Name a Once Super Famous Celebrity Who is Now Largely Forgetten

Miss Kay Lenz.

Andy Cohen

Susan George

The entire cast of It's a Mad Mad, Mad World.

Debra Winger

Jan Michael Vincent

Yvette Mimiuex

There was a thread that said Eve Arden was really well known in her day. I only know her from I Love Lucy.

Try watching Mildred Pierce for starters, R8.

Mildred Pierce? I don't know what that is. You're talking gibberish to me.

Angelina Jolie.

Colin Webberly

Robbie Benson

R8, ignorance is not becoming.

[quote]There was a thread that said Eve Arden was really well known in her day. I only know her from I Love Lucy.

I don't see how that's possible.

Edith Piaf

Debbie Gibson

Dionne Warwick

Michael York

Liberace

Debby Boone

Eddie Cantor

Dinah Shore

Rodney Dangerfield

Tommy Sands

Arnie Hammer

Sheena Easton and Jody Watley

30 years ago teen girls wanted to be them. Most people under 30 these days would not know them unless they're into 80s music

Tina Charles

Leeza Gibbons

Mary Hart

Arsenio Hall

Tina Small

Rami Malick

Sadly jennifer Grey

Pia Zadora

Mary Pickford.

Matt Dillon

Shitney Smears.

Carroll Baker

Anna Nicole Smith

....and I long and pray for the day when any Jenner Kardashian will be mentioned in this thread.

Deborah Raffin

Sammy Davis Jr.

Robert Redford

Sally Jessy Raphael

Sting

Edward Everett Horton

Meghan Markle

Clark Gable

George Jessel

Alexander Woollcott

Fred Allen

Evel Knievel

Phil Donahue. I bet no one younger than 35 at the oldest know show he is.

^^ knows who he is

Carol Burnett

Bing Crosby

The Man from Atlantis: Patrick Duffy

Sebastian Cabot

Paul Muni

Ann Landers

Jeanette MacDonald

The FONZ

Amy Schumer

Judy Garland

Mussie Smollett.

Dane Cook

Elvis Presley

Imogene Coca

Bert Parks

Larry Hagman

Surprisingly, Paris Hilton.

Loni Anderson

David Niven

Lou Ferrigno

The Tiller Girls

The Dagenham Pipers

Edgar Bergen

Perla Cogsweather

Al Jolson

Julian Eltinge

Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt

The Gotti kids

The Lennon Sisters

Bobby Sherman

Marlo Thomas

George Michael

Janet Jackson

Oprah Winfrey

Donahue

Phoebe Cates, Ione Skye

R75. Oprah nope. She is everywhere and just as famous as when she had her tv show. Those weight watchers commercials won't stop.

Nelson Eddy

Mario Lanza

When was Ione Skye "super famous"?

It seems death could not even resurrect their popularity. That is how far they have fallen off the general population consiciousness. Especially for doris day since she is an antique of a different generation. She ain't no betty white. Also sad about George michael.

Geraldo Rivera aka Jerry Rivers.

Sally Jessie Rafael

Rolonda Watts

Susan Dey

R80, the fact that her death has received a ton of attention should tell you that Doris isn't forgotten

Charro

Eddie Murphy

r83 There isn't a single person under the age of 50 who's seen anything Doris Day ever did.

Clara Bow

Janet Jackson.

R86, I'm in my 30s and have seen at least 5 of her movies

R89. I guess you watch tcm. That is how I discovered her movies.

Sergio Franchi

Meg Ryan.

Arthur Godfrey.

Burt Reynolds.

The Kingston Trio

Mario Lanza

Joey Bishop

George Gobel

Jackie Gleason

Steve Allen

Ernie Kovacs

Milton Berle

Telly Savalas

Gabe Kaplan

Andy Gibb

Meadowlark Lemon

Johnny Carson

Loni Amdereo

Burt Reynolds

Lillian Gish

When were the Gotti boys ever super-famous?

R73, bite your tongue! Bobby was like a god. Here Come The Brides! Shindig! Little Woman! Julie, Do Ya Love Me! Easy Come, Easy Go! A superstar in the Pantheon of 16 Magazine and Tiger Beat!

The DeFranco Family

Perry Como

r103 you forced me to go and take a stroll down memory lane.

