv mom/wife like.

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by Anonymousreply 18October 30, 2021 6:57 PM

She seemed lovely R2 but Harriett Nelson could get it as far as I'm concerned. Harriet seemed like a good time what with her cigarette smoker whiskey sipping voice and perky boobies.

Whitney Blake is one of the most WASP names going and I dig that. Sounds like a sportswear brand for people who can't quite afford a brand name. Whitney Blake had beautiful blue eyes and a nice figure. But, I kinda think she was a two bit version of Lee Remick at the end of the day.

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by Anonymousreply 19October 30, 2021 6:58 PM

Every time a pretty lady gets a hunky doctor AND a sitcom an angle gets it's wings...

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by Anonymousreply 20October 30, 2021 6:58 PM

R15, that's a gorgeous shot of Elizabeth Montgomery. Good find.

by Anonymousreply 22October 30, 2021 7:02 PM

Reed, Montgomery, Stevens, and MTM could actually act. Even Billingsley was good when she could do more than vacuum or be worried about the Beaver. Harriet Nelson was a good singer and you knew she was probably more interesting in person than she was on that show. Blake never seemed to do much and she never had much of a career otherwise.

by Anonymousreply 24October 30, 2021 7:05 PM

r24

She half created "One Day At A Time."

by Anonymousreply 25October 30, 2021 7:07 PM

"[R15], that's a gorgeous shot of Elizabeth Montgomery. Good find. "

It's hard to find a bad picture of Elizabeth Montgomery...

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by Anonymousreply 26October 30, 2021 7:10 PM

A random note from Blake's wikipedia entry:

[quote]Pop/R&B legendary singer Whitney Houston (born 1963) was named after Blake, as stated in the 2018 documentary Whitney.

Was Blake really [italic]that[/italic] popular?

by Anonymousreply 27October 30, 2021 7:13 PM

Fun fact:

Whitney Houston was named for her.

[quote]Whitney was named for a sitcom actress

[quote]In the documentary, Whitney’s brother mentions that their mother, Cissy, named her only daughter for actress Whitney Blake, who starred in the ‘60s sitcom “Hazel.”

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by Anonymousreply 29October 30, 2021 7:16 PM

R29 I was just reading that at R27

by Anonymousreply 30October 30, 2021 7:17 PM

[quote]Was Blake really that popular?

She was the Clare Huxtable of the '60s.

by Anonymousreply 32October 30, 2021 7:22 PM

Some people thought I was beautiful... In a macabre sort of way

I never realized how much Angelina Jolie looks like her

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by Anonymousreply 33October 30, 2021 7:22 PM

Aaron liked big dewy eyes, r33.

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by Anonymousreply 36October 30, 2021 7:45 PM

^ I didn't even remember she had kids on her show. Were they just accessories?

by Anonymousreply 38October 30, 2021 7:54 PM

Doris was an expert accessorizer, r38!

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by Anonymousreply 39October 30, 2021 7:59 PM

@r4, It was that snobby Diedre Thompson (George's social climbing sister) who drove the Thunderbird

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by Anonymousreply 40October 30, 2021 8:03 PM

Remember Missy came from money. Hazel worked for Missy's family when Missy was a little girl. So basically Mr B inherited Hazel when she married him.

Also Missy ran her own interior decorating firm and she raised; what we would call today; an autistic, son Harold; who loved to sit in trees and throw leaves at passing cars and skipping backwards.

by Anonymousreply 41October 30, 2021 8:07 PM

r38, she forgot too, since the kids were written out without explanation in the fourth season. Suddenly she was just a single, childless woman.

Same reason Lucy circa The Lucy Show shouldn't count (even if she were beautiful, which....uh...). She ditched her kids halfway through the show too.

by Anonymousreply 42October 30, 2021 8:09 PM

Don't forget me, bitches! I'm still alive.

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by Anonymousreply 45October 30, 2021 8:20 PM

Doris Day had the right idea. She dumped her kids in favor of a single life in San Francisco.

by Anonymousreply 46October 30, 2021 8:22 PM

"She dumped her kids in favor of a single life in San Francisco"

Then in real life she dumped her grandson, her only family

by Anonymousreply 48October 30, 2021 8:24 PM

Pat Crowley is 88. The last time I saw her, she slept with Martin Crane on "Frasier."

by Anonymousreply 50October 30, 2021 8:28 PM

^ Pat Crowley is really a Gay man? I never knew

by Anonymousreply 51October 30, 2021 8:30 PM

No, she did not, r50. Your memory is slipping.

by Anonymousreply 52October 30, 2021 8:34 PM

Don't forget me, Marjorie Lord, not only was I Danny Thomas' beautiful wife on "Make Room for Daddy", I kept his glass coffee tables squeaky clean

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by Anonymousreply 53October 30, 2021 8:50 PM

I knew a woman named Whitney, which was also her family name. Her parents were very very distant cousins and they gave her the mothers maiden name as a middle name, so she was Whitney Whitney Whitney. When she married she decided to go for the gold. No, her husband wasn’t named Gold, but he was, a very wealthy great grandson of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, so she became Whitney Whitney Whitney Whitney. After her divorce she fell in love with a guy named, yup, Whitney. So today she is the venerable Mrs. Whitney Whitney Whitney Whitney Whitney, and as happy as can be. Happily telling anyone who asks how she got her name.

by Anonymousreply 54October 30, 2021 9:15 PM

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Jane Jetson.

