Luise Rainer won back-to-back Academy Awards for Best Actress!
Mickey Rooney is still kickin’ at 92.
Betty White turned 90 this year, and has a staring role on a sitcom.
Wait, Bob Hope was a centenarian? I knew he was pretty old, but I thought that he was in a different category from George Burns.
Another one who’s up there is physicist Hans Bethe, who made it to nearly 99. He was active right up to the end, too.
It amazes me that author Beverly Cleary is still alive at age 96! I read the Ramona books in elementary school.
Yep he made it past 100 as well. I think Bob Hope lived longer than him by just a few days.
I was about to post exactly that…Mr. Abbott (if you please) is VERY well-known in theater circles.
If he can hang on another three weeks, he’ll make it to 102. Still active, too, writing and publishing — some people are a marvel.
Adolph Zukor isn’t well know today, but he was a very successful movie mogul and founder of Paramount Pictures. In the 1930s and 40s he was Chairman of Paramount and well known to the filmgoing public; he died in 1986 at 103.