Peggy Lipton

Freddie Prinz

Vikki Carr

Christine Jorgensen

Jack Parr

Gardner McKay

Wes Parmalee

Mary Ann Mobley

Ewell Gibbons

Lola Falana

Alan Ladd

G

Lad a Dog

Fabio

Lara Flynn Boyle

Adam Sandler

Peter Frampton

Joey Heatherton

Ruta Lee

Jaclyn Smith

Barbie Benton

Rutanya Alda

Ricky Lake

Susan Anton

David Soul

Paris Hilton

Arthur Lee

Karen Valentine

Elke Somer

Cheryl Tiegs

Shirley Jones

Tisha Sterling

R16 She's still a big deal in France.

Twiggy

Jeanne Tripplehorn

Mary Crosby

William Hurt

Birdy the Early Bird

Catherine Zeta-Jones

Rula Lenska

Dick Emery

Paul Hogan

Rita Hayworth, Ava Gardner, Raymond Burr.

Mickey Rooney

Adam Lambert

elizabeth taylor

The guy who played austin powers I don’t even remember his name.

Yakov Smirnoff

Nancy Grace

Demi Moore

The girl from Moonlighting

Flea Bailey

Connie Chung

Al Cowlings

Kato Kaelin

Shelley Long

Linda Ellerbee

Katherine Turner

r163 You even forgot that her name is Kathleen Turner.

Mark Fuhrman

Buffalo Bob Smith

Faith Daniels

Sheena Easton

Pip the Piper

Pixanne

Abraham Cowley

I had never even heard of Eddie Cantor until Boardwalk Empire. I discovered he was a big star - a household name - in his day, so I looked him up on Youtube. I immediately realized why he's been totally forgotten when I watched a couple of his musical numbers.

Howard Keel

Shirley Hemphill

Janet Jackson

Barbara Bel Geddes

Henry Kissinger

Tom Selleck

Brandon Routh

Flea Bailey?

[quote]There isn't a single person under the age of 50 who's seen anything Doris Day ever did.

She had a TV show in the 1970s that was geared toward kids, she was a regular on the Tonight Show until the mid 1970s, and had a career resurgence in the late 80s and early 1990s when she received some awards and appeared in a few TV documentaries.

I get that you're exaggerating for effect, but I think a lot of people under 50 have actually seen her and know who she is.

Art Linklater

Carlos Mencia

Arthur Godfrey

Mabel Normand

Harry Langdon

Mae Busch

James Findlayson, even though I just heard Rifftrax make a joke about him last year during one of their shows. A little something for the silent movie fans who love Rifftax, I guess. All four of us.

Sobekneferu

Phew, I'm glad no one mentioned me.

Doris Day wasn't terribly well known to the general population under 50. I would argue that the only people younger than that who had any familiarity with Doris Day would be gay Gen X men. Forget about even gay Millennial men.

Leif Garrett

Forrest Tucker - and his huge dick.

Bill Shorten

Pola Negri

Tiny Tim

Phil Harris

Pinky Lee

Soupy Sales

Al Jolson. Literally the biggest star in the world at one point. Try telling that to the youth of today while showing them his “Mammy!” routine.

Geena Davis.

Yeah but you could say the same thing to the youth of 1974, R194.

Chad Everett

Steve and Eydie

If Chad Everett were still alive, he would probably be enjoying some type of retro fame on Twitter.

I for one still love Steve and Eydie, staples of my childhood. How did Tony Bennett become the hip thing among young people, and not those two?

Prunella Skilwafer

Jill Clayburgh

Earths Kitt

^^Eartha Kitt

Tony Bennett smartly turned his career over to his son.

Ernie Kovacs

Florence Foster Jenkins

Tony Bennett became the hip thing among young people in the 1990s, but young people today really don't know who he is.

Rudy Vallee was a big star in his day. One of the first superstar crooners. Even got name-checked several times in "Some Like it Hot." Today people still talk about Sinatra, and perhaps every so often, Bing Crosby, but who ever mentions Rudy Vallee?

Similarly Frankie Laine and Johnnie Ray were popular pre-Rock 'n' Roll singers who paved the way for Elvis and Johnny Cash and Roy Orbison, but those two music pioneers are largely forgotten.

John Belushi

Carole King

Abbie Hoffman

Rod McKuen

Bing Crosby was one of the biggest stars in America for many years, but aside from White Christmas he's not really known anymore. He was a huge film star (he won a Best Actor Oscar) and had tons of hits but his movies and songs (except for WC) have pretty much faded into history.

Marshall McLuhan

Andy Williams

I only know who Rudy Vallee was because my paternal grandmother would mention him once in a while - she was from that generation. If not for my grandmother, I would have no clue who he was.

