Olivia de Havilland, who lived to 104.
The most famous was Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, who died in 2002 at the age of 101.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | August 26, 2023 9:12 PM |
Gloria Stuart - Died at 100.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | August 26, 2023 9:14 PM |
Bob Hope, 100.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | August 26, 2023 9:14 PM |
Larry King, lived to be 117.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | August 26, 2023 9:17 PM |
An interesting one: Marita Camacho Quirós, First Lady of Costa Rica in the 1960s, is 112 years old.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | August 26, 2023 9:17 PM |
George Burns 1996
by Anonymous | reply 6 | August 26, 2023 9:22 PM |
Renée Simonot, a French actress and the mother of Catherine
by Anonymous | reply 7 | August 26, 2023 9:23 PM |
Not quite finished!
Mother of Catherine Deneuve, died in 2021 aged 109 (two months from 110).
by Anonymous | reply 8 | August 26, 2023 9:24 PM |
From the sister thread, Norman Lear & Rachel Robinson, both 101.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | August 26, 2023 9:27 PM |
Norman Lloyd lived to 106.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | August 26, 2023 9:30 PM |
George Abbott lived to 107.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | August 26, 2023 9:30 PM |
Baby Peggy, 101. Her hair piece was a work of art.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | August 26, 2023 9:38 PM |
Norman Lear turned 101 in July.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | August 26, 2023 9:39 PM |
Henry Kissinger
by Anonymous | reply 15 | August 26, 2023 9:43 PM |
I see this thread as tragic rather than aspirational.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | August 26, 2023 9:45 PM |
Madonna.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | August 26, 2023 9:46 PM |
Kirk Douglas - 103 Danielle Darrieux - 100
by Anonymous | reply 18 | August 26, 2023 9:46 PM |
Helen Lawson
by Anonymous | reply 19 | August 26, 2023 9:54 PM |
Luise Rainer, 104. Patricia Morison, 103. Charles Lane, 102. Marsha Hunt, 104.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | August 26, 2023 9:55 PM |
More like Marsha Cunt amirite?!
by Anonymous | reply 21 | August 26, 2023 9:57 PM |
Soong Mei-ling a/k/a Madame Chiang Kai-Shek lived to 105.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | August 26, 2023 10:02 PM |
I wonder what it feels like to get up every morning, when you’re 100 years old?
by Anonymous | reply 23 | August 26, 2023 10:18 PM |
R21 No.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | August 26, 2023 10:21 PM |
Dick Van Dyke is almost there...
by Anonymous | reply 25 | August 26, 2023 10:21 PM |
^ So were Bob Barker & Betty White, R25. Close but no cigar. A lot of broken dreams between 97/98 & 100.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | August 27, 2023 12:13 AM |
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."
by Anonymous | reply 27 | August 27, 2023 12:47 AM |
[quote] Paige later co-starred with Doris in "Please Don't Eat the Daisies."
On TCM now!
by Anonymous | reply 28 | August 27, 2023 12:50 AM |
It's Doris Day Day on TCM.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | August 27, 2023 8:59 AM |
I was just watching Doris's notorious "thriller," "Julie," in which she has to land a plane AND SHE DOESN'T KNOW HOW!!!!
by Anonymous | reply 30 | August 27, 2023 9:01 AM |
Bob Hope and George Burns both lived to be 100 and then died a couple of months later.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | August 27, 2023 9:02 AM |
[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!
by Anonymous | reply 32 | August 27, 2023 9:09 AM |
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.)
by Anonymous | reply 33 | August 27, 2023 4:57 PM |
A newly-minted one!
by Anonymous | reply 34 | August 30, 2023 4:38 PM |
DL fave Iris Apfel.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | August 30, 2023 4:40 PM |
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!
by Anonymous | reply 36 | September 3, 2023 3:06 AM |
Is Topo Gigio still alive?
by Anonymous | reply 37 | September 3, 2023 3:08 AM |
Topo Gigio went down on the Andrea Doria.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | September 3, 2023 3:12 AM |
.^Kiss me goodnight, Eddie.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | September 3, 2023 3:12 AM |
Senor Wences
by Anonymous | reply 40 | September 3, 2023 3:18 AM |
Too difficult to read four posts back.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | September 3, 2023 3:20 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | September 3, 2023 3:29 AM |
R41, Toppo made me do it, Señora Cerdo Lechona.
