A classic line by WC Fields was, in one of his films, when he was told: 'Quit drinking so much! One day you are going to drown in a Vat of whisky!' His reply?: 'Drown in a Vat of whisky, eh? Death, where is thy sting?!'. Priceless.
Ursula Kur - He was priceless! Really witty man. There is a scene in one of his movies...might have been a circus barker, when a man comes up to this window (W.C. Fields was selling drinks or something) and WC tells the man, "That'll be 25 cents" and the man says, "I'm a little short." WC says, "Don't brag about it, I'm only 5, 3 myself!" Ha! Loved that line.
My dearly departed Dad caught the tail end of WWII in the Navy. He had sailed around the world. Errol Flynn had a sail boat and would sail to Europe and who knows where. While being docked somewhere near Africa and some Arab nations, my dad and a few buddies found Errols boat had docked nearby. They went to his boat and started singing in harmony and Errol invited them on his boat where they ate, told stories and got drunk as skunks.
Instead of talking about actors no longer alive how about telling stories about today’s smucks. You know their drug use abuse of women and their sex lives
Lee Marvin was also reputed to like a drink. One story claimed that he started banging on the door of a house very late one night. The lady of the house answered the door. Mr Marvin demanded to know what the lady was doing living in his house! The lady replied that Mr. Marvin had sold it to her 6 months earlier. Mr. Marvin replied: Well where have I been living for the last 6 months????
In the early 70s, I was on the beach in Del Mar, CA. The beach was fairly deserted and my dog went over to a guy laying on he beach sand and lifted his leg on the straw hat on the guy’s head. The guy sat up and it was Lee Marvin. I pretended my dog wasn’t mine and my dog and I went home.
We all know the problems of boozing it...but, my parents, who lived long, born before the 1920’s, they had FUN! They were always dancing, hiring bands, gambling, and laughing, laughing, laughing all the time! By today’s standards, they would be arrested. People today, in the age of social media, are very anti social. They seem sad, mad, don’t have fun, and seem pretty miserable, and don’t have a lot of intimacy.
I quit drinking when my first daughter was born. I had a drinking problem and decided it wasn't healthy nor did it set a good example in front of my kids. However, the downside was comments made by some close friends that they felt I withdrew from the social life and wasn't as much fun anymore. It was all said in a joking manner and I didn't take it seriously, actually, it was good for a laugh at the time.
@Tom Yes!! My parents were like that too dancing, laughing talking but once the week started they were about business but now you have people who need "weed" 7 days a week!! They want to ALWAYS be under the influence of " something everyday!
@@markw999 you have to remember...that generation and more to come were self medicating with the booze....if they had medication..chances are many would have been saved....i know what you are saying here
In a doctor's waiting room many years ago, I saw a poster on the wall warning of the hazards of alcoholism. It featured a quote from W.C. Fields: 'Reminds me of when we were lost in the wilds of Afghanistan some years ago. We had lost our corkscrew, and had to exist for several days on food and water.'
What about Robert Morse? He was more known for the stage, but I read that he got really drunk on stage and made up his lines. If I was in that play, I would have slapped him. I wonder if he straightened up? I seem to remember he did "TRU" on stage...playing Truman Capote and did a fabulous job.
@ItsStillRealToMe DamnIt bogart never drank during work..he had in his contract that he was DONE at 6pm......NEVER would he work past it...he was met at 6pm with a double....his first drink...and not his last of the day.....
@@jadezee6316 An alcoholic always finds a way. Erroll Flynn took oranges on set to appear healthy. He had injected them full of vodka. A real alcoholic has the cunning of the devil.
Yep, he really should have mentioned William Holden but maybe he was not in that time period. Being a drunk really did kill him like the guy already posted here.
@@JohnS916 I will agree with you, but entertainers complain about this all the time. If you don’t like what you do for a living do something else…everybody has regrets.
Classic Movie Lover - I wonder if he drank as much as he said or if it was just his schtick. He was living at the time of his passing with a woman named Carmen I believe and he left her next to nothing financially, although they were together for a long time. Stingy Bastard!
Richard Burton was one actor whose life and career were destroyed by alcohol. Dead in his 50s, he was once considered the successor to Laurence Olivier. Had Burton kicked his dependency he might have earned a knighthood and had a career equal to Olivier's. Marrying Elizabeth Taylor probably didn't help either.
Probably didn't help that he married Elizabeth Taylor. She had her problems too with alcohol. I have read that ET could really put it back, and could basically outdrink most of the guys. I am sure Burton and Taylor no doubt had some drunken brawls. You are right, Burton destroyed his career because of booze. Bill Holden was a talented actor but died in his fifties when he fell and hit his head, drunk and died alone and I believe wasn't found until the next day. Really sad.
Well the booze certainly didn't stop them from giving us some of the best performances ever, far superior to a lot of the so-called "stars" we see today.
There's some semi-famous quote about fame. Some big star (big in the 1940s, I think) was asked to comment on her huge income considering how little hard work is involved in acting. I don't remember the exact quote but her answer was something along the lines of "I don't get paid all that money for the work I do; I get paid all that money for putting up with all the crap that comes with being famous."
My 10th grade high school English Comp. teacher had a poster hung in his classroom of W.C. Fields with the caption/quote: "I never drink water, that's the stuff that rusts pipes." I've never forgot that quote which I found hilarious for so many reasons.
@@seymourbutts9085 Sure, just because the media reports their opinions doesn't mean all Americans believe them. But, the media reports celebrity opinions because many Americans take their opinions as gospel.
@@cliffordbodine5834 But people love to hate celebrity opinions. Whenever Fox does a story about that their comment section is flooded with negativity. It's very popular on the right. I bet more people hate or could care less about their opinions. Meanwhile the media on the right keeps the outrage going every time a celebrity opens their mouth.
On Highway Patrol, Broderick is never driving the car. He was drunk everyday, all day. The real Highway Patrol called him "old 23152". On the lighter side, watch Peter O'Toole in My Favorite Year, an excellent movie about a fading golden age star facing changing times when Television emerged. He is drunk throughout the movie which after watching this makes it obvious, he really was drunk.
When it came to drinking Peter O'Toole and Richard Harris were great drinking buddies and many a legend was created by them both. However, both admitted that they both were not in the same league as the great Oliver Reed. Reed died whilst filming the movie Gladiator. They were filming in Malta and after filming one day, Oliver went to a pub and proceeded to drink himself to death. Apparently the publican was absolutely astonished that one person could drink so much beer and spirits in one sitting but alas it did kill him. Fortunately, they had enough scenes from him to finish the movie.
@@BarbaraMerryGeng Yes Miss Berry it was sad. One of my very favourite actors and a real man. Not saying there are not real men today but somehow they don't make men like Oliver anymore.
I understand certain guests on Johnny Carson's "Tonight Show" (paging Judy Garland and Shelley Winters!) were deliberately "tanked-up," and "over served" backstage, to provide "memorable moments" in the guest chair. Carson himself was, for a long time, considered a mean, unpredictable drunk. Ed Mcmahon drank heavily, and joked about it, but remained a sweetheart.
@@dimon10033 In those days, it was almost expected among “The Rat Pack” - Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, Peter Lawford. Those drinks they had on stage were not ginger ale! (In his late years, Lawford was also inhaling “the white stuff.”)
I have to say the joking about drinking and problem drinkers is not appropriate. Someone mentioned Richard Burton ruined himself in his prime. A moderate drinker, casual drink once in a while is not bad but don’t glorify it when for many they don’t just ruin their lives but they cause havoc and sadness for their families. An B alcoholic affects at least 5 lives. Don’t glorify drinking.