Every living and dead ‘famous’ opera singer and ballet dancer. The top ranks always appeared on national entertainment and talk shows. Everyone knew who they were even if they had no interest in the arts. That’s all over, and so is high art stardom.

I wonder if Renee Fleming even needs to wear sunglasses at the airport?

R97 "The Honeymooners' is always on somewhere, and they even have marathons around New Year's Day, so I think Jackie Gleason and company aren't forgotten.

Joan Sutherland

Beverly Sills

sadly, Leontyne Price - who is still alive, but opera history or classic performances aren't given a big showcase in today's media

Howard Cosell

Fran Tarkenton

"Mean" Joe Greene

John Davidson

Cliff "Charley Weaver" Arquette

I was googling John Davidson just the other day. He still looks ok, gives concerts, and markets himself as a progressive atheist of all things.

Rosie Grier

Art Linkletter

Bennett Cerf

Lesley Ann Warren

Johnny Whitaker

Robert Cummings

Ann Sothern

Fernando Lamas

Sandra Berhardt

Foster Brooks

Albert Brooks

Chevy Chase

sadly, Gracie Allen and maybe George Burns

Jack Benny

Connie Francis

Bobby Darin

(the last two cause oldies radio in NY doesn't play much before 1970s)

R203 People know who Eartha Kitt is because of "Santa Baby" and Batman.

Whenever I convince myself someone is forgotten, it always turns out they’re on some TV show I’ve never seen that’s been running for nine seasons.

Paul Williams

For attacking the war in Viet Nam while at a lunch reception in the White House (and making Lady Bird Johnson cry), Eartha was effectively banned from performing in the US for nearly a decade. She was the Kathy Griffin of her time.

Sting

Paris hilton

[quote]"Mean" Joe Greene

Oh jeez, he was huge when I was a little kid. He had a respectable career as a coach after he retired but I don't know how many people would recognize the name, outside of Steelers fans.

I had that same experience with Brian Benben just the other day, R222. I imagined him in happy retirement but he was on "Private Practice" for five years and has been guest starring frequently.

[quote]People know who Eartha Kitt is because of "Santa Baby" and Batman.

And THE EMPEROR'S NEW GROOVE.

Kevin Costner

Rita Rudner

R227 Brian Benben had such a cute ass and a decent amount of nude scenes in "Dream On". How does he look these days?

Geraldine Page

Michael Avenatti

Bess Myerson

Rula Lenska

Dick Clark (though his estate makes sure his name is on those Rockin' New Years Eve shows)

Monty Hall

Don Meredith

Rosie Grier

Katie Couric

Bryant Gumbel

Once a celeb is off a tv show, especially a talk show, the public moves on to the next big thing

Steve Harvey -- one show down...

R229, a prime example of someone who has been various television series and MOWs for the past few years.

Ella Driscoll

Richard Chamberlain

Chevy Chase

Joe Louis

Will Rogers

Kate Smith

Fred Allen

Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy

I watch some of those old "What's My Line" and Fred Allen comes off as really kind of lame, but he thinks he's really funny. Maybe in a scripted show he was, but not there. Bennet Cerf is full of himself too. I like John Daly, who seems like he was a really nice gentleman.

I'm also one of those "whatever happened to so-and-so?" people who discover the actor/actress in question (who I thought had disappeared) have been on a series for years, much to my surprise. I had no idea they were still working, but scanning Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime tells me otherwise.

Is it a good thing or a bad thing to know 95 percent of these people?

Hey I totally forgot about John Davidson. He does look good for 100 years old. Look at that full head of long grey hair in the hippy pony tail. Good for him.

John Tesh

R242- I've been watching some of those old WML episodes too. I really like John Daly and Arlene Francis. There are some really funny scenes from that show - like the one with the Nudist Colony manager and both Arlene and Dorothy figure it out at the same time. Cute scene.

Merle Oberon

Jack Paar

Kim Basinger

Crusader Rabbit

Anna Nicole Smith

Ruff and Reddy

Bobby Jindal. Piyush - what's that smell?

Sean Cassidy ( post Hardy Boys he still works in Hollywood just behind the scenes)

Willie Ames

Scott Baio

Rick(y) Schroeder (in the news recently, not for good reasons)

Would the late Burt Reynolds count? HUGE star in his day, his death didn't get much press considering how famous he had been. Not really known to people under 40.

