Miss Kitty: Hottie or Nottie

I understand your "less than zero" interest in women, Grizz - but I'm a bit confused by your reply to rogredford. It seems to me you are giving Miss Kitty some sort of "backhanded" compliment....."strong, independent...but doesn't come across as effeminate" and the word "sissified" to describe a woman is really bizarre to me. We both know which segment of society is most often branded with the words 'effeminate & sissy' - and imo, neither word belongs in a discussion about her. I guess what I'm trying to say, is that the inference that women (from any era) can't be soft, genteel, SUPER feminine - and still crazy-ass strong and resolute just doesn't (imho) fly.
You say Miss Kitty has ALL her femininity - but she's no "sissy" etc - and again, imo, some (descriptive)
words just don't "translate" from gay to straight.



And to rogredford........ I think Miss Kitty could totally be related to Endora!!




Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought an idiot - than to open it and remove all doubt!

When I was younger, I used to think Endora was an old woman. Then I started watching the "Bewitched" reruns in my thirties and suddenly Endora looked kinda...hot. I thought Kitty looked good, however, you could tell that in the Seventies she was wearing a lot of make-up. Blake was 59 when she died fro AIDS complications.



Annoying the world since 1960!

Amanda Blake was a heavy smoker, so it's not surprising she aged prematurely.

....I thought Kitty was rather attractive in early episodes from around 55 to 60 or so but yes she did age rather quickly. MisterFranks... Are you referring to Peggie Castle who played Lily Merrill who ran The Birdcage Saloon? She died n 73 at the age of 45 from cirrhosis of the liver.

Miss Kitty was not that old, so I think she was living a hard-drinking life. Too bad. It reminds me of Patty Carter (?) from LAWMAN, who died at the age of 45 from alcoholism. She was very pretty in the 1950s, and just over 10 years after LAWMAN was cancelled, she was dead...

The woman from Lawman was Peggie Castle.

"It ain't dying I'm talking about, it's LIVING!"
Captain Augustus McCrae

She's been dead for 30 years, and the Miss Kitty you love has been dead for 50 years.

I find her rather bland in the early episodes. It's only after she starts "tarting up" her appearance that she becomes a hottie.

I've seen pictures of Ms Blake sans makeup, and the difference is much like that of Cassandra Peterson, with-and-without.

I think that the 1960s color TV westerns in general (not all of them, but about 50% of them), had a black and white film crew working in the color medium, and in some cases, the actors look way too red or otherwise just look odd.

The sets were also a bit hard on the eyes sometimes, and it looked like they were far too saturated with color.

I know that there are some color westerns, such as the ones with Randolph Scott, that are usually very good to watch, and the colors are less explosive, and look normal.

I think in the case of most of the western movies, the color palette is closer to reality. John Wayne did tons of great movies in color. Searchers for example, was a beautiful movie and the colors were vibrant, but they did not explode your eyeballs like some of the TV westerns.