{"id":21064,"date":"2018-12-05T09:32:01","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T17:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/?p=21064"},"modified":"2021-12-01T13:31:44","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T21:31:44","slug":"if-it-hadnt-been-for-that-wreck-large-marge-would-have-been-81-years-old-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/2018\/12\/05\/if-it-hadnt-been-for-that-wreck-large-marge-would-have-been-81-years-old-today\/","title":{"rendered":"If it hadn&#8217;t been for that wreck, Large Marge would have been 81 years old today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On this day in 1937, &#8220;Large Marge&#8221; was born! Today would have been her 81st birthday&#8230; if it hadn&#8217;t been for that WRECK!<\/strong><\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"653\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15633\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Large-Marge-memoriam.jpg\" alt=\"large-marge-memoriam\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Large-Marge-memoriam.jpg 640w, https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Large-Marge-memoriam-627x640.jpg 627w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>\n<p><strong>The woman\u00a0who played Large Marge, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0638053\/\">Alice Nunn<\/a>, had a long career as a character actor. Starting in the late 1960s, she appeared in many TV shows and movies including <em>Hazel<\/em>, <em>The Phyllis Diller Show<\/em>, <em>Petticoat Junction<\/em>, <em>The Love Boat<\/em>, <em>Mommie Dearest<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Happy Days<\/em>, <em>Knight Rider<\/em>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0638053\/\">LOTS MORE<\/a>! She&#8217;s best known for playing Large Marge in my 1985 film, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/title\/848396\">Pee-wee&#8217;s Big Adventure<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"363\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15632\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Large-marge-in-Wheel-Inn.jpg\" alt=\"large-marge-in-wheel-inn\" \/>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s a peek at her\u00a0famous scene, considered one of the scariest in non-horror film history!!\u00a0<em>Watch all of\u00a0Pee-wee&#8217;s Big Adventure! Tell&#8217;em Large Marge sent ya!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Ms. Nunn died in 1988 in West Hollywood, California.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this day in 1937, &#8220;Large Marge&#8221; was born! Today would have been her 81st birthday&#8230; if it hadn&#8217;t been for that WRECK! The woman\u00a0who played Large Marge, Alice Nunn, had a long career as a character actor. Starting in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-friends","category-pee-wees-big-adventure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25694,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21064\/revisions\/25694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}