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Not really sure if this belongs here but here are some of the last survivors of early Hollywood films... I got really bored so I spent ages going through IMDb rounding these up...

 

1930s

 

 

**Dracula (1931)... Carla Laemmle (1909-2014) - last surviving cast member

**Frankenstein (1931)... no surviving cast members

**M (1931)... Hanna Maron (1923-2014) - last surviving cast member

**Freaks (1932)... no surviving cast members; Josephine Joseph (born 1913, deceased) may still be living although it seems unlikely

**The Mummy (1932)... no surviving cast members

**Duck Soup (1933)... no surviving cast members

**The Invisible Man (1933)... Gloria Stuart (1910-2010) - last surviving cast member

**King Kong (1933)... difficult to tell but at least 2 surviving cast members - John Crawford (1920-2010 EDIT: removed from IMDb King Kong page so was never actually in the film) / Malcolm Potts (1925-2011)

**Bride of Frankenstein (1935)... Mary Stewart (1913-1995) - EDIT: thought to be last surviving cast member, died sometime ago

**Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)... no surviving cast members

**A Star is Born (1937)... Leon Holmes (1913, died 1950s at sea) - EDIT: thought to be last surviving cast member, died decades ago

**Bringing Up Baby (1938) - 2 surviving cast members - Buster Slaven (1922-2009) / Karl Slover (1918-2011)

**Gone with the Wind (1939) - 10 surviving cast members - Olivia de Havilland (born 1916) / Ann Rutherford (1917-2012) / Alicia Rhett (1915-2014) / Mickey Kuhn (1932-2022) / Mary Anderson (1918-2014) / Ann Bupp (1922-2005) / Shirley Chambers (1913-2011) / Shep Houghton (1914-2016) / Tommy Kelly (1925-2016) / Dirk Wayne Summers (born 1931)

**The Wizard of Oz (1939) - at least 10+ surviving cast members, including 5 dwarf actors (Olga C. Nardone (1921-2010) / Ruth Duccini (1918-2014) / Jerry Maren (1920-2018) / Margaret Pellegrini (1923-2013) / Karl Slover (1918-2011) and half a dozen or so child actresses

 

1940s

 

**Pinocchio (1940)... Dickie Jones (1927-2014) - last surviving cast member

**Citizen Kane (1941)... 5 surviving cast members - Louise Currie (1913-2013) / Frances E. Neal (1921-1988) / Gerald Pierce (1918-2011) / Edward Ryan (1924–1998) / Kathryn Trosper (1915-2016)

**Casablanca (1942)... Madeline LeBeau (1923-2016) - last surviving cast member

**Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)... 10 surviving cast members - Phyllis Thaxter (1919-2012) / Dorothy Morris (1922-2011) / Jacqueline White (born 1922) / Wally Cassell (1912-2015) / Myrna Dell (1924-2011) / Johnny Duncan (1923-2016) / Blake Edwards (1922-2010) / Peggy Maley (1923-2007) / Frances E. Neal (1921-1988) / Gordon Trigg (1924-2012)

**It's A Wonderful Life (1946)... 9 surviving cast members - Virginia Patton (1925-2022) / Ronnie Ralph (born 1933) / Jeanine Ann Roose (1937-2021) / Carol Coombs (born 1935) / Karolyn Grimes (born 1940) / Larry Simms (1934-2009) / Jimmy Hawkins (born 1941) / Marian Carr (1926-2003) / Michael Chapin (born 1936)

 

1950s

 

**The African Queen (1951)... Theodore Bikel (1924-2015) - last surviving cast member

**A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)... 2 surviving cast members - Wright King (1923-2018) / Mickey Kuhn (1932-2022)

**Roman Holiday (1953)... 6 surviving cast members - John Cortay (1916-1981) / Art Gilmore (1912-2010) / George Higgins (1917-2005) / Mimmo Poli (1922-1986) / Catherine Wyler (born 1939) / Judy Wyler (born 1942)

**The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)... 2 surviving cast members - Geoffrey Horne (born 1933) / Peter Williams (1915-2003)

 

 

I'll add more the next time I get hideously bored.... additions and corrections welcome...