Madonna

Most young people can't name a song of hers. And her stuff doesn't get played on the radio much. She is nowhere near as famous as say Michael Jackson and Prince. For the "Queen of Pop" her music sure hasn't stood the test of time.

R257 Burt Reynolds was the biggest movie star of the 70s.

Carlotta Romero

Mike Douglas of "The Mike Douglas Show"

Muhammad Ali

Remember when Westerns were everywhere? TV, movies, books about the old west. I kind of wonder if Wedterns were so common because the movie industry moved to California and it was surrounded by deserts and canyons, which made for perfect conditions filming shoot em ups.

On TV, just a few westerns

Bonanza

Gunsmoke

Big Valley

Wagon Train

The Rifleman

The Monroes

Maverick

Rawhide

Wanted Dead or Alive

The Virginian

Laramie

Have Gun Will Travel

Bat Masterson

Wild Wild West

High chaparral

Robert Montgomery

Eleanor Powell

Paul Muni

Ann Sheridan

The Andrews Sisters

You still hear Madonna's music all the time.

Tom Cruise

Ayrton Senna

Meg Ryan Josh Harnett

Jan-Michael Vincent

Bridget Fonda sadly

Allan Sherman

Morey Amsterdam

Joan Hackett

Artie Johnson

Dave Clark

Courageous Cat & Minute Mouse

Laura Antonelli

George Segal

Mel Harris

r181, simmer down now. I'm 45 and I know who Doris Day is... I know all about "Doris Day parking". It's a thing.

Janet Jackson

Cliff Robertson.

G...

Jack Benny, who was fading even when I was a kid, was HUGE. I remember a coworker joking she was going to stay 39 forever like Jack Benny, and I was the only person who recognized the reference.

274 posts and no one mentioned Betty Grable. That says it all. She was literally the biggest female box office star of the 40's and arguably the biggest in history. She was in the top 10 Box Office Stars EVERY year for a solid 10 years. Even Cary Grant can't say that. She was the only woman. And today no one under 50 could name even ONE of her movies. If she's known at all, it's for a poster she was photographed for during WWII.

Jack Benny is a good one. Nobody remembers him today, and he was a huge star.

To a lesser extent, Bob Hope. He's not really forgotten but for someone who was such a big presence in American culture for decades, nobody really talks about him anymore.

Crystal Gayle, Minnie Pearl.

Some of those “it” girls that were pushed in the 90’s Lolita Davidivich , Gretchen Mol (ugly name)

Michelle Pfeiffer

Meg Ryan

Uma Thurman

Tobey Maguire

Ethan Hawke

Janeane Garofalo

Renee Zellweger

Catherine Zeta-Jones

Celine Dion

Michael Bolton

Noah Wyle

Eric La salle

David Schwimmer

Courtney Cox

Matthew Perry

Lisa Kudrow

Winona Ryder

Halle Berry

Norah Jones

Charlie Sheen

r269 Bridget Fonda retired to become a frau and raise her kids. I don't think she ever enjoyed being a celebrity.

R279 Uhhh wasn't Ethan Hawke just nominated for an Oscar???????????????

Bridget Fonda is busy rolling around naked on piles of her husband Danny Elfman's money.

I forgot Ben Stiller on my list.

And Owen Wilson.

Nipsey Russell

Lola Falana

[QUOTE] Bob Hope. He's not really forgotten but for someone who was such a big presence in American culture for decades, nobody really talks about him anymore.

Old homophonic white man, barely funny. Reagan devotee. No one wants to remember because NBC forced that old coot on us for decades.

^^^ phoBIC, not phoNIC.

Steve Allen

Tex Beneke

Dolores Gray

Virginia O'Brien

Al Green

Deanna Durbin

William B. Bankhead

Billy Haines

Randolph Scott

Jimmy Durante

Sandra Bernhardt

Jim Nabors

Jim Reeves

Wendell Willkie

Monique Van Vooren

Charo

Pia Zadora

Adlai Stevenson

Bobby Orr

Charo

Diana Dors

Replace the second Charo with a forgotten lounge act of your choosing...

Alice Faye

The Mills Brothers

Dick Powell

Myrna Loy

Claudette Colbert

Spiro T Agnew

Herman's Hermits

Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders

Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs

Gerry and the Pacemakers

Eric Burden and the Animals

The Dave Clark Five

The Spencer Davis Group

Chad and Jeremy

Peter and Gordon

Cilla Black

The Searchers

The Hollies

The Yardbirds

Jessica Alba

R294 Are you kidding? Fraus love her stupid company.