@@suestephan3255 And you're the only moderate drinker? With no sense of humour? You must be the one they invite to parties at midnight, to bore the other guests into going home.
@@johngalvin3124 no, I did drink alcohol when I was young but without having a problem and coming to faith and grace in the Lord Jesus at 33 a new Christian 2 months I realized I could do without it. The next night at the evening service the sermon was the Christian and alcohol. This was God confirming my decision to give it up. My life was better without it and I never had any regrets.
@@suestephan3255 Life teaches us all in the end. I'm pleased you found Jesus, and delighted that experience got you off excessive drinking, and don't you think people are allowed free will. As for me, as much as i believe in God and loving my neighbour, i resent your insults, you know nothing about me. W.C.Fields said it, not me, read the comments in future before you attempt to spoil someone's day, it's not the Christian thing to do.
@@johngalvin3124 No we don’t always know someone’s heart but God does. God gave you and everyone free will. He will pursue one but not force. I was not a heavy drinker, after coming from a wedding where I had two drinks in 5 hours I felt I couldn’t share my new faith with my cousins. On the way home I realized I could just give it up. I did not intend to insult you but using WC Fields quotes and others who were making it seem like drinking is all fun. I’m sorry to make you feel that way. Many people have seen the other side of the effects of alcohol.
At least most of them made it into their senior years, unlike the kids today in Hollywood that seldom make it out of their late twenties because of drugs.
Sorry to say but Hollywood was full of cocaine in the 1920s - 1930s. Child actors after that up until late 1960s were routinely given 'uppers and downers' by studios eg Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Elvis Presley,Marilyn Monroe openly discussed this and were later addicted.
Flynn was a character. At one point things got so bad with his drinking Errol was warned by the studio if he continued drinking they would cancel his contract. So what he did was to bring bags of oranges 🍊 to the set and eat them all day long....he had injected them with vodka...lol.
@@mrtonod My mom was a raging alcoholic. After she passed and my brother and I were cleaning out the house to put up for sale. His three young daughters discovered these empty glass bottles. So I told them for every bottle they found throughout the house (including the garage and the scrubs in the backyard they'd get $1.00. They found 18 bottles. They made $6.00 each. Not a bad haul for a day of treasure hunting.
@@FactsVerse Lee was drunk when he filmed The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Professionals, Cat Ballou, Death Hunt, The Big Red One, and ton of others. Burt Lancaster threatened to throw him off a cliff/mountain while filming The Professionals near Las Vegas. Lee liked to pull his chain. Reed died during filming Gladiator.
@@smasica Robert Shaw was loaded on the set of Jaws. Richard Burton was one of the worse...Check out the book HELLRAISERS- a good read.It's Burton, O'Toole, Reed and Richard Harris at their drunken best! Also, Reed drank himself to death in a bar during the filming of Gladiator.
You forgot Gail Russell (the Unseen, Angel and the Badman, Calcutta) who never should have been a movie actress due to being a nervous and shy person. She died from liver damage attributed to "acute and chronic alcoholism" at only 36.
I was just going to mention her! So lovely and vulnerable. But the saddest eyes of any actress. Her passionate affair with John Wayne caused both of them a lot of trouble.
Vera K White - I loved Gail Russel. She was in one of my all time favorite movies, "The Uninvited." Ray Milland was in it too. A really great movie. To die at 36 she had to have been putting away tons of alcohol on a daily basis. I seemed to remember that her roles were getting less and less and that's what lead to her drinking. Hollywood can be hard on people, especially those sensitive souls.
A relation of mine saw Richard Harris and (I think) Peter O'Toole on a plane from England to Paris France years ago. He said they were knocking back the booze to beat the band. He reckoned they must have has at least 10-12 shots each
Errol Flynn died in 1959 1 year before I was born in my city of Vancouver BC Canada 🇨🇦. The penthouse apartment he died still exists on 1310 Burnaby Street in downtown Vancouver !
“How insane the levels of hedonism and reckless abandon got during that golden age” I have to say it looked fun and alluring. I think we are all built differently, some of us just need a bit more hedonism than others 😂 I can drink like a fish and smoke like a chimney if the inclination takes me. I have bouts of hedonism mixed with healthy eating and exercise. I like the balance haha
nonsense.......only a small minority of actors like the general population had drinking issues...any great actor was home in bed early..it was impossible to make movies if you were drunk all the time...go learn something fool
How about Elizabeth Taylor, Lucille Ball, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Lana Turner, Dolores Hope, Maureen Stapleton, Elaine Stritch and silent screen queen, Mary Pickford? All apparently mean and mega-mouthy when sauced-up. But then again, all these gals had some serious ahem......"man problems!" 😉
The boozy diva and hard-partying bad boy image has waned over the decades, but the quality of work that these people put on the screen is a testament to their incredible talent and stamina.
I remember in Sydney, Australia on my lunch break, watching the yang tanks pulling up to let out the politicians, to attend the Memorial Service for Errol; Flynn at St. Andrews Church next to Sydney Town Hall. I loved watching his movies, of this great Australian. I was 17 years old at the time.
What about him who played the original Fugitive. His name escapes me but my family loved his shows in the late 50s. He apparently was always well inebriated during filming. God bless him. He looked like a good guy. Xx
You mentioned him in passing in the Errol Flynn bit - David Niven was a legendary drinker who only scaled it back when his Second wife tried to follow him and developed a nasty drink problem. If you want someone who wasn't a drunk in the true sense, but liked a drink and was rarely seen without one, at least until the early 70's was Jimmy Stewart. Because he had a great tolerance for alcohol and drink just made him more him - maybe went a bit sentimental - he was often the guy that made sure his actor friends got home safely. Frank Morgan - not an out and out star, but a respected character actor - was famous for his "bar in a suitcase" and liked to have a couple of drinks before he went on set. Mostly a pleasant drunk, that didn't mean you could cross him - he had a bit of a temper when drunk and could pull some nasty pranks on people. Not classical era, but a discussion on actor drinkers would not be complete without talking about Graham Chapman. The Monty Python member was an astonishing drinker and and interestingly, a trained doctor. He himself said it was student parties when he was studying from his medical degree that "tipped me over the edge" in his own words. A story - commonly believed to be true - about him is that he was told on a flight that he'd be thrown off if he didn't calm down. He complied, but he was still a bit noisy and it was obvious that he was a bit well-oiled. About an hour into the flight, a passenger complained of breathing difficulty and the crew asked for a doctor to help. Chapman immediately jumped up - this is a guy that had been sharing loudly dirty jokes with his travelling companions just before the announcements - and managed to calm down and treat the fellow passenger, who had an existing heart condition and a panic attack together. He went back to his seat, was quiet for about ten minutes, then started being silly again.
Maybe just maybe because he found out his "Queen of MGM Hollywood" was early on groomed by Harvey Weinstein or someone of his Ilk into her continuing stardom and his power play in Hollywood had nothing like the benefits he had hoped for via Taylor? This was par for the course there at MGM from early on Shirley Temple spoke of it. That would play havoc with Burton's male ego and his betrayal of his devoted wife for the window of opportunity he imagined he saw for his career in America .....via Taylor. They did appear to have everything did they not but People do not drink as they did without a gruelling reason. That's my bet anyway.
No. Celebrity drinking back then was only the beginning. As time went on.....and eras changed.... celebrities mixed drinking along with doing drugs. A lot of celebrities died from D and A.
They were snorting coke and shooting heroin even back in the 20's. You have to remember though, that the studio's were very powerful and reporters wrote what they told them.
