Golden Era stars who died way before their time

[Blackthorn]

Golden era superstars who died way too young:

Errol Flynn—age 50

Lana Turner—age 50

Alan Ladd—age 50

John Garfield—age 39

Tyrone Power--age 44

Others?

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Golden era superstars who died way too young:

Errol Flynn—age 50

Lana Turner—age 50

Alan Ladd—age 50

John Garfield—age 39

Tyrone Power--age 44

Others?

Rudolph Valentino-- age 31

Wallace Reid -- age 30

Maria Montez -- age 39

Sabu "The Elephant Boy" Dastagir -- age 39

Robert Woolsey -- age 50

 

[C-dot]

Lana Turner—age 50

I'll have to correct you there - Lana Turner was born in 1921 and died in 1995 at age 74.

Jean Harlow was 26 (kidney failure)

Marilyn Monroe was 36 (drug overdose)

Veronica Lake was 50 (hepatitis)

Robert Walker was 32 (accidental, overdose administered by psychiatrist)

Montgomery Clift was 45 (heart attack)

Linda Darnell was 41 (accidental, house fire)

Dorothy Dandrige was 42 (suicide)

Thelma Todd was 29 (mysterious, probable homicide)

Lupe Velez was 36 (suicide)

I could go on for days...

 

[C-dot]

Ann Sheridan was 51 (liver and throat cancer)

Marie Prevost was 37 (alcoholism)

Peggy Shannon was 34 (heart attack)

Sal Mineo was 37 (homicide)

James Dean was 24 (car accident)

Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle was 46 (heart failure)

Jayne Mansfield was 34 (car accident)

Diana Dors was 52 (ovarian cancer)

 

[Effingham]

Jean Harlow was only 26 when she died.

 

[Shangas]

Dick Powell - 58.
Humphrey Bogart - 57.

 

[DNO]

Alan Hale (senior) 58
Steve McQueen 50

 

[C-dot]

Are we not doing cause of death? Here are some more:

Peg Entwistle, who is more famous for her death than her life, was 24 (suicide, jumped off the letter "H" on the Hollywood sign)

Carole Landis was 29 (suicide, rumoured to be over Rex Harrison)

Pier Angeli was 39 (suicide)

Gail Russell was 36 (malnutrition)

Judy Garland was 47 (drug overdose)

Barbara Bates was 43 (suicide)

Natalie Wood was 43 (accidental, drowning)

George Reeves was 45 (suicide)

Helen Twelvetrees was 49 (suicide)

Carole Lombard was 33 (plane crash)

Margaret Sullavan was 48 (suicide)

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I'll shut up now.

 

[Gregg Axley]

Look out she's on a roll.
I still believe Reeves was shot, just MHO.

 

[C-dot]

Look out she's on a roll.
I still believe Reeves was shot, just MHO.

Are my morbid interests showing?

Regarding Reeves, I highly suggest you read this. As always, form your own conclusions!

 

[Gregg Axley]

I'm still not sure.
Yes I see your morbid interests.

 

[DNO]

Cause of death too? Okay:

Alan Hale 58 ("liver ailment")(no surprise...he was a good buddy of Errol Flynn)

Steve McQueen 50 (cancer)

 

[Shangas]

Humphrey Bogart - Cancer.

 

[DNO]

Leslie Howard 50 (He was flying from Lisbon to Bristol when the commercial airline DC3 was shot down by a German aircraft)

 

[DNO]

Hank Williams 29 (drug overdose/heart attack)

Eva Peron 33 (cancer)

Lou Gehrig 37 (ALS)

Eddie Cochran 21 (car accident)

Ritchie Valens 17 (Airplane crash)

Buddy Holly 22 (same airplane crash)

J. P. Richardson 29 (ditto) ("Big Bopper")

Otis Redding 26 (yet another, albeit different, airplane crash)

Patsy Cline 30 (ditto)

 

[DNO]

Sam Cooke 33 (homicide)

Charlie Parker 34 (pneumonia/drug abuse)

George Gershwin 38 (brain tumor)

There sure were a lot of them. It would appear the aviation industry is fairly hard on the creative crowd.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Lyda Roberti, 31 (heart attack, 1938)
Interestingly enough, she suffered her fatal heart attack while bending down to tie her shoe

[video=youtube;I-VhC4Zzhxs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-VhC4Zzhxs[/video]

 

[Blackthorn]

I'll have to correct you there - Lana Turner was born in 1921 and died in 1995 at age 74.

I was thinking Veronica Lake but wrote Lana Turner...thanks C-dot!

Veronica Lake was 50 (hepatitis)

You are right!

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

It would appear the aviation industry is fairly hard on the creative crowd.

Reginald Mitchell, 42 (cancer, 1937)
Designer of the Spitfire

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Carlos Gardel, 44 (plane crash, 1935)
Second from right in one of the last pics taken of him on the ill-fated flight.