. . . so-called because of that particularly ick-making scene in Saratoga in which Jean Harlow (who, about two weeks later, would die of kidney disease) tell doctor George Zucco, who’s trying to con her, that “there’s nothing wrong with me, doctor–I tell you I’m perfectly healthy!” To make it even creepier, she’s wearing the negligee in which she’d be buried. I can only think of a couple of others off the top of my head, but I’m sure you guys can recall zillions:
Inside Daisy Clover (hilariously awful film), in which Daisy (Natalie Wood) and Robert Redford are on a yacht; a portable radio asks, “Where is Daisy Clover?” Redford throws the radio into the water and says, “Here’s Daisy Clover!”
One of my faves, Lyda Roberti, shortly before dying of heart disease, made a cameo appearance in Pick a Star, in which she sang a comic red-hot number:
I don’t need a physician, he can’t do me no good–
Still I’m in a bad condition, let me make myself understood!
Oh, what an ache, and I think my heart will break,
And I’m so afraid I’ll need first aid–oh, ho, I got it bad!
If you count fiction, in the story, “Come Live With Me,” James Tiptree, Jr. had a main character who put a gun to his head and ended up living in a wonderful paradise.
Tiptree committed suicide. With a gun. The story was published a few months afterward, so was clearly written when Tiptree was planning things.
Not in a movie, but there’s a famous clip of James Dean talking about driving safety. Eerie.
That film from sasturday Night Live depicting John Belushi as the last survivor of the original SNL cast, looking at the graves of his cohorts, when he was actually the first to go.
Not like the reported ad of a younf Air National Guard George Bush talking about how hev doeswn’t use drugs, but gets high on his plane. Or that clip in atomic Cafe with VP Richard Nixon ringing “the bell for mental health”. those are genuinely funny.
The entirety of Above Suspicion, in which Christopher Reeve plays a paralyzed police officer. Mere days after the movie’s release, he had his accident.
Some of these were cut before tyhe film was released.
They cut out the scenes (all imaginary ones) of the son drowning in Brainstorm because of Natalie Woods’ drowning death. Dr. Strangelove was supposed to have a scene at the end in the War Room with a food fight and someone saying “The President is Dead!”, cut because of the Kennedt assassination.
Another Chris Reeve story - shortly before his fall he’d made a video for the U.S. Pony Club about the importance of using safety gear while riding. Mind you, he was wearing proper safety equipment when he took his fall, but still.
I’m sure I once heard a clip of John Lennon with his saying something along the lines of “we’re safer saying these things as popstars than being politicians because politicians get shot”.
Is it true that in Monkey Business, Groucho Marx tells Thelma Todd she’ll be found in a garage if she’s not careful, or something along those lines? Sounds too urban legendy to be true.
Just remembered another: Charles Emmett Mack, star of The First Auto (1927; it shows up on TCM every so often) was killed in a car crash on his way to the set shortly after filming a car crash for the movie. They kept the car crash scene in the movie, which I thought was in rather questionable taste.
When Major Kong is doing an inventory of his survival kit on board the bomber he says something like: “Shoot, a fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all this stuff!”
If you look closely you can see that his lips actually say “Dallas” instead of “Vegas”. They redubbed it after the assassination.
I remember The Simpsons had an episode where Homer had an Oscar he stole from Dr. Haing S. Ngor. After Dr. Ngor was murdered, reruns of the episode had the Oscar belong to Don Ameche.
Watching Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story was very creepy since a significant story thread is how Bruce is waging a constant spiritual/metaphysical battle against an ancient Chinese warrior god intent on harming Bruce’s son. Brandon, of course, was killed a few weeks before the movie came out (as if the warrior god was eventually triumphant).
No, it’s true. It’s from Monkey Business. Groucho’s line was “You look like a girl who’s had nothing but bad breaks. I could clean and tighten those brakes, but you’ll have to stay in the garage overnight.”
The connection is pretty tenuous, of course; it’s clearly intended to be a double entendre.
In All That Jazz, Bob Fosse was clearly envisioning his own death from a heart attack: the Roy Schieder character is based strongly on Fosse, and dies of a heart attack in the end. But that was deliberate on the part of Fosse, who suspected how he would die.