7:26. John G. Blystone was the brother of another Three Stooges supporting actor, Stanley Blystone. Both brothers died of heart attacks, Stanley died of his on July 16, 1956 at the age of 61, 7 months after the sudden passing of Shemp Howard.
@@colleengaskill2792 66 was the age they set in 1935 when the average lifespan was 60 for men and 64 for women. What’s surprising is that the average lifespan was around 47 in 1900 so you’d have thought someone would’ve worked an increasing lifespan into the formula and made the retirement age 80 today!
7:26. John G. Blystone was the brother of another Three Stooges supporting actor, Stanley Blystone. Both brothers died of heart attacks, Stanley died of his on July 16, 1956 at the age of 61, 7 months after the sudden passing of Shemp Howard.
3:20. Fred Kohler played Double Deal Decker in the 1935 Three Stooges short Horses' Collars.
Few of them reached 66 which was the age the government set for social security figuring half the people would never live to collect?
Or less! I wondered about that myself!
Was that the age in 1938?
@@colleengaskill2792 66 was the age they set in 1935 when the average lifespan was 60 for men and 64 for women. What’s surprising is that the average lifespan was around 47 in 1900 so you’d have thought someone would’ve worked an increasing lifespan into the formula and made the retirement age 80 today!
@@JimCOsd55 Thank you. There is a certainly of level of absurdity.
Some pretty girls in this video!