Jump to content

Type keyword(s) to search

In Memoriam: Entertainment Industry Celebrity Deaths

Kromm

By Kromm
in Everything Else TV

Mr. Sparkle
Message added by Mr. Sparkle,

Reminder:

This thread is for deaths of celebrities in the entertainment business only. No notices about politicians, please. 

  • Start Topic

Recommended Posts

  • Replies 15.9k
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

Popular Days

Top Posters In This Topic

Popular Days

Popular Posts

Bastet
Bastet

Piss up a rope, Val Kilmer.  If your physical illness got so bad that your life utterly sucked and no end to that suffering was in sight, so that suicide was or seemed to be the best of the available

wilsie
wilsie
BetterButter
BetterButter

Olivia Newton-John Has Died At 73

Posted Images

stonehaven

stonehaven

88 is a good age but not for Reegee......He deserved to live eternally. His appearances on Letterman were comedy gold. His spunk and attitude and love for life were unmatched. I agree there was no better host for Millionaire. 

  • Love 20
Link to comment
Calvada

Calvada

43 minutes ago, lurkerbee said:

 

Letterman's first tweet in over a year.  They were so great together.  Regis took over the role Tony Randall had, the guest in NYC they could call whenever they needed someone for a bit, or when a guest canceled.  

  • Love 15
Link to comment
Vermicious Knid

Vermicious Knid

Never really had Regis much on my radar until I went away to college, and then I would start my mornings watching Regis and Kathy Lee on my tiny 13" TV before classes (managed to never have an 8am class). And I was familiar with him mostly from Letterman before that, who I discovered late in high school. He really did represent a generation. I don't think I've heard anyone say anything bad, ever, about him.

  • Love 11
Link to comment
roamyn

roamyn

8 hours ago, BetterButter said:

John Saxon, 'Enter the Dragon,' 'Nightmare on Elm Street' Actor, Dies at 83

And there’s your third.  John Saxon was everywhere & in everything.  Esp in the 70s & 80s.  He was that actor you knew, but didn’t.  A journeyman, who usually played baddies. I liked him in everything I saw him in, even if he did tend to overact sometimes.
 

Regis, a person in which every superlative is probably true.  He was a great host who meshed well with both his long-time female co-hosts, because he knew how to counter balance with each.  
 

RIP to both men.

  • Love 8
Link to comment
MissAlmond

MissAlmond

3 hours ago, roamyn said:

And there’s your third.  John Saxon was everywhere & in everything.  Esp in the 70s & 80s.  He was that actor you knew, but didn’t.  A journeyman, who usually played baddies. I liked him in everything I saw him in, even if he did tend to overact sometimes.

Yep.  One look at John Saxon's filmography on IMDB shows that.  He even has two projects not released because they're in pre/post production.  R.I.P. Mr. Saxon.  

  • Useful 2
  • Love 2
Link to comment
VCRTracking

VCRTracking

(edited)

Loved his character Roper in "Enter the Dragon". When I was a kid I saw this old  movie on cable starring Lana Turner and a young John Saxon. "Portrait in Black". Completely forgot what it's about so I think I'll watch it again today.

220px-Portrait_in_Black_1960.jpg.11fbe495bdb674488abf75488eb3e9dc.jpg

Edited by VCRTracking
  • Love 6
Link to comment
UYI

UYI

You can't ask for much more than to live to the age of 104. It IS strange, though, that she and Kirk Douglas were the EXACT same age, and they wound up each dying this exact same year.

In the end, though, it should be noted, in real life, Melanie outlived them all. RIP.

 

  • Love 16
Link to comment
  • Popular Post
Spartan Girl

Spartan Girl

  • Popular Post

Oh God I knew it. I knew that it would happen THIS year.

But you know what? I'm not sad. I mean, I'm a little sad but she made it to 104. She had a long full life, a stellar career and left this horrible year with all the class and dignity she had in life. A legend to the very end.

So rest in peace Olivia de Havilland. You deserve it. Hope you finally made peace with Joan on the other side.

  • Love 32
Link to comment
Blergh

Blergh

10 minutes ago, UYI said:

You can't ask for much more than to live to the age of 104. It IS strange, though, that she and Kirk Douglas were the EXACT same age, and they wound up each dying this exact same year.

In the end, though, it should be noted, in real life, Melanie outlived them all. RIP.

 

It seems except for the two performers who played Melanie's son Beau as a baby and a preteen.  One can't say Miss De Havilland didn't have a full life but I wish she had won that lawsuit against those TV movie producers which depicted her (not an 'Olivia De Havilland type') saying things that there is no record of her having said including appearing on a talk show to dis Bette Davis and Joan Crawford which she did NOT do!  Regardless, it appears she kept her faculties virtually to the end so that's definitely a blessing! RIP, Miss De Havilland! 

