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 8:12 PM |
Gloria Stuart - Died at 100.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | August 26, 2023 8:14 PM |
Bob Hope, 100.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | August 26, 2023 8:14 PM |
Larry King, lived to be 117.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | August 26, 2023 8:17 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 8:17 PM |
George Burns 1996
by Anonymous | reply 6 | August 26, 2023 8:22 PM |
Renée Simonot, a French actress and the mother of Catherine
by Anonymous | reply 7 | August 26, 2023 8:23 PM |
Not quite finished!
Mother of Catherine Deneuve, died in 2021 aged 109 (two months from 110).
by Anonymous | reply 8 | August 26, 2023 8:24 PM |
From the sister thread, Norman Lear & Rachel Robinson, both 101.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | August 26, 2023 8:27 PM |
Norman Lloyd lived to 106.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | August 26, 2023 8:30 PM |
George Abbott lived to 107.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | August 26, 2023 8:30 PM |
Baby Peggy, 101. Her hair piece was a work of art.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | August 26, 2023 8:38 PM |
Norman Lear turned 101 in July.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | August 26, 2023 8:39 PM |
Henry Kissinger
by Anonymous | reply 15 | August 26, 2023 8:43 PM |
I see this thread as tragic rather than aspirational.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | August 26, 2023 8:45 PM |
Madonna.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | August 26, 2023 8:46 PM |
Kirk Douglas - 103 Danielle Darrieux - 100
by Anonymous | reply 18 | August 26, 2023 8:46 PM |
Helen Lawson
by Anonymous | reply 19 | August 26, 2023 8:54 PM |
Luise Rainer, 104. Patricia Morison, 103. Charles Lane, 102. Marsha Hunt, 104.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | August 26, 2023 8:55 PM |
More like Marsha Cunt amirite?!
by Anonymous | reply 21 | August 26, 2023 8:57 PM |
Soong Mei-ling a/k/a Madame Chiang Kai-Shek lived to 105.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | August 26, 2023 9:02 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 9:18 PM |
R21 No.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | August 26, 2023 9:21 PM |
Dick Van Dyke is almost there...
by Anonymous | reply 25 | August 26, 2023 9:21 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 26, 2023 11:13 PM |
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 26, 2023 11:47 PM |
[quote] Paige later co-starred with Doris in "Please Don't Eat the Daisies."
On TCM now!
by Anonymous | reply 28 | August 26, 2023 11:50 PM |
It's Doris Day Day on TCM.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | August 27, 2023 7:59 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 8:01 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 8:02 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 8:09 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 3:57 PM |
A newly-minted one!
by Anonymous | reply 34 | August 30, 2023 3:38 PM |
DL fave Iris Apfel.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | August 30, 2023 3:40 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 2:06 AM |
Is Topo Gigio still alive?
by Anonymous | reply 37 | September 3, 2023 2:08 AM |
Topo Gigio went down on the Andrea Doria.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | September 3, 2023 2:12 AM |
.^Kiss me goodnight, Eddie.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | September 3, 2023 2:12 AM |
Senor Wences
by Anonymous | reply 40 | September 3, 2023 2:18 AM |
Too difficult to read four posts back.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | September 3, 2023 2:20 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 2:29 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 3:17 AM |
Composer and musicologist Elisabeth Waldo is 105
by Anonymous | reply 44 | September 3, 2023 3:23 AM |
[quote] Rose Kennedy died at 104
Did she outlive any of her children?
by Anonymous | reply 47 | September 3, 2023 3:30 AM |
One of the few to remain professionally active in his second century, pictured below at 103.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | September 3, 2023 3:33 AM |
Newly promoted from the nonagenarian thread
by Anonymous | reply 49 | September 3, 2023 3:52 AM |
R48 At first I thought that was Bob Newhart.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | September 3, 2023 3:58 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 7:43 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 8:00 AM |
Janis Paige turned 101 today.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | September 16, 2023 4:24 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 4:31 PM |
Herman Wouk.
Miep Gies.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | September 16, 2023 5:43 PM |
Actor, producer and director Norman Lloyd was 106 when he died.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | September 16, 2023 6:42 PM |