David "Honeyboy" Edwards, Peggy Lloyd
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by riada
Nor but in sleep findeth a cure for care.
Incertainty that once gave scope to dream
Of laughing enterprise and glory untold,
Is now a blackness that no stars redeem.
David "Honeyboy" Edwards, Peggy Lloyd was created by riada
David Honeyboy Edwards
June 28, 1915 - August 29, 2011
RIP
David Honeyboy Edwards, the “Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen” has died. This morning Monday August 29, 2011, about 3 am while resting peacefully at home, Honeyboy moved on to blues heaven. He lived a long, full life, and he felt at peace. He loved to say, “The world don’t owe me nothing.” Just shy of his 96th birthday, Honeyboy played his last gigs at the Juke Joint Festival and Cathead Mini-Festival in Clarksdale, Mississippi April 16 and 17, 2011.
Prior to his health turning for the worse in late April, Honeyboy was scheduled to play numerous gigs in Chicago, across the USA and in Europe, including today at Millennium Park in Chicago for the noon time concert series. His manager Michael Frank had to cancel all those dates due to Honeyboy’s declining health. He maintained a strong spirit until the end, telling stories and showing off his dexterity in his hands.
Broadway thesp Peggy Lloyd dies at 98
Peggy Craven Lloyd, a prominent Broadway actress who was married to actor Norman Lloyd, died Aug 30 at age 98. The Lloyds, who appeared together in the theater starting in the 1930s, had been married for 75 years.
Craven starred opposite John Garfield on Broadway in "Having Wonderful Time" in 1937 and in Catharine Cornell's production of "Romeo and Juliet." She and Lloyd met when they co-starred in a play called "Crime," directed by Elia Kazan.
Lloyd had been a regular in Orson Welles' Mercury Theater and went on to have a distinguished career as an actor and as an associate of Alfred Hitchcock, directing many of the Hitchcock TV thrillers. During the Lloyds' early years as a couple they appeared in several shows staged by the acclaimed, WPA-funded Federal Theater, which gained wide respect for its innovative productions.
The couple both appeared in the 2007 documentary "Who Is Norman Lloyd?"
Peggy Lloyd is survived by her husband, who is still a working actor at 96, and two children.
June 28, 1915 - August 29, 2011
RIP
David Honeyboy Edwards, the “Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen” has died. This morning Monday August 29, 2011, about 3 am while resting peacefully at home, Honeyboy moved on to blues heaven. He lived a long, full life, and he felt at peace. He loved to say, “The world don’t owe me nothing.” Just shy of his 96th birthday, Honeyboy played his last gigs at the Juke Joint Festival and Cathead Mini-Festival in Clarksdale, Mississippi April 16 and 17, 2011.
Prior to his health turning for the worse in late April, Honeyboy was scheduled to play numerous gigs in Chicago, across the USA and in Europe, including today at Millennium Park in Chicago for the noon time concert series. His manager Michael Frank had to cancel all those dates due to Honeyboy’s declining health. He maintained a strong spirit until the end, telling stories and showing off his dexterity in his hands.
Broadway thesp Peggy Lloyd dies at 98
Peggy Craven Lloyd, a prominent Broadway actress who was married to actor Norman Lloyd, died Aug 30 at age 98. The Lloyds, who appeared together in the theater starting in the 1930s, had been married for 75 years.
Craven starred opposite John Garfield on Broadway in "Having Wonderful Time" in 1937 and in Catharine Cornell's production of "Romeo and Juliet." She and Lloyd met when they co-starred in a play called "Crime," directed by Elia Kazan.
Lloyd had been a regular in Orson Welles' Mercury Theater and went on to have a distinguished career as an actor and as an associate of Alfred Hitchcock, directing many of the Hitchcock TV thrillers. During the Lloyds' early years as a couple they appeared in several shows staged by the acclaimed, WPA-funded Federal Theater, which gained wide respect for its innovative productions.
The couple both appeared in the 2007 documentary "Who Is Norman Lloyd?"
Peggy Lloyd is survived by her husband, who is still a working actor at 96, and two children.
Nor but in sleep findeth a cure for care.
Incertainty that once gave scope to dream
Of laughing enterprise and glory untold,
Is now a blackness that no stars redeem.
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