The McGuire Sisters

Yes, such great times for gays and people of color.

[quote]Yes, such great times for gays and people of color.

At least people didn't leave the house looking like this. I have to pay more at other stores for basic household supplies to avoid the low class shoppers.

"Sugartime" aggravated by dia-beet-us.

There best album was "Buy this album or my boyfriend will put out a contract on you."

I can't help loving their rendition of this song.

Which one of them was the mistress of Sam Giancana?

R2 is more irritated by looking at "low class" people than he is by racism or homophobia. Being racist, homophobic MAGA trash is pretty "low class" to me

R6 that was Phyllis - the leader of the group. The others were Dorothy & Christine.

Years and years ago, I went with a friend to a local dinner theatre where they were making a one-time appearance. They looked great and still sang great.

Phyllis was annoyed at the conductor of the band so she started directing the tempo with her hand behind her back.....it was hilarious and the audience was with them every moment of the way.

I live in the Midwest. There was a note passed up to her and she laughed and said that they guy who had been their dentist when they were kids was in the audience.....from somewhere in Ohio.....anyway she had him stand up and introduced him as the man "who put the first hole in my head."

I still listen to their CDs now and then......

They were dolls!

If you hurry, you can bid on something from Phyllis’ estate.

Uggh. Phyllis' taste in furniture is a very expensive hybrid of Married To The Mob, Real Housewives of NJ, and Vegas lounge act, with a heaping dose of Homo Baroque thrown in. I cannot imagine bidding on even one of these items.

loved 'em them, love 'em now.... but as you grow older you realize the Boswell Sisters really were the shit....scholars claim the Boswell Sisters "made 'real' jazz commercially viable, destigmatizing the music and opening its appreciation to the wider American public.

How do The King Sisters fit in with the history of Sister Groups?

[quote]I sincerely enjoy The McGuire Sisters

FYFY, OP

who was named in Phyllis' will?

Coincidentally, I was watching Abbott and Costello's BUCK PRIVATES on TCM yesterday. Made in 1940, it introduced The Andrews Sisters to the world and, man, are they great in this, singing Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy.....their coordinated dance movements are sensational. They also sing Apple Blossom Time and a couple of other numbers.

Great seeing them so young and fresh....what it all must have meant to an America preparing to join the Allied Forces. The film was the biggest hit Universal had ever had up to that time.

Did The McGuire Sisters ever appear together in any films?

Dominick Dunne's VANITY FAIR profile of her -

Were they kissed and killed with love?

r16 - "Did The McGuire Sisters ever appear together in any films?"

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Yes

So true about the Boswell Sisters.....The Andrews Sisters were okay but had NO sophistication at all....but the McGuires did and they could really sell a lyric.

It's interesting that the McGuires and Rosemary Clooney and her sister and Doris Day all came from the same area and all studied with Grace Raine - a vocal coach who got them all started on the radio in Ohio.

The King Sisters couldn't hold a candle to ANY of the three groups mentioned above....IMHO

R17 thanks for that link!

The Bozzies...

None of the McGuire sisters was truly a beauty, but they did acquire an essential glamour over the years that the Andrews and Boswell sisters utterly lacked.

There were some.... serious missteps late in their career.

I'll leave you with this Tammy Faye Baker-inspired look.

My FAVORITE McGuire Sisters song. And the arrangement is just gorgeous. Of course, it was a huge hit, and possibly (?) their signature song. I always think of the film version of "Come Back To The Five And Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean" when I hear this, because it's used in the movie.

I love their recording of "Something's Gotta Give."

The Andrews Sisters were not about sophistication. They were about hot boogie-woogie and making billion dollar best-selling off-the-charts hits.

I preferred THIS Dorothy McGuire.

I wonder who got her jewels - especially the FORTY TWO carat yellow diamond and the 28 carat marquise!!

Rock and Roll - the Boswell Sisters

1934!

Move over girls, it's...the De Castros!

[quote]Move over girls, it's...the De Castros!

Stand back for... the De Marcos!

The King Sisters...

[R1] Very true. People knew their place back then.

