Who's the oldest entertainer you can think of that was alive in your lifetime.

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Maybe Charlie Chaplin, i dunno. Thats a hard one. That you personally, can remember. Maybe not as i remember my first movie i remember was with Orson Welles or MARLIN BRANDo, where he was thrown on rocks and killed. I was traumatized. So thats good that i can't remember very well now.
The first person to spring to mind was Shirley Temple, because she was the same age as my mother - and my mother is still alive! I tried to remember aged characters from TV shows when I was a kid, and the first one to come to mind was Leo G Carroll - Alexander Waverly in The Man From U.N.C.L.E. , born 1886. I'll have to pose the same question to my mom when I see her next week.
 
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Marline Dietrich

I'll point out that she has been quoted as saying the highlight of her long and successful career was working with the USO during WW II, often right behind the lines.

Seems that when she sung on radio both sides listened.

 
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Fatty Arbuckle!

Older than Chaplin and persecuted. Oh, and also someone who mentored Chaplin.
That reminds me of spanky and our gang and the older gang but i forgot their name. Alfalfa was in spankies gang and don't forget Liberace:)
 
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The first person to spring to mind was Shirley Temple, because she was the same age as my mother - and my mother is still alive! I tried to remember aged characters from TV shows when I was a kid, and the first one to come to mind was Leo G Carroll - Alexander Waverly in The Man From U.N.C.L.E. , born 1886. I'll have to pose the same question to my mom when I see her next week.
Oh wow, i should have remembered Shirley. The all American girl and Mickie Rooney. they should have a show on tv weekly reminded us of the old timers and what they gave us .
 
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He's 97 and a recovered alcoholic! God has blessed him with a long, long life.
I'm not sure it is always a blessing:).
Not long ago he was on the masked singer. People were in tears including me. Just an appreciation for him. That we were honored with his presence.
 
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I just remembered Olivia de Havilland I was watching some of her films on TCM when I found out because they were honoring her. She died in 2020 at the age of 104! She was in some good films. Including Gone With the Wind!
 
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