Shecky Greene

Fannie Flagg

R295 But she was once a movie STAR

Shirley Temple

Jenny Lind

The entire first cast of SNL, but especially Belushi, Chase and Radner. They keep trying to do projects about Radner but no one goes because they don't know who she is. Newman isn't forgotten because she was never known.

You can look through the alumni of SNL and you will likely see names you don't even remember were on the show and names that aren't even vaguely familiar to you, even after you Google them.

Cast of Real People - they were everywhere when that show was on air.

Greer Garson

Teresa Wright

Tony Curtis

Gordon MacRae

Jean Simmons

Rod Steiger

Tony Martin

Eddie Fisher

Connie Francis

Cathy Lee Crosby

Deborah Kerr

Kim Novak

Susan Hayward

Donna Reed

Jeanne Crain

Errol Flynn

Tyrone Power

Claude Rains

Jon Secada

Dane Cook

Greta Garbo - really, gasp, but ask someone under 40 who she is and you'll draw blanks

Paula Abdul

Irene Cara

John Holmes

Linda Lovelace

Harry Reems

Helen Lawson

Neely O'Hara

Lucille Ball

Vivian Vance

Hitler

Charlie Chaplin

Dean Martin

Paul Anka

Brenda Lee

Jack Lemon

Julie Christie

Kay Kyser

Cab Calloway

Fats Waller

Jimmy Durante

Barbara Hutton

Doris Duke

Clare Booth Luce

Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman

Averell Harriman

Madame Chiang Kai-shek

Imelda Marcos

Princess Yasmin Khan

Sherman Billingsley

Walter Winchell

H. L. Mencken

R262, those shows are now all over those oldies channels like Cozi and MeTv.

R313, I am NOT forgotten. I am Imelda Romualdez Marcos, Congresswoman, 2nd District Ilocos Norte.

The Beatles

Sadly, Erma Bombeck. Amirite?

Neely O'Hara

Joan Rivers, Phyllis Diller, Totie Fields,

Russell Brand. They were pushing him hard not too long ago, we were simply to accept that Russell was our new superstar. I don't we accepted that, nope.

Carrie Prejean, the once reigning Queen of Homophobia.

Russell Brand was rejected by the public because he was absolutely repulsive. Nobody wanted to see that face on a movie screen.

^ She was never "super famous" - and thank God for that

Daphne Zuniga

Gino Vannelli Milli Vanilli

Interesting the way these things happen. Norma Shearer, Kay Francis, Deanna Durbin, Alice Faye, Sonja Henie, Jeannette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, Wallace Beery, The Barrymores, Teresa Wright, Dana Andrews, Don Ameche, Van Johnson, etc. They were all top stars back in the day, some were even box office beasts several years running. Yet only a select few have transcended time and have endured in our collective memories.

Dane Cook

Here is Milli Vanilli in all their lip synching 80s-ness

Craig Kilborn

Robert Young Sid Caesar

Robert Ulrich Eric Estrada

All popular culture names fade eventually.

Jeff Stryker

r326 it's usually a combination of their personas being very dated to modern people, and not having a really iconic film like Gone With the Wind or All About Eve.

Evelyn Nesbit Thaw

Richard Burton

Laurence Olivier

Hume Cronyn & Jessica Tandy

The Pre-Drew Barrymores

R336, Laurence Olivier and Richard Burton forgotten? Are you seriously mentally challenged?

I remember back in the 90s I was in a dentist office and the hygienist was coming at me with cleaning tools and I laughed and automatically said, “Is it safe?” And she starts this spiel about sterilization of instruments. And I sheepishly told her that it was a quote from a movie. She said, “I’ve never heard it.” And I was so embarrassed because of course a girl in her 20s wouldn’t know a movie that is 20 years old.

R337, go ask a 21 year old who Richard Burton was.

Why do I care what an idiot 21 year old thinks?

Even theatre geeks at schools like NYU don't seem to care or know trivia from older musicals unless one of their professors assigns it to them for class.

I hooked up with a 25 year old the same day Dustin Hoffman's sexual harassment allegations went public. I said something about Dustin Hoffman being the latest victim of the MeToo movement and my young Grindr hookup said "Who's Dustin Hoffman?".

Virtually any Broadway star. Merman, Martin, Verdon, Channing, Alfred Drake, John Raitt, and on and on and on.

I was student-teaching in the early 80s. I mentioned the Beatles in class. A student actually said to me "You mean Paul McCartney was with another group besides Wings"?

