Reply With QuoteRIP Dulcie Gray, and thank you.Originally Posted by Brief Encounter
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15-11-11 07:42 PM #1Senior Member Country:
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With the death of Dulcie Gray today it got me wondering how long it had been since she been filmed - IMDB tells me it was Newsnight in 2000, so she's effectively been preserved aged 83 (she died aged 95). But that's not very long compared to others - Nova Pilbeam is 92 today, and it seems her last appearance on film was in 1948 - I can see no record of any TV appearances etc since then. So she's been off screen 63 years! (And will forever be 29!) Can that be beaten?
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15-11-11 07:47 PM #2Senior Member Country:
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15-11-11 08:01 PM #3Senior Member Country:
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Deanna Durbin has been quiet since 1948 as well.
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15-11-11 08:34 PM #4Senior Member Country:
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Indeed she has. Preserved forever aged 26! Originally Posted by dremble wedge
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15-11-11 08:47 PM #5Senior Member Country:
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Gloria Stuart had a quiet period between 1946 (when she was still playing pretty ingenues) to 1975 and onwards in character roles culminating in Titanic.
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15-11-11 10:14 PM #6Senior Member Country:
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Baby LeRoy didn't act for the last 65 years of his life.
This seems as good a place as any to mourn the passing of Alf Fields, star of The Arsenal Stadium Mystery, who presumably hadn't acted since before the war.Last edited by CaptainWaggett; 15-11-11 at 10:24 PM.
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16-11-11 07:28 PM #7Senior Member Country:
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Though he apparently did appear on screen a bit more recently (1957, on a panel game show). Originally Posted by CaptainWaggett
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16-11-11 07:34 PM #8Senior Member Country:
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Ah! Just the 54 year gap then Originally Posted by Brief Encounter
Carla Laemmle - possibly the oldest thesp currently working - seems to have had a fairly lengthy career break
Carla Laemmle - IMDbLast edited by CaptainWaggett; 16-11-11 at 07:40 PM. Reason: Stupid maths
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16-11-11 07:41 PM #9Senior Member Country:
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I never knew that Originally Posted by CaptainWaggett
Although Johannes Heesters has made a film this year. He's about three weeks away from his 108th birthday.
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16-11-11 11:29 PM #10Senior Member Country:
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I remember her as the passenger in Dracula. Originally Posted by CaptainWaggett
She was taking a break and would go back when she was good and ready
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