(mostly) dead people acting

Dead woman preaching -

 

Kathleen Freeman, 57 years old in the 1980 movie.

 

She died in 2001, at 78.

 

 

Dead man preaching -

 

James Brown, 47 years old in the movie.

 

He died in 2006, at 73.

 

 

Dead woman bombing -

 

Carrie Fisher, 24 years old in the movie.

 

She died in 2016, at 60.

 

"No, ma'am, we're musicians.

 

We're on a mission from God.

 

We're putting the band back together."

- spoken by Elwood and Jake Blues

 

Dead men talking -

 

John Belushi, 31 years old in the movie.

Paul Reubens, 27 years old in the movie.

 

Belushi died in 1982, at 33.

Reubens died in 2023, at 70.

 

(This is the scene that got me started on this path of telling the tale this way.)

 

 

Dead man berating -

 

Henry Gibson, 54 years old in the movie.

 

He died in 2009, at 73.

 

 

Dead man singing -

 

John Lee Hooker, 62 or 67 years old in the movie.

 

He died in 2001, at 83 or 88 (birth date estimated).

Dead woman singing and dancing -

 

Aretha Franklin, 38 years old in the movie.

 

She died in 2018, at 76 (38 years older).

 

 

 

Dead man playing piano -

 

Ray Charles, 49 years old in the movie.

 

He died in 2004, at 73.

 

 

 

 

Dead man scatting -

 

Cab Calloway, 72 years old in the movie.

 

He died in 1994, at 86.

 

 

Dead man strumming -

 

Matt "Guitar" Murphy, 50 years old in the movie.

 

He died in 2018, at 88.

 

 

Dead man waving -

 

John Candy, 29 years old in the movie.

 

He died in 1994, at 43.

 

 

 

Mission complete!

 

(Steven Spielberg as the county clerk.)

 

 

  - THE END -