Skip Stephenson

Connie Sellecca

Ornella Vanoni (the most recorded European female vocalist)... unless you happen to live Italy, Greece, Portugal or Germany.

Johnny Carson and all of his guests, bar none.

Johnny Carson is certainly not well-known to people who are too young to have been around before he retired.

It isn't only that celebrity is ever fleeting; it is that, in the Social Media Era, nobody (other than my quaint Baby Boomer generation) CARES about the concept of "history," AKA, "people not on Reality TV, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, or iTunes."

Yesterday is GONE. Famous is NOW. And for sure, dead is DEAD.

R349, His show is in re-runs. I know of entertainers who died before 1949, when I was born. But back in the day, our parents actually conveyed culture as they experienced it to us.

Ryan O'Neil

R352, It's Ryan O'NEAL. You remembered him but even you forgot how his name is spelled.

Nobody under 40 is watching Carson reruns.

Loretta Switt

When Doris Day died, a fiftysomething year-old co-worker said, "Aw, Doris Day died!" To which a twentysomething year-old co-worker said, "I don't know who she is, except from that song from Grease."

Sandra dee, only known because of Grease.

Such is life, Mrs Fiske wasn't known at all to those swooning over Betty Grable in her heyday. Very few entertainers survive history . It's a comfort to know full of themselves 'stars' of today are the Eddie Cantors of tomorrow.

James Franco got #MeTooed on the eve of the biggest triumph of his career.

Franco would've been frontrunner for the Oscar and the movie would've been lapped up by the critics.

Edith Piaf

Troy Donahue

Troy McClure

Shields and Yarnell

The Internet has proved Andy Warhol correct. Everyone now has the potential of becoming a celebrity for a moment. And, then just as quickly, forgotten. Many of us over the age of 45 grew up with a common popular culture mediated through radio, television, and film. Add to that, our experience as gay men predisposed us to become fonts of useless information. So, the majority of us probably know all those named here.

That's lost. Everyone's in their own world these day...no longer can we assume that everyone watches or listens to the same films, tv shows, or music.

As for reading...well...Herman Wouk just passed away...middlebrow culture is dead.

R344, I had a cousin who was 10 years younger than me ask “who’s Lennon & McCartney?” in 1979.

Then he tried to turn it around on me, declaring I was old & out of touch and nobody his age knew the dinosaurs of old timey music.

1979. They were still playing plenty of Beatles music on FM radio.

Joseph Campbell, Timothy Leary

Kenneth Clark (Civilization)

David Reuben (Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex)

Erich Segal (Love Story)

Alistair Cooke

Jean Marsh

Kim Novak

May Britt

Carl Switzer

Jack Parr

Merv Griffin

Bret Summers

Arthur Treacher

Jane Pauley

Joe Garagiola

Dr Frank Field

Fabio

Correction: Brett Soners

Somers^

MADONNA

Andy Griffith

Don Knotts

Bea Benederet

Tiny Tim

Judy Carne

Gilda Radner

June Lockhart

Delta Burke

Julia Duffy

Shelly Long

Kirstie Alley

Kristy McNichol

Quinn Cummings (though she's back, as a successful author)

Nancy McKeon (considered Facts of Life's breakout star)

Rin Tin Tin

Lassie

Mr. Ed

Morris the Cat

Flipper

Old Yeller

Petey (Little Rascals)

Clarence (lion)

Eddie (Frazier)

Silver (Roy Rogers horse)

Milton Berle. Surprising he's forgotten - he allegedly had the biggest dick in New York AND Hollywood: 13 inches.

He had an affair with 1920's radio evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson. He wasn't converted but they said she was.

At his Friar's Club memorial service, Friar Freddy Roman began with, "We are here to honor Milton Berle, who passed away on March 27th." He went on. "On May 1st and May 2nd, his penis will be buried." The laughter was long and knowing. Dozens more Milton Berle penis jokes followed. Friar Bob Melvin said, "I saw him sink a four-foot putt with his penis."

How could people forget?

Phil Silvers

Fred Allen

Tom Mix

David Hemmings

[quote] Al Jolson. Literally the biggest star in the world at one point. Try telling that to the youth of today while showing them his “Mammy!” routine.

I tried that 35 years ago. Even then, I failed.

