Entertainers by Generation

[GeekyCynic]

Lost:
(Humphrey Bogart, Mae West, Rudolph Valentino, The Marx Brothers, Irving Berlin, Douglas Fairbanks, Lillian Gish, Duke Ellington, Buster Keaton, James Cagney, Mary Pickford, Louis Armstrong)

G.I.:
(John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Garland, Jimmy Stewart, Bette Davis, Lucille Ball, Frank Sinatra, Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, Bob Hope, Walt Disney, Billy Wilder)

Silent:
(Elvis Presley, Woody Allen, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Clint Eastwood, Jack Nicholson, Elizabeth Taylor, Barbra Streisand, Mike Nicholas, Johnny Carson, Francis Ford Coppola, Ray Charles)

Boom: 
(Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Steven Spielberg, Gilda Radner, Madonna, John Travolta, Ron Howard, Bruce Springsteen, Jim Morrison, Susan Sarandon, Spike Lee, Michael Jackson)

Gen-X:
(George Clooney, Kanye West, Eminem, Tupac Shakur, Tina Fey, Leonardo DiCaprio, Beyonce, Jon Stewart, Kurt Cobain, Jennifer Lopez, Julia Roberts, Quentin Tarantino)

Millennial:
(Adam Driver, Lady Gaga, LaKeith Stanfield, Anne Hathaway, Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez, Kendrick Lamar, Jonah Hill, Timothee Chalamet, Cardi B, Billie Eilish, Emma Stone)

New Silent:
(McKenna Grace, Julia Butters, Brooklynn Prince, Noah Schnapp, Issac Ryan Brown, Ariana Greenblatt, Iain Armitage, Maxwell Jenkins, August Maturo, Mykal-Michelle Harris, Alan S. Kim, Chloe Coleman)

[Victorian Jim Dandy]

I like the idea of this thread because it will dispel the myth that Boomers were hippies when, in fact, they're staunch Christian conservative Reaganites.  Silent Generation were the hippies and even then they were the minority of people.

[pbrower2a]

Missionary: Tom Mix, Lionel Barrymore, Will Rogers, Enrico Caruso, Fritz Kreisler, Arturo Toscanini, Isadora Duncan. Add a large number of composers of classical music -- Gustav Mahler, Carl Nielsen, Claude Debussy, Jean Sibelius, Gustav Holst, Charles Ives, Sergei Rachmaninov, Isaac Albeniz, Maurice Ravel, Alexander Scriabin, Ottorino Respighi, Igor Stravinsky, Georges Enescu, Arnold Schoenberg (OK, I'm not sure that his music is particularly entertaining), and Bela Bartok. Scott Joplin might or might not qualify as "Classical".

Lost: I would add George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, Sergei Prokofiev, and Paul Robeson. 

Silent: did you miss Sammy Davis, Junior? Note the near plethora of comedians: Leslie Nielsen, Joan Rivers, Andy Griffith, Dick Van Dyke, Mel Brooks, Alan King, Tim Conway, Carol Burnett, Alan Alda, Flip Wilson, Woody Allen, Bill Cosby (his problems were anything but funny), Christopher Lloyd, and Richard Pryor.  Bob Uecker for his comic approach to baseball... and there was Yogi Berra.   

(Stuffy and polarized as we are we could certainly use that sort of comedy again!) Bob Dylan isn't comedy, but he is certainly brainy

Most of the Monty Python crew (Michael Palin, George Cleese) belong in the Silent list if you want them.

[JasonBlack]

Opera
Progressive: Dante del Papa
Missionary: Herman Jadlowker, Nellie Melba, Luisa Tetrazzini
Lost: Lauritz Melchior, Kirsten Flagstad, Rosa Raisa, Galliano Masini, Elvira de Hidalgo
GI: Eula Beal, Franco Corelli, Nelson Eddy, Leonard Warren, Maria Callas
Silent: Joan Sutherland, Samuel Ramey, Mary Costa, Michael Trimble, Shirley Verrett,
Boom: Jerry Hadley, June Anderson, Joseph Shore
Gen X: Saioa Hernandez, Craig Sirianni, Natalie Dessay
Millennial: ???

[pbrower2a]

(01-09-2022, 12:57 PM)Victorian Jim Dandy Wrote: I like the idea of this thread because it will dispel the myth that Boomers were hippies when, in fact, they're staunch Christian conservative Reaganites.  Silent Generation were the hippies and even then they were the minority of people.

Boomers were far more diverse in their origins. The first to attain fame (or infamy) were the pop performers, some of them very troubled people.There were the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison who had bad trips on the way to the morgue. Such people were often associated (rightly or otherwise) with "peace, love, and dope" . On the other side, does anyone think that Newt Gingrich was ever a "peace, love, and dope" type? He was always a Machiavellian pig who cleaved closely at all times to convention. The late Rush Libel (Rush Limbaugh)? 

Many sold out early, with the newly-popular MBA schools fitting their philistine materialism serving their dreams of treating people badly for personal power, indulgence, and greed..