Famous Centenarians, Living or Dead

The most famous was Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, who died in 2002 at the age of 101.

Gloria Stuart - Died at 100.

Bob Hope, 100.

Larry King, lived to be 117.

An interesting one: Marita Camacho Quirós, First Lady of Costa Rica in the 1960s, is 112 years old.

George Burns 1996

Renée Simonot, a French actress and the mother of Catherine

Not quite finished!

Mother of Catherine Deneuve, died in 2021 aged 109 (two months from 110).

From the sister thread, Norman Lear & Rachel Robinson, both 101.

Norman Lloyd lived to 106.

George Abbott lived to 107.

Iris Appel will be 102 on Tuesday.

Baby Peggy, 101. Her hair piece was a work of art.

Norman Lear turned 101 in July.

Henry Kissinger

I see this thread as tragic rather than aspirational.

Madonna.

Kirk Douglas - 103 Danielle Darrieux - 100

Helen Lawson

Luise Rainer, 104. Patricia Morison, 103. Charles Lane, 102. Marsha Hunt, 104.

More like Marsha Cunt amirite?!

Soong Mei-ling a/k/a Madame Chiang Kai-Shek lived to 105.

I wonder what it feels like to get up every morning, when you’re 100 years old?

R21 No.

Dick Van Dyke is almost there...

^ So were Bob Barker & Betty White, R25. Close but no cigar. A lot of broken dreams between 97/98 & 100.

From the nonagenarian thread: Broadway star Janis Paige, who starred in the original 1954 production of "The Pajama Game" and was the first Broadway replacement for Angela Lansbury in "Mame," is still alive at 100. Note: Doris Day played Paige's role in the movie version of "The Pajama Game," and Paige later co-starred with Doris in "Please Don't Eat the Daisies."

[quote] Paige later co-starred with Doris in "Please Don't Eat the Daisies."

On TCM now!

It's Doris Day Day on TCM.

I was just watching Doris's notorious "thriller," "Julie," in which she has to land a plane AND SHE DOESN'T KNOW HOW!!!!

Bob Hope and George Burns both lived to be 100 and then died a couple of months later.

[quote] I was just watching Doris's notorious "thriller," "Julie," in which she has to land a plane AND SHE DOESN'T KNOW HOW!!!!

And then she lands it...WITH HER EYES CLOSED!

R27 Doris and Janis also co-starred in Doris’s first film, Romance On The High Seas (1948). (Janis’s role was more of a supporting one but she got star billing.)

A newly-minted one!

DL fave Iris Apfel.

Lupita Tovar (mother of Susan Kohner) - Mexican actress - 106.

George Abbott, Broadway (and occasionally Hollywood) writer-producer-director - 107

Senor Wences (Ed Sullivan Show ventriloqiuist) - 103.

Saw-right!

Is Topo Gigio still alive?

Topo Gigio went down on the Andrea Doria.

.^Kiss me goodnight, Eddie.

Senor Wences

Too difficult to read four posts back.

My great-grandmother. She lived on her own for 36 years after her husband died, in a single-story house. She refused to consider assisted care and did not really need it. At the age of 99, she finally relinquished the task of mowing the lawn to my cousin who lived close (but could never do it like she liked). She baked bread every other week and always made the hardest, spiciest ginger cookies in the world. Grandma was a tough old bird.

Until early February after she turned 102. The first thing she did every morning was check the thermometer mounted on the backdoor jamb. One morning storm door fogged up one morning and she decided to crack the storm door to look at the temperature just as a gust of wind blew through her breezeway. She didn't let go of the door and ended up falling on the porch and breaking her hip. The neighbors called 911 and they squad took her to the ER. After x-rays, they decided to open her up to repair her hip. The problem was, her bones were too brittle and spongy to support a plate and screws. The surgeon tried, but could not fix her.