Asher Brauner

Cobina Wright Dagmar Elinor Glyn Jessica Dragonette Peggy Fleming Criswell Valeska Surratt Eva Tanguay Carol Wayne Dr. Joyce Brothers Peggy Hopkins Joyce

R385: show the 20 year olds this:

Cobina Wright

Dagmar

Elinor Glyn

Jessica Dragonette

Rona Barrett

Peggy Hopkins Joyce

Dr Joyce Brothers

Valeska Surratt

Eva Tanguay

Peggy Fleming

Ruth Chatterton

Carol Wayne

Carl Sandburg

Pearl Buck

Tammy Cruise

Mike Douglas

Jon hamm

Most of the actors from 80s. It shocking that Tom Cruise and RDJ are the few to survive.

Jack Paar

Jack Ruby

Ruby Keeler

Harry Ruby

Deborah Harry

Harry Carey

Macdonald Carey

Jeanette Macdonald

Marie Macdonald

Rose Marie

Billy Rose

Billy Jack

Jack Paar....

George Reeves, TV Superman of the 1950s, until he shot himself / was murdered / died accidentally.

[quote]When Doris Day died, a fiftysomething year-old co-worker said, "Aw, Doris Day died!" To which a twentysomething year-old co-worker said, "I don't know who she is, except from that song from Grease."

So they weren't even familiar with the Wham song that referenced her?

Harold Robbins

Jacquelyn Susanne

Zzz zsa Gabor

Ali McGraw

Steve McQueen

So largely have a third of these celebrities been forgotten that they show up two - four times on this thread, some with creative spellings for their names.

Doris Day is showbiz royalty of the highest order. Icon...legend...gay icon....and everyones seen Calamity Jane.

Sandy Duncan

Mabel King

Calamity Jane is another forgotten celebrity

Speaking of, Belle Star

Ona Munson

Faye Emerson

Actress, "Personality" and briefly, FDR's daughter-in-law.

Linda Lovelace

R382 you have your celebrity horses confused; The Lone Ranger’s horse was Silver. Roy Rogers’ horse was named Trigger. (Roy had Trigger stuffed and prominently displayed after the horse died of old age.)

"Jacquelyn Susanne

Zzz zsa Gabor"

Oh, dear!

R406, Faye gave the network censors agita with her cleavage showing necklines.

Don Lockwood

Lina Lamont

Kathy Selden

Kitty Carlisle

Bennet Cerf

Arlene Francis

Dorothy Kilgallen

John Charles Daly

Shirley temple

George Michael. When Doris Day a passed a BBC broadcaster replied on the news of Ms. Day death. "How is George Michael doing. He did mention her in that Go-Go song." She was told he died, and many people on Twitter were laughing about this. He went from being in the same category as Prince and Michael Jackson to a punch line. Even in death George is still made out to be a joke.

R414. I don't understand your comment. Did you state that Doris day was asked about George. Yes it was sad how in death he is not as celebrated. The last time the u.s media mentioned him really was when his toxicology reports was mentioned in the media and that is about it.

Sally Jesse Raphael Morton Downey Jr Dr. Ruth Westheimer

Ricki Lake

Philip Michael Thomas

Jonathan Taylor Thomas

Leigh Taylor Young

Dr. Ruth was just on the tv the other day on "The Tonight Show"

R415 The day Doris Day pass was the day many people discovered George Michael was dead. It all happen on a podcast in Britain of all places, called The Receipts Podcast. One of the host named Tolly asked how George was feeling when he got the new Doris Day had pass. The other host informed her that George had already pass before Doris. This cause some of their fans to make a joke of Tolly not knowing that George was dead. Also they were not aware of George's passing. George Michael died was a hash tag on May 12, 2019

Here are a few Tweets.

wadsyaname?‏ @shewroteannie · May 14 😂😂😂😂😂 omg Tolly T finding out that George Michael had died (RIP) has got to be the funniest (but also not funny cos George had bangers) thing I’ve ever heard. I had to leave my office and laugh in the toilet cubicle. #thereceiptspodcast

wadsyaname?‏ @shewroteannie · May 14

Even I was shocked and it’s not new information to me 😂😂

MichelleKriz‏ @GodsClouds1 · May 17 Evidence again, Our Legend Singer/Songwriter George Michael who died on 25th December 2016 lives on in Heaven and surprises our world and his fans everday with love and life....

