With Angela Lansbury Gone, How Many Are Left Who Have Ties to Old Hollywood?

Kris Jenner

I played Olivia de Havilland on Ryan Murphy's Feud: Bette and Joan, but other than that any connection I would have was through my father-in-law.

Janis Paige just turned 100.

Kevin Bacon- but now it only takes him 5 degrees because they ain’t many old people left.

Well...me. My face would never be on TV if not for my ties to old hollywood.

Ann Blyth is still around, 94.

[quote] Ann Blyth is still around, 94.

She'll never be anything but a common frump whose father lived over a grocery store and whose mother took in washing!

At least Veda made out with Monte Beragon! At least.

Jane Fonda

Liza

The Harry Potter actors.

June Lockhart

TV: Norman Lear

Dick van Dyke

Mel Brooks (movies too)

Margaret O'Brien -- but she was younger than most of the others

Eva Marie Saint

What about me ?

I believe with Angela Lansbury now gone that Ann Blyth is the only living Academy Award nominee from the 1940s still alive.

[quote] Liza

I was molested.

Shirley MacLaine

and Janis Paige the only one to sing and dance with Fred Astaire in a film ("Silk Stockings").

It appears definitions and recollections of old Hollywood may vary.

And her brother

[quote] and Janis Paige the only one to sing and dance with Fred Astaire in a film ("Silk Stockings").

There are Petula Clark and other cast members of Finian's Rainbow.

not in a showstopper like "Stereophonic Sound" built around the two of them

Mitzi Gaynor

Good one R7.

Earl Holliman

Kim Novak, Carroll Baker, and Mamie Van Doren

When Nancy Olson dies, it will truly be the end of Old Hollywood to me.

After all, she appeared in a film with Buster Keaton, Gloria Swanson, and Cecil B. DeMille.

Leslie Caron

Streisand worked with old hollywood in her first three musicals.

William Wyler, Gene Kelly and Vincente Minnelli as directors.

The great Harry Stradling behind the camera.

He had photographed Marlene Dietrich, Vivien Leigh, Katharine Hepburn, Audrey Hepburn, Jean Simmons, Esther Williams, Lucille Ball, Hedy Lamarr, Rosalind Russell, Kim Novak, Judy Garland

Gowns by Irene Sharaff and Cecil Beaton

Barbara Eden

Dame Joansie Collins, George HamilTan, Shirls & Warrensy, and Our Faye

Rita Moreno. Is she the only one still alive from Singing In The Rain?

Darryl Hickman

So this is different from the "Who's About to Die" thread and the "Who's Really Old and Still With Us" thread?

Actually, RJ Wagner is old Hollywood. He grew up in Bel Air and lived next door to good friends Edie Mayer Goetz and her husband Bill Goetz who were the social power couple for almost forty years. RJ was connected to everyone.

Claude Jarman Jr. is alive and kicking.

Debra Paget

I'm r33, answering my own question. Yes.

[Quote]As of 2022, Moreno is the last surviving credited star from the film.

Anne Vernon and Peggy Dow

Isadora Burnwood 275 years old.

I miss the glamour.

Judy Garland's stand-in for the Wizard of Oz is still alive, 103-year old Caren Marsh Doll.

Barbara Eden had bit parts in "Old Hollywood". Judy Garland's stand-in is more "Old Hollywood".

Peggy Dow. She had a short career from 1949 to 1952 but she is sill with us.

Appeared in Harvey with James Stewart & Bright Victory with Arthur Kennedy.

Micheline Presle. Mostly did French films, but she was also one of Tyrone Power's leading ladies

Terry Kilburn was a child actor in Goodbye Mr Chips and the 1938 Christmas Carol. He's also openly gay

Don Murray

Marisa Pavan was an Oscar nominee for The Rose Tattoo

Taina Elg was in Les Girls with Gene Kelly. Along with Mitzi Gaynor, who is also still around

I'll be very, very, VERY sad when Julie Andrews dies, but that has more to do with her than with losing Old Hollywood in general.

To me, old Hollywood is pretty much already gone forever.

Don't count me out! I knew some biggest stars by their first names!

Here are all living Oscar nominees ranked by age.

R47: he looks like he's been pinging from space since the 30s.

Wow, there are 27 Oscar nominees who are at least 90 . I didn't expect that. Those Oscar nominees live forever

Until I looked at r52's list, i would have told you that Anouk Aimee, Carroll Baker, Don Murray, and Tom Courtenay were all dead.

Susan Kohner

r55, I didn't know Frederic Forrest was still around

Lucie and Desi Jr.

Felicia Farr (Mrs. Jack Lemmon)

The late David Janssen's wife Dani Janssen is still alive I think, and they were chums with everyone from Jimmy Stewart, to Gregory Peck and most of Hollywood. They were a very well-liked couple as is Dani.

Old Hollywood is dead.

Kim Novack is alive

The full rundown...

Bandleader Ray Anthony, who appeared in 50s films and was married to Mamie Van Doren

Barbara Rush

Somewhat related, recently restaurateur, Madame Sylvia Wu, died at age 106.

Everyone who was anyone in Old Hollywood went to "Madame Wu's Garden" in Santa Monica.

Carol Burnett.

R65 Yes. Barbara Rush worked with billie Burke in the young philadelphians so she’s linked with the very early Hollywood years.

R7 You’re cheap and horrible!

Terry Kilburn in Goodbye Mr. Chips single handedly sinks what otherwise would have been a wonderful movie. I think he gets the last shot as well. The finale coup de grace. What the fuck was Mayer thinking?

Susan Kohner is alive? People were nominated from Spiderman and Independence Day? Brenda Vacarro? I though she was only famous for selling tampons! Glynis John should have won an Emmy for when was a guest villainess on Batman. Who will be on this list in 40 or 50 years? Who won't who are relatively young now?

