Gary Collins, dead you know!

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The Host of Hour Magazine, who once did a great interview with Lucy, has passed away. He was married to an actress whose name escapes me at the moment, Mary Ann Mobley perhaps?

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Ok, i just checked, he was 74, died of natural causes and Mary Ann was a former Miss America. He was arrested and served four days in jail for DUI back in 2007 and it happened again in '08 and '09. He was also an actor, as was she.

[Lucyilove]

Sad news. Those Lucy appearances on HOUR MAGAZINE as you mentioned were just wonderful and who could forget Gale reading his foreward from "Loving Lucy" to Lucy on the show, very moving. Gary Collins may not have been a world-class talk show host but he was very good in his low key way and terrific when he had one of the iconic ladies of Hollywood on his show like Lucy, Bette Davis, or Kim Novak, they obviously trusted him to avoid gossip and personal matters. He even managed to get the very private Jane Wyman on the show several times, no mean feat as she talked almost no one in the media during the Reagan presidency.

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You know, i always liked him, and his wife. The only reason i went with the title mocking one of Lucy's lines on the show was because nobody here had thought him important enough to start a thread on his passing. But i'm sure they'll complain if he doesn't make the Emmy In memoriam segment though. I never missed his show, he seemed genuine.