He's a real bitch when he's away from the box, that one.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | September 3, 2023 4:17 AM |
Composer and musicologist Elisabeth Waldo is 105
by Anonymous | reply 44 | September 3, 2023 4:23 AM |
[quote] Rose Kennedy died at 104
Did she outlive any of her children?
by Anonymous | reply 47 | September 3, 2023 4:30 AM |
One of the few to remain professionally active in his second century, pictured below at 103.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | September 3, 2023 4:33 AM |
Newly promoted from the nonagenarian thread
by Anonymous | reply 49 | September 3, 2023 4:52 AM |
R48 At first I thought that was Bob Newhart.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | September 3, 2023 4:58 AM |
DL icon Luise Rainer died 13 days short of her 105th birthday. DL icon Olivia de Havilland died 25 days after her 104th birthday.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | September 3, 2023 8:43 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | September 3, 2023 9:00 AM |
Janis Paige turned 101 today.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | September 16, 2023 5:24 PM |
Yuriko, Princess Mikasa, sister-in-law of Hirohito and great-aunt (by marriage) of the present Emperor, is 100.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | September 16, 2023 5:31 PM |
Herman Wouk.
Miep Gies.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | September 16, 2023 6:43 PM |
Actor, producer and director Norman Lloyd was 106 when he died.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | September 16, 2023 7:42 PM |
Anne Vernon, who played Madame Emery, the mother of Catherine Deneuve in Jacques Demy’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, turned 100 last month.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | February 19, 2024 3:03 PM |
Scene from Cherbourg.
That isn’t her voice, though.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | February 19, 2024 3:06 PM |
Barbara Bush
by Anonymous | reply 59 | February 19, 2024 3:22 PM |
No, R59.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | February 19, 2024 3:45 PM |
Ray Anthony, 102
Caren Marsh Doll, 104
by Anonymous | reply 61 | February 19, 2024 4:09 PM |
Lee Marvin would have been 100 today.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | February 19, 2024 4:57 PM |
I'm 127, I just look 29.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | February 19, 2024 6:55 PM |
Deirdre Hall is 102
by Anonymous | reply 64 | February 19, 2024 7:03 PM |
Fran Lebowitz
by Anonymous | reply 65 | February 19, 2024 8:12 PM |
French actress Micheline Presle has died at age 101.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | February 22, 2024 8:41 PM |
R66, oh gosh! What did she die of?
by Anonymous | reply 67 | February 22, 2024 10:13 PM |
Cocaine overdose, r67
by Anonymous | reply 68 | February 22, 2024 10:28 PM |
It's those damn Gulf of Mexico oil rig fires again.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | February 22, 2024 10:34 PM |
Marlon Brando would have been 100 today!
by Anonymous | reply 70 | April 3, 2024 4:30 PM |
Priscilla Pointer, actress and mother of Amy Irving.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | May 20, 2024 12:23 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 72 | May 20, 2024 1:01 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | May 20, 2024 1:03 PM |
Unless she killed them, R73
by Anonymous | reply 75 | July 4, 2024 6:25 PM |
Lauren Bacall would have been 100 years old today.
by Anonymous | reply 76 | September 17, 2024 12:08 AM |
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!
by Anonymous | reply 77 | September 17, 2024 12:15 AM |
Me!!!
by Anonymous | reply 78 | September 17, 2024 12:25 AM |
Jimmy Carter, almost.
by Anonymous | reply 81 | September 17, 2024 3:30 AM |
R81. Not so fast…
by Anonymous | reply 82 | September 17, 2024 3:35 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 83 | September 17, 2024 3:45 AM |
Nehemiah Persoff, perhaps best known for Yentl. Imagine working with both Ms Streisand and Mandy Patinkin.
by Anonymous | reply 84 | September 17, 2024 4:01 AM |
R84
She must be from hardy stock surviving multiple encounters with those two.
by Anonymous | reply 85 | September 17, 2024 4:10 AM |
R41 deeficult for you…easy for me
by Anonymous | reply 86 | September 17, 2024 7:02 AM |
Catherine Zeta-Jones is 109.
by Anonymous | reply 88 | September 17, 2024 3:53 PM |
^ No I'm not, I'm 12.
by Anonymous | reply 89 | September 17, 2024 8:42 PM |
Jimmy Thompson (b. December 9, 1923), who sang this famous number, turns 101 today!
by Anonymous | reply 90 | December 10, 2024 12:44 AM |
Soong Mei-Ling, better known as Madame Chiang lived to 105.
by Anonymous | reply 91 | December 10, 2024 12:51 AM |
Whaaaaaaa? Jimmy Thompson is still alive? Has he ever spilled the beans on how he got 2 solo numbers in Gene Kelly films?
by Anonymous | reply 92 | December 10, 2024 3:36 AM |
Maria Riva, who wrote a lacerating, fascinating biography of her mother Marlene Dietrich, turned 100 yesterday.
by Anonymous | reply 93 | December 14, 2024 3:08 PM |