Phyllis McGuire is dead to me

Well I'm sorry....sincerely 🎶

Reunited with Sam Giancana!

Tasteful friends, what do we think of Phyllis McGuire's Las Vegas mansion, which included a 45-foot version of the Eiffel Tower?

^^ It looks like Liberace threw up in there!

Phyllis sang a medley of "Sincerely" and "Teach Me Tonight" with Barry Manilow for his "Duets" album in 2011.

Very sad. Who is she?

Com back to the five and dime,...

[quote]Reunited with Sam Giancana!

She's not the one who gunned him down, is she?

This is a great article by Dominick Dunne if you’re so inclined. The woman had money to burn. Sam must have left her a fortune.

Phyllis was not a nice lady. She ruined lives, including the career of her sisters. She required protection for her whole life. Wonder why? Hundreds of millions in stolen mob money and jewels and a lot of bodies buried under her house. Bullet proof metal sheets and bars descended and totally ensconced her home when needed. Why was Virginia Hill hounded to death and Phyllis McGuire lived a long life of luxury. Friend of the scummy Kennedys of course. And maybe, just maybe, something more.

This song is the shit and I'm surprised that some Drag Race queens haven't done it (Miss Dr. Silky Ganache, are you listening?).

In the article at R9 she doesn’t go into detail, but she tells Dunne that Dorothy Kilgallen was murdered. With her connections, she would know.

R9 Thank you.

The McGuire Sisters

Ruby Christine McGuire (July 30, 1926 – December 28, 2018); Dorothy "Dottie" McGuire (February 13, 1928 – September 7, 2012); Phyllis Jean McGuire (February 14, 1931 – December 29, 2020)

Among their most popular songs are "Sincerely" and "Sugartime", both number-one hits.[2]

Has Susan Dey weighed in and offered her condolences?

The McGuire Sisters - Sugartime

What's My Line? - The McGuire Sisters; Cesar Romero [panel] (Jun 7, 1959)

Tragic! My condolences to Mark's wife and children. RIP

What's My Line? - The McGuire Sisters; Merv Griffin [panel] (Apr 8, 1962)

Phyllis McGuire a frank interview with Barbara Walters in her Las Vegas mansion

Where did all of that $$$$ come from?

R21. Phyllis invested in oil and gas when it was $30.

Phyllis was one of the last of the good ol' broads. Innocent, sweet and very worldly.

At Home with Phyllis McGuire & The McGuire Sisters: Interview with Harry Smith 8/31/1990

PHYLLIS McGUIRE: My Way with great impersonations

[quote]r23 Phyllis was one of the last of the good ol' broads. Innocent, sweet and very worldly.

Can one be innocent and worldly at the same time? I wouldn't think so... especially with a crime boss boyfriend.

Did she have the other ones killed so she could be the final McGuire? She be hardcore!

But what about Lizzie, isn’t she the last one?

I never thought the McGuire sisters were all that great compared to other harmonizing girl groups such as the Andrews Sisters and the Chordettes. But they were prettier than their rivals, and their sex appeal sold well in the 50s.

Here's the Chordettes singing Mr. Sandman the way it should be sung.

Honestly, I thought she was gone long ago. I'm surprised she wasn't 99 or 109. I don't feel so old now.

She will be missed.

By whom? The people who clean all that garish trash at her house?

I don't care where you got it, Phyllis, but it's still a stupid hat.

I’ve always been fascinated by these broads. Phyllis was in the thick of everything in the 50s-60s. Tough dame. There’s a Pretty good movie on her relationship with Giancanna.

Who gets the jewelry?

Phyl supposedly had rocks rivaling the collections of people like Elizabeth Taylor.

DL thread re Phyllis...

I remember that song Sugartime when I was about 5 years old. It's one of my earliest memories. It was on the radio every twenty minutes.

Why is it even the most expensive homes in places like Vegas and Palm Springs look like suburban tract homes in Cincinnati? Tackyyyyyy.

In the Barbara Walters interview Phyllis is the boilerplate image for every white drag queen in the continental US.

In the photo @R14, can someone with knowledge tell me which woman was Ruby, Dorothy and Phyllis? You can post them left to right. I'm going to guess and say that Phyllis is the best looking one in the middle. Am I right?

Anyone know what they were like in real life - who was the most talented, who was the kindest etc...Teach me something about this sister trio.

[quote]Honestly, I thought she was gone long ago. I'm surprised she wasn't 99 or 109. I don't feel so old now.

She would have been 90 in February. But I also found it hard to believe that she was only 89, especially after reading that the McGuire Sisters got their showbiz start during World War II. But apparently a couple of them were teens at the time.

R40, from left to right it’s Christine, Dorothy and Phyllis.

The McGuire sisters had seven or eight marriages between them depending on the source, with Christine the only sister with multiple marriages.

Amateurs!

