After the breakup of Martin & Lewis, neither of them had much success. Then Dean Martin had a HUGE hit with “Everybody Loves Somebody”. He then went on to a very popular TV variety show and many successful films.
I don’t think I could say Jerry Lewis had anything near that kind of comeback.
Except to the comedically challenged French. I saw Forrest Gump in Paris (w/French subtitles) & the theater was like a morgue.
From an American perspective, Jackie Chan left after being cast as a forgettable second banana in Cannonball Run, then came back as the premiere Hong Kong martial-arts star with Rumble in the Bronx, Supercop, Rush Hour, Shanghai Noon, etc. etc. etc.
Ronald Reagan.
I’ll nominate Leslie Nielsen, even though his comeback isn’t as stellar as most of the others mentioned in this thread. But he deserves special recognition because, when the persona he’d established ceased to impress audiences, he remade his image by turning it unside-out and upside down.
Overnight he went from stern. humorless leading man to goofy star of a thousand silly B-movie comedies. And he was no spring chicken when he did. I was impressed, and still am.
(Apropos of nothing: this is my 400th post!)
[Snug, elated, does the Snoopy dance]
Cher… at one time she was doing infomercials… before she hit it big with her life after love song… over and over and over…
O.J. Simpson was a big name in football, then he went into obscurity, doing a couple movies and a few years ago, he was on TV almost every day!
Guess I am the only one who thought of Buffalo Bills vs. Huston Oilers.
Oh well.
Kylie Minogue. From cheesy popstress to has-been to indy noodler to Pop Goddess in just 15 years.
Marlon Brando’s career is like a rollercoaster. Great performances and really horrible ones as well. Really great in movies like A Streetcar Named Desire and then his career sort of went stale in the '60s and '70s. And then The Godfather. And yet the '90s saw stuff like The Island of Dr. Moreau.
Quite the contrary. Lewis made a good number of quite successful films after the breakup with Martin, including, **The Bellboy, Cindefella, The Ladies Man ** and The Nutty Professor. Not to mention Lewis’s work with the Labor Day MS telethon.
Bonnie Raitt
I believe she had a successful career in the early 1970’s and then she seemed to go downhill.
Then in the 1990’s she released “Nick of Time” which was wildly successful and made her more popular than she ever was at any point in her career.
Bonnie Raitt
I believe she had a successful career in the early 1970’s and then she seemed to go downhill.
Then in the 1990’s she released “Nick of Time” which was wildly successful and made her more popular than she ever was at any point in her career.