Steve‏ @Steve73381203 · May 14 LlmGeorge Michael died of natural causes - BBC News

🇬🇭Afua 🇬🇭‏ @Nellie_Ville · May 13

Nah after the crappy day I’ve had, listening to @tolly_t finding out that George Michael had died has finished me #TheReceiptsPodcast

Christos Polydorou‏ @eatartdaily · May 17

Ever since George Michael died, I barely see him anymore

PUSSY ASS NIGGA‏ @PGTheVillain · May 18 I know I’m extremely late but I just found out George Michael died and I’m not ok

Phil Knight‏ @NikeGod___ · May 19

Replying to @PGTheVillain

You didn’t know he was dead?

PUSSY ASS NIGGA‏ @PGTheVillain · May 19 No lmao now I’m sad

Just goes to show how good his estate his handling things.

Kevin Sessums

I am also mystified at why anyone would want to spend some money to live in Hudson NY?

Broadway royalty who never transferred to film recognition:

Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne

Katherine Cornell

The Lunts did a stagey film of The Guardsman (1931), which was dated even then. Cornell’s only film role was playing herself, in Stage Door Canteen (1943), wherein she recites Shakespeare’s Balcony Scene from Romeo and Juliet, with a fanboy soldier.

(Growing up in the 50’s, I saw a number of appearances the Lunts gave on TV, usually in the Hallmark Hall of Fame, but they were creaky vehicles, like The Great Sebastians. Who remembers that? Even then they were relics.)

I never forgot about Petey.

I don't know what is wrong with R414 / R420 but that doesn't prove George Michael is a joke. People were making fun of the presenter not knowing Michael had died when it was major news for weeks at the time, not even three years ago.

And who cares what some nobody with 170 followers says on Twitter? Don't copy their whole damn timeline over here, nobody cares.

Jussie Smollett

Michael Landon

Tony Geary

Bob Hope

Babyface Nelson

Lady Gaga

Mary Miles Minter

R425 This would never happen to Jackson and Bowie.. Yeah I got that. However some poster were not aware of George's passing. Then when they discovered the news it was funny to them. Everything was posted if you want to dig deeper you are free to, but I think its strange that George Michael is still consider a joke even in death. If his estate and team focus more on George's talent and not his three paid whore's. Then those people who live in Britain (not all, but some) would have known the man has been dead going on three years,

Maria Ouspenskaya

Lara Flynn Boyle, it’s sad she was soo beautiful in Twin Peaks.

Calista Flockhart

Janine Turner! what the fuck happened to her?

r435 I know someone who dated her when she was living in the Seattle area while filming Northern Exposure. The walls of her apartment were covered with Sylvester Stallone posters. She later hooked up with Stallone and made the movie Cliffhanger with him. That was the peak of her career. She is now one of the has-been celebrity right-wingers like Jon Voight and Stacey Dash.

Jenny Jones

Charley Weaver (Cliff Arquette) - founder of the Arquette acting dynasty.

Rona Barrett

Susan Powter

Charlie Chaplin

r441 really? No Chaplin imitators at Hollywood and Highland any more?

Kevin Sessums

Adrian grenier glad hollywood finally realized he is he worst thing in everything!!

Sheena Easton (sadly)

David Essex

R439 Rona Barrett, good one. She was quite the influential gossip columnist, had her own magazines, was on TV a lot, stepped away from it all. She now is an advocate for senior citizens and seems to do good work.

R447 I used to really enjoy Rona's magazines. Good to hear she is doing well.

There have been numerous blind items about the real reason Bridget Fonda retired. Most of them suggest that she'd been regularly taken advantage of during her prime years, and the fact that she's a Fonda actually made it worse.

Was Michael Schoeffling ever a thing after Sixteen Candles?

The whole cast of The Last Picture Show, except Jeff Bridges.

R447 Yes I enjoyed those magazines, too. Used to love that little picture of Rona that was on every cover, with her finger to her lips going “ssshhhh!”

Michael did Mermaids after that. I think he quit the business- not from lack of offers.

Ewell Gibbons

Lena Zaveroni

Keely Smith

Ilka Chase

Joanie Sommers

Dennis Morgan

r458 I remember Joanie.

Cameron diaz where the fuck is she?

Christopher Cross

Alan Carr

Virginia Graham

Ann Robinson of THE WEAKEST LiNK

Jackie Gleason

Ed Sullivan

Red Skelton

Andy Cohen

Mister Kev Sessums

I remember reading there was a girl singer named Joanie whom Barbra Streisand cited as one of her teenage vocal influences. I can't work out if it's Joni James or Joanie Sommers, but the record at R460 does have little hints of Barbra's unconventional phrasing and breathy emotion. Anyone know?