With the words, “Good evening – I’m Chevy Chase, and you’re not,” Cornelius Crane Chase struck a chord with... (Learn more)
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"Nobody prepares you for what happens when you get famous, and I didn't handle it well," says Chase. "I'm older now. And a big crybaby." - Chase to Entertainment Weekly, Aug. 13, 2004
In Chase's autobiography, I'm Chevy Chase... And You're Not, Chase claimed he lived in "deathly fear" of his mentally-ill mother and stepfather because they subjected him to regular psychological torture.
Named Man of the Year (1992) by Harvard's Hasty Pudding Theatricals, the nation's oldest undergraduate dramatic group.
Was nearly killed (electrocuted) during the filming of "Modern Problems" (1981) when, during the sequence in which he is wearing 'landing lights' as he dreams that he is an airplane, the current in the lights short-circuited through his arm, back, and neck muscles. The near-death experience caused him to experience a period of deep depression.
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