@@Molly_Belle as well, there was less of a "war on drugs" back then. That was the era that would eventually see a lot of drugs become illegal, if not more illegal, i.e. the drug tiers: tier #1 suddenly including cocaine, heroin, and (gasp) marijuana!!! Before that, a lot of drugs had less of a stigma and were often prescribed on a regular bases because the full effects were not yet understood. Look at cigarette smoking; back then, a pack an hour was prescribed for asthma. 😐😉🎥
Really? I've known it all my life. When I was a kid,,there was"Glamour" magazine that talked about all this stuff,and Bogart was one of the one that was always in it for one thing or another.
@@xScooterAZx You'll just have to take my word for it..like I'll have to take your word for it that you've know it "all your life." Oh, speaking of "all your life," enjoy the rest of it... I'll be enjoying mine! God Bless you 🙏
A Irishman goes to a bar and sits alone and orders three glasses of beer. He does this over the corse of several weeks. Finally the waitress asked why. He says these beers are for me a my two brothers, one lives in America and one in Australian, when I drink I fell like we’re together again. A month does by and he begins to order two beers and sit alone. Finally the waitress asked. Did something happen to one or you brothers. He says, no Las , me brothers are fine, I quit Drinking.
Anesthesiologists are notorious for getting addicted to the drugs they administer to the patients. Compared to addicts in other trades, they were HIGHLY functioning and never missed a day at the hospital if he could help it.
Alot of them had unresolved childhood issues, like Flynn or were narcissists who always have addictions of some sort. Johnny Carson also apparently got really angry when he was drunk and I think for the same reason, unresolved childhood issues. That hasn't changed today except maybe the poison that is used.
sadly William Holden should be on this list too, my old hollywood hero knew how to drink a lot even died during a longsome bing weekend in his appartement in november 1981. He tried treatment several times an even was sober for several years in the 70s unfortunatly he fell off the wagon again
Holden was another he-man actor emotionally and physically abused by his first wife, Brenda Marshall. Sadly his last partner, the talented and beautiful Stephanie Powers was practicing "tough love" relating to his alcoholism, when he passed, alone in his Santa Monica high-rise condo. Neighbors complained about a foul odor and he was found in an "an advanced state of decomposition." The minor head wound, suffered when he hit a night stand, would not have been fatal, had he been sober enough to call for help. The once hunky film star was about 60, but looked 80.
@@petermcdonald1744 we cant judge people ,we dont know what happens behind close doors, maybe his marriage was bad but he was no angel too, his affairs were no help, they could have divorced instead both stayed for what reason and both are to blame, also I know from experience how hard it is to live with an alocholic, you can try so far to help the person but when the help isnt wanted, taken or accepted you have to make a descision to help yourself as the addiction pulls the partner down as well, to blame Stefanie Powers isnt right. People have tried to help Bill but the person has to make the desicion to stop the addiction. I am lucky , my partner did quit the alcohol but that took years for him to come to that point. Had he chosen to keep drinking I would have left him too, now we are lucky, he is 5 years sober and going strong.
" We feel sorry for those who get up in the morning and don't drink , because that's the the best your gonna feel for the rest of the day " ~ Frank Sinatra 1966 😂😂😂🤣
Back in those days everybody drank... But... They all were the #1 Best actors and gave good performances everytime... They were the "Pros"... Thanks for the memories...🙏♥️💜💙
One of the greatest WAS the greatest: Jackie Gleason. He was a professional drinker... when he built his round (like a spaceship) home he had many bars, all fully stocked all the time. He would go to Toots Shor's Bar in NYC in the fifties and sixties every day before noon and stay there all day- and often through the night. He also smoked 4 packs of cigarettes a day, but he lived until 71. Pretty good stretch for a guy born in 1916!
My dad was an attorney for many wrestling stars back in the 50's and 60's in the Los Angeles area. He would throw BBQ's for his wrestling clients and I remember as a kid, about 6 or 7 seeing Gorgeous George, the Destroyer (without a mask) Freddie Blassie and many more, and they drank beer and whiskey until the sun came up. And there were no problems, no fighting, just everyone having a good time drinking. They smoked, drank beer and had a lot of girls running around. Of course I always had an early bed time, but it was interesting to see these guys as good friends and real difference on KTLA channel 5.
Richard Burton has to be #1. OJ Simpson said that Burton was so drunk he couldn't even move in a movie they did together back in the 70s. But despite it Simpson was still in awe of Burton's ability to command a scene with his voice alone and had the utmost respect for him.
Almost two years sober but it's a life time fight. Do yourself a favour, don't let it get to that point. If you're struggling I love you, get help it can be better ❤
Dean Martin said, “ I feel sorry for those who don’t drink, because when they wake up in the morning, that’s as good as they’re going to feel all day.”
The Tracy/Hepburn "relationship" wasn't all it was cracked-up to be. I don't think they were both gay, like a couple of writers claim, but I don't think much was going-on "under the sheets." Hepburn's friends feel she wasn't that into sex. She had an emotionally abusive relationship with director John Ford, another heavy drinker, and a platonic thing with Howard Hughes. Funny, several old time, Hollywood "insiders" told me Hughes and Cary Grant were "hot and heavy, together" for YEARS! Tracy was suppose to have had passionate flings with Gene Tierney and Lorretta Young, another "good Catholic."
My fav star had a drink problem partly in the genes & partly when he first came to Hellieweird he was told by stars he admired that to fit in,you had to drink.And the help he needed,especially after he was introduced to drugs wasn't allowed to go to rehab because the filming would've been held up & that would've cost money.
@@susanmccormick6022 Plus that would have been all hush hush. Loretta Young had a torrid affair with Clark Gable while making "The call of the wild" in the '30's and had a baby that she claimed she adopted. It didn't come out until years later when her daughter, Judy Lewis, I believe that was her name, confronted her and she finally admitted that Clark Gable was Judy's Father. By the by, he wasn't such a great Dad..she only saw him once. I guess the studio didn't want the gossip.
Yes, by all means, it was THIS video that stopped me from starting a life of boozing. Thank god I found my way here so I could re-think my ways. .... lol
Right? I've read and watched everything I can get my hands on about Clara. I don't ever recall anything ever mentioned that she had a drinking problem, let alone the bar thing. She probably did her share of partying, but she was not a drunk.
I remember over the years several actors being labeled the “Next Errol Flynn.” All came up short and today I cannot even remember their names. Bung Ho ol boy!!
Old movie and TV shows are the best. These actors were real people with real problems but they still loved the country that gave them the opportunity to become stars.
Not an actor,but exellent journalist, author of many books,articles and stories. Robert Ruark ,he wrote much about how the asphalt in NYC alchohol was needed to keep it away, but on safari in African region alchohol was part of the pleasure there during the travels there.
Sean Flynn probably inherited his journalistic abilities from Errol, who wrote three books. You can find them in the "rare books" section of your public library. "Beam Ends" is my favorite, the story of his sailing adventures. Errol was a good writer and might have made a good career of it.
Other than Peter O'Toole who lived to eighty one, none of the other stars lived past their 50's or 60's. I was born in the early 50's, we had a bar in our home and most people smoked. The ceiling of the room with the bar often looked like smog of an LA skyline. Times were different.
“I read about the evils of drinking. So I gave up reading.” - Henny Youngman
Forgot about that quote. Just about busted a gut when I read it. Tx!
take my wife, please!
Cheers! 🥃
@@RedcoatsReturn Is that Johnnie Walker Black? Looks delicious!
@@thomaschacko6320 Yes, straight up 😄😋😜
A classic line by WC Fields was, in one of his films, when he was told: 'Quit drinking so much! One day you are going to drown in a Vat of whisky!' His reply?: 'Drown in a Vat of whisky, eh? Death, where is thy sting?!'. Priceless.
