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Obit: Phyllis Kirk @ 79; Actress in TV's 'Thin Man'

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CrankyYankee

Phyllis Kirk, an actress who played the damsel in extreme distress stalked by Vincent Price in "House of Wax," a horror movie considered the best and most popular 3-D film of the 1950s, has died. She was 79.

...she often appeared in television anthologies before being cast opposite Peter Lawford in "The Thin Man," which aired on NBC from 1957 to 1959.

"The Thin Man,"...brought Kirk an Emmy nomination in 1959...

Her second career — in public relations, mainly at CBS — provided "by far and away the best work relationship" she ever had, Kirk later recalled.

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituar...ry?coll=la-news-obituaries&ctrack=1&cset=true
 
Back in the day Phyllis Kirk would have been called a real classy dame. In my day a fabulous babe. Now days she would be called a very attractive woman.

The Thin Man is another old show I would like to see pop up on some cable channel. Maybe instead of The A Team or some other obnoxious show that is run over & over again on TV Land etc.
 
Probably no one remembers that Phyllis Kirk once hosted
a daytime talk show, "The Young Set" on ABC. It lasted
from September to December 1965 and was replaced by
"Supermarket Sweep" and "The Dating Game." Ironically,
its airtime was the same as "The View" today: 11 AM-12
Noon (ET). I hope it wasn't the shoutfest "View" is.

Jane Wyatt also hosted a daytime show on ABC that
year (while ABC was rerunning "Father Knows Best"):
"Confidential For Women," which was a new five-part
story each week rather than a traditional soap. IIRC,
it was replaced by "Where The Action Is."
 
Let's see if I can quote this from Laugh-in

If Phyllis Kirk married Kirk Douglas, divorced him and married Captain Kirk, divorced him and married William O. Douglas, she'd be Phyllis Kirk Douglas Kirk Douglas.

That particular gag was delivered by Kirk Douglas
 
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