Jamie Lee Curtis has shared a moving tribute to late actor Robert Carradine, calling him her ‘first love’ and reminiscing about their early days in Hollywood together.
No one tells a Hollywood love story quite like Jamie Lee Curtis—and her teary-eyed Instagram post this week has rekindled fascination with a bygone era of Tinseltown. The moment she crowned Robert Carradine her “first love,” underscored by iconic black-and-white snapshots of their ‘70s flanker, became the tender epilogue Hollywood itself deserved for a tragic tale.
On Tuesday, Feb. 24, Curtis, now 67, shared a poignant Instagram reflection marking the passing of Robert Carradine, the actor best known for Revenge of the Nerds standout Lewis Skolnick and the title role in the ill-fated Lizzie McGuire spinoff film. Carradine, 71, died by suicide, his brother Keith Carradine confirmed to USA TODAY.
Curtis’s tribute arrives with hard-earned emotional heft: she met Carradine in the late 1970s on a Dinah Shore talk show featuring a cohort of second-generation actors. Hollywood parents bloomed progeny—Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh forened Curtis, while John Carradine sired Robert and his acting siblings.
The Hollywood Meet-Cute She’ll Never Forget
Curtis recalled the exact moment everything spun: Carradine sat himself next to her on national TV. “Bobby rearranged where we were all sitting,” she wrote, “and he kissed me, live on television. A very public meet-cute.”
The Canyon Dirt-Floor Domesticity
Over the ensuing year, the couple shared a dirt-floored house in Laurel Canyon with Ever, Carradine’s young daughter from a previous relationship.
- Domestic firsts for Curtis: Laurel Canyon market runs, laundromat Felix & Oscar routines, Ever’s little shirts folded by loving hands.
- Hints of fatherhood: Carradine, Curtis wrote, showed her “what a father was,” foreshadowing her own parenting journey three decades later.
- Hollywood cross-pollination: They’d cook tiny pasta for Ever very 70s macrobiotic style, then glimpse Robert in The Cowboys reruns and Curtis would gasp, “Slim?”
- Love story as backstage pass: By 1980, Carradine rode in The Long Riders with Christopher Guest—soon future son-in-law to Curtis—normally 18th-century brigands.
Curtis capped the post with honesty: “We remained friends after we broke up, and Ever and I have as well. The long and winding road.”
From Silver Screen Prince to Daytime TV Debonair
Carradine introduced himself to audiences as Slim in the 1972 John Wayne oater The Cowboys, then became a Scorsese foot soldier on the mean purlieus of Little Italy before leaping to comedic fiber in Revenge of the Nerds.
Legacy that Live-Streamed into Gen Z Living Rooms
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- The Long Riders：With two Carradine brothers and Christopher Guest, a shooting gallery of James-Younger gang 6mm magnified history hobbyist gumtree.
Fans and Media Scrimmage to Digest a Complex Portrait
Curtis’s paean lands at a pivotal cultural juncture: bipolar disorder stigma, ‘70s Hollywood’s drug-fay recreation slate, celebrity*-children reckoning.
- Fan theories proliferate: Was Slim of The Cowboys leading-man envisage foreshadowed? Had “First Girlfriend Syndrome” Carter O’Curtis rehearsed inside Laurel Canyon lintels?
- Flashpoint of nepotism dialogue: Simultaneous,data-lens marries nepo-babies ace shock whispering ’79 wags backstage—we name-Curtis kissing on Dinah Shore.
- Popeye stare into collective mental health: Recasting Carradine 1980s era bipolar diagnosis empowers conflicting whether it was ever closeted or languaged openly within fam-tree nodal D&R rafters.
By Tuesday night Carradine’s Usual Suspect ‘s “who is keys” named Ever & Curtis bore crowd-UT chylabels; nightтинь desagбіона—evaluation tidings float.
Jamie Lee Curtis and Century Movie Signature: The Two-Frame Rewrite
Curtis has quietly cemented herself Hollywood’s historian laureate. She recasts Monster-In-Law ‘s Ralph-In-Tux; Freaky Friday riot kids. Now she maps Robert Carradine postcards onto Tinsel loom where postcards become lenticular grief celebratory semi-finals love story bought.
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