I remember reading someone's autobiography and he mentioned that he or a friend was "fucking a Chordette." I thought that was one of the funniest things I'd read. So -- were the McGuires and the Chordettes equally slutty?

I think paper bags were requisite when fucking a Chordette.

Phyllis' house is about a mile from me. Can't wait for the estate sale...she had tons of stuff crammed in the 26K sq ft.

The Chordettes definitely were not "conventionally attractive". The Chordettes had problems with Arthur Godfrey, so he replaced them with the McGuire sisters. He did that with acts on his shows.

The McGuires were *no* DeCastros....

God she's so fake in that Barbara Walters interview

One of the Chordettes was married to Archie Bleyer, Arthur Godfrey's bandleader. Bleyer also ran Cadence records and after he recorded some spoken word stiff from Don McNeil (Godfrey's less successful radio competitor, Bleyer was out and the Chordettes association with him by marriage made them poison and they were off the show, too.

I remember a celebrity profile in Vanity Fair several years ago and her house seemed over the top! She really made those dollars from those 50’s pop hits stretched.

That profile is linked upthread R51. Pretty damn fascinating. By Dominick Dunne, so it's both worshipful of her tacky wealth and judgemental. Ha. I know about Phyllis McGuire because I've read a lot of Mob books and a few Sinatra documentaries. She was into the life deep. Giancana was a murderer for hire from the time he was 16 years old. He killed for Capone and Nitti and others, long before he became a boss. The Outfit was Chicago and The Mob was NYC. Giancana was Chicago. They all messed in Vegas with prostitution, hard drug trade, racketeering and murder for hire. He was a monster - no matter what his lover or children think of him. And he is always the one most directly linked to JFKs assassination. The scene in Casino where they hang a guy to a meathook and cut him up was based on a Giananna perversity. He was a thug from the time he was 10 years old. Vicious. Flashy suits and cars they all had - but he was a little beast who had a soft spot for women. Sweet.

Phyllis McGuire was no angel and she didn't earn that money or get one of the great fortunes from singing. Being his "girlfriend" for a few years. But it ended the career of the McGuire sisters. Her deal was that she was supposed to report to the FBI where Sam was at all times. So she prevailed and got all his money too? Maybe. He stole a hundred million in mob money and died pretty broke - so how she lived out her life with the Eiffel tower in her living room and 30 black geese a laying, priceless carpets and jewels, surrounded with armed guards and bars on the windows - it must have been love. 😉

Here's her home, currently off the market but valued at $4.7 million.

Sam G was the mobster sent to tell Sammy Davis Jr who was appearing in Vegas at the time that SDJ was going to die in the desert if he didn't stop seeing Kim Novak. It was Columbia head Harry Cohen who sent the message

Whoooo?

That bathroom, r53! Good lord.

R52 Your summary sent me down a wormhole. When the script is fleshed out and movie made, I’ll be watching!

Aww. What a shame. I loved their “I’m So Excited” song.

The contents of her house are more expensive than the house itself. Still, whoever buys it, if anyone does, will get a bargain price because no one wants to buy someone else's questionable taste. It would be a gut job, maybe even a teardown. The location, if you're into Vegas, is good but, seriously, I doubt anyone is still alive who is a big fan of the McGuire sisters and they would have been the only ones interested in buying it "as is."

She’s in heaven doing the Neutron Dance with her sisters.

'Sugartime' based on Phyllis' relationship with Sam G is on YouTube. Made for HBO in '95 with Mary-Louise Parker as Phyllis and John Turturro as Sam G.

Even I am not old enough to remember her

Mary-Louise

sending condolences....

I didn't enjoy their "cover" of "Sincerely"...listened to the Moonglows version.

That's one of my favorite album covers, r65. It's so "Oooh!"

Hi R57. If you're still around, you might enjoy this biography. The script has already been written on Giancana, and his history has been plagiarized and lifted many times in a number of films. But this BBC documentary doesn't shy away from what a brute and monster was or how much he did to get Kennedy elected and probably killed. Phyllis McGuire appears in it, looking pretty and sexy. Saying that Sam was "classy and dynamic." That's the script she wrote, but not the truth of course. The one of there real relationship hasn't been written, but hopefully now it can be. How much she knew and how'd she get to keep all that fucking money? Sam was killed while cooking sausage at home for a friend, but they shot his jaw apart and his tongue out. He used to enjoy ice picking men and women - torturing and murdering - so what's there to say? What did Phyllis know. She's not some great old broad, I don't think. You don't come out on top of all this and live to 90 without some pretty great deals and connections along the way. She could ignore the tabloids, but not in death. Let's make that movie. She has no children. I bet Scorsese has it halfway done, ha. Regardless, this is pretty good. He did start out as a teen murderer, that is true. And he worked for Al Capone - but that's just the beginning. Black Swans, huh Phyllis? Deadly name.

Reunited with Sam Giancana!

And since Sam generously shared his toys possibly reunited also with JFK.