# Hollywood Greats: Who's Left? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 13, 2003, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollywood-greats-whos-left/181529 "2003-06-13T09:28:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sir\_Rhosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollywood-greats-whos-left/181529/41 "2003-07-08T21:26:25Z")
Is character actor Dabbs Greer still alive? IMDB says so, but I would have sworn I heard or read his obit in the last year. Sir Rhosis ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollywood-greats-whos-left/181529/42 "2003-07-08T21:36:09Z")
I’ll be darned…I could’ve sworn Ernest Borgnine, Tony Franciosa, Celeste Holm, Patricia Neal…had bought it. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Rhosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollywood-greats-whos-left/181529/43 "2003-07-08T21:59:25Z")
I sometimes mentally mistake Tony Franciosa for the late James Francisus. Maybe you did the same. (Remember the SNL skit with Caesar Romero, Ricardo Montalban, Fernando Lamas, Jill St. John, Buffy Marie Saint and (I forget)? Everybody confused everbody. I could have sworn Jane Wyman was gone, though. Sir Rhosis ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollywood-greats-whos-left/181529/44 "2003-07-08T23:15:17Z")
Or, **Sir** , I could never mistake _anyone_ for James Franciscus! Did you see him in _Beneath the Planet of the Skimpy Leather Thong_? [**Eve** has the vapors and has to lay down for a spell] ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Rhosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollywood-greats-whos-left/181529/45 "2003-07-09T01:50:39Z")
He was in that film?!!! Oh yeah, that’s right, he was. I saw it, but as I recall, Linda Harrison was wearing the skimpy leather thong I was paying attention to. 😃 Sir Rhosis It does pay to be the producer’s girlfriend, doesn’t it. ---
**Author:** ![HelenGawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@HelenGawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelenGawn)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollywood-greats-whos-left/181529/46 "2003-07-09T02:32:12Z")
Um, does Joey Bishop count? [sub]No, didn’t think so.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollywood-greats-whos-left/181529/47 "2003-07-09T03:42:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sir Rhosis \* > \*\*I could have sworn Jane Wyman was gone, though. > > Sir Rhosis \*\* Considering what she’s said about Ronnie, I _seriously_ doubt that she’s going to kick off before he does. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollywood-greats-whos-left/181529/48 "2003-07-09T04:21:36Z")
In every interview with her that I’ve ever read, Jane Wyman has always declined to talk about Ronald Reagan, saying that it’s bad manners to talk about ex-spouses (she’s been divorced thrice). ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollywood-greats-whos-left/181529/49 "2003-07-09T05:12:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Walloon \* > \*\*In every interview with her that I’ve ever read, Jane Wyman has always declined to talk about Ronald Reagan, saying that it’s bad manners to talk about ex-spouses (she’s been divorced thrice). \*\* Hmmm, I seem to remember her being rather vocal during his second presidential campaign. I might be mistaken, however. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollywood-greats-whos-left/181529/50 "2003-07-09T22:12:11Z")
Yeah but was she vocal for him or against him? ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollywood-greats-whos-left/181529/51 "2003-07-10T03:43:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \* > \*\*Yeah but was she vocal for him or against him? \*\* Against. IIRC, she actively campaigned for Walter Mondale. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollywood-greats-whos-left/181529/52 "2003-07-10T03:58:52Z")
Any citation of Jane Wyman involving herself in either the 1980 or 1984 presidential elections, would be much appreciated. Otherwise. . . ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollywood-greats-whos-left/181529/53 "2003-07-10T04:07:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Walloon \* > \*\*Any citation of Jane Wyman involving herself in either the 1980 or 1984 presidential elections, would be much appreciated. Otherwise. . . \*\* **Wallon** , I fully concede my memory might be faulty (it was nearly 20 years ago) and I don’t have time to dig around for a cite, so take it FWIW. I seem to recall her speaking at the '84 Democratic convention, but freely admit that I could be totally mistaken about the whole thing. I was pretty much a Reaganite at the time, so that might have something to do with my memory. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollywood-greats-whos-left/181529.md?page=2)