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Stage Door
1937
An absolute film classic that's engaging to this day, this flick is dripping with fabulous female stars—Kate Hepburn! Ginger Rogers! Lucille Ball! Eve Arden! Ann Miller!—and even boasts an appearance by the ever-nellie Franklin Pangborn. Watching it last year, I wondered if anyone in the film could still be living, and I found one confirmed survivor—Jean Rouverol (b. July 8, 1916), who played “Dizzy,” and who later went on to become a soap opera writer and leftist political activist. I wrote her and received her autograph in response.
IMDb also lists no death dates for Laurie Douglas (b. February 18, 1915), Vicki Joyce, Marie Marks, Peggy O'Donnell and Mary Louise Smith (no birth dates for the last four, either), all of whom had uncredited bits, or in the case of O'Donnell, a small, credited bit, in the film. This appears to be a lack of info as opposed to a lack of death dates—Rouverol is probably the last of this lot.
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