Ricky Schroder:
In real life and on the screen, Aries are drawn to adventure. From 1998 to 2001, Staten Island native Rick Schroder played Detective Danny Sorenson on "NYPD Blue." Rick's moon in Cancer describes his love of home and family: He and wife Andrea Bernard have four children. Rick - who as a teen charmed TV viewers in " Silver Spoons " - recently wrote, directed and appeared in a feature length film, " Blac Cloud." Rick's talents as a screenwriter may soon be in great demand.
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Jinx Falkenberg:
She was a Spanish-born American actress.
b - January 21st, 1919 in Barcelona, Cataluna, Spain
d - August 27th, 2003 in Manhasset, New York
Bob Keeshan: 76
Bob Keeshan, better known to 30 years of television children as Captain Kangaroo, died Friday, January 23rd, 2004 in Montpelier, Vt., after a long illness. He was 76.
"Captain Kangaroo," a gentle, leisurely show that stressed basic lessons such as reading and proper teeth-brushing, ran on CBS-TV from October 3rd, 1955, through 1984.
Keeshan was one of the last survivors among the giants of early children's television, following the deaths in recent years of Fred Rogers ("Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood"), Shari Lewis, Frances Horwich (Miss Frances of "Ding Dong School") and Buffalo Bob Smith from "Howdy Doody."
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
December 9th, 1909 - May 7th, 2000
Nora Swinburne :
July 24th, 1902 - May 1st, 2000
Steve Reeves :
January 21st, 1926 - May 1st, 2000
Hedy Lamarr :
November 9th, 1913 - January 19th, 2000
Claude Akins:
Stocky, square-headed Claude Akins played numerous villains the early part of his career. In the late 1970s, he became permanently identified with the other side of the law as "Sheriff Elroy S. Lobo" on tevees B.J. and the Bear, and The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo. He was also the commercial spokesman for AAMCO Transmissions.
b. Nelson, Georgia - May 25th, 1926
d. January 27th, 1994 ( cancer )
Dick York:
One of the New York radio shows was an episode of Michael Shayne, a series about the adventures of a private eye. In the episode, York played a young drug addict. His performance so impressed Deke Hayworth, the writer of the show, that he sent York to see agent Deborah Cleman, who in turn sent York to see director Elia Kazan who was casting Tea and Sympathy, a drama about homosexuality in a boys school.
"I went in, read and, at first, I was cast as the villain, the one who picks on the homosexual," York recalled. "But I told Karl Malden, who was conducting the auditions for Kazan, that I felt I was better suited for the boy's friend."
York left the audition but stopped in the men's room. When he came back out into the hall Malden was looking for him and wanted him to come back to read for the other part. "I went back in and read it once and he says, 'You're it.' I played the friend."
During the run of Tea and Sympathy ( which also starred Deborah Kerr, John Kerr and Leif Erickson ), York continued to be heard on the radio soap operas This is Nora Drake, young Doctor Malone, and