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by Anonymousreply 55November 2, 2021 12:06 AM

R2, Alice Mitchell/Gloria Henry could take on June Cleaver/Barbara Billingsley any day.

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by Anonymousreply 56November 2, 2021 12:09 AM

I never had much luck with mothers.

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by Anonymousreply 57November 2, 2021 12:27 AM

When he sang: Who can turn the world on with her smile? Was it in a sex way?

by Anonymousreply 58November 2, 2021 12:33 AM

[quote]Don't forget me, Marjorie Lord, not only was I Danny Thomas' beautiful wife on "Make Room for Daddy", I kept his glass coffee tables squeaky clean

Like Whitney, her daughter also became a famous actress.

by Anonymousreply 59November 2, 2021 12:38 AM

Whitney was in the very first episode of "Perry Mason."

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by Anonymousreply 60November 2, 2021 12:39 AM

That restless redhead, r60...

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by Anonymousreply 61November 2, 2021 1:10 AM

Gloria was too sultry for a mere housewife, r56.

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by Anonymousreply 62November 2, 2021 1:13 AM

I love it when ‘Hazel’ is brought up on DL. It’s my family’s favorite show. We watch it whenever it airs on one of those geezer channel. Missy probably married down when she married Mr. B. She was pure class and elegance, Hazel did all the dirty work.

by Anonymousreply 63November 2, 2021 1:18 AM

Meredith's biography isn't vituperative, but she makes it clear that Whitney wasn't a great mother: vain, ambitious and a bit cold. She was thrilled to get "Hazel" and then felt trapped because they never did anything with her character.

by Anonymousreply 64November 2, 2021 1:20 AM

Missy got to welcome that big, strong, strappin', Mr. B when he got home.

by Anonymousreply 65November 2, 2021 1:23 AM

I had the role of Carol Brady sewn up until that Flo Henderson stole it from me.

by Anonymousreply 66November 2, 2021 1:27 AM

Bitches! No one can make the bed rock like me!

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by Anonymousreply 67November 2, 2021 1:41 AM

[quote] Inger Stevens became a stepmom in the third season of "The Framer's Daughter" and was much prettier and far better actress (although she didn't get to show much on her sitcom).

And then she died. Suicide.

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by Anonymousreply 68November 2, 2021 1:44 AM

She was a round for a few years after "The Framer's Daughter"

by Anonymousreply 69November 2, 2021 1:47 AM

[quote] She was a round for a few years after "The Framer's Daughter"

Yes my comment was not meant to be taken literally.

by Anonymousreply 71November 2, 2021 1:53 AM

Agreed, R64, Meredith Baxter’s book wasn’t bitter or score-settling, but it made clear that Whitney’s primary focus was her career and not Meredith and her brothers. At a certain point, she stopped answering to “Mom”and would only respond to “Whitney” from her own children..

by Anonymousreply 74November 2, 2021 2:16 AM

[quote]Missy probably married down when she married Mr. B. She was pure class and elegance, Hazel did all the dirty work.

See you get it. She was really a classic beauty. And her character was a strong woman despite having to raise a retarded child.

by Anonymousreply 75November 2, 2021 4:13 PM

You can't be a classic beauty with a bad nose job and no lips.

by Anonymousreply 76November 2, 2021 4:27 PM

[quote]I love it when ‘Hazel’ is brought up on DL. It’s my family’s favorite show. We watch it whenever it airs on one of those geezer channel.

Same. My three favorite episodes are the one where she gets the Baxters an air conditioner....

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by Anonymousreply 77November 2, 2021 4:36 PM

the episode when Hazel gets a new color TV…

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by Anonymousreply 78November 2, 2021 4:36 PM

and the episode when she meets Mrs. Forbes-Craigie at a women’s resort

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by Anonymousreply 79November 2, 2021 4:38 PM

@r64, Cool word...

vi·tu·per·a·tive

/vīˈt(y)o͞opəˌrādiv,vəˈt(y)o͞op(ə)rədiv/

adjective: vituperative

bitter and abusive.

