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Post by mikef6 on Jul 13, 2020 13:59:09 GMT
Carrie Henn is now a 4th grade teacher in California. Her only credit as an actress is as Newt in “Aliens” (1986).  With Sigourney Weaver in 2016 at the 30th Anniversary “Aliens” Reunion   |
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Post by spiderwort on Jul 13, 2020 16:16:22 GMT
Hey, bat, I don't know how I missed this wonderful thread the first time around! Lots of great stuff here. I actually started a similar thread this year, which has other names (and a couple of repeats), some of which you contributed, so I'll add that link here. LIFE AFTER HOLLYWOODThanks for your initial thread and for bumping it now. So glad to learn the names and stories I missed the first time around. It's good to know that people in the business can find ways to have happy lives after Hollywood. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 13, 2020 17:45:23 GMT
Hey, bat, I don't know how I missed this wonderful thread the first time around! Lots of great stuff here. I actually started a similar thread this year, which has other names (and a couple of repeats), some of which you contributed, so I'll add that link here. LIFE AFTER HOLLYWOODThanks for your initial thread and for bumping it now. So glad to learn the names and stories I missed the first time around. It's good to know that people in the business can find ways to have happy lives after Hollywood. That Link above has some pretty interesting biogs that were not mentioned earlier ! Thanks for posting it ! I forget what I was looking for when I found the older thread but it seemed to have potential for revival .. as does your thread from Feb. More GMTA-ing  |
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Post by mikef6 on Jul 13, 2020 22:40:23 GMT
Hey, bat, I don't know how I missed this wonderful thread the first time around! Lots of great stuff here. I actually started a similar thread this year, which has other names (and a couple of repeats), some of which you contributed, so I'll add that link here. LIFE AFTER HOLLYWOODThanks for your initial thread and for bumping it now. So glad to learn the names and stories I missed the first time around. It's good to know that people in the business can find ways to have happy lives after Hollywood. Likewise. I had a couple of names I had intended to add originally (Carrie Henn was one) but life stepped up, I didn't pay attention for a while, and the thread was gone. Glad I got the second chance. Great idea for a thread that BATouttaheck and spiderwort had. Great minds and all that. |
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Post by mikef6 on Jul 13, 2020 22:45:30 GMT
BATouttaheck and spiderwortJust double checked only to find out that I had already contributed to Spidie's thread with Henn. Oh, well. I think it is a good catch and worthy for a re-run. 
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Post by Rufus-T on Jul 13, 2020 23:42:28 GMT
Dyan Cannon. She used to be in so many movies.  |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 14, 2020 0:12:01 GMT
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jul 14, 2020 0:41:05 GMT
Evelyn Venable  Her career in feature films was brief, spanning only ten years and two dozen titles, the best known of which are Death Takes A Holiday, The Little Colonel and Alice Adams. After retiring from acting to concentrate on raising her children (by her cinematographer husband Hal Mohr), she earned her Masters Degree at UCLA, where she then joined the faculty as an instructor in drama and languages. Hollywood lore has it that she was the original model for the torch-bearing Columbia of the eponymous studio's logo (a friend who studied Latin with her in the '70s told me she confirmed it).  |
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Post by marshamae on Jul 14, 2020 1:07:22 GMT
Evelyn Venable was the star actress at my high School Walnut Hills high school in Cincinnati
Theda Bara was also a graduate of WHHS. Then she was known as Theodosia Goodman
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Post by marshamae on Jul 14, 2020 1:13:12 GMT
I always wondered what happened to Ann carter , the most enchanting child actor of her time. She is known for The Two Mrs Carrols and the curse of the Cat People. But she was in many more films, including I Married A Witch and North Star. I have read the she contracted polio which ended her film career. She did recover but it took years.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 14, 2020 1:29:45 GMT
I always wondered what happened to Ann carter , the most enchanting child actor of her time. She is known for The Two Mrs Carrols and the curse of the Cat People. But she was in many more films, including I Married A Witch and North Star. I have read the she contracted polio which ended her film career. She did recover but it took years. All I could find was that her last film appearance was an uncredited role in Member of the Wedding in 1952, she married in 1957 and resided in the state of Washington for the last three decades of her life.  The Curse of the Cat People. |
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Post by marianne48 on Jul 14, 2020 3:44:19 GMT
One of my favorite contemporary actresses when I was a kid was Pamelyn Ferdin. She made lots of appearances on TV shows in the early 1970s--she was the first of the two actresses to play Felix Unger's daughter Edna on The Odd Couple; she starred as
Francie Nolan in the TV movie remake of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn; and perhaps most notably, she played the voice of Lucy in several Peanuts cartoons. As an adult, she became a registered nurse and a militant animal activist. I had wondered what happened to her until I heard a local news report about how "the voice of Lucy" was arrested at a nearby lab which performed testing on animals. Apparently she also did jail time for showing up at a trial carrying a bull hook, a device used to force circus elephants to perform tricks. Good to see she moved on from playing sometimes-annoying little girls to an adult who annoyed alleged abusers of animals.
