Hollywood Greats: Who's Left?

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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

42

I’ll be darned…I could’ve sworn Ernest Borgnine, Tony Franciosa, Celeste Holm, Patricia Neal…had bought it.

43

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

44

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]

45

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.

:smiley:

Sir Rhosis

It does pay to be the producer’s girlfriend, doesn’t it.

46

Um, does Joey Bishop count?

[sub]No, didn’t think so.[/sub]

47

Considering what she’s said about Ronnie, I seriously doubt that she’s going to kick off before he does.

48

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).

49

Hmmm, I seem to remember her being rather vocal during his second presidential campaign. I might be mistaken, however.

50

Yeah but was she vocal for him or against him?

51

Against. IIRC, she actively campaigned for Walter Mondale.

52

Any citation of Jane Wyman involving herself in either the 1980 or 1984 presidential elections, would be much appreciated. Otherwise. . .

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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.