The Box She’s Trapped in Isn’t Invisible This Time

Or
Silenced
(Props to Monty)
Lorene Yarnell, who capitalized on America’s long-standing obsession with the mime arts and variety shows to become a hit in the 1970s, has reached the end of her rope, having died from the strain of trying to silently act out a brain aneurysm. Yarnell teamed with Robert Shields as the comedy mime-and-dance team Shields and Yarnell, making appearances on countless programs and specials before scoring their own CBS series, proving that there were depths even below the Captain and Tenille, Tony Orlando and Dawn and Pink Lady and Jeff. Yarnell made a comeback of sorts in 1987 as Dot Matrix in Spaceballs, with a voice supplied by Joan Rivers.