RIP, Vlasta
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I guess she passed away last year, in September, but this story just hit the local papers in early June:
Vlasta Krsek, ‘Ferris Bueller’ accordionist, remembered as ‘International Queen of Polka’
Vlasta Krsek was the head-tossing, foot-stomping dynamo in the middle of one of the most exuberant movie scenes ever filmed.
As thousands of extras rock out to “Twist and Shout” in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” she bounced on a pedestal and pounded out the song on her accordion, smiling at her parade float mate Matthew Broderick as he lip-synced the number for the crowd. She backed him on “Danke Schoen,” too.
“She was having a blast,” said her daughter Helen Krsek.
Mrs. Krsek was known as the International Queen of Polka, but there was little news coverage when the Berwyn resident died of cancer last August at 83 at the Spooner, Wisconsin, home of her daughter.
Helen Krsek said that not long before her mother died, she made a request: “She said, ‘Helen, don’t make a big thing of it. Just bury me beside my family.’ ”
Last weekend, several of Mrs. Krsek’s accordions were sold at an estate sale at her Berwyn bungalow, according to Kim Chmura of All-Clear Estate Sales in Riverside.
And the most famous of her accordions — the one Mrs. Krsek played in the movie — will be offered for sale by an auction house that specializes in high-end entertainment memorabilia, Chmura said.
You can see Vlasta on the float...
Link to video(an aside - I always lusted after Mia Sara)
