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27 Jan 2010, 11:11 pm

I'm in a film class in college and was wondering if anyone can think of any Actors/Actresses that they think had AS ?



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27 Jan 2010, 11:12 pm

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27 Jan 2010, 11:31 pm

Bo Derek

but I wouldn't call either Dan Aykroyd or Bo Derek classic film actors. Life was very different for Aspies and Auties in the early 20th century and frankly a lot of them were neglected and marginalized to the point they might not have had the opportunity to rise to the early movies and the classic Hollywood period of the thirties and forties.

Unless they were in an acting family - like the Barrymores


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27 Jan 2010, 11:32 pm

Garbo, she was extremely private and was famous for insisting on a closed set when filming. She never married, although there were plenty of men that would have done so. She turned her back on stardom and became a recluse living in New York.


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27 Jan 2010, 11:49 pm

Prof_Pretorius wrote:
Garbo, she was extremely private and was famous for insisting on a closed set when filming. She never married, although there were plenty of men that would have done so. She turned her back on stardom and became a recluse living in New York.


and you know what they say about those Scandinavian types. . . :roll:

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In two weeks Psychiatric sent him a memo to not send those men to them, they were not depressed, they were merely Norwegian.

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28 Jan 2010, 11:10 pm

Thanks, sinsboldly, that made me laugh ....

I've been giving this some thought and perhaps Bert Lahr was AS. He never 'understood' that he came off looking odd, and didn't do very well in the movies. (With the notable exception of the Wizard of Oz, which was written for him.)

And Garbo was Swedish, which I guess is rather like being Norweigian ...


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02 Feb 2010, 1:55 am

I've heared people say that Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift and Shirley Temple are AS.



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03 Feb 2010, 1:17 am

Snoopy wrote:
I've heared people say that Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift and Shirley Temple are AS.


you mean Dr Temple Grandin, not Shirley Temple.


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03 Feb 2010, 3:49 am

Dustin Hoffman. Although he was on the autistic spectrum only while making Rainman. He is the quintessential method actor, you know. :wink:

Seriously, Darryl Hannah was diagnosed to be on the spectrum. I don't remember AS or HFA.


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04 Feb 2010, 10:33 am

Snoopy wrote:
I've heared people say that Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift and Shirley Temple are AS.


Yhank you, I've been trying to remember Monty Clift. Check out his Wiki article. A very troubled actor.


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10 Apr 2010, 4:53 pm

I've heared from my thearapist that Elizabeth Taylor has Asperger's.



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12 Apr 2010, 4:10 pm

Jean Arthur could of been an aspie, but thats just my opinion.



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13 Apr 2010, 1:27 am

Marlon Brando, Orson Welles, Peter Sellers.



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27 Apr 2010, 2:05 pm

Possibly Joan Crawford anyone ?



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28 Apr 2010, 10:50 am

I heard Lassie had Aspergers.



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30 Apr 2010, 6:07 pm

Have I killed another thread? :(

Being (half) serious for a minute, if I had to think of a famously solitary classic Hollywood star, I'd go for Greta Garbo. If I had to think of a famously troubled classic Hollywood star I would go for Frances Farmer. And ... and ... if I had to think of a classic Hollywood star with an unexpectedly nerdy talent, I would go for Hedy Lamarr, who co-invented a technique for spread spectrum communications (don't ask me what that is, but I just had to squeeze in that bit of trivia somewhere).

Even before reading this thread I've heard people suggest Marilyn Monroe was on the spectrum. I don't know why. Perhaps she was unusually naive or something.