With the passing of Jerry Lewis, three people have written me today to ask this question that David Goehner sent in…
Are we now down to just two of the zillion-member It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World cast members who are still with us? Only Barrie Chase and Carl Reiner?
There are a few extras still alive but as far as I know, there are only three folks alive who had speaking parts — the two you mention plus Nick Georgiade. Nick played the police detective who accompanied Norman Fell down to the crash site early in the picture.
Hey, if you're in L.A. and you've always wanted to meet the lovely Barrie Chase, she's among the guests at the next Hollywood Show, which takes place October 21 and 22 at the Westin Los Angeles Airport Hotel. Among the other celebs who'll be there one or both days hawking their autographs are Diahann Carroll, Barbara Eden, Ed Asner, James Darren, Lee Meriwether, Loni Anderson, Shirley Jones, my old pal Eddie Deezen and, yes, Jerry Mathers as The Beaver.