Turner wrote a song, " A Fool in Love," for Lassiter. Lassiter sang with bandleader Ike Turner and his Kings of Rhythm. A local singer named Art Lassiter hired them as backup singers and they became the Artettes. Montgomery and two neighborhood friends Frances Hodges and Sandra Harding, started a doo-wop singing group called the Chordettes, which evolved into the Rhythmettes, and they started appearing in talent shows. And I think Tina runs her ship today with some of the things Ike taught too." A lot of the stuff Ike taught us about business, I’ve applied to my own business: being on time, being prepared, and being professional. Being around Ike, we called it the Turner University because we learned so much. "Ike was a business man and a professional and Tina was an employee, just like we were employees. She sang in the church choir, attended Curtis Elementary School and graduated from Pruitt High School. Montgomery was raised a Baptist but is now a Methodist. Her siblings are James, Walter, Robert, George, Everett, Linda and Janice. She grew up in the Pruitt-Igoe projects as the oldest of nine siblings. When she was six years old, her family moved to St. They lived with her great grandmother Miss Pathenia, who was an American Indian. Montgomery was born on June 16, 1940, in Columbus, Mississippi, to Ora Gray and James Montgomery. She later created the Sweetie Pie's franchise, and starred in the award-winning reality series Welcome to Sweetie Pie's. In the 1970s, Montgomery was a backing vocalist for acts such as Stevie Wonder, Barbra Streisand, the Rolling Stones, and Joe Cocker. After her tenure as an Ikette, she was a member of the Mirettes, and then became a "Night Tripper" for Dr. She is noted for being one of the original Ikettes in the Ike & Tina Turner Revue in the 1960s. * Also, “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” star Melissa Joan Hart, talk show host Ricki Lake, Teri Garr, Nell Carter, Cynthia Nixon (“Sex and the City”) and Brooke Shields.Robbie Montgomery (born June 16, 1940) is an American singer and restaurateur. * Former cast members include “Ally McBeal” star Calista Flockhart, Amy Irving, Rosie Perez, Julie Kavner (the voice of Marge Simpson on “The Simpsons”), ex-“ER” doctor Julianna Margulies. * Notwithstanding New York’s former First Lady Donna Hanover, many A- and B-list stars have graced the “Monologues.” * IF “Gilligan’s Island” honey Dawn Wells gets a role in “The Vagina Monologues,” she would join a stellar list of celebs who’ve appeared in the hit off-Broadway show. “It’s a wonderful piece, a wonderful opportunity for an actress,” she said. Wells said a spot on “Monologues” would challenge her acting skills. Mayor Giuliani’s estranged wife Donna Hanover played a “Monologues” role in February 2000. “A part of the success of the show it that it shatters the image of actresses, who at the time might not appear to have the image for this,” Fennell said. The next crew change is set for August 7, when Loretta Swit (“M*A*S*H”), Sandra Oh (“Arli$$”) and Ali Larter (“Legally Blonde”) take the stage. The show that includes three women on stage casts a new trio every six weeks. “They plan to ask her in the coming months.”įennell went a step further to say that Wells’ good-girl image would fit perfectly on the raw-spoken production. “They are very interested in her playing a role someday,” said “Monologues” spokesman Bob Fennell. “īut “Monologues” producers say Wells, 62, has it all wrong – and that she’s high on the list of actresses they plan to cast. “It just isn’t the image (producers wanted). “Mary Ann was this sweet ingenue, and I realized I’d be typed to death for quite a while,” Wells told a gathering of TV critics in Pasadena. Wells said she couldn’t even get a shot at reading before producers of the off-Broadway play at the Westside Theatre. The actress, best known as the long-running show’s cute Kansas farm girl, said producers of “Monologues” laughed her off eight months ago when she called looking for work. – The sex appeal of “Gilligan’s Island” star Dawn “Mary Ann” Wells has turned on two generations of American men – but could she pull off “The Vagina Monologues?”
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