Have you ever heard about the death of some really old celebrity and the first thought the pops into your head is, “She was still alive?”

Fay Wray died this week at the age of 96, 71 years after she was abducted by King Kong. From the point of view of cinematic history, that movie was made in the stone age. When Marlon Brando died, we were nostalgic about his first movies, made in the early 1950’s. But King Kong was made in 1933!

Red Skelton used to joke about how long he had been in comedy, when he’d tell about people coming up to him saying, “Oh, Red Skelton! I thought you were dead!”