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**It's A Wonderful Life (1946)... 9 surviving cast members - Virginia Patton (born 19??)

 

1923, I believe, and still alive.

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I think this should be it's own thread. However I do have one more... Carla Laemmle (born 1909) is believed to be the only surviving Dracula (1931) cast member. There are a few entries that don't have birth or death dates so I'm not too sure on those.

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**It's A Wonderful Life (1946)... 9 surviving cast members - Virginia Patton (born 19??)

 

1923, I believe, and still alive.

 

Thanks, I'll add that

 

 

I think this should be it's own thread. However I do have one more... Carla Laemmle (born 1909) is believed to be the only surviving Dracula (1931) cast member. There are a few entries that don't have birth or death dates so I'm not too sure on those.

 

Checked Dracula, I think it's safe to presume she is the last surviving cast member as most of the other actors were older in the film and there are only three or so actors (in uncredited roles) that have no birth/death records...

 

**Freaks (1932)... no surviving cast members

 

Josephine Joseph, who was the hermaphrodite, could still be alive... but it's unknown for sure.

 

I did consider Josephine Joseph but I concluded that since she seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth and had a disfigurement... she's most likely dead but I'll put a question mark next to her name...

 

Maybe a new thread is needed here... any ideas what to title it?

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Cinematographer Gilbert Taylor was looking quite wizened when I saw him on Paul Merton's programme about Alfred Hitchcock, but then he was born in 1914. Might be one to keep an eye on.

 

Quite a few elderly cinematographers worth keeping an ey on. There's Jack Cardiff who has been mentioned a few times on here, Oswald Morris (born 1915) and Wolfgang Suschitsky (born 1912) and probably more.

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Hollywood big names still alive...

 

Gloria Stuart (1910 - )

Karl Malden (1912 - )

Michael Gough (1913 - )

Kevin McCarthy (1914 - )

Eli Wallach (1915 - )

Olivia de Havilland (1916 - )

Kirk Douglas (1916 - )

Ernest Borgnine (1917 - )

Zsa Zsa Gabor (1917 - )

George Gaynes (1917 - )

Herbert Lom (1917 - )

John Forsythe (1918 - )

Don Pardo (1918 - )

Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. (1918 - )

Dino de Laurentiis (1919 - )

Louis Jourdan (1919 - )

Gene Barry (1919 - )

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Joan Fontaine 1917 -

 

She'd never agree to appear on the same list as Olivia de Havilland.

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One name missing from the list is that of British born actress Jean Simmons. Oh....too late!

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Updated the list of survivors from top grossing Hollywood classics on page 3. I removed Karl Malden, Jimmy Carroll and Frank Coghlan, Jr.

 

Additionally, I've removed another. One of the few survivors of Citizen Cane, Peter Gowland (also a glamour photographer), has died aged 93 per his website.

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Actress Ruth Ford has died aged 98.

 

She was the widow of Zachary Scott who died in 1965. When his mother, Sally Lee Scott, died in November 1983, she left everything to be divided by her 3 children. Scott's two daughters split their late father's share, and Ruth tried to sue for a share of it for herself, but didn't have enough money for a lawyer.

 

Ruth Ford cut her entire family from her will by leaving £5.6 million pounds to her butler instead. Hell hath no fury like a woman (or man) who has been financially scorned!

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Gone with the Wind (1939) - 13 surviving cast members... Cammie King (born 1934) ...

 

Cammie King Conlon has died.

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Harold Gould

 

Actor probably best known for "The Sting" has died aged 86.

 

 

He goes into the List of the Missed and I definitely made sure that he was a miss!

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Grace Boyd

 

a.k.a. Grace Bradley, Hollywood star of the 1930s and widow (5th wife*) of William Boyd, the actor who played "Hopalong Cassidy".

 

Well done to anyone who may have chosen her - she died on her 97th birthday!

 

* They met on a blind date and were married for 35 years from 1937 until his death in 1972. Prior to that, he had gone through 4 wives in the space of 18 years!

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Arthur Penn

 

Director most famous for "Bonnie and Clyde" has died the day after his 88th birthday.

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