Ursula Kur - He was priceless! Really witty man. There is a scene in one of his movies...might have been a circus barker, when a man comes up to this window (W.C. Fields was selling drinks or something) and WC tells the man, "That'll be 25 cents" and the man says, "I'm a little short." WC says, "Don't brag about it, I'm only 5, 3 myself!" Ha! Loved that line.
He also said, "Quitting drinking is easy. I've done it a thousand times!"
A favourite of mine is when he was reported to have said, "a woman drove me to drink and I never had the courtesy to thank her "!
I don't care who drank or got drunk or smashed. I still like Bogie and Errol Flynn and Tracy.
We like them too, Edie!
Why'd you watch then? You're literally complaining about what the video is about.
@@jonrb86 Well I am not complaining about them. Someone else is. When I watched them acting they were not drunk.
This site is fact verse. I did not create the site.
Yeah, except it seems like most of them died quite early, is that what impresses you about the "good old days?"
My dearly departed Dad caught the tail end of WWII in the Navy. He had sailed around the world. Errol Flynn had a sail boat and would sail to Europe and who knows where. While being docked somewhere near Africa and some Arab nations, my dad and a few buddies found Errols boat had docked nearby. They went to his boat and started singing in harmony and Errol invited them on his boat where they ate, told stories and got drunk as skunks.
Thanks for watching, Jack!
Cool what a great story
Amazing story👍
Instead of talking about actors no longer alive how about telling stories about today’s smucks. You know their drug use abuse of women and their sex lives
I'm glad for your dad Jack 😁👍
Lee Marvin was also reputed to like a drink. One story claimed that he started banging on the door of a house very late one night. The lady of the house answered the door. Mr Marvin demanded to know what the lady was doing living in his house! The lady replied that Mr. Marvin had sold it to her 6 months earlier. Mr. Marvin replied: Well where have I been living for the last 6 months????
Oh my!!
I can imagine.
Hahahaha!
That's a good one! LOL!
In the early 70s, I was on the beach in Del Mar, CA. The beach was fairly deserted and my dog went over to a guy laying on he beach sand and lifted his leg on the straw hat on the guy’s head. The guy sat up and it was Lee Marvin. I pretended my dog wasn’t mine and my dog and I went home.
@@u4riahsc That's brilliant!
We all know the problems of boozing it...but, my parents, who lived long, born before the 1920’s, they had FUN! They were always dancing, hiring bands, gambling, and laughing, laughing, laughing all the time! By today’s standards, they would be arrested. People today, in the age of social media, are very anti social. They seem sad, mad, don’t have fun, and seem pretty miserable, and don’t have a lot of intimacy.
I quit drinking when my first daughter was born. I had a drinking problem and decided it wasn't healthy nor did it set a good example in front of my kids. However, the downside was comments made by some close friends that they felt I withdrew from the social life and wasn't as much fun anymore. It was all said in a joking manner and I didn't take it seriously, actually, it was good for a laugh at the time.
I'm drunk now?!
@Tom Yes!! My parents were like that too dancing, laughing talking but once the week started they were about business but now you have people who need "weed" 7 days a week!! They want to ALWAYS be under the influence of " something everyday!
Maybe. My grandfather (b. 1914) drank close to a fifth every night. Secretly, in his garage after work. He was an angry, isolated, abusive prick.
@@markw999 you have to remember...that generation and more to come were self medicating with the booze....if they had medication..chances are many would have been saved....i know what you are saying here
The old Hollywood guys partied harder and still were better than new H wood "Stars". Errol Flynn was the man.
And they never bad mouthed America!
@@patriciamiller7595 Right, the good ol' days of Jim Crow.
Errol
Errol Flynn also was buggering 👦
@@ross6753 Patricia was just basically saying they didn't bring politics into the arena like they do now.
In a doctor's waiting room many years ago, I saw a poster on the wall warning of the hazards of alcoholism. It featured a quote from W.C. Fields: 'Reminds me of when we were lost in the wilds of Afghanistan some years ago. We had lost our corkscrew, and had to exist for several days on food and water.'
That's a classic. lol
That could be fucking profound!?
In spite of the drinking, they gave us great performances. And we loved them.
Perhaps it was because of the drinking. There's nothing like booze to bring out your emotions.
What about Robert Morse? He was more known for the stage, but I read that he got really drunk on stage and made up his lines. If I was in that play, I would have slapped him. I wonder if he straightened up? I seem to remember he did "TRU" on stage...playing Truman Capote and did a fabulous job.
@@johngalvin3124 no simp.....its because they were not drunk while acting....very very few stars actually drank during filming......
@ItsStillRealToMe DamnIt bogart never drank during work..he had in his contract that he was DONE at 6pm......NEVER would he work past it...he was met at 6pm with a double....his first drink...and not his last of the day.....
@@jadezee6316 An alcoholic always finds a way. Erroll Flynn took oranges on set to appear healthy. He had injected them full of vodka. A real alcoholic has the cunning of the devil.
I think an alcoholic is an alcoholic is an alcoholic, regardless of which one drank more.
And not to be glorified as some do.
Oh my; sniff! You're beautiful!
William Holden and David Janssen are two of my favorite old Hollywood drinkers.
Thanks for watching!
Holden died by getting drunk and falling on a glass table in his living room, killing himself.
Yep, he really should have mentioned William Holden but maybe he was not in that time period. Being a drunk really did kill him like the guy already posted here.
Foster Brooks gave up drinking in 1964 and played a drunk for most of his career, he was awesome.
I thought he was annoying being typecast as a drunk, the same routine over and over to the point where he was monotonous and boring, not funny at all.
@@JohnS916 I will agree with you, but entertainers complain about this all the time. If you don’t like what you do for a living do something else…everybody has regrets.
Foster Brooks was very talented and had a nice singing voice too.
He was a perfect "drunk"...
The "perfect drunk"? There is nothing remotely" perfect " about a drunk. Just disgusting and repellent.
W.C. Fields said: It was a woman who drove me to drink and I never had pleasure to thank her for it.
but his liver hated him....
He also said someone stole the cork from his breakfast
Classic Movie Lover - I wonder if he drank as much as he said or if it was just his schtick. He was living at the time of his passing with a woman named Carmen I believe and he left her next to nothing financially, although they were together for a long time. Stingy Bastard!
@@thegreenbird795 His liver thought he was allergic to water.
Richard Burton was one actor whose life and career were destroyed by alcohol. Dead in his 50s, he was once considered the successor to Laurence Olivier. Had Burton kicked his dependency he might have earned a knighthood and had a career equal to Olivier's. Marrying Elizabeth Taylor probably didn't help either.
He was great in among others " Where Eagles Dare"
Probably didn't help that he married Elizabeth Taylor. She had her problems too with alcohol. I have read that ET could really put it back, and could basically outdrink most of the guys. I am sure Burton and Taylor no doubt had some drunken brawls. You are right, Burton destroyed his career because of booze.
Bill Holden was a talented actor but died in his fifties when he fell and hit his head, drunk and died alone and I believe wasn't found until the next day. Really sad.
Thanks for sharing this, James!
But hey LIZ TAYLOR WHRORR
Well the booze certainly didn't stop them from giving us some of the best performances ever, far superior to a lot of the so-called "stars" we see today.
The more I read about stars the less I think fame is not always a gift.
