The phrase "a deceased star" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a celebrity or notable figure who has passed away, often in the context of discussing their legacy or impact.
Example: "The documentary explores the life and career of a deceased star, highlighting their contributions to the film industry."
Alternatives: "a fallen star" or "a late celebrity".
The Patsy (1964) was a mild farce about a bellhop who is trained to replace a recently deceased star, and in The Family Jewels (1965), Lewis essayed seven roles.
As Pezzuti's explanation suggests, modern versions usually include video capture of a body double for the deceased star.
It is no mean feat for a deceased pop star to have such appeal so long after his death.
(Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, $19.95). A couple on a wild chase through the Caribbean on the trail of a deceased rock star who has been sighted there. 2 1 30 THE PELICAN BRIEF, by John Grisham.
The idea is that a deceased porn star who is of, ahem, restricted growth declares in his will that he will leave his millions to those of his family and fellow vertically challenged buddies and colleagues who can compete in horrible events in full view of the unsuspecting public.
It's just one step toward the day, some Hollywood futurists predict, when a deceased movie star can be brought back to life on screen by digital effects – and not just for a few scenes as with the CGI Paul Walker in Furious 7, but for entire films.
Given the less-than-electric impact of the recently deceased "Star Search," there was absolutely no good reason to believe that a singing competition between unknown performers, fueled by the antics of three cartoonish judges and the phone-dialing dexterity of teenagers, would survive, much less thrive.
Shakur may currently be pop's most prolific corpse, but he's certainly not the only deceased star with new material on the shelves.
Glenn Ford, deceased star of aisle-filling 1955 teensploitation movie Blackboard Jungle, is understudied by son Peter, who once played a Bill Haley B-side called Rock Around The Clock to fortysomething director Richard Brooks.
Besides persuading Nobel prizewinning novelist Gabriel García Márquez to let him convert Love in the Time of Cholera into what became Catán's breakthrough opera, Florencia en El Amazonas Florencee in the Amazon), his biggest diplomatic coup was to obtain the rights to the acclaimed 1994 film Il Postino, which had been owned by its deceased star, Massimo Troisi, and willed to his five brothers.
