Yarnell of Shields & Yarnell Fame Dead at 66

With then-husband Robert Shields, Lorene Yarnell took mime prime-time

Shields & Yarnell were the rock stars of mime.

Back in the 1970s, the then-husband-and-wife duo headlined in Las Vegas, worked with everybody from Dean Martin to the Muppets, and starred in their very own prime-time TV show. 

Lorene Yarnell, the robotic Mrs. Clinker to Robert Shields' similarly programmed Mr. Clinker, passed away July 29 of a brain aneurysm in Norway, where she lived, Variety reported today.

The couple divorced in 1985, but remained partners in mime. As Shields told a Florida newspaper in 1997: "We still do our act because we love it, not because we have to."