"the criticism soon turned into a vituperative attack"

You'd think Gays would use it more often

by Anonymousreply 80November 2, 2021 5:26 PM

@r70, as much as we love Eva Gabor she was barren and not a TV mom. The fact that Eb called her "mom" doesn't count

by Anonymousreply 81November 2, 2021 5:33 PM

Still, r81, I felt so sorry for her, having to live in that awful farm environment. I had to leave the room when it came on.

by Anonymousreply 82November 2, 2021 5:35 PM

I watch every day when I eat my lunch…DVR all the episodes. Yep, I’m elderly 😁😁

by Anonymousreply 83November 2, 2021 8:18 PM

[quote]Alice Mitchell/Gloria Henry could take on June Cleaver/Barbara Billingsley any day.

I was about to post that, like Pat Crowley, Gloria Henry is still alive, but then figured I'd better check. Oops. She died in April, one day after her 98th birthday.

by Anonymousreply 84November 2, 2021 8:36 PM

She made history as the first black Bond girl to bed James.

by Anonymousreply 85November 2, 2021 8:45 PM

[quote]She made history as the first black Bond girl to bed James.

Whitney Blake? Gloria Henry? Harriet Nelson?

by Anonymousreply 86November 2, 2021 9:35 PM

Patricia Crowley was HIGH YELLOW!

by Anonymousreply 87November 2, 2021 9:44 PM

^ Patricia Crowley was HIGH ?

Man those 60s were wild

by Anonymousreply 88November 2, 2021 9:58 PM

Meredith wrote in her book that she made a suicide attempt at her Eastern boarding school when she was a teen...

When she was recovered, the school called Whitney who had to fly from California to pick her up (apparently the school expelled her).

Whitney came and picked up Meredith and flew back to California with her...and never once asked about or mentioned Meredith's attempted suicide.

by Anonymousreply 89November 2, 2021 11:17 PM

^ Can you imagine Whitney's non-reaction to the "lesbian talk"?

by Anonymousreply 90November 2, 2021 11:25 PM

[quote]r14 Inger Stevens looked like Nelly Olson.

After her suicide it was discovered she was secretly married to an African American gentleman named Ike Jones.

She choose to die in a brown silk negligee.

I wonder if she was making a statement with that final outfit.

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by Anonymousreply 91November 2, 2021 11:39 PM

Yeah,R85, I loved the mother from “Dennis the Menace” in “Live and Let Die”!

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by Anonymousreply 92November 3, 2021 2:47 AM

[Quote] I loved the mother from “Dennis the Menace” in “Live and Let Die”!

Not that was some range she had.

by Anonymousreply 93November 3, 2021 9:36 AM

Meredith is a fucking liar through and through. She was pissed off because her highly rated TV series got cancelled. She had to take a back seat to Sada and Kristy and humiliated by a Canadian midget.

She lied about her husband, she lied about her mother and even lied about her sexuality.

by Anonymousreply 94November 4, 2021 2:27 PM

^^ And she lied when she acted!

She just couldn’t stop. That’s why she BECAME an actress!

by Anonymousreply 95November 4, 2021 4:45 PM

Look how stunning she is in the Christmas "Hazel" episode.

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by Anonymousreply 96December 26, 2021 6:32 PM

[quote]^ Poor Harold was a mess

Yeah, quite literally

[quote]Buntrock died at age 21 in an automobile accident when his car veered off a bridge under construction into Battle Creek, drowning him in the submerged car.

by Anonymousreply 98December 26, 2021 6:42 PM

[quote]She choose to die in a brown silk negligee. I wonder if she was making a statement with that final outfit

Final outfit? Was she buried naked?

by Anonymousreply 99December 26, 2021 6:43 PM

I find Hollywood midcentury glamour and standards of beauty fascinating. I love watching old film and TV and see whose beauty and presence holds up favorably over time, and who has merely been molded into some conventional notion of "pretty."

Whitney Blake was not really a classic beauty. MBB has inherited her mother's gorgeous eyes and bone structure, but Blake's nose and mouth are not especially beautiful.

At that time, Hollywood believed any woman onscreen who could be blonde SHOULD be, and that enough peroxide forgave a multitude of failings.

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by Anonymousreply 100December 26, 2021 7:17 PM

Thirsty Whitney!

She really did photograph better as a blonde, just to be clear.

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by Anonymousreply 101December 26, 2021 7:21 PM

Girl, that is NOT your hairdo.

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by Anonymousreply 103December 26, 2021 7:26 PM

I'm sorry but Dorothy Malone, of Peyton Place, was pretty hot. Whitney Blake? Psh.

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by Anonymousreply 104December 26, 2021 7:36 PM

In R105's pic, is that Little Lucie and Dezi Jr.? - looks like NEITHER of them. I know Dezi Jr. ditched the show to mess around with Patty Duke and later Liza.

by Anonymousreply 106December 26, 2021 10:06 PM

R106 It's Desi and no, those are actors from The Lucy Show.

by Anonymousreply 107December 26, 2021 10:25 PM

r103

no, she rocks that hairdo too.

by Anonymousreply 108December 26, 2021 10:26 PM

r106 Sounds like Aaron Sorkin.

by Anonymousreply 109January 1, 2022 9:13 PM

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