Mental Eelness

Divine and Ursula being Queens

This medieval-inspired blue headdress was most likely made for the 1965 televised version of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical Cinderella, where Pat Carroll wore it as the stepsister Prunella. The piece appears to have fallen into disrepair over the years and was likely used several times before being seen again in 1993 in Robin Hood: Men in Tights on Matthew Porretta as Will Scarlet O’Hara.

Costume Credit: Annie

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Pat Carroll and Melissa McCarthy as Ursula in The Little Mermaid Animated and Live Action Films.

Garfield's Thanksgiving Studio: Film Roman | USA, 1989

We lost two beautiful talents today 💔

Pat Carroll on Howard Ashman and her performance as Ursula

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The Little Mermaid is for everyone. Everyone can be Ariel.

Old Black folk always say death "comes in threes". They must feel very fucking validated today.

Pat Carroll backstage in 1990 at the Folger Shakespeare Theater in Washington, where she played Falstaff in “The Merry Wives of Windsor.” Credit: Jim Wilson/The New York Times

A decade later, Ms. Carroll, still looking for challenging work, sought out the role of the conniving, overweight — and male — Falstaff in a production of “The Merry Wives of Windsor” in Washington.

“When Ms. Carroll makes her first entrance,” Frank Rich wrote in The Times, “a nervous silence falls over the audience at the Shakespeare Theater at the Folger here, as hundreds of eyes search for some trace of the woman they’ve seen in a thousand television reruns. What they find instead is a Falstaff who could have stepped out of a formal painted portrait: a balding, aged knight with scattered tufts of silver hair and whiskers, an enormous belly, pink cheeks and squinting, froggy eyes that peer out through boozy mists. The sight is so eerie you grab onto your seat.”

“One realizes,” Mr. Rich continued, “that it is Shakespeare’s character, and not a camp parody, that is being served.”

Pat Carroll unfortunately passed away recently, so Ursula’s been on my mind and I had to draw her. What a legendary Disney icon! She left a fierce and ferocious legacy 🐙👑

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Rest In Peace Pat Carroll, the voice of Ursula (May 5, 1927-July 30, 2022)

A Garfield Christmas Studio: Film Roman | USA, 1987

Rodgers & Hammerstein's “Cinderella,” directed by Charles S. Dubin and starring Lesley Ann Warren and Stuart Damon, with Ginger Rogers, Walter Pidgeon, Pat Carroll, Jo Van Fleet, Barbara Ruick, and Celeste Holm, premiered on CBS-TV #OnThisDay in 1965.

RIP Pat Carroll

May 5th 1927 - July 30th 2022