We agree, Cary
@@FactsVerse Shelley Winters says it's a curse. A bad fairy at the cradle when you're born, she says. ( in Turner interview )
There's some semi-famous quote about fame. Some big star (big in the 1940s, I think) was asked to comment on her huge income considering how little hard work is involved in acting. I don't remember the exact quote but her answer was something along the lines of "I don't get paid all that money for the work I do; I get paid all that money for putting up with all the crap that comes with being famous."
It’s sin. Hollyweird promotes sin
@@ballybunion9 That definitely makes sense
My 10th grade high school English Comp. teacher had a poster hung in his classroom of W.C. Fields with the caption/quote:
"I never drink water, that's the stuff that rusts pipes."
I've never forgot that quote which I found hilarious for so many reasons.
Sky Den - He was one of a kind wasn't he?
@@sylviacarlson3561 Most definitely. Now beat it, kid, you bother me. 😉🧐🥴🍻✌
He also said he never drank water because "fish f*** in that!"
@@VintageVera I'd really be laughing if my teacher had that quote up on his wall. 😆
Fields once said, "I never drink water. Fish f*** in it!"
Even drunk they were 100 better than today's cast of fools.
There is nothing impressive in the old school Hollywood's alcoholism.
Yes,they were MUCH better!
No they weren't.
Some yes, some no. I never thought Bogart was particularly talented. In my opinion he cannot compare to Anthony Hopkins or Daniel Day Lewis.
@@swimminwitdafishes8059 Perhaps it's because he made it look so easy.
Lol "Who put lemonade in my lemonade"😋
Thanks for watching, Bobbie!
WC Fields was a trip, funny as hell. Quite the juggler too.
Errol was terrific. Raoul Walsh said, " He could be charming, but if he had a drop too much of champagne, he could be terrible. "
he was a paedophile.
Otis Campbell, best drunk ever.
You need to get Oliver Reed on next time and O'Toole's drinking buddy Richard Harris. They had some tales to tell.
Oliver Reed used to get so drunk he literally peed in his pants 👖.
Thanks for watching, Dave!
The time O'Toole and Harris wanted to buy the bar they were in that night is awesome,its here on YT.
As O'Toole said, nobody could keep up with Harris.
@Jin Lee Alcohol IS a drug! ♐
You forgot Burton. The best "always drunk" actor to ever make it to Hollywood stardom.
At least he wasn't doing meth
@@liveyourbestsoftlife5705 Yep he was going the other way. Burton seemed to be amped up all the time naturally. A super intense guy.
THESE WERE VERY GOOD ACTORS DRUNK OR SOBER ❤️
Drinking was considered glamorous, adult, and chic back in the day. In the Thin Man movies, Nick & Nora drank like fish.
Drinking AND smoking. They always seemed to go together. Almost a recipe for cancer.
And it's even worse today - only it's with drugs now. Yet the public takes every celebrity opinion as some kind of holy nugget of wisdom. Go figure.
Fans are very forgiving and very embracing, just like Trumps, however, intelligent people don't pay attention to either.
True words Clifford -
Just because the media reports a celebrity's opinion doesn't mean the public accepts it.
@@seymourbutts9085 Sure, just because the media reports their opinions doesn't mean all Americans believe them. But, the media reports celebrity opinions because many Americans take their opinions as gospel.
@@cliffordbodine5834 But people love to hate celebrity opinions. Whenever Fox does a story about that their comment section is flooded with negativity. It's very popular on the right. I bet more people hate or could care less about their opinions. Meanwhile the media on the right keeps the outrage going every time a celebrity opens their mouth.
A few years after "The Golden Era", but in the late 50s - early 60s Broderick Crawford could probably have drank all of them under the table.
Thanks for sharing this!
Crawford had all the physical signs of being a drunk ...
On Highway Patrol, Broderick is never driving the car. He was drunk everyday, all day. The real Highway Patrol called him "old 23152". On the lighter side, watch Peter O'Toole in My Favorite Year, an excellent movie about a fading golden age star facing changing times when Television emerged. He is drunk throughout the movie which after watching this makes it obvious, he really was drunk.
Yes I have heard that Broderick would often over-serve himself while filming "Highway Patrol".
CHP eventually severed its ties with the show after Crawford's numerous drunk-driving convictions.
"He put it on..... backwards" OMyGosh!!!! LMBO!! That's just not right. 🤣
Thanks for watching, Jeanette!
@@FactsVerse Thank you for putting up yet another great story 🤩 I always very much enjoy!!
I love the golden era of Hollywood, but it might have been easier to list the ones that weren't drunks
The Golden age lasted from the roaring twenties until the early eighties , everything went down hill after that !
When it came to drinking Peter O'Toole and Richard Harris were great drinking buddies and many a legend was created by them both. However, both admitted that they both were not in the same league as the great Oliver Reed. Reed died whilst filming the movie Gladiator. They were filming in Malta and after filming one day, Oliver went to a pub and proceeded to drink himself to death. Apparently the publican was absolutely astonished that one person could drink so much beer and spirits in one sitting but alas it did kill him. Fortunately, they had enough scenes from him to finish the movie.
: ….How very sad to hear about Oliver.
It’s incredible how people suffer things; while appearing to live a charmed life.
RIP OLIVER REED 🌹💫
@@BarbaraMerryGeng Yes Miss Berry it was sad. One of my very favourite actors and a real man. Not saying there are not real men today but somehow they don't make men like Oliver anymore.
I didn't know that.
@THE AVERAGE BEAR Good words. Something at lest today I will give a go!
Sorry that should have been "least". Typing too fast!
I understand certain guests on Johnny Carson's "Tonight Show" (paging Judy Garland and Shelley Winters!) were deliberately "tanked-up," and "over served" backstage, to provide "memorable moments" in the guest chair. Carson himself was, for a long time, considered a mean, unpredictable drunk. Ed Mcmahon drank heavily, and joked about it, but remained a sweetheart.
I heard a similar rumor about Carson, but it was about cocaine.
Thanks for sharing this, Peter!
@@RatedArggg In that era, in the entertainment industry, drinking was probably a cocaine gateway.
@@dimon10033 In those days, it was almost expected among “The Rat Pack” - Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, Peter Lawford. Those drinks they had on stage were not ginger ale! (In his late years, Lawford was also inhaling “the white stuff.”)
although Dean Martin just played a drunk in later years he started to drink alcohol after his son was killed in a military plane he piloted..tragic
Peter O'Toole and Richard Harris had a lot of drinking stories together. Oliver Reed could apparently drink anyone under the table
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W.C.Fields claimed he was getting fit using parallel bars in his living room...'Gin down one side of the room, Whiskey down the other...'
I have to say the joking about drinking and problem drinkers is not appropriate. Someone mentioned Richard Burton ruined himself in his prime. A moderate drinker, casual drink once in a while is not bad but don’t glorify it when for many they don’t just ruin their lives but they cause havoc and sadness for their families. An B alcoholic affects at least 5 lives. Don’t glorify drinking.
@@suestephan3255 And you're the only moderate drinker? With no sense of humour? You must be the one they invite to parties at midnight, to bore the other guests into going home.
@@johngalvin3124 no, I did drink alcohol when I was young but without having a problem and coming to faith and grace in the Lord Jesus at 33 a new Christian 2 months I realized I could do without it. The next night at the evening service the sermon was the Christian and alcohol. This was God confirming my decision to give it up. My life was better without it and I never had any regrets.
@@suestephan3255 Life teaches us all in the end. I'm pleased you found Jesus, and delighted that experience got you off excessive drinking, and don't you think people are allowed free will. As for me, as much as i believe in God and loving my neighbour, i resent your insults, you know nothing about me. W.C.Fields said it, not me, read the comments in future before you attempt to spoil someone's day, it's not the Christian thing to do.
