[Hildy]

Bing Crosby, Heston, James Stewart, Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelley, Bob Hope... Bing Crosby had a terrible home life and I believe one of his sons committed suicide. Grace Kelly????? Apparently, she slept with EVERYONE. The PR machine was very good at keeping things under wraps back then.

[pissant]

Bing did not have a terrible home life. He had a son who was a druggie and claimed Bing was abusive, etc. But everyone else, inclusing other of his children, dispute that. He was a gentleman thru & thru.

[Chaffer]

the premise of this thread ... was kind of stupid

Thanks ever so much.

I don't look to Hollywood (any generation) for my saints.

My premise was simply to compare a generation which spewed it's lurid personal
behavior into the public eye versus a generation which did not.