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Post by angel on Jul 14, 2020 22:09:22 GMT
 William Haines. Star of films like Way Out West (1930), Little Annie Rooney (1925) and Show People (1928) He was considered the number 1 box office draw towards the end of the silent era and openly gay, he was given an ultimatum by the Hollywood moguls to leave his partner Jimmie Shields and agree to a sham lavender marriage to hide his homosexuality. He chose to stay with his partner, quit acting and the two became extremely successful interior decorators to stars such as Cary Grant, Jack Warner, George Cukor and Gloria Swanson. Joan Crawford called them the happiest couple in Hollywood! |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 14, 2020 22:16:33 GMT
Eddie Hodges "Dropped out of performing and eventually became a mental health counselor in his native Mississippi." Ten-year-old Eddie split the $25,000 grand prize with future astronaut and American hero Maj. John Glenn as his teammate after successfully appearing on the TV game show Name That Tune (1953) on Oct 4th 1957.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 15, 2020 22:46:00 GMT
Gigi Perreau At the age of 20, she married and had two children, a son and daughter. A second marriage produced another boy and girl. Rarely seen on film or TV since the late '60s, Gigi has continued on as a stage director and college prep drama teacher. After a decade on Broadway, Gigi has taught drama for several years at her alma mater, Immaculate Heart High School. IHHS is a college preparatory Catholic all-girls school in Hollywood, CA. [1998]
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Post by teleadm on Jul 17, 2020 17:20:51 GMT
 This man, a popular historian of art at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, once won an Oscar, an Honorary Oscar for his outstanding juvenile performance in The Kidnappers aka The Little Kidnappers 1953. His name was Jon Whitley, and sadly I only knew/though about him, when he passed away on May 16th this year 2020. His personal favorite of the few movies he was in:  Moonfleet 1955, Working with Stewart Granger "was always a joy and he was helpful through every scene", and working with that old man with a monocle "was the nicest man in the world", lot's of patience doing scenes over and over. That man with a monocle was Fritz Lang, hardly a director anyone would call nice, but maybe he was that time... |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 17, 2020 17:33:42 GMT
teleadm Little Kidnappers is one of my favorite films and Jon was a wonderful boy actor ! Thanks so much for that "what became of..." He is still recognizable with his sad little mouth !
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 18, 2020 14:44:30 GMT
Deanna DurbinExcerpt from the IMDb biog: "When she was at the top of her career as Hollywood's leading actress and singer, she turned her back on that world for a life of seclusion. Her first two marriages had failed, and before she married her third husband, director Charles David, she set one condition: he had to promise that she could have what she yearned for - "the life of nobody". She lives in the French village of Neauphlé-le-Château, and for over 35 years has resisted every approach from film companies. Her husband has told journalists that "Mario Lanza pleaded with her for years to make a film with him. But she will never go back to that life." She granted only one interview since 1949 to film historian David Shipman in 1983." She died in 2013.
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Post by DanaShelbyChancey on Jul 18, 2020 14:59:46 GMT
Two actresses who were all over TV in the 70's, who were my age, Linda Purl and Glynnis O'Connor. I thought then they would be famous forever, but not so.  Linda  Glynnis |
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Post by teleadm on Jul 18, 2020 15:12:07 GMT
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