Oh, No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not Joanna Petet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                        If, like me darlings, you were captivated by reading Mary McCarthy's novel, "The Group," you know that Joanna Petet, who died on July 7 at the age of 83, play Kay Leiland Strong in the movie version of "The Group."  Kay was the first one of her class to run around the table at the graduation dinner, signaling that she was engaged.  To one Harald Peterson, who did her bad.  He beat her, locked her in closets, and she died prematurely by falling out a window while surveying war planes.  Kay was the "bad girl," because, oh my God, she slept with a man before marriage, and girls like that had to come to a bad end.  Or so decreed the film and McCarthy's book.

                       It may not be but seems like Kay was the only thing she did.  She certainly did make an indelible impression in the film.  

                       Her death, on July 6, at 83, took me by surprised; she had such a fresh-faced look, almost like Julie Christie, that I thought of her as younger.  But then she was a young woman, well into her twenties, when she filmed "The Group."

                          Girls, if you have not yet read "The Group," you simply must.  It will change your life, as it did mine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  It set my sight firmly on New York.

                            Rest In Peace Joanna.  You shall always be remembered for Kay.

                             But don't make Kay's mistakes, girls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!