  • Love 10
Link to comment
  • Popular Post
MissAlmond

MissAlmond

  • Popular Post
(edited)
34 minutes ago, shoregirl said:

Olivia de Havilland passed away.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jul/26/olivia-de-havilland-star-of-gone-with-the-wind-dies-at-104

And there it is.  The Hollywood Big One.  Miss Olivia de Havilland.  Everyone talks about Melanie in Gone With The Wind.  Pffft.  Give me Olivia in The Snake Pit.  My God, Olivia in The Heiress!  That change of voice and you knew she was done with Ralph Richardson.  Walking up the stairs as Montgomery Clift beats fanatically at the door.  Brilliant performances!  TCM won't disappoint and I'll watch both again as tribute.  R.I.P. Miss de Havilland.

Edited by MissAlmond
  • Love 26
Link to comment
Hiyo

Hiyo

(edited)

And thus we can say the Golden Age of Hollywood is truly gone.

RIP Queen de Havilland, a class act and true talent.

Edited by Hiyo
  • Love 17
Link to comment
Wiendish Fitch

Wiendish Fitch

The last major star of Classic Hollywood is gone. Olivia de Havilland was an honest to God legend, and she left this world like the same quiet strength she conveyed in her films. She will be missed and never, ever, ever forgotten, least of all by me.

10 minutes ago, MissAlmond said:

  My God, Olivia in The Heiress!  That change of voice and you knew she was done with Ralph Richardson.  Walking up the stairs as Montgomery Clift beats fanatically at the door.  Brilliant performances!  TCM won't disappoint and I'll watch both again as tribute.  R.I.P. Miss de Havilland.

Same. I cannot recommend The Heiress enough. As good as de Havilland is in Gone With the Wind, The Heiress is well and truly her movie.

  • Love 17
Link to comment
Hiyo

Hiyo

(edited)

The fact that she made us care so much about Melanie in GWTW, when we had Scarlett to love (and/or love to hate), is a good enough testament to her talents as an actress.

She took what could have been a schmaltzy one note role and made it her own, giving the character depth and gravitas that honestly wasn’t always there in the script, and held her own against 2 other Golden Age legends in that movie.

Kudos to her for that.

Edited by Hiyo
  • Love 21
Link to comment
CrazyInAlabama

CrazyInAlabama

(edited)

I always enjoyed John Saxon in everything he was in.

The death of legendary actress Olivia de Havilland is truly the end of Hollywood's Golden Era.     

It was a very hard film to watch, but "The Snake Pit" helped to change treatment of mental illness in this country.    Showing the horrific conditions that mental patients were subjected too started people discussing this. 

She also sued, and won to break the monopoly the studios had on actors' careers, where they could suspend them for refusing to do a particular movie, and then extend their contract endlessly. 

Edited by CrazyInAlabama
  • Useful 2
  • Love 7
Link to comment
RealHousewife

RealHousewife

(edited)
21 minutes ago, ShadowHunter said:

Damn 2020 that is ENOUGH!  R.I.P. to all those we have lost. 

Seriously.

I watched a lot of Regis in my childhood. Really sad he's gone. Also RIP John Saxon, what an incredible career. I'm ready for 2021. 😞

I'm a GWTW fan, and I always thought it was so cool Olivia was still alive. The stories she must have had! There was something comforting about that, like we had this connection to that magical time of Old Hollywood, that it couldn't have been as long ago as it seemed. I don't like the racism that took place back then, but I love just about everything else. The mystique of the actors, the beautiful movies that you could watch as a family, the gorgeous costumes. Movies just aren't the same nowadays. 

Edited by RealHousewife
  • Love 10
Link to comment
  • Popular Post
legaleagle53

legaleagle53

  • Popular Post
1 hour ago, Hiyo said:

The fact that she made us care so much about Melanie in GWTW, when we had Scarlett to love (and/or love to hate), is a good enough testament to her talents as an actress.

She took what could have been a schmaltzy one note role and made it her own, giving the character depth and gravitas that honestly wasn’t always there in the script, and held her own against 2 other Golden Age legends in that movie.

Kudos to her for that.

It's well known that Olivia fought hard for the role of Melanie. She had wanted to play Melanie from the moment she was introduced to the book, but she was under contract to Warner Bros. at the time, and in those days, an actor or actress had to have permission from the studio boss to work for another studio, and Jack Warner repeatedly refused to let Olivia even audition for the part of Melanie (although she had already read for the part behind his back because the producers of Gone with the Wind wanted her for the part), until she went over Jack's head and appealed to his wife for help.

And yes, it's truly the end of an era. But 104 is a DAMN good run, and for her to retain her sharp wit, her keen sense of humor, and her no-nonsense personality right to the end? We should ALL be so lucky.  RIP, Olivia!

  • Love 32
Link to comment
Hiyo

Hiyo

The fact that she had the guts to take on Ryan Murphy, arguably the biggest name on TV these days, even though she lost, over how she was portrayed in Feud? Right to the end indeed.

  • Love 22
Link to comment
VCRTracking

VCRTracking

(edited)

Confession: I can't think her name without first hearing the way Elmer Fudd says it because of that part of "The Wild Hare" the first Bugs Bunny cartoon and Bugs is behind him covering his eyes saying "Guess who?" and Elmer goes "Hedy Wamar? Babwa Stanwyck? Owivia Dehavawind?"

