More and more, I'm coming across movies in which the entire cast is now dead.
Except Gone With the Wind.
I do the same thing plus run addresses and real phone numbers to see what kicks back.
The cast members that have fewer credits or history I tend to read about more.
I do that, too. Makes it interesting.
Just last night we were watching one of those old Lon Chaney mummy movies. The pretty gal in the movie, Elyse Knox, became the mother of actor Mark Harmon, a daughter who married Ricky Nelson and another daughter who married John Delorean.
They've been violating social distancing norms for decades.
I too watch some old movies and as I am watching, will pull up IMDB to verify my suspicions if I recognize a face.
Was watching “Targets” the other night (1968 Peter Bogdanovich directed with Vincent Price). It was pretty bad. But I was scrolling through the cast of characters and saw Mike Farrell listed (Best known for BJ Honeycutt in M*A*S*H). In “Targets” he played the “Man in phone booth”. Too funny. He walked into a phone booth and the sniper shot him. Screen time: Approx. 5 seconds. And even then, you didn’t really see his face.