[quote]People were nominated from Spiderman and Independence Day?

No r71. The movie listed by the name is the one the were nominated for necessarily. It seems to be their biggest commercial film.

Warren Beatty.

Shirley Jones.

[quote]Rita Moreno

Her rude gyrations are only lousy imitations.

Does Sophia Lorean (88) count as "Old Hollywood" since many of her early movies were foreign films?

Sophia Loren (yeah, I know, I spelled it wrong)

Russ Tamblyn and Terry Moore are both still alive. I think they're the last two principal cast members from the1957 film "Peyton Place" who are still around.

Barbara Rush looks GREAT in this photo from 3 years ago. Not sure why so many folks have that weird horizontal LINE right under their noses. Even w/out a facelift or nose job...

Robert Redford.

Both Karolyn Grimes and Carol Coombs, who played Jimmy Stewart's kids in It's a Wonderful Life.

Jimmy Hawkins, also was in "It's a Wonderful Life". He had more of a career than the other kids. He did a lot of tv through the60s and played Shelley Fabares' bf on "The Donna Reed Show". He does "It's a Wonderful Life" events and is involved in the Donna Reed Foundation, as well as having had a modest career behind the camera.

June Lockhart hasn't kicked the robot's butt bucket yet.

Michael had a very solid career in the 50's (in Europe, but still) and was Natalie Wood's brother in law. He's still with us.

Mia is Old Holywood Royalty

R78: the accents are horrible--some more Southern than New England. Frigid mother or not, Turner seemed to still be very much a "sweater girl".

Mia's career began after the studio system had fallen apart. Her mother didn't have a huge career.

Tom Skerritt. Saw him yesterday in an episode of Gunsmoke, where he costarred w/Bette Davis, as her son.

[quote] Our Faye

I’d consider Dunaway part of the New Hollywood, specifically gaining early attention for Bonnie & Clyde.

It's getting to where even "new Hollywood" stars of the 60s and 70s are dying off. Before we know it, we'll be looking at people like Jennifer Jason Leigh and Phoebe Cates and thinking of them the same way we thought of Mickey Rooney and Ann Miller 20 years ago.

Life sure is weird and age creeps up on everyone. You never notice it until someone says something like "can you believe such and such movie came out 20 years ago?" and your stomach does a backflip.

"You never notice it until someone says something like "can you believe such and such movie came out 20 years ago?" and your stomach does a backflip. "

EXACTLY. Whenever I think something came out 7-8 years ago, I double it, and am usually spot on.

Just to think that Barbara Eden is NINETY years old, puts things in perspective.

I saw two weeks ago that Jeremy Northam was over 60, and I had a complete nervous collapse

R54, since I myself have received 21 nominations (thus far) , I suppose by your logic I will live to be 200!

Warren Beatty worked with Vivien Leigh, Natalie Wood, Elia Kazan, Robert Rossen, Angela Lansbury, Karl Malden, Eva Marie Saint, Leslie Caron

Shirl' is very much Old Hollywood

Eva Marie Saint. Vera Miles.

Catherine Deneuve was spotted and handpicked by Mel Ferrer in the late 50's because he thought she was Audrey Hepburn's doppelganger and could be very successful as a spunky brunette

Jill Whelan, Lauren Tewes, Fred Grandy, Ted Lange and Bernie Kopell ALL have ties to Old Hollywood, since dozens of stars from that era appeared on the Love Boat.

R98: You're really stretching "Old Hollywood". Let the thread die until someone starts up a new one.

Tippi is still with us.

What about the other Tippi, one of the girls in "The World of Henry Orient"?

Tippy Walker has eight credits on I MDB. After the World of Henry Orient, she appeared in two other theatrical releases in 1971 The Jesus Trip and Jennifer on My Mind which was directed by Noel (Pretty Poison) Black and written by Eric (Love Story) Segal. It has similarities to Love Story including the lead characters sharing the same name.

Miss Angie Dickinson

Angie DIckinson has really not told tales, and she's probably privy to lots of them with lots of very famous people.

Angie came after the studio era, she was just starting out when the big stars and big contracts were over, and she was not privy to any of the big stories at Warner bros, she didn't even really met Jack Warner or any of the big names, not until much later. they interviewed her for the centenary of warner bros, and she was very sweet, but to almost all questions she had to answer that she was going from small contract to small contract and was not privy to any behind the door business. Miss Dunaway, Mr redford, Mr Beatty, and all these people aformentioned are really not "old Hollywood " at all. The last stars built by the studios were James Dean , Natalie Wood and Tab Hunter at WB, and Debbie Reynolds at MGM. Sorry.

Meryl Streep of course.

R105 And Rock Hudson at Universal.

R107 yes,but I think Rock was signed long before Tab landed a 7 years contract at WB, IIRC

Robert Fucking Wagner

r106 is an imposter

M never uses a period

Donnie Dunagan is still with us. He played with Karloff, Lugosi and Basil Rathbone, and he was the voice of little Bambi in Disney's classic.

Ann Margret

Millie Perkins, she played Anne Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank.

Tuesday Weld

Dolores Hart

Elsa Cárdenas, she played Dennis Hopper’s wife in Giant.

Joan Blackman

^^ Both her and Angela were in Blue Hawaii

"Her...were in Blue Hawaii"?

R114, don't forget Wednesday and Thursday Weld.

Or Ann-Margrock.

France Nuyen, from SOUTH PACIFIC is still with us

Lee Grant

OP Tom Cruise, Rob Lowe, I think the Cusaks are still acting…Julia Roberts. Too many to name now that I think about it.

R109 very limp wrist on RJ Wagner.