The doctor told her he was sorry, but there was nothing more they could do. She lay in a hospital bad, refusing pain medication and nourishment, and died after ten days. She was lucid to the end and got to say her goodbyes to all of us who visited her. She was at peace with her fate. I don't know if I would be so strong. Not "famous" by any measure, but remarkable to me.

R41, Toppo made me do it, Señora Cerdo Lechona.

He's a real bitch when he's away from the box, that one.

Composer and musicologist Elisabeth Waldo is 105

French actress Suzy Delair died at 102

Rose Kennedy died at 104

[quote] Rose Kennedy died at 104

Did she outlive any of her children?

One of the few to remain professionally active in his second century, pictured below at 103.

Newly promoted from the nonagenarian thread

R48 At first I thought that was Bob Newhart.

DL icon Luise Rainer died 13 days short of her 105th birthday. DL icon Olivia de Havilland died 25 days after her 104th birthday.

Brooke Astor, philanthropist and socialite: 105

Rachel Lambert "Bunny" Mellon, horticulturalist: 103

Huguette Clark, recluse: 104. Like Luise Rainer, she was two weeks from 105.

Janis Paige turned 101 today.

Yuriko, Princess Mikasa, sister-in-law of Hirohito and great-aunt (by marriage) of the present Emperor, is 100.

Herman Wouk.

Miep Gies.

Actor, producer and director Norman Lloyd was 106 when he died.

Anne Vernon, who played Madame Emery, the mother of Catherine Deneuve in Jacques Demy’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, turned 100 last month.

Scene from Cherbourg.

That isn’t her voice, though.

Barbara Bush

No, R59.

Ray Anthony, 102

Caren Marsh Doll, 104

Lee Marvin would have been 100 today.

I'm 127, I just look 29.

Deirdre Hall is 102

Fran Lebowitz

French actress Micheline Presle has died at age 101.

R66, oh gosh! What did she die of?

Cocaine overdose, r67

It's those damn Gulf of Mexico oil rig fires again.

Marlon Brando would have been 100 today!

Priscilla Pointer, actress and mother of Amy Irving.

When my grandfather turned 100, I asked him what it was like. He said it was meh.

He’d been a very active guy until we made him stop driving at 95. Once we got him out of the house and into a retirement home, he perked up a bit. He was also on a regular medication schedule, which helped.

He made it to 101, but got Covid and lingered and lingered in hospice. He really loved life, loved science and was intrigued by electric cars. When he died in January 2022 it was sad but really, he got to see and witness a lot in his lifetime.

But meh. Must be tough to outlive all your friends, a daughter-in-law, grandson and a wife.

That is my feeling too. My landlady, an old daigo broad, just died at 101, but she was preceded by all of her children, that must be rough.

Happy Birthday Eva Marie Saint!

Unless she killed them, R73

Lauren Bacall would have been 100 years old today.

Singer Jane Morgan turned 100 in May 2024.

British radio actress June Spencer of “The Archers” turned 105 in June 2024. She was on the show until 2022!

Me!!!

R78 So close.

Miep Gies.

Jimmy Carter, almost.

R81. Not so fast…

Beulah Garrick aka Mrs. Renfield on Guiding Light is 103. Still lives on Long Island. Quint and Nola are both dead but Violet Renfield lives on.

Nehemiah Persoff, perhaps best known for Yentl. Imagine working with both Ms Streisand and Mandy Patinkin.

R84

She must be from hardy stock surviving multiple encounters with those two.

R41 deeficult for you…easy for me

This hunky slab of meat made it to 100

Catherine Zeta-Jones is 109.

^ No I'm not, I'm 12.

Jimmy Thompson (b. December 9, 1923), who sang this famous number, turns 101 today!

Soong Mei-Ling, better known as Madame Chiang lived to 105.

Whaaaaaaa? Jimmy Thompson is still alive? Has he ever spilled the beans on how he got 2 solo numbers in Gene Kelly films?

Maria Riva, who wrote a lacerating, fascinating biography of her mother Marlene Dietrich, turned 100 yesterday.