Rebel without a Cause: All three leads--James Dean (car crash), Natalie Wood (drowned), Sal Mineo (stabbed)
Gone with the Wind: Leslie Howard (plane shot down in WWII), George Reeves (suicide), Butterfly McQueen (fire; granted, she was in her 80s by then)
Two-Lane Blacktop: Three of the four main leads--Laurie Bird (overdose), Dennis Wilson (drowned), Warren Oates (heart attack in his early 50s)--"and I, James Taylor, survived"
others?
― Joe, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― chaki, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― katie, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Colin Meeder, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― haloist, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Justyn Dillingham, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Martin Skidmore, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
The Misfits was one of the last films for third lead Montgomery Clift as well as the last for Gable and Monroe.
Lost Horizon: Jack Nance (homicide), Jennifer Syme (bit part; car accident)
John Wayne? Died of cancer. Susan Hayward? Died of cancer. Agnes Moorehead? Died of cancer. Pedro Armendariz? Committed suicide while dying of cancer. Dick Powell? Died of cancer.
― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)