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Tuesday, October 02, 2007

Letter of the Day!

This just in from a Who2 reader:

"Frances Bay is a Canadian actress who has always been a star in her hometown of Dauphin, Manitoba, and now her friends and family want her to shine for the whole nation. The family is lobbying Canada's Walk of fame to induct Ms.Bay this 2008. There is a petition in her honour at www.petitiononline.com/franny. Please sign it and pass it along.

Frances has been in over 150 stage, television and film productions. She was the loving grandmother in Adam Sandler's Happy Gilmore, Fonzie's grandmother in Happy Days and the marble rye lady in Seinfeld...

Many thanks for your anticipated cooperation.

Anrea Zaslov
The Friends of Frances Bay"

Here's a bit more info: the Internet Movie DataBase describes her as "Cute, tiny and prolific little old lady character actress Frances Bay."

Ms. Bay turns 90 next year. According to the IMDB, her roles over the past two decades have included: Old Woman, Older Woman, Wise Old Woman, Grandma Shallot, Grandma Sospato, Grandma George, Old Phoebe, Aunt Francine, Aunt Sylvia, Aunt Barbara, Harry's Wife, Mrs. Fitch, Mrs. Steiner, Mrs. Tidgley, Martha Craddock, Thelma Burr, Mildred Grayson, Winnifred Ward, and Evil Old Lady.

The life of a character actor!

Wondering if you'd recognize her? Here's a production still from the TV show Charmed (that's her on the left) and a snapshot from the personal site of another actress.

Posted by Mr. Holznagel at 9:19 AM

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