RIP Vonetta McGhee...baby boomer gen dying out

[evanovitch]

SHAFT IN AFRICA and THE EIGER SANCTION star VONETTA MCGEE has died, aged 65.

The actress suffered a cardiac arrest and died in hospital last Friday (09Jul10).

An icon of the blaxploitation films of the 1970s, <span style="font-weight: bold">MCGee also had starring roles in Blacula and Hammer. </span>
<span style="font-weight: bold">But it was her role opposite Richard Roundtree in Shaft in Africa in 1973 which really helped make her name. </span>

According to the Los Angeles Times, MCGee was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma at the age of 17, although her death was not related to the disease.

[Marilyn]

Re: RIP Vonetta McGhee...baby boomer gen dying out

She was a seriously beautiful woman

[ackeepod]

Re: RIP Vonetta McGhee...baby boomer gen dying out

and this is who she was married to ...

I didnt even know that ...

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0525855/

[kia027]

Re: RIP Vonetta McGhee...baby boomer gen dying out

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: haki</div><div class="ubbcode-body">and this is who she was married to ...

I didnt even know that ...

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0525855/ </div></div>

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Carl Lumbly was born in Minnesota, <span style="font-weight: bold">the son of Jamaican immigrants</span>.</div></div>

RIP Vonetta McGee

[Peasie]

Re: RIP Vonetta McGhee...baby boomer gen dying out

RIP

[j-kid]

Re: RIP Vonetta McGhee...baby boomer gen dying out

<span style="font-size: 17pt">I am left wid ah broken heart! </span>
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[j-kid]

Re: RIP Vonetta McGhee...baby boomer gen dying out







&quot;My sister did pass away this past week, thank you all for the strong
positive feelings, I didn't know these posts existed. As beautiful as
she was on the outside she was even more beautiful on the inside, a
force of nature.

I'll try to answer some of the questions posted

1. She was born in 1945, not 1940.

2. She did go to Italy and became famous over there first, I can
remember us being chased down the streets by fans.

3. Her first actual appearance on film was a walk on role in &quot;Guess
who's coming to Dinner&quot;, uncredited, at the airport, in 2 spots. Sidnet
Poitier connected her with people in italy.

4. She did not do any other italian westerns besides the &quot;Big
silence&quot;.

5. Both of our parents are Black, all of our Grandparents are black.

6. Yes her first name really is Lawrence, my mother's sense of humor
I guess.

7. She stopped acting to raise their son.


Thank You All


Rick McGee&quot;

Source:

[Marilyn]

Re: RIP Vonetta McGhee...baby boomer gen dying out

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: haki</div><div class="ubbcode-body">and this is who she was married to ...

I didnt even know that ...

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0525855/ </div></div>Neither did I , but I'm a fan of his too