You can’t take it with you, but it turns out you can keep making it after you’re gone.

Forbes has unveiled its annual list of Top-Earning Dead Celebrities, for whom fame was the gift that keeps on giving.

The operative word here is dead, so I don’t care to make the list myself. But here is some good advice for you aspiring dead celebrities:

Be iconic. Marilyn Monroe and James Dean are sill raking it in from their well-known images, decades after they left us.

Appeal to the booboisie. Aaron Spelling is number five on the list thanks to shows like Charlie’s Angels and Beverly Hills 90210. Boy, the classics just live forever.

Be a tradition. Peanuts creator Charles Schultz earned $33 million last year, much of it from TV shows that multiple generations watch every year. That’s what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown.

And the best advice, be Elvis. $52 million last year. Top of the list. He’s The King.

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The Charlie Brown balloon in a 2002 file photo. REUTERS/Jeff
Christensen

Live band backs up a virtual Elvis during a memorial concert of Elvis footage in Memphis, Tennessee, in a 2007 file photo. REUTERS/ Lucas Jackson

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