I was entranced with these two when I was a child. I would practice being like them all the time.
My parents absolutely hated me.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 34 | November 22, 2023 4:28 AM |
I was scared of them. I’d run away when I saw them on television.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | November 21, 2023 3:11 AM |
In the 1970s, when they handed out variety specials like they were free COVID tests, Shields & Yarnell had their own variety show. A weekly chance to watch them move like robots. Whee.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | November 21, 2023 3:16 AM |
They were cute without the mime makeup, but they still creeped me out.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | November 21, 2023 3:18 AM |
I insisted they were both brother&sister as well as husband&wife. My mother found me more unlikeable than usual.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | November 21, 2023 3:24 AM |
I also practiced acting like Shields & Yarnell, OP.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | November 21, 2023 3:29 AM |
R3, that’s very funny.
We thought they were both cute and talented. I also remember when Yarnell played a villain on Wonder Woman with Lynda Carter.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | November 21, 2023 3:33 AM |
I thought S & Y were OK, although the robot schtick was unnerving and I had a fear of mimes as a kid. Mummenschanz were the ones who really gave me the night terrors.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 8 | November 21, 2023 4:03 AM |
They used to perform as street artists in Union Square in SF way back in the day.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | November 21, 2023 4:20 AM |
Schields played a villain on a Wild Wild West tv movie as well. He was good at it.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | November 21, 2023 4:42 AM |
Yarnell died of a brain aneuryism in 2010.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | November 21, 2023 4:52 AM |
Shields is into jewelry making:
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 14 | November 21, 2023 4:58 AM |
Yarnell began as a dancer. I have a friend who did some shows with her at the Muny
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | November 21, 2023 5:08 PM |
In Bye Bye Birdie, Yarnell is the girl Bobby Rydell pulls out of the crowd to dance with in "Lot of Living to do".
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | November 21, 2023 6:45 PM |
FOLLIES! Or rather Broadway Follies, the 1981 Broadway disaster starring Shields & Yarnell that closed on opening night. Somehow, this one missed being on the walls of Joe Allen.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 17 | November 21, 2023 6:54 PM |
You can thank CBS for our repeated exposure to them back in the day. Their comedy-variety program, The Shields and Yarnell Show, was a CBS series. Their guest appearances on other shows like the Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour were all CBS ones too.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 18 | November 21, 2023 7:02 PM |
Dammmn the body on Cher there! I was fascinated by Shield and Yarnell, and well as the shitastic Pink Lady and Jeff:
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 19 | November 21, 2023 7:35 PM |
I always get them confused with The Captain and Tenille
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | November 21, 2023 7:42 PM |
Wow, he lives in Cottonwood, that's only 20 miles from where I live. Maybe we should meet up!
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | November 22, 2023 2:43 AM |
Yarnell almost got the part of Olive Oyl in the Robin Williams Popeye movie but she couldn't say her lines.
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | November 22, 2023 3:02 AM |
Shields does not look HETEROSEXUAL
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | November 22, 2023 3:04 AM |
So boring. More like Yawnell. Amirite?
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | November 22, 2023 3:08 AM |
R8 Jesus christ. I seriously hope I don't see them later in my nightmares. Those weird commedia dell 'arte masks coupled with their silence is too creepy. I now know the most terrifying words in the language, "experimental Swiss mime troupe". Let's have the Cheers "meem" to make us laugh.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 25 | November 22, 2023 3:27 AM |
Oh, Yarnell played Dot Matrix in Spaceballs with Joan Rivers voicing it.
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | November 22, 2023 3:29 AM |
They wanted Lucy to be Yarnell but Gary talked her out of it
| by Anonymous | reply 28 | November 22, 2023 3:48 AM |
Buck would never be Yarnell.
| by Anonymous | reply 29 | November 22, 2023 3:50 AM |
Buck could be Trans-Yarnell
| by Anonymous | reply 30 | November 22, 2023 3:56 AM |
Did they ever blink? That’s creepy. And the bio posted by R14 barely even mentions Yarnell.
| by Anonymous | reply 31 | November 22, 2023 3:57 AM |
I hate these D list stars they were always trying to push on us back in the day.
| by Anonymous | reply 32 | November 22, 2023 4:05 AM |
Didn't Donnie and Marie imitate them a lot ?
| by Anonymous | reply 33 | November 22, 2023 4:15 AM |
r9, I remember them at Ghirardelli Square/Fisherman's Wharf/Aquatic Park in SF while waiting in line for the ferry to Marin. Thought they were a scream, loved the TV series in the 70s. My parents were big fans, too. Clowns creep me out, but not Mimes.
And then there was the SF Mime Troup, a bunch of hot guys wearing makeup with trim bodies and tight clothes that made this 13-year old uncomfortable when one of them came up to me and mimicked puberty (first time shaving, masturbation) in public and then hugged me. This was not lost on my Stepfather, who would give me subscriptions to bodybuilder, wrestling, and Broadway show magazines for Xmas. A decade later, I came out to all of my family (I was the youngest) at the Thanksgiving dinner table with my boyfriend sitting next to me and blamed "Big Dadddy" for forcing me to be gay. My Mom said, "Well, we just don't need anymore grandkids, Pass the gravy, please". And that was that.
| by Anonymous | reply 34 | November 22, 2023 4:28 AM |
