Camelot and Broadway Star Robert Goulet Dies of Rare Lung Disease  Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Veteran singer / actor Robert Goulet, Camelot and Broadway star, has died. He was 73.  The Broadway star passed away at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Tuesday morning, after doctors failed to find a suitable donor transplant to treat the lung disease, Interstitial Pulmonary Fibrosis.

Goulet was just diagnosed with the illness in September (07), when he was taken to
a Las Vegas hospital after feeling increasingly weak and suffering from shortage of breath.  He was transferred to the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on October 13th to undergo an emergency lung transplant, after he had been diagnosed with the rare disorder.  The exact cause of the disease is not known.

According to his wife, Vera, Goulet remained in good spirits up until his
death, even joking with doctors to "watch my vocal chords" before they inserted
a breathing tube.

The star played his last performance in Syracuse, New York, on September 20th, where he performed his one-man show A Man and His Music, complete with a 15-piece orchestra.

Goulet is survived by his third wife, Vera, and three children from his previous two marriages.  You can read all about his life, career, and music on wikipedia...his official website is down due to too many people trying to access it at once.

Although a lot of his career was before my time, I recognized Goulet instantly from a 1967 appearance on The Lucy Show...he played both himself and his exact double, who gets turned down for a loan by Mooney (Gale Gordon) and gets entered into a Robert Goulet look-alike contest hosted by Lucy (Lucille Ball) to raise money.  He was one of those greats from that era.

So, in remembrance, here is actually the entire episode that he appeared in.  Feel like going back in time?  Complete with fast forward slider ;-)  Hats off!

   

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