Edited by VCRTracking
  • LOL 15
  • Love 2
Link to comment
Annber03

Annber03

2 hours ago, legaleagle53 said:

And yes, it's truly the end of an era. But 104 is a DAMN good run, and for her to retain her sharp wit, her keen sense of humor, and her no-nonsense personality right to the end? We should ALL be so lucky. 

Right? I'd definitely be cool with going out like that. 

May she rest in peace. 

  • Love 8
Link to comment
Inquisitionist

Inquisitionist

Ms. De Havilland and I shared a birth date, 40 years apart.   I will have to track down The Heiress and The Snake Pit, as somehow I've managed never to see either.  What struck me in the NY Times obituary was the impact she had on Hollywood as a business:

Quote

 

The studio had misread her determination. She began to refuse roles she considered inferior. Warner retaliated by suspending her several times, for a total of six months, and, after her contract expired, insisting that because of the suspensions she was still the studio’s property for six more months.

Ms. de Havilland sued. The case dragged on for a year and a half but David finally beat Goliath when the California Supreme Court upheld a lower-court ruling in her favor in 1945. What became known as the de Havilland decision established that a studio could not arbitrarily extend the duration of an actor’s contract.

 

 

  • Love 18
Link to comment
GreekGeek

GreekGeek

Aw. Less than a month ago, I was commenting on her work in In This Our Life, She had the less flamboyant goody-goody role once again, this time opposite Bette Davis. It's good to remember those two titanesses did a movie together before Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte, where de Havilland was again supposed to be the "plain" one, but evil this time.

  • Love 10
Link to comment
UYI

UYI

(edited)
7 hours ago, ebk57 said:

This is truly the end of times

It is certainly the end of an era in terms of the Golden Age of Hollywood (Eva Marie Saint is still alive, but technically she started her career AFTER what most people think of as the Golden Age), but as a certain character in one of Dame Olivia's movies once said,"Tomorrow is always another day." I am probably WAY too much of an optimist (annoyingly so, as many of you have probably noticed here--I'm sorry!), but while this year, like 2016, has brought a lot of difficulties and a lot of loss (especially among the more famous on this Earth), the older I get, the more I fail to see any year as all good or all bad--and times get dark, I always try to look for the light, and in this case, ODH's long life is definitely a shining light unto itself.

...Like I said, I am NOT snarky or cynical enough for this place. I need to work on that so y'all don't turn on me! *hides*

Edited by UYI
  • Love 16
Link to comment
Annber03

Annber03

1 minute ago, UYI said:

....Like I said, I am NOT snarky or cynical enough for this place. I need to work on that so y'all don't turn on me! *hides*

I'm the same way. We shall sit and be non-snarky and non-cynical together :D.

(I do actually enjoy snarkiness sometimes, I'm just not as good at being snarky as some other people are :p.)

  • LOL 2
  • Love 4
Link to comment
GreekGeek

GreekGeek

31 minutes ago, UYI said:

 

...Like I said, I am NOT snarky or cynical enough for this place. I need to work on that so y'all don't turn on me! *hides*

I never thought of these boards as particularly snarky or cynical. At least, I don't know of any instance where the snark has been directed at a poster, rather than someone on TV or the movies.

 

31 minutes ago, Annber03 said:

I'm the same way. We shall sit and be non-snarky and non-cynical together :D.

(I do actually enjoy snarkiness sometimes, I'm just not as good at being snarky as some other people are :p.)

I'll join you. I've always thought of sarcasm/snarkiness ("snarcasm," a great word coined by Frankie Heck in The Middle) in the same category as illegible handwriting, chronic lateness, and bad spelling: something that people are unjustifiably proud of as if it makes them different and interesting.

Sorry about the digression. I think it's great that you find something good in every year, @UYI. I remember how we griped about so many wonderful celebrities dying in 2016. Little did we know...

  • Love 5
Link to comment
UYI

UYI

3 minutes ago, GreekGeek said:

I never thought of these boards as particularly snarky or cynical. At least, I don't know of any instance where the snark has been directed at a poster, rather than someone on TV or the movies.

 

I'll join you. I've always thought of sarcasm/snarkiness ("snarcasm," a great word coined by Frankie Heck in The Middle) in the same category as illegible handwriting, chronic lateness, and bad spelling: something that people are unjustifiably proud of as if it makes them different and interesting.

Sorry about the digression. I think it's great that you find something good in every year, @UYI. I remember how we griped about so many wonderful celebrities dying in 2016. Little did we know...

I understand! I admit to being kind of sensitive, and sometimes the whole "cancel 2020" thing gets me feeling a bit weird, even if I understand where it's coming from. And I didn't mean it as being directed towards me or anyone else, just that maybe I'm not always as good at bringing the snark. I certainly can be/enjoy good snark as much as anyone, it's just not always as common from me; I admit my sincerity can go too far sometimes. :)

Meanwhile:

I've gone down the rabbit hole on YouTube since Regis' passing yesterday in particular, so it's only fitting to share this: his surprise appearance on David Letterman's second to last Late Show episode in 2015. "Take your time, Regis!" XD 

 

  • Love 7
Link to comment
Guest
This topic is now closed to further replies.
Go to topic listing
×
×
  • Create New...