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RIP Yvonne DeCarlo

Damn. Here's my favorite Yvonne DeCarlo scene, from The Ten Commandments:

A jewel has brilliant fire, but it gives no warmth.
Our hands are not so soft, but they can serve.
Our bodies not so white, but they are strong.
Our lips are not perfumed, but they speak the truth.
Love is not an art to us. It's life to us.
We are not dressed in gold and fine linen.
Strength and honor are our clothing.
Our tents are not the columned halls of Egypt,
but our children play happily before them.
We can offer you little... but we offer all we have.
(Chuck Heston, interrupting to whine)
I have not little, Sephora. I have nothing.
(Back to Yvonne)
Nothing from some... is more than gold from others.
(Chuck again)
You would fill the emptiness of my heart?
(Back to Yvonne, who had me at hello)
I could never fill all of it, Moses,
but I shall not be jealous of a memory.

Booyah! She will be greatly missed.