@@johngalvin3124 No we don’t always know someone’s heart but God does. God gave you and everyone free will. He will pursue one but not force. I was not a heavy drinker, after coming from a wedding where I had two drinks in 5 hours I felt I couldn’t share my new faith with my cousins. On the way home I realized I could just give it up.
I did not intend to insult you but using WC Fields quotes and others who were making it seem like drinking is all fun. I’m sorry to make you feel that way.
Many people have seen the other side of the effects of alcohol.
"There weren't fact-checkers back then..." No, today we have fact-checking sites that lie whenever it suits them.
Exactly. I was thinking that we don't have fact checkers today!
Much like FB! Pick and choose what they say they “Fact Check”!
remember these people earn a living by decieving there own souls.
💯👍❤💯🇺🇲
Translation: those sites don't back up your BS so they must be lying. Whatever...I smell snowflake Trumpanzees.
If narcissism were alcohol most of my coworkers would probably be fired.
At least most of them made it into their senior years, unlike the kids today in Hollywood that seldom make it out of their late twenties because of drugs.
Good point, Dave
Or like all these rappers dying at 20 of gunshot wounds ...
Sorry to say but Hollywood was full of cocaine in the 1920s - 1930s. Child actors after that up until late 1960s were routinely given 'uppers and downers' by studios eg Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Elvis Presley,Marilyn Monroe openly discussed this and were later addicted.
Yeah, drugs is the quick killer 😢, when I was homeless for years, it was the druggies died much faster 🙁, rip, l hope 🙏😑
Poor sweet Montgomery Clift after his accident ❤
Flynn was a character. At one point things got so bad with his drinking Errol was warned by the studio if he continued drinking they would cancel his contract. So what he did was to bring bags of oranges 🍊 to the set and eat them all day long....he had injected them with vodka...lol.
OMG REALLY??
Pantera Xenos Anthony Quinn said, " I liked his f--- you attitude " re Flynn.
Drunks and druggies are often ingenious.
@@mrtonod
My mom was a raging alcoholic.
After she passed and my brother and I were cleaning out the house to put up for sale. His three young daughters discovered these empty glass bottles.
So I told them for every bottle they found throughout the house (including the garage and the scrubs in the backyard they'd get $1.00.
They found 18 bottles. They made $6.00 each. Not a bad haul for a day of treasure hunting.
Wow!
Lee Marvin was legendary for his drinking. Same with Oliver Reed.
Thanks for sharing this, Tremolux Man!
@@FactsVerse Lee was drunk when he filmed The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Professionals, Cat Ballou, Death Hunt, The Big Red One, and ton of others. Burt Lancaster threatened to throw him off a cliff/mountain while filming The Professionals near Las Vegas. Lee liked to pull his chain. Reed died during filming Gladiator.
@@smasica Robert Shaw was loaded on the set of Jaws. Richard Burton was one of the worse...Check out the book HELLRAISERS- a good read.It's Burton, O'Toole, Reed and Richard Harris at their drunken best! Also, Reed drank himself to death in a bar during the filming of Gladiator.
Oliver Reed once fell out of his chair drunk during an interview.
@@shawnoneill4854 I read that Shaw replaced Oliver Reed in Jaws. One lush filling in for another. Of course they were both great actors.
John Barrymore, Lon Chaney Jr., and Bing Crosby could have also made this list.
Thanks for sharing this, jlovebirch
So could Curly Howard. Spencer Tracy being a mean drunk reminds me of Ted Healy.
Peter O'Toole, Richard Harris, and Micheal Caine would also.
I guess Peter is.
@@donaldstone540 - In other words, pretty much every British/Irish actor of the 50s-70s era.
Hmmm..... Who's gonna tell Frank Sinatra & crew the bar is closed? Not me -- eat, drink, & be merry, Mr. Sinatra! 😉🤭
That last story about Peter O'Toole and his finger was hilarious.
Thanks for watching, D Hunt!
Drinking gives me a headache. I’ll take a sweet tea and a fatty.
A Fatty? I'm not familiar with the term. What exactly does it mean? I can only imagine in an Errol Flynn/ Clara Bow sort of way.
Yeah, what's a fatty?
Probably referring to a large cannabis cigarette.
Thanks for watching, Frank!
@@williamconrod8998 winner- or a cannabis cigar.
How could these people function and work if they were drinking so much all the time? If I have one beer I am looped
and then fall asleep LOL!
You need to do a video regarding "Drunk Politicians "
Thanks for the suggestion, Chester!
Polosi # 1
Wilbur Mills.
Alcohol is a cheap way to have fun until you can’t control it ...
You forgot Gail Russell (the Unseen, Angel and the Badman, Calcutta) who never should have been a movie actress due to being a nervous and shy person. She died from liver damage attributed to "acute and chronic alcoholism" at only 36.
I was just going to mention her! So lovely and vulnerable. But the saddest eyes of any actress. Her passionate affair with John Wayne caused both of them a lot of trouble.
Vera K White - I loved Gail Russel. She was in one of my all time favorite movies, "The Uninvited." Ray Milland was in it too. A really great movie. To die at 36 she had to have been putting away tons of alcohol on a daily basis. I seemed to remember that her roles were getting less and less and that's what lead to her drinking. Hollywood can be hard on people, especially those sensitive souls.
The old "bottle of courage" gets them every time.
Vera K White. That's very sad.
@@sylviacarlson3561 The Uninvited is one of my favorites too. Gail was so beautiful in that film. Such a tragedy...
A relation of mine saw Richard Harris and (I think) Peter O'Toole on a plane from England to Paris France years ago. He said they were knocking back the booze to beat the band. He reckoned they must have has at least 10-12 shots each
Errol Flynn died in 1959 1 year before I was born in my city of Vancouver BC Canada 🇨🇦. The penthouse apartment he died still exists on 1310 Burnaby Street in downtown Vancouver !
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I think we should add Dick Van Dyke to the list. The guy is still alive (95), but he was a raging alcoholic for many years.
"I don't have a drinking problem, cept' when I can't get a drink" Tom Waits.
and I wish you'd a known her we were quite a pair
she was sharp as a razor and soft as a prayer
He put the finger on backwards! Hahahaha
Thanks for watching, William!
A few ounces of Cabernet went well with this video. Cheers!
Hic!
Peter O'Toole was perfectly casted in the lead of Allen Swan. If you haven't seen it, make sure you do, you could die laughing.
I agree
I thought he was a gorgeous man when he was young.
Surprising that when mentioning Peter O'Toole they left out Richard Harris and Richard Burton. Burton was particularly notorious!!
BURTON AND TAYLOR WERE HEAVY DRINKERS...
“How insane the levels of hedonism and reckless abandon got during that golden age” I have to say it looked fun and alluring. I think we are all built differently, some of us just need a bit more hedonism than others 😂 I can drink like a fish and smoke like a chimney if the inclination takes me. I have bouts of hedonism mixed with healthy eating and exercise. I like the balance haha
Thanks for watching, Gra-eme!
@@FactsVerse 😁👌
nonsense.......only a small minority of actors like the general population had drinking issues...any great actor was home in bed early..it was impossible to make movies if you were drunk all the time...go learn something fool
@@jadezee6316 what
I don't care - Humphrey Bogart and Spencer Tracy are my two favourite film actors of all time!
Thanks for watching, Jane!
How about Elizabeth Taylor, Lucille Ball, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Lana Turner, Dolores Hope, Maureen Stapleton, Elaine Stritch and silent screen queen, Mary Pickford? All apparently mean and mega-mouthy when sauced-up. But then again, all these gals had some serious ahem......"man problems!" 😉
The boozy diva and hard-partying bad boy image has waned over the decades, but the quality of work that these people put on the screen is a testament to their incredible talent and stamina.
