In Memoriam

[Kirby101]

I didn't even know Daniel Boone and Kit Carson were married!

[The Darknight Detective]

Was just looking over his IMDB page because you mentioned he was in Ghost of Frankenstein. I didn't realize he was a child actor.

Yeah, I didn't know about it myself until this century. It's always a little weird when you discover someone you have only known as an adult acting in a juvenile role like teenage David Janssen in a Forties film or Laramie's John Smith as one of the choirboys in Going My Way. Having said that, finding out that the cute little kid in Charlie Chaplin's The Kid grew up to be Uncle Fester still doesn't compute.

[CaptainEurope]

Yeah, I didn't know about it myself until this century. It's always a little weird when you discover someone you have only known as an adult acting in a juvenile role like teenage David Janssen in a Forties film or Laramie's John Smith as one of the choirboys in Going My Way. Having said that, finding out that the cute little kid in Charlie Chaplin's The Kid grew up to be Uncle Fester still doesn't compute.

Or that Uncle Fester was married to pin-up queen Betty Grable for a couple of years!

[The Darknight Detective]

Or that Uncle Fester was married to pin-up queen Betty Grable for a couple of years!

Heh. Even young, thin, and with all of his hair, Jackie Coogan still seems like a strange match for the most popular (and leggiest) actress of the Forties.

[Iron Maiden]

Heh. Even young, thin, and with all of his hair, Jackie Coogan still seems like a strange match for the most popular (and leggiest) actress of the Forties.

They married in 1937 and divorced in 1939, which was around the time when Coogan had taken legal action against his mother and step father who had squandered away most of his earnings as a child actor that his late father had put into a bank account. Betty Grable really wouldn't become a big star until she was catapulted by that famous poster in WWII

[Iron Maiden]

I didn't even know Daniel Boone and Kit Carson were married!

Well, the entry was vague about that part. I assume each parent represented a different branch of ancestors.

[The Darknight Detective]

They married in 1937 and divorced in 1939, which was around the time when Coogan had taken legal action against his mother and step father who had squandered away most of his earnings as a child actor that his late father had put into a bank account. Betty Grable really wouldn't become a big star until she was catapulted by that famous poster in WWII

Grable was indeed not a big deal during the Thirties, but she was already a top-15 box-office star by 1941 and the top female draw the following year (just edging out Greer Garson and Dorothy Lamour). By the time the iconic poster was available to the troops in '43, she was #1 at the box office. I have no doubt the image helped her, but she would have been a major attraction regardless.

[OopsIdiditagain]

Robson Rocha Has Died From Coronavirus, RIP

Last week, Brazilian comic book artist Robson Rocha was hospitalised, at the Eduardo de Menezes Hospital, diagnosed as struggling with COVID-19. Friends of his were organising donations both of blood and money, to help him out. However, today we learned that he had passed away from a coronavirus infection. Yildiray Cinar posted "So sorry to learn that Robson Rocha left us today. RIP Robson. So young and early… My condolences to his family, his loved ones and all his fans" and many other comic creators across the world followed suit.

Robson Rocha had been working for DC Comics over the last ten years, including on Lobo, Sinestro, Birds of Prey, Superboy, Batman/Superman, Earth 2, Supergirl, Green Lanterns and the most recent revamp of Aquaman with Kelly Sue DeConnick.

May he rest in peace

[Deathstroke]

Former wrestler Paul "Mr. Wonderful" Orndorff has passed away.

[Scott Taylor]

I didn't even know Daniel Boone and Kit Carson were married!

It was a shotgun wedding.

[I'm here all day, folks, try the fish]

[Tami]

Charlie Robinson, veteran actor on 'Night Court' and 'Buffalo Bill,' dies at 75: Reports

Charlie Robinson, a veteran actor best known for playing court clerk Mac Robinson on the NBC sitcom "Night Court" and makeup artist Newdell on NBC's "Buffalo Bill," reportedly died Sunday at age 75.

[4saken1]

OH, SNAP! This one flew under my radar. Biz Markie, the ‘Clown Prince of Hip-Hop,’ Dead at 57

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Longtime ZZ Top bassist Dusty Hill passed away today at 72:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/28/enter...bit/index.html

[Deathstroke]

Infomercial king Ron Popeil has passed away.

[4saken1]

Infomercial king Ron Popeil has passed away.

Nooooo....not Mr. Popeil!