# Weezy Jefferson "Moves On Up" to Heaven **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 12, 2004, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weezy-jefferson-moves-on-up-to-heaven/254737 "2004-07-12T17:39:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weezy-jefferson-moves-on-up-to-heaven/254737/1 "2004-07-12T17:39:15Z")
[http://www.imdb.com/news/wenn/#1](http://www.imdb.com/news/wenn/#1) Isabelle Sanford, Louise “Weezy” Jefferson, has died at the age of 86. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weezy-jefferson-moves-on-up-to-heaven/254737/2 "2004-07-12T19:38:10Z")
Curse you, **Superdude**! I thought I’d gotten this one. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weezy-jefferson-moves-on-up-to-heaven/254737/3 "2004-07-12T20:24:02Z")
[Neither of you did](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=266057). Doesn’t _anyone_ read before posting? ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weezy-jefferson-moves-on-up-to-heaven/254737/4 "2004-07-12T20:37:53Z")
I had the first thread! I had the first thread! Thanks, **Eve**. Boy, it says a lot about my day that I’m gloating over this! ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weezy-jefferson-moves-on-up-to-heaven/254737/5 "2004-07-12T21:13:00Z")
Yeah, I saw yer thread, **Annie**. But that was _after_ I posted here, so I figured I’d quite while I was still ahead, in a manner of speaking. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weezy-jefferson-moves-on-up-to-heaven/254737/6 "2004-07-12T21:15:21Z")
“Quit” while I was still ahead. :smack: And I _did_ make an effort to scan the Cafe Society page before I posted, thankyouverymuch, **Eve**. So neener. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weezy-jefferson-moves-on-up-to-heaven/254737/7 "2004-07-12T23:28:10Z")
Weezy played a maid in the forgotten 1972 TVM “The Great Man’s Whiskers,” in which a little girl (Cindy Eilbacher) is visited by President Abraham Lincoln (Dennis Weaver). Weezy does a memorable (or at least unforgettable) rendering of a song based on the old adage “From ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggedy beasties, And things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us!” In an ep of Eddie Murphy’s “The PJs,” Thurgood (Murphy’s character) sets down to listen to his latest “Classic on Tape”: “Moby Dick as read by Isabel ‘Weezy’ Sanford.” A very low gutteral voice starts growling, “Call. . . me. . . Ish-mael. . . . . . . . . My God. . . ! This book is eight. . . hundred. . . pages. . . long!”