Luise Rainier, two-time oscar winner in the 1930s has died at the grand old age of 104.
Olivia DeHaviland is still alive, although having outlasted Joan Fontaine, one wonders if she still cares.
Who else is left from the 30s and 40s?
Zsa Zsa Gabor hasn’t kicked the bucket yet (but she would fall over if she did). Technically she wasn’t famous until the 50’s
Kirk Douglas is nearly 100. Still Living.
I recently saw Gaslight from 1944 . It was kind of funny to see Jessica Fletcher playing a trampy maid. Angela Lansbury is still around.
Lupita Tovar, who starred in the Spanish language version of Dracula in 1931, is still alive at the age of 104.
Where’s Eve when you need her?
The Good Earth was on television a few months ago. I’d forgotten how good she was in that. She won an Academy Award for her performance, in a role that can’t have had more than a minute’s dialogue.
YouTube conveniently has a glimpse of her at age 22 in a clip from Sehnsucht 202.
Here is a partial list that I collected from IMDb, and others can surely contribute more. Sorted by age, name, example movie/short/cartoon/TV from the 1930’s-1940’s…
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[li]100= Norman Lloyd; Saboteur, 1942[/li][li]97 = Marsha Hunt; The Virginia Judge, 1935[/li][li]97 = June Foray; Red Hot Riding Hood (Tall Cigarette Girl (voice), 1948[/li][li]94 = Noel Neill; Henry and Dizzy, 1942[/li][li]94 = Maureen O’Hara; The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1939[/li][li]93 = Louis Jourdan; La comédie du bonheur, 1940[/li][li]93 = Nancy Reagan; The Doctor and the Girl, 1949[/li][li]92 = Barbara Hale; The Falcon Out West, 1944[/li][li]92 = Janis Paige; Bathing Beauty, 1944[/li][li]92 = Betty White; Time to Kill, 1945[/li][li]91 = Valentina Cortese; Thieves’ Highway, 1949[/li][li]91 = Rhonda Fleming; Out of the Past, 1947[/li][li]90 = Doris Day; Romance on the High Seas, 1948[/li][li]90 = Eva Marie Saint; A Christmas Carol, 1947[/li][li]89 = Dorothy Malone; The Big Sleep, 1946[/li][/ul]
She played quite a number of tramps and bitches back in the day.
If I was in movies or on stage I’d love to play villains/tramps/bitches.
I adored Sian Phillips as Livia in the BBC’s I, Claudius.
That was my first thought too!
Per Eve, she actually had a not-nice reputation as being hard to work with and not telling the whole story when recounting stories of her film days (i.e. poor me, bad them, when there was more to it).
Bless her heart.