Do You Remember Totie Fields?

[tommiet]

She was a great comedienne who die early...she was such a very funny crass load of fun!!!

 

[FuzzyKen]

I am very happy to see that another person remembers Totie. At 56, I date back many years. One of the things I usually received yearly as a teenager from my parents as a present was a trip to Las Vegas to the shows I really wanted to see.

I remember seeing Totie live on stage and her shows in Vegas were incredible. I had the good fortune to have enjoyed Rich Little, Dean Martin, Vicki Carr, Liberace and many others. Her death was a result of diabetes that was poorly managed and her weight.

I miss her talent and her ability to make me laugh to this day.

 

[tommiet]

Me too Ken...me too. I used to love when she was on Merv Griffen or Mike Douglas. My Mom had an album of hers but she never let me listen to it. Must have had a few cuss words!!

 

[CUBE]

I was little but recall her well. She would just be on Mike Douglas and just chat. Very funny. Her timing was incredible. I wish we had more of these type of gals in comedy. She would be a good subject of a movie

 

[Mr. Snakey]

She was wonderful. Very funny.

 

[earllogjam]

Wasn't she the cute black girl on Facts of Life?

 

[Principessa]

I LOVED Totie Fields! She was truly an awesome comic genius.
Such a senseless death too. If memory serves she had a leg amputated maybe a year prior to her death.

 

[Mr. Snakey]

I LOVED Totie Fields! She was truly an awesome comic genius.
Such a senseless death too. If memory serves she had a leg amputated maybe a year prior to her death.

Thats true. It was very sad.

 

[HellsKitchenmanNYC]

She was a a scream. I used to see her on the shows after school. She was popular at the time.

 

[D_Chaumbrelayne_Copprehead]

Ha!! Damn, I hadn't thought about her in years. Seeing her pic started playing her voice in my head. She was one funny, out-friggin'-rageous woman.

I just followed NJQT's Wikipedia link, and didn't realize how young she was when she died. Sad .....

 

[justmeincal]

I hadn't thought of her in years either. She was a very funny lady.

 

[justmeincal]

Here's a youtube clip of Totie, enjoy.

YouTube - Totie Fields roasts Lucille Ball

 

[nudeyorker]

Wow, I have not thought about her in years...I loved her comedy. Thanks for the clip justmeincal. Here is another.
YouTube - Totie Fields

 

[HellsKitchenmanNYC]

This is a movie scu-reaming to be made!

 

[tommiet]

Divine would have been a good choice for the lead in the Totie Fields Story!

 

[HellsKitchenmanNYC]

Divine would have been a good choice for the lead in the Totie Fields Story!

My first thot but then I think it needs someone to really get the role right w/out that edge of a man playing her.

 

[B_eleveinchbreeder]

She was a great comedienne who die early...she was such a very funny crass load of fun!!!

odd u know of this women from the 60's...and u don't know robin williams...

and from what i have viewed on utube, she seemed funny, but a bit foul, and i suspect that in a show in las Vegas, I'll bet the vulgar stuff really flew.

what i thought interesting on this utbue celebrity roast of lucille ball, totie fields and Lucille ball, both heavy drinkers and smokers, died of lung cancer, and both under 70 yrs of age.
hmmm

btw...happy new year to all those celebrating rosh...
r

 

[nudeyorker]

odd u know of this women from the 60's...and u don't know robin williams...

and from what i have viewed on utube, she seemed funny, but a bit foul, and i suspect that in a show in las Vegas, I'll bet the vulgar stuff really flew.

what i thought interesting on this utbue celebrity roast of lucille ball, totie fields and Lucille ball, both heavy drinkers and smokers, died of lung cancer, and both under 70 yrs of age.
hmmm

btw...happy new year to all those celebrating rosh...
r

LB was 78 when she died I believe and she died of an acute aortic aneurysm. TF was 48 and her death was because she was diabetic and had several complications.

 

[D_Gunther Snotpole]

This is a movie scu-reaming to be made!

You ain't just whistling Dixie, Hells.

odd u know of this women from the 60's...and u don't know robin williams...

I think her biggest years were in the 70s.

and from what i have viewed on utube, she seemed funny, but a bit foul, and i suspect that in a show in las Vegas, I'll bet the vulgar stuff really flew.

She's a bit the female counterpart of Don Rickles, imo.

 

[houtx48]

everybody on the video is gone except maybe diller and the little blond georgia something. I think totie use to be on mike douglas show in the afternoons after school