Live Fast, Die Young seemed to be the life motto in Hollywood.
I remember in Sydney, Australia on my lunch break, watching the yang tanks pulling up to let out the politicians, to attend the Memorial Service for Errol; Flynn at St. Andrews Church next to Sydney Town Hall. I loved watching his movies, of this great Australian. I was 17 years old at the time.
How about Richard Burton and John Barrymore?
Lon Chaney Jr, Wayne Morris, MacDonald Carey, John Ireland should be added to the list
Alan Ladd, did anyone mention William Holden.
What about him who played the original Fugitive. His name escapes me but my family loved his shows in the late 50s. He apparently was always well inebriated during filming. God bless him. He looked like a good guy. Xx
@@VintageVera Also actor Robert Shaw.
My goodness- MacDonald Carey! When he was on Days of Our Lives you could always tell when he'd been drinking- which was frequently.
Heard Jason robarts was an alcoholic?
You mentioned him in passing in the Errol Flynn bit - David Niven was a legendary drinker who only scaled it back when his Second wife tried to follow him and developed a nasty drink problem. If you want someone who wasn't a drunk in the true sense, but liked a drink and was rarely seen without one, at least until the early 70's was Jimmy Stewart. Because he had a great tolerance for alcohol and drink just made him more him - maybe went a bit sentimental - he was often the guy that made sure his actor friends got home safely. Frank Morgan - not an out and out star, but a respected character actor - was famous for his "bar in a suitcase" and liked to have a couple of drinks before he went on set. Mostly a pleasant drunk, that didn't mean you could cross him - he had a bit of a temper when drunk and could pull some nasty pranks on people. Not classical era, but a discussion on actor drinkers would not be complete without talking about Graham Chapman. The Monty Python member was an astonishing drinker and and interestingly, a trained doctor. He himself said it was student parties when he was studying from his medical degree that "tipped me over the edge" in his own words. A story - commonly believed to be true - about him is that he was told on a flight that he'd be thrown off if he didn't calm down. He complied, but he was still a bit noisy and it was obvious that he was a bit well-oiled. About an hour into the flight, a passenger complained of breathing difficulty and the crew asked for a doctor to help. Chapman immediately jumped up - this is a guy that had been sharing loudly dirty jokes with his travelling companions just before the announcements - and managed to calm down and treat the fellow passenger, who had an existing heart condition and a panic attack together. He went back to his seat, was quiet for about ten minutes, then started being silly again.
Quite a story.
Maybe just maybe because he found out his "Queen of MGM Hollywood" was early on groomed by Harvey Weinstein or someone of his Ilk into her continuing stardom and his power play in Hollywood had nothing like the benefits he had hoped for via Taylor? This was par for the course there at MGM from early on Shirley Temple spoke of it. That would play havoc with Burton's male ego and his betrayal of his devoted wife for the window of opportunity he imagined he saw for his career in America .....via Taylor. They did appear to have everything did they not but People do not drink as they did without a gruelling reason. That's my bet anyway.
No. Celebrity drinking back then was only the beginning. As time went on.....and eras changed.... celebrities mixed drinking along with doing drugs. A lot of celebrities died from D and A.
Thanks for watching, ds southern!
yeup, most of (if not all) the "27 Club" died in association with drug abuse.
They were snorting coke and shooting heroin even back in the 20's. You have to remember though, that the studio's were very powerful and reporters wrote what they told them.
@@Molly_Belle as well, there was less of a "war on drugs" back then. That was the era that would eventually see a lot of drugs become illegal, if not more illegal, i.e. the drug tiers: tier #1 suddenly including cocaine, heroin, and (gasp) marijuana!!!
Before that, a lot of drugs had less of a stigma and were often prescribed on a regular bases because the full effects were not yet understood. Look at cigarette smoking; back then, a pack an hour was prescribed for asthma. 😐😉🎥
Was surprised to hear that Humphrey Bogart had an alcohol problem. At least he covered it well.
We were surprised too, Karel
Really? I've known it all my life. When I was a kid,,there was"Glamour" magazine that talked about all this stuff,and Bogart was one of the one that was always in it for one thing or another.
@@xScooterAZx That obviously, was before my time!
@@thisisme3238 How is it "obviously" before your time? I cant see your profile photo,so how would I know.
@@xScooterAZx You'll just have to take my word for it..like I'll have to take your word for it that you've know it "all your life." Oh, speaking of "all your life," enjoy the rest of it... I'll be enjoying mine! God Bless you 🙏
A Irishman goes to a bar and sits alone and orders three glasses of beer. He does this over the corse of several weeks. Finally the waitress asked why. He says these beers are for me a my two brothers, one lives in America and one in Australian, when I drink I fell like we’re together again. A month does by and he begins to order two beers and sit alone. Finally the waitress asked. Did something happen to one or you brothers. He says, no Las , me brothers are fine, I quit Drinking.
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I don't get it.
Inspite of all the boozing they gave the most amazing performances ever,talk about functioning alcoholics….here you are…!!
Anesthesiologists are notorious for getting addicted to the drugs they administer to the patients. Compared to addicts in other trades, they were HIGHLY functioning and never missed a day at the hospital if he could help it.
@@johnwilson1094 yeah,but can they sing and dance!
hahaha I'm sure they had so much stress. So many people would die to become celebrities, but we don't know their hardships.
Screw fame. I'll take the fortune and you can leave me be. XD
Alot of them had unresolved childhood issues, like Flynn or were narcissists who always have addictions of some sort. Johnny Carson also apparently got really angry when he was drunk and I think for the same reason, unresolved childhood issues. That hasn't changed today except maybe the poison that is used.
Good point!
LOL , the one about Peter O'Toole jut cracked me up.... Humm, too funny !
W.C. Fields once said, "Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water." No wonder he stocked up.
Fields once complained that he lost the cork out of his lunch.
Louie Pheters ( the town drunk on Gunsmoke ) was a genuine alcoholc, and type cast for the part.
Thanks for sharing this, Bill
Pheters also once played a judge in Perry Mason, where he was also type-cast for the part !!
sadly William Holden should be on this list too, my old hollywood hero knew how to drink a lot even died during a longsome bing weekend in his appartement in november 1981. He tried treatment several times an even was sober for several years in the 70s unfortunatly he fell off the wagon again
Carin Somers I knew his doctor who told me, " He had a battle with the bottle and the bottle beat him. "
@@ThePiratemachine yes so sad but I focus on his work and his life and not on his addiction and death
Holden was another he-man actor emotionally and physically abused by his first wife, Brenda Marshall. Sadly his last partner, the talented and beautiful Stephanie Powers was practicing "tough love" relating to his alcoholism, when he passed, alone in his Santa Monica high-rise condo. Neighbors complained about a foul odor and he was found in an "an advanced state of decomposition." The minor head wound, suffered when he hit a night stand, would not have been fatal, had he been sober enough to call for help. The once hunky film star was about 60, but looked 80.
@@petermcdonald1744 we cant judge people ,we dont know what happens behind close doors, maybe his marriage was bad but he was no angel too, his affairs were no help, they could have divorced instead both stayed for what reason and both are to blame, also I know from experience how hard it is to live with an alocholic, you can try so far to help the person but when the help isnt wanted, taken or accepted you have to make a descision to help yourself as the addiction pulls the partner down as well, to blame Stefanie Powers isnt right. People have tried to help Bill but the person has to make the desicion to stop the addiction. I am lucky , my partner did quit the alcohol but that took years for him to come to that point. Had he chosen to keep drinking I would have left him too, now we are lucky, he is 5 years sober and going strong.
