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Elwy Yost, host of Saturday Night at the Movies, dies at 85

July 22, 2011 By Kathy Shaidle

One of a kind — thanks for everything:

“I just hate crying scenes in movies,” Elwy Yost once confessed to Jim Bawden, former Star TV columnist.

But fans who for years spent their Saturday nights watching Elwy on TV’s Saturday Night at the Movies will have trouble staving off their own crying scenes upon learning of Yost’s death Thursday. That’s because watching movies with Elwy was part of the love affair many people developed with the highs and lows of cinema history and lore.

 

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