James Darren is Dead to Nancy Sinatra

He in that green turlteneck he wore in "The Time Tunnel" began my lifelong interest in history. Seriously.

Oh no! Didn't we just do thread on him a few months ago?

A tribute thread, not a Is Dead to Me thread.

Yes, R3. The linked thread is from March. With a photo of him in the green shirt for R1.

I didn't realize Nancy's husband passed away in 1985 and was only 55.

Same here, R1! An early crush who would pop years later in unexpected places. The holographic lounge singer in Star Trek Deep Space Nine. A pretty good indie movie called "Lucky" that was Harry Dean Staunton's last film.

James Ercolani and Nancy Sinatra. Both full blooded Italian descent.

Frankie Avalon is still alive at 83.

I'm not finding an obit for James online. Are you sure, Nancy?

Wasnt he on that William Shatner cop show? Heather Locklear too, I think.

[quote] James Darren is Dead to Nancy Sinatra

His booty was made for walking, but couldn’t last forever.

R8 - Tanya Roberts

Meh.

Wikipedia says he died 8/26, but has him in the category "Living People."

He was my first crush! Gorgeous.

Variety obit.

Vic Fontaine's program will never end.

I bet Frankie Avalon is crushed. They were close.

Make it real

Yeah, I posted this sexy photo of him back in the first thread. Damn that is one fine looking man, and one beautiful pubic mound.

And now posted ad nauseum

He was Officer Jim Corrigan on T.J. Hooker.

[quote]And now posted ad nauseum

How do you say "oh, dear" in Latin?

You know an auto-correction error when you see one, and move on. Fiat lux!

Susan Dey will be sending her condolences shortly.

James Darren was just so meh. Bobby Darin was another story.

I love Nancy Sinatra. Hang in there, sweetie.

James Darren (1936) and Nancy Sinatra (1940) both had the same birthday: "June 8."

I remember seeing a movie on TV starring Charlton Heston, George Chakiris, and James Darren and some blonde, called Diamond Head. Darren and Chakiris played Hawaiians, brothers, and Charlton Heston was this rich powerful landowner with an Asian mistress and it was al about race and class and bigotry and it seemed like it wanted to be Giant but with pineapples. But both Darren and young George Chakiris were gorgeous.

He was on an episode of The Donna Reed Show singing a song......and I think he was a character on an episode of The Flintstones.

I liked him in most of his movies and tv appearances. My favorites were Gidget Goes To Rome and Gidget Goes Hawaiian......and The Lively Set.

r28, Yvette Mimieux was the blonde.

R30 all I remember is that she was a terrible actress and not much to look at. Really plain looking. WEHT her

Yvette had three husbands including Stanley Donen, and then she died.

Helen Pixley has a nude picture of him in her laundry room! Right next to the Maytag!

I’ll bet Helen Pixley spent many boozy afternoons sitting atop the running Maytag.

I first crushed on him in Time Tunnel.

Yvette also starred in the groundbreaking made-for-tv film, Devil Dog: The Hound from Hell with Mr. Richard Crenna...

NYTimes obit

R28 You’re thinking of Diamond Head.

It falls into the category “so bad it’s good”.

R28, R38 here. Clearly in need of new glasses. I read your post and completely missed you had the name of the movie all along.

Off to the optometrist.

James sings Goodbye Cruel World.

OMG, I loved that song "Goodbye, Cruel World" when I was a kid! But I'm forgetting.....was it performed in a circus movie James Darren made? I'm wondering about that very specific calliope accompaniment.

But there was another very similar circus-themed rock n roll song I think I'm confusing it with. "The Main Attraction" sung by Pat Boone in a circus movie of the same era, I think.

Pat Boone was a total asshole with his white bread personality and his "lovely family" and his tranny wife. And his fucking CHRISTIANITY. My grandmother loved his ass.

[quote]r43 = Pat Boone was a total asshole with his white bread personality

That's not bread...

[quote] OMG, I loved that song "Goodbye, Cruel World" when I was a kid!

Me, too!

Wiki

and linked

JAMES DARREN - Goodbye Cruel World (Rare ARMY Version) (1961)

GIDGET with Sandra Dee and James Darren

The Main Attraction Music by Pat Boone Lyrics by Pat Boone & Jeff Corey Performed by Pat Boone in the 1962 motion picture.

the song

Post from his son.

Well hearts and dicks.

He had quality nips for a 1959 heartthrob.

Sorry to hear this.

I remember him from when I was a kid, - including the great "The Guns of Navarone". And what a delight when he appeared as Vic Fontaine in "Deep Space Nine", especially in the series' finale "What We Leave Behind"

A great character, they gave him good plots and also those wonderful songs.

"Just as the man says, nothing lasts forever".

From the DS9 finale...

I missed William Shatner's message. Here it is:

“Jimmy Darren; I worked with him for several years and then we’d see each other on occasion. What a wonderful man – so talented; so loving. I had the best time with him. The world is less because of his loss.”

Don't cry for me, R36. I made out well.

Holy shit!! She married well is an understatement! Thanks R57.

Her last husband was the developer of the Oakwoods Apts “empire.”

R55 he release a couple of those easy listening classics. I think he wanted to be like Frank Sinatra. He idolized him.

THis was the only serious attempt at acting I can recall from him. I wish he would have done more work like this. "Let No Man Write My epitaph" with Shelley Winters