1 left in 2024. The legendary Dick Van Dyke. This guy is my idol and favorite entertainer of all time. Everything he did was for the family. God bless this man.
Yeah but Betty White is the better actress. She and Arthur did not get along but she seamlessly melded with the other actress so you'd think they actually HAD BEEN old friends.
I wasnt commenting on their abilities just wardrobe. If we are commenting on talent I think Rue McClanahan is hands down the winner though I do not care for her dress
Right as I wanted to right sth. like "May they rest in peace!" it hit me that Dick van Dyke is not only still alive but even performing every now and then (just starred in four _Days of Our Lives_ episodes). Talk about living legend!
This showed up for me when I searched for "Old Friends" during the week after Sondheim died. It was a parade of who's who during the days I was growing up and watching television. Beautifully nostalgic for me - and, evidently, for many others, judging by many of the comments here.
All four of them had stage experience. Betty White tour and hello dolly and I’ve seen other clips of her singing much better than this and I have seen both Estelle Getty and Rue McClanahan on Broadway
I just discovered that the song is from the musical "Merrily We Roll Along", Stephen Sondheim's 1981 flop, and Jason Alexander's Broadway debut. Flop or not, great song.
We think 2 or 3 of the ladies are still around - BW of course. June Lockhart (we noticed Jeff Bezos didn’t ask her to go into space.) And maybe Shari Lewis. 📺
It's great seeing all these stars from yesteryear. Some of them are still around like: Dick Van Dyke, June Lockhart, Phillip Michael Thomas, Billy Crystal, Michelle Lee, Jon Lovitz, Shelly Long, David Letterman. I wish they would have posted a complete list of who is there. All I recognize other than those named are: the Golden Girls, Sammy Davis Jr, Bert Parks, Dennis Weaver, Raymond Burr, Dick Clark, George Burns, Shari Lewis, Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Milton Berle, Robert Stack, Eve Arden, Diahann Carroll, and Don Knotts!
Totally agree. Real talent, from the days when television produced great shows. It's ironic the quality of the picture & sound goes up in the sets as there's less & less appearing on them worth watching.
Bea Arthur Betty White Rue McLanahan Estelle Getty Sammy Davis Jr. Dick Van Dyke Steve Allen Jayne Meadows Red Buttons Shari Lewis June Allyson Milton Berle Dick Clark Bert Parks Ralph Edwards Raymond Burr June Lockhart George Burns
This was a great tribute to those great ladies and gentlemen who put their life on the line so we can watch something on tv 📺 They will be missed greatly and I never get tired of listening to Old Friends
A wonderdfull perfome ceremoni you amercians are best and how french we so much loved we are it and how so ungried we are dissapoinded towards the french autorities not enough permiss to discorverieng your so marvelous comedies sitcoms. Frederic, France, Normandie.
Being 2021 this year and watching this video now it was like ghost were on that stage now and Yes I know Betty White is still alive and pushing 100 years old
R . I. P. Beatrice Arthur (1923-2009) Dick Clark (1929-2012) Raymond Burr (1917-1993) Rue Mclahan (1934-2010) Sammy Davis Jr. (1925-1990) Milton Berle (1908-2002)
I Also watched those shows. Perry Mason, Your show of shows, Golden Girls, The Untouchables With Robert Stack etc, great shows. The shows now are a bunch of nothing. I watch 3 shows a week now and they are on hiatus. They have brought back a lot of the classics on antenna tv that I also used to watch. Crossing Jordan, Cold Case, Facts of Life, Love Boat, Columbo Designing Women, Little House , The Waltons . They don't make them like they used to.And you notice alot of them have women leads and there are more, so why all the bitching about their rights and their women power, it's crap. Even way back when. Loretta Young, Doris Day, Julia, "black lead" Life with Elizabeth with Betty White, so women have been playing lead parts for years. So get over yourselves.The sitcoms of today are not all that funny, at least not to me. They try too hard and they overdo everything. Especially the show "The Game." It's disgusting. I think every man in that show has screwed every woman in that show. That's all its about, I never did get the gist of that show. O yea, they do have a football team and the players think they are gods gift to women. I wouldn't have any of them. I thought I would give the show a chance, and I did that. Big mistake. YUK
OK, to identify the whole bunch representing the "Old Friends", from left to right: Dennis Weaver, Robert Stack, Raymond Burr, Ralph Edwards, Bert Parks, Dick Clark, Milton Berle, Shari Lewis (and Lamb Chop), Red Buttons, Audrey Meadows, Jayne Meadows, Steve Allen, Estelle Getty, Rue McClanahan, George Burns, Bea Arthur, Betty White, Sammy Davis, Jr, Imogene Coca, Sid Caesar, Dick Van Dyke, Gene Barry, Eve Arden, Bob Cummings, Jackie Cooper, June Lockhart, Jack Paar.
And Coopers and Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) were the ones who knew the Emmy winners FIRST before everyone else; it wasn't long before the Television Academy went with Ernst & Young.
Omg, they're all gone now ... all except for Betty White and David Letterman, wow! to think I lived thru the era when they were all still around and alive. What memories, I shall never forget. Amen 🙏 🌹 🙏
I'm happy to say not the case: Betty White, of course (turning 93 in a month), Jayne Meadows (now 95), Dick Van Dyke (89th birthday coming up on December 13th, 2014) are still with us. How I remember all the others, though. This is a wonderful segment that I never tire of seeing.
