Good God, is there any end to this???

Of course, black, white, and grey...

 

I am "ashamed" to admit that I agree whole heartedly with the above and find it difficult to understand this relatively new phenonmenon of mass grief for celebrities who die that few of the mourners would have known personally. Altho come to think of it, it's not so new if you consider women committing suicide after Rudolph Valentino died in the 20s
Like Jiffy I don't "do" funerals unless I absolutely have to. Indeed it was deemed wrong for women to attend funerals in Scotland until about the 1960s.
As Shiney rightly puts it we are all different in how we deal with things and while I may think some people are completely over the top grieving for somebody that they had never met (Diana as an example) they are just as entitled as I am to their views.
I am NOT having a funeral unless where my body is due to go is rejected(highly likely as it will have completely fallen to bits fairly soon). I couldn't think of anything worse than some minister (Scottish equivilent to a vicar sort of) waxing lyrical about me who he will have known not at all!
I found it dreadful listening to some minister droaning on about my Mum when she died. DESPITE me telling him exactly what she was like. he made her out to be holier than tho and pretty close to Mother Teressa when in reality she was a great sportswoman who played a mean game of poker, smoked like a lum and drank a good couple of Scotches daily!
I'm a believer in trying to do good deeds/show kindness and respect to the living not the dead.

 

You spell it your way and I'll let my computer spell it *its* way

 

I'm the one that can't spell

 

As I understood the post, it referred to living celebrities of the 1940's. Earlier, I googled to try to find how many there were. In the US alone, there were well over 200. I couldnt find a list of British celebs. of that decade to add to that number. Remember also that for the first five years of the decade, a celebrity would have been a politician or serving military.

Having said that, I do agree that nowadays, well known people are promoted over a large range of media. In some cases, those same media do promote those from all those years ago also.

I wonder. How many people on here could name 5 or more well known British people of the 1940's?

 

1. Flora Robson
2. Gracie Fields
3. Vera Lynn
4. Margaret Lockwood
5. Jean Simmons
6. Dinah Sheridan
7. Celia Johnson
8. Anna Neagle
9. Trevor Howard
10. David Niven
11. Cary Grant
12. Richard Attenborough
13. Lawrence Olivier
14. Arthur Askey
15. Rex Harrison
16. Kenneth More

 

Interestingly, the most highly paid celeb. of the decade is not on the list...

 

Maybe but ...

... it *is* a list though

 

It is and a good one.

 

I know Elizabeth Taylor started acting in the 40s but doubt you are refering to her are you @Sandy Ground? Good excuse for me to boast. I met her a few times as her son Micheal Wilding was a friend on mine at school. She was very nice to me when I met her in the late 60's. Wonderful eyes, very dark blue and eyelashes to die for. Her son had them too

 

I don't grieve for people I don't know.

For people I do know, I make a point of either attending the funeral or going to the visitation or if a close friend/relative, both.

I don't know why I insist on doing this because they're not going to come to mine