I love their song "May You Always" from 1959. I also love their June Cleaver hair, makeup, and dresses. I believe this is the year mobster Sam Giancana met and fell for Phyllis in the middle. She sure was a cutie.

I confuse the McGuire and Lennon sisters. Which family is it in this clip of Glenn Miller's "In the Mood?"

I mean around 1:40 right after another decade's misplaced historic picture of Audrey Hepburn...

I had a crush on a couple of the King Cousins. The boy cousins.

R38 that's the Andrews Sisters.....

The Dinning Sisters...

The Ross Sisters

The Lennon Sisters.

Oh, my.

Does anyone remember the syndicated KIng Sisters TV show, must have been in the 70s? Actually I think it was the King Family.

DL icons, r44...

Thanks! I think one of them was married to guitarist/bandleader Alvino Rey, iirc he was also on the show. Along with some boys - basically the whole extended family who were performers or musicians.

Dreamers' Lullabye. Can't get better than this.

The fabulous Kessler Twins

The Del Rubio Triplets

Let's not forget The Gumm Sisters

[quote] At least people didn't leave the house looking like this.

R2 well in fairness people didn't have a Walmart to go to back then.

The Kesslers worked better with hats, r47...

They really were all about the hats.

I love this NASTY song , especially the sassy second refrain.

"You're a whore, darlin'!"

Don't forget the Peters Sisters!

All things considered....

BOZZIES RULE.

"THIS is the kind of quality programming you get when you support your local PBS station."

*Audrey and Jayne*

The Kesslers + FOLLIES =

I prefer the Andrews sisters

I always liked their version of "Blue Skies".

Daisy & Violet

The Puppini Sisters!

Sorry - here they are!

Borden twins

The fabulous Chenille Sisters!

I prefer Can of Tuna, r65...

Carol & Sis

And then we have Kate, Anna & Jane McGarrigle. Not to mention Maggie ,Terre and Suzzy Roche.

Hallelujah, r68!

[R10] For Phyllis's estate auction on August 10, 2021 it looks like a large and mostly garish Liberace type collection of stuff. She and Libby must have been sisters under the skin and must have been buddies. It's interesting for a girl who was raised as a conservative Christian she chose to make Las Vegas her hometown for many years and fell for a few of it's famous bad boys. First mobster Sam Giancana and then after his demise courtesy of the mob high-rolling-gambler and oil-man Edward “Tiger Mike” Davis. He had the garish house built for her in 1977 (per assessor's record) with her money made investing in the early 1970's oil boom. She tried to sell it in 2017 but no takers. If you watch the 1989 Barbara Walters interview and house tour from Youtube there is nothing homey about it. It would be like living in a big overdone hotel lobby. Everybody's tastes are different and I'm glad she found happiness in that house surrounded by her "stuff". It sounds like Phyllis had a gambling addiction and what better place to indulge that then in Las Vegas.

The Haynes Sisters.

They only had one hit, but it was a good one.

The Jacob Sisters - 1960's

Now a trio....in the 1980's....

The link.....

Or in 2001.....damn nothing but mistakes today. Sorry.

The Hovick Sisters...

What about US?

Hello Dolly Sisters

Two Sisters From Boston

Coyote Sisters....fine, they're not sisters. However, Leah Kunkel is Cass Elliot's sister.

The Sisters G in "King of Jazz" (1930) at 1:22. Singing in English and Yiddish.

Very little is known about them.

The Clooney Sisters: Betty and Rosemary

Fun interview at R70. (Worth watching if only to hear Baba Wawa say "Baccarat" several times.)

Swan ponds, bulletproof windows, closets filled with Chanel. It's pretty clear that Phyllis McGuire was a mobster's whore, but she was certainly a glamorous and well-cared for one. She should be more of a DL icon.

Now, ya'll really are old.

Stop using those 20 yo photos on the apps.

One of my favorites by the Dinning Sisters...

Wasn't Phyllis' squeeze Sam Giancana also the mobster who introduced Judith Exner to JFK? Or was he the mobster who stole Judith Exner away from JFK?

What was that tangled history? I can't believe there hasn't been a movie made about Judith Exner? She was also Sinatra's mistress before she got to JFK and Giancana.

The Duncan Sisters...