Thursday, December 7, 2017

Whose that girl?



Best know for her role on a variety show she was married for a while to  a big time sex symbol before she drifted off into drugs and obscurity.

While she was in Hollywood she was on many of my favorite shows including Bonanza, Gunsmoke, 12 O'Clock High, Alias Smith and Jones, The Big Valley and I Dream of Jeanie. She was best know for asking people for their hose. It would get her wet.

Later she got addicted to smack and muff diving and died long before her time.

Whose that nun?

8 comments:

ricpic said...

She's dead ringer for Judy Carne. But it can't be....or maybe it can.

Trooper York said...

It is. Right on ric.

edutcher said...

I hadn't heard she died, but there's no missing that very English face.

In Japan, she was know as the Sockatumi Baby.

MamaM said...

And Laugh-In’s treatment of women?” Noel Murray of the Onion’s A.V. Club wrote in 2012. “Not exactly sterling, especially in the early seasons. Laugh-In featured a diverse cast of gifted female comedians: Carne, giggly ingénue Goldie Hawn, brash giantess Jo Anne Worley, fearless character actress Ruth Buzzi, Lily Tomlin, and more. But many of the show’s jokes involved the women being stripped, dropped through trapdoors, and depicted as boy-crazy. … Not until Tomlin arrived halfway through season three did Laugh-In have a woman in the cast who broke the show’s mold.”

In 1969, Carne offered a more concise assessment of the show that had her dancing in a bikini when it wasn’t pummeling her.

“Frankly, it has become a big bloody bore,” she said before leaving the show the next year.

Trooper York said...

Stay tuned.

William said...

An actor can feign all sorts of qualities-- courage, wisdom, humor --that they do not have. The one quality that it's impossible to fake is sex appeal. She certainly had that.. That much about her was real , but it was perishable. Later in her life, the tabloids took delight in publishing pictures of her ravaged face......The road of excess did not lead to the palace of wisdom. One of Hollywood's great cautionary tales.

MamaM said...

Since I usually don't care who the girl is in these Whose, what I look for is something in their story that intrigues me as a surprise, an affirmation, an unusual hardship, a redemption, or quality of character that surfaces in a "things are not as they seem" way.

What comes through in the end for Carne is the power of story, with her claim that "the process of writing helped her to put her life back together again" even though "it would be some time before her troubles were properly resolved." And that led to this ending for her: "In later life, however, Judy Carne did find an element of peace in the village of Pitsford, Northamptonshire, where she lived a quiet life with two dogs and was much liked by her neighbours."

With that and the following leading to the awareness that realizing such a quiet ending after a life of high energy chaos is an accomplishment of sorts:

After she left Laugh-In Judy Carne became a heroin addict and her career went into a tailspin. Her problems worsened to the extent that when she published her autobiography Laughing on the Outside, Crying on the Inside (written with the help of a former companion, Bob Merrill), one reviewer remarked that “for a person with evidently no sense of judgment about people and… no sense of internal perspective, it is noteworthy enough that [she] lived long enough to tell such a tale, much less publish it.”

ndspinelli said...

I follow Ruth Buzzi on Twitter. She's married to a cowboy.