@@CarinSomers well done to him.x
" We feel sorry for those who get up in the morning and don't drink , because that's the the best your gonna feel for the rest of the day " ~ Frank Sinatra 1966 😂😂😂🤣
There’s a pretty good book called “Hellraisers” about this very thing. It covers Richard Burton, Peter O’Toole, Oliver Reed, And Richard Harris.
Read that book 🤣🤣😂😂😆 I never laughed so much in my life x
I read that a while ago, it was delightful-and inspirational
Yes fantastic bok
Back in those days everybody drank... But... They all were the #1 Best actors and gave good performances everytime... They were the "Pros"... Thanks for the memories...🙏♥️💜💙
Great video, thank you for posting - a few more notable mentions, Oliver Reed, Richard Burton, Richard Harris ... it's a long list.
One of the greatest WAS the greatest: Jackie Gleason. He was a professional drinker... when he built his round (like a spaceship) home he had many bars, all fully stocked all the time.
He would go to Toots Shor's Bar in NYC in the fifties and sixties every day before noon and stay there all day- and often through the night. He also smoked 4 packs of cigarettes a day, but he lived until 71. Pretty good stretch for a guy born in 1916!
My dad was an attorney for many wrestling stars back in the 50's and 60's in the Los Angeles area. He would throw BBQ's for his wrestling clients and I remember as a kid, about 6 or 7 seeing Gorgeous George, the Destroyer (without a mask) Freddie Blassie and many more, and they drank beer and whiskey until the sun came up. And there were no problems, no fighting, just everyone having a good time drinking. They smoked, drank beer and had a lot of girls running around. Of course I always had an early bed time, but it was interesting to see these guys as good friends and real difference on KTLA channel 5.
It wasn't just celebrities. Alcoholism ran rampant in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. If you'd lived through that era, you'd understand why.
People think they have it rough today.
Dean Martin and Major Nelson on I Dream Of Jennie
On screen, Dean martin drank apple juice. Off screen, his drinking was rumored, but, those close to him said he drank socially, not legendary
Larry Hagman was a huge drunk, agreed
@@SuperNezzy He had a liver transplant but kept on drinking anyway.
@@xyxoan1 probably got it over other people on the list who needed one, because of his fame and money
At five foot eight, Bogart must have had his lunch handed to him many times if he got in a fight.
His wife before Lauren Bacall, Mayo Metho, use to beat the shit out of Bogey. She DID NOT use her frying pan for cooking. She drank more than he did!
you cant judge how tough someone is by there size ,thats a huge mistake to make in a fight!
Probably, but smaller guys can be fierce. Calvin Murphy at 5'7" notoriously beat the crap out of a 6'7" player, and he was not messed with in the NBA.
Let’s not forget Ernest Hemingway, “For Whom
The Happy Hour Bells Toll!”
Richard Burton has to be #1. OJ Simpson said that Burton was so drunk he couldn't even move in a movie they did together back in the 70s. But despite it Simpson was still in awe of Burton's ability to command a scene with his voice alone and had the utmost respect for him.
Thanks for watching, Winnie!
That would be 'The Klansman' during which Burton drank 2 bottles of whiskey a day for months. Lee Marvin was also in it but only drank 1 bottle a day!
Almost two years sober but it's a life time fight. Do yourself a favour, don't let it get to that point. If you're struggling I love you, get help it can be better ❤
What a way to have your life labeled as a Drunk !!!
Dean Martin said, “ I feel sorry for those who don’t drink, because when they wake up in the morning, that’s as good as they’re going to feel all day.”
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Dean Martin used that line as part of his act, not Sinatra.
Tracy was ALSO a good-catholic who couldn’t leave his wife for his mistress LOL ... abusive , terrible father yeah nice guy
I wouldn't know if he was a nice guy or not. I didn't know him.
Not a good Catholic, a guilty adulteress.
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Wrong , and you used the feminine wording.
@@josephmartinez8803 adulterer is not following the 10 commandments.
The Tracy/Hepburn "relationship" wasn't all it was cracked-up to be. I don't think they were both gay, like a couple of writers claim, but I don't think much was going-on "under the sheets." Hepburn's friends feel she wasn't that into sex. She had an emotionally abusive relationship with director John Ford, another heavy drinker, and a platonic thing with Howard Hughes. Funny, several old time, Hollywood "insiders" told me Hughes and Cary Grant were "hot and heavy, together" for YEARS! Tracy was suppose to have had passionate flings with Gene Tierney and Lorretta Young, another "good Catholic."
….So many amazing people with great talent & we have no idea how they suffered in their private lives.
> I kind of prefer - not to know…
Good point, Miss Merry Berry
My fav star had a drink problem partly in the genes & partly when he first came to Hellieweird he was told by stars he admired that to fit in,you had to drink.And the help he needed,especially after he was introduced to drugs wasn't allowed to go to rehab because the filming would've been held up & that would've cost money.
@@susanmccormick6022 Plus that would have been all hush hush. Loretta Young had a torrid affair with Clark Gable while making "The call of the wild" in the '30's and had a baby that she claimed she adopted. It didn't come out until years later when her daughter, Judy Lewis, I believe that was her name, confronted her and she finally admitted that Clark Gable was Judy's Father. By the by, he wasn't such a great Dad..she only saw him once. I guess the studio didn't want the gossip.
I would rather drink with those actors than those of today..they be great company and great stories..
That's the truth, so many great stories. I would have loved that too 🌹❤️
Yes, by all means, it was THIS video that stopped me from starting a life of boozing. Thank god I found my way here so I could re-think my ways. .... lol
What's your source for Clara Bow "often" leaving bars with married men?
Right? I've read and watched everything I can get my hands on about Clara. I don't ever recall anything ever mentioned that she had a drinking problem, let alone the bar thing. She probably did her share of partying, but she was not a drunk.
Many things said about Clara Bow were rumors. Jean Harlow liked to drink though. RIP beautiful ladies.
@@Molly_Belle she had demonic Bette Davis eyes.
I had a friend who every day would tell me he quit drinking. Last night that was!
I remember over the years several actors being labeled the
“Next Errol Flynn.” All came up short and today I cannot even remember their names.
Bung Ho ol boy!!
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Old movie and TV shows are the best. These actors were real people with real problems but they still loved the country that gave them the opportunity to become stars.
AMEN
Flynn wasn't a good human being, but he sure looked good while he was being a bad one.
So little was known back then about the damage of Alcohol . I believe society has slowly evolved . cheers
And Sean Flynn ( son of Errol) wanted nothin of that,since he became a photo journalist and adventurer . Sadly MIA 1970 on his last report tour .
Sean flynn was a good friend of actor george hamilton.
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Not an actor,but exellent journalist, author of many books,articles and stories. Robert Ruark ,he wrote much about how the asphalt in NYC alchohol was needed to keep it away, but on safari in African region alchohol was part of the pleasure there during the travels there.
Sean Flynn probably inherited his journalistic abilities from Errol, who wrote three books. You can find them in the "rare books" section of your public library. "Beam Ends" is my favorite, the story of his sailing adventures. Errol was a good writer and might have made a good career of it.
@@fredericmartin7148 His book "My wicked, wicked ways" was a hoot. However, I'm thinking they were likely ghostwritten.
Ah the good ol days. When a drunk could be a Drunk😇
Other than Peter O'Toole who lived to eighty one, none of the other stars lived past their 50's or 60's. I was born in the early 50's, we had a bar in our home and most people smoked. The ceiling of the room with the bar often looked like smog of an LA skyline. Times were different.
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