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Ziegfeld Follies dancer Doris Eaton Travis (for whom a lover wrote “Singing in the Rain”) is still dancing (seriously) at 103.
Here is a video of her dancing at 101 to an Irving Berlin song to which she danced in the follies in 1919: http://www.laurenredniss.com/century_girl/doris/
Here is a video of her teaching a routine to much younger fellow in a dance competition at 102: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WawuCX9IYwI
Here is a news article from earlier this month: http://content.hamptonroads.com/story.cfm?story=120531&ran=46601
Here is a Wiki entry on her: Doris Eaton Travis - Wikipedia
Karl Malden, born in 1912, is still alive. He won an Oscar for “A Streetcar Named Desire”, and was nominated for an Oscar for “On the Waterfront”.
Wiki: Karl Malden - Wikipedia
IMDB: Karl Malden - IMDb
Maureen O’Hara is 86 and going strong as far as I can tell.
And Jackie Cooper, one of the original Little Rascals (Our Gang) is still going at 84.
Two time Oscar winning Olivia de Havilland, born 1916, is still alive.
Wiki: Olivia de Havilland - Wikipedia
IMDB: Olivia de Havilland - IMDb
Her sister Joan Fontaine, born 1917, also won an Oscar, and is still alive.
Wiki: Joan Fontaine - Wikipedia
IMDB: Joan Fontaine - IMDb
The two of them have been feuding throughout their lives, and have not spoken to each other for over thrity years. One wonders if they are competing to see who will outlive the other.
See post #11.
The ever gracious Kitty Carlisle, born 1910, is still alive. She was an opera singer, a screen actress, a Broadway actress, a game show celebrity, and a twenty-year chairperson of the New York State Council of the Arts.
As of a few months ago, she was still touring: http://www.kittycarlisle.com/
Wiki: Kitty Carlisle - Wikipedia
IMDB: Kitty Carlisle - IMDb
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Rock ‘n’ roll, and derived musical forms, have pervaded and changed our culture so thoroughly that it’s hard to imagine a time when they didn’t exist, and it’s even more astonishing that some of the earliest groundbreaking rock stars are still alive – Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, and others, I’m sure.
Hey, thanks to the IMDB, I see that both Doris Eaton Travis and Kitty Carlisle were in Marx Brothers’ films: Doris Eaton Travis in “Cocoanuts”, and Kitty Carlisle in A Night at the Opera".
B.B. King is coming to my town this May (tickets at about $100 a pop). He was born in 1925, but seems so much older. My favourite line by him: “I gave you seven children, and now you want to give 'em back – I’ve got the blues.”
Judging by his tour dates, he is still working his ass off: http://www.bbking.com/events/
Wiki: B. B. King - Wikipedia
Dutch actor/singer Johannes Heesters still works from time to time, at age 103.
Maybe only a celebrity to us Monster Kids but every few months, I check on the continued survival of Forrest J Ackerman, now 90.
I guess it isn’t “unexpected” but Jack LaLanne is still going strong and he had his 90th birthday last year. He was going to celebrate by swimming underwater from his home to the Farallon Islands but his wife Elaine said she’d leave him if he tried it
Read an interview with him a few months ago, the reporter said he was doing handstands on the kitchen chairs. Starts his day with 90 minutes of swimming followed by 90 minutes of lifting weights.
Don’t feel bad about forgetting that Bergman’s still alive. A short time ago I read an article in either Time or Newsweek that referred to him as “the late Ingmar Bergman.”
Anyway, I don’t know if he counts as a celebrity but when former MLB Commissioner Bowie Kuhn died last week, I’m sure I wasn’t the only one who had thought he’d already passed.
In last months Playboy there’s an interview with Bettie Page…I was amazed she was still alive. Not that she’s staggeringly old or anything, but she’s so off the radar and iconic it just seems she ought to be dead.
I saw him in '98…the minute we could get tickets, we did - no hesitation whatsoever…the general consensus was “hey, see him when ya can, who knows?”
I may have thought a bit more about if our tickets were $100, though…ours here were only $30, in a small Arena.
Oh, and he did sing the above song, by the way.
Wikipedia has an article on premature celebrity obits. Ironically, Kurt Cobain was listed as dying about a month before his actual death. And Pope John Paul II was listed as dead a record three times before he passed on.
That’s amazing! No, I take that back. What is really amazing is that when he was 88 or 89 he married a hottie: GALERIE
The list doesn’t include GOD