RIP Carole Cook

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Carole Cook has died - just days before her 99th birthday. Best remembered as the glammy grandma in Sixteen Candles, and as Maggie Jones in Broadway’s original cast of 42nd Street. 
A close friend of Lucille Ball, she was mentored by the comedy legend and has starred and guested on everything. Big bold and brassy, and hilarious and a belt that could fill a house unmiked. 

The very best of the 20th Century broads. 
https://imdb.to/3CJ8AfS

Also a huge ally for the Queer Community, Carole was a guardian Angel and care-taker of gay men suffering at the height of the AIDS crisis in LA in the late 80’s, when their families stayed away. 
 

Raise a glass to her memory! 

[+ WilliamM]

me. cook went back on the  road when covid wasn't as bad. She often said, "oh, to be 90 again."