In this edition of Jabba's Palace Roll Call, I look at the character of Yarna d'al' Gargan, the Askajian dancer from Jabba's Palace, as well as her eventual companion, Doallyn, one of Jabba's guards.
My wife has a costume of her, she's one of only a couple of people that have an approved one on the Rebel Legion. I made most of it for her, but it was quite difficult because of the total lack of decent reference pictures to work from.
Skin Deep is a touching story for sure; too bad it contradicts the movie. She's portrayed as a devoted, caring mother while in ROTJ she's seen flirting with men, laughing at Oola's demise and overall having a great time at Jabba's palace. She had more fun than Salacious Crumb...
This is honestly a really good reason that I'm a little sad that legends isn't cannon, because we're never going to see another backstory for any of those background characters such as Yarna or any other in Jabbas palace because of how focused they are one fleshing out what happened in between episode 6 and 7, instead of seeing the background characters!
Yarna's story is mostly canon except the bit about her dancing and Han and Leia's wedding. Most small stories are still canon unless they interfere with Disney's new story lines.
My wife has one of only a couple of approved Yarna costumes in Rebel Legion. Making the costume accurately is very difficult and time consuming, but it's worth it simply because it is so rare. You'll see a million Slave Leias, dozens of Oolas, but only a couple of Yarnas. Good luck if you do decide to do it! FYI, my wife's name is Amy :-)
Claire Davenport aka Yarna d'al' Gargan: a British actress well known through the sixties and seventies in British film and TV who maybe more familiar with American audiences as the long suffering wife of Benny Hill.
***** so this guy calls you out on a spelling error and then you take his side over mine and call me a smartass?. i'm done here. sorry for trying to help. carry on
When I got the Dixie Cups I didn't recognizer her, and I wasn't sure whether she was male or female because the wort makeup looked like a beard suggesting an old man or a bearded lady. I was never sure until I owned the film on VHS and saw the Fat Dancer credited to Claire Davenport. Have you done Hermi Odle and Ephant Mon? I thought the former looked like a friendly dope and the latter like an evil cousin to Max Rebo. I'm guessing you've done the Mole from what you say here. Any chance for Wal Cabashite, Hoover, and Bubo? I have the MPC kit and learned about a lot of the aliens from there, as they are kind of hard to see in the film I think they kept the lighting dark so they would look less like puppets. I remember one pf the characters was called Yuzzum. Before the 1990s Star Wars revival I had a guide to Star Wars characters out from the public library that was not well illustrated that included an entry for a Yuzzem just before Yuzzum. No one seems to know who that one is on the internet last I checked.
I like making all my fellow collectors shriek when I mention Hasbro should make a Mama The Hutt figure - which would be about equal to 4X the plastic used in a Jabba figure. She only had one appearance, "Hunt For Ziro" in TCW.
Aren't these essentially fan fiction? Who decides which of these ridiculous stories made up by random writers for background characters are official? I had the book mentioned as well as others when I was a kid and loved reading them, but since there are so many different people writing them I always wondered how a certain story gets selected as being the "official" story.
+Father AxeKeeper Yeah my answer doesn't really make sense now. ;) I guess the answer to your other question is that Lucasfilm decided, but with the Disney takeover these stories are probably not really official anymore. Either way, I prefer to have some backstory for the characters rather than just thinking of them as "fat dancer" or "guard #6."
Mighty Jabba's Collection totally understand that, just something I wondered about since I was a kid reading these books by various people. Thanks again!
George Lucas actually had a pretty big hand in the 90s stuff and approved everything, even provided writers with the official role-playing game sourcebooks to keep everything in line.
