Mitzi McCall, the delightful actress and sitcom writer who partnered with her husband, Charlie Brill, in a sketch comedy act that famously floundered between sets by The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show, has died. She was 93.
McCall died Thursday at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, her family announced.
The pint-sized Pittsburgh native also played the dry cleaner’s wife who wears a fur coat owned by Jerry’s mom on the 1994 Seinfeld episode “The Secretary,” and she was the mother of Carol Leifer’s optometrist character on the 1997-98 WB sitcom Alright Already.
McCall had a thriving career as a voiceover artist; she played Mother Goose on Mother Goose and Grimm and worked on other animated projects including The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show, Paw Paws, Darkwing Duck, Yo Yogi! and Ice Age (2002).
And she wrote for shows including 13 Queens Boulevard, Eight Is Enough, One Day at a Time,...
McCall died Thursday at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, her family announced.
The pint-sized Pittsburgh native also played the dry cleaner’s wife who wears a fur coat owned by Jerry’s mom on the 1994 Seinfeld episode “The Secretary,” and she was the mother of Carol Leifer’s optometrist character on the 1997-98 WB sitcom Alright Already.
McCall had a thriving career as a voiceover artist; she played Mother Goose on Mother Goose and Grimm and worked on other animated projects including The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show, Paw Paws, Darkwing Duck, Yo Yogi! and Ice Age (2002).
And she wrote for shows including 13 Queens Boulevard, Eight Is Enough, One Day at a Time,...
- 8/9/2024
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Directed by Scott Frank and starring Clive Owen, Monsieur Spade is a detective thriller that revolves around the titular character, Samuel Spade, who came to an idyllic French village, Bozouls, and remained there for many years. Spade came to this village with his late beloved’s daughter, Teresa whose biological father was Philippe Saint-Andre, at least as far as Spade and Teresa knew at the time, but over the course of time, the realization changed and they found out the truth. However, Philippe’s character arc wasn’t quite affected by this truth because he had his own journey filled with treachery and perils. Let’s talk about Philippe Saint-Andre’s character arc to know what happened to him.
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Who Was Philippe Saint-André?
In the very beginning of Monsieur Spade, Samuel came to Bozouls with Brigid O’Shaughnessy’s daughter Teresa along with him. Brigid, Samuel’s beloved,...
Spoilers Ahead
Who Was Philippe Saint-André?
In the very beginning of Monsieur Spade, Samuel came to Bozouls with Brigid O’Shaughnessy’s daughter Teresa along with him. Brigid, Samuel’s beloved,...
- 2/20/2024
- by Poulami Nanda
- Film Fugitives
In the penultimate episode of Monsieur Spade, the reason why Zyad was so important to everyone was revealed. George and Cynthia were revealed to be two spies working for the British Intelligence, who wanted to bring Zyad to safety as every other secret organization like Oas wanted the kid, since he was gifted with a special ability to crack any kind of code. Sam Spade didn’t want to get involved in this, but Teresa’s life was in jeopardy as she was Philippe’s daughter and was also a target of Oas, who wanted to get to Philippe through her. In the last episode of this miniseries, the entangled web of mystery is unraveled in haste, which ends in a haphazard way. Let’s discuss what happened in the season finale to resolve our quarrels.
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Who was the mysterious biker?
Monsieur Spade Episode 6 opened with Marguerite shedding...
Spoilers Ahead
Who was the mysterious biker?
Monsieur Spade Episode 6 opened with Marguerite shedding...
- 2/19/2024
- by Poulami Nanda
- Film Fugitives
There was a stunning revelation on Monsieur Spade Season 1 Episode 5 that we should have seen coming a mile away.
We also got our first true glimpse into the monster that is Philippe Saint Andre as we said goodbye to a character we’ve come to know well.
Let’s dig into a jam-packed episode and everything that came to light.
When I have been snooping on social media about reactions to Monsieur Spade Season 1, many people call it slow, which escapes me, and many others say it’s difficult to follow.
This is the episode where things start to make sense, even if to an average person like me, making sense of it doesn’t make it any more palpable.
Fitting the pieces together could have been done without too much backstory, but using backstory to do it gives us a little more skin in the game, to use a...
We also got our first true glimpse into the monster that is Philippe Saint Andre as we said goodbye to a character we’ve come to know well.
Let’s dig into a jam-packed episode and everything that came to light.
When I have been snooping on social media about reactions to Monsieur Spade Season 1, many people call it slow, which escapes me, and many others say it’s difficult to follow.
This is the episode where things start to make sense, even if to an average person like me, making sense of it doesn’t make it any more palpable.
Fitting the pieces together could have been done without too much backstory, but using backstory to do it gives us a little more skin in the game, to use a...
- 2/12/2024
- by Carissa Pavlica
- TVfanatic
In the fourth episode of Monsieur Spade, Philippe met Jean-Pierre at the end and managed to take the kid named Zyad from Samir. Oas, a far-right organization, was also after the boy, and it was still unclear in episode 4 why everyone wanted him. Teresa and Henri got closer, but it was revealed that Henri had been spying on Spade for quite a while. The neighboring painter George and his mother Cynthia turned out to be spies working for an intelligence agency, and Spade began to suspect them. However, there are still many questions that remain unanswered, and the biggest question is what Philippe was up to. Let’s see what happened in Monsieur Spade Episode 5.
Episode 5 opened in Algeria in 1956, where Philippe captured a wounded soldier and interrogated him about the man in the picture. This man in the picture seemed to be Jean-Pierre, whom Philippe was probably looking for.
Episode 5 opened in Algeria in 1956, where Philippe captured a wounded soldier and interrogated him about the man in the picture. This man in the picture seemed to be Jean-Pierre, whom Philippe was probably looking for.
- 2/11/2024
- by Poulami Nanda
- Film Fugitives
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