Do you think Bogart, Cooper and Gable would have done TV??

Episodic TV into the 60s and 70s if they had lived??

I think it might have depended on the paycheck...

I would love to have seen Bogart in a Twilight Zone episode.

No. They were far too big to do a full TV series. Though I know Bogart guest starred on a 1950s comedy variety show as I watched it recently.

The really scary thing is that we're pretty much getting to the point where that kind of thing may become possible, thanks to AI... unless the actor's estate completely rejects the idea.

But I think in a lot of cases, if someone pays enough, they could probably get the rights.

Henry Fonda, Barbara Stanwyck and others did TV series.

Mary Wickes would've been great on The Twilight Zone. Maybe she even did do it, I'm too lazy to go look and see.

Wasn't Barbara Stanwyck just as big a star?

Stanwyck especially was highly successful in TV. I didn't know about Fonda, what was his show called?

Not by the time that tv got popular in the 50s. Her hey day was in the 30s and 40s. But she will always be a big star to me One of my favorites.

The Smith Family, it lasted one season.

He did a lot of episodes for The Deputy (76) and The Smith Family (39). He also did an episode of All in the Family

Bogart might have done guest starring roles poking fun at his image (Thinking about his joke cameo in Road To Rio). Clark Gable feels like the least likely. I get the impression he wouldn't care much for the television format, given his larger-than-life acting style.

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I just saw a ad in which Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. meet Snoop Dogg and someone else famous who I have forgotten in a casino.
I hate the use of the deceased's image in this way. I find it very disrespectful. I wonder if the estate makes any money off it?
The other guy was Dr. Dre. Tina Sinatra was blowing it up so I imagine the estate got paid.

I can easily imagine Gable on celebrity quiz shows like Blankety Blank.

I have trouble picturing Gable on tv too.

Orson Welles appeared on a game show as a guest panelist in 1958, What's My Line? So funny as he really had no clue when the mystery guest is on and the panelist are all blindfolded.

I couldn't see any of them doing a crime or drama series.

They would even do commercials for credit card companies and stuff.

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I could see all three of them doing a tongue-in-cheek appearance just for the fun-of-it on TV; something akin to John Wayne's appearance in a bunny suit on "Laugh In." As far as changing up the format and moving from movies to TV the way many movie stars of the 1980's, 1990's, and 2000's have today... not a chance. Of course Barbara Stanwyck, one of the biggest actresses of her day, went to TV in the 1960's with "The Big Valley," but that was hardly the standard back then. Of course women generally have a far shorter life-span when it comes to bankability in movies than men, largely because their "social capital" dries up around age 40 and quickly plummets unless they are a true true talent and can gracefully ease into middle age and their golden years like an actress like Julie Christie or someone along those lines. Men have an vastly longer shelf life as far as that goes, so I don't think there would be the pressures of them to move to TV back in the day the way there could be for women.

Of course today, it's entirely different, because they hardly make movies any more, at least not for the mainstream, so TV is where they have to go to earn a dollar. People like Kevin Costner with Yellowstone or Winona Rider with Stranger Things. Different times though. But I certainly can't see Bogart, Cooper, or Gable moving to the B-leagues of TV during their time and I certainly wouldn't want them to either.

But I do love the bunny outfit!

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