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Mimi Hines Dies: Nightclub Headliner Who Replaced Barbra Streisand In Broadway’s ‘Funny Girl’ Was 91
Mimi Hines, who was a staple of late-night talk shows and variety shows of the 1960s and replaced Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl, died Oct. 21.
Born July 17, 1933, in Canada, the singer and comedian Hines met Ford in 1952 at the Last Chance Saloon in Anchorage, Alaska, and began performing as a duo. Hines also appeared in productions of Anything Goes, Never Too Late, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, No, No Nanette, Sugar, On The Twentieth Century and Nite Club Confidential, frequently with husband Ford. In 1999, Hines appeared in the Frasier episode “Taps At The Montana” as Mrs. Latimer, and in the late ’90s joined the Broadway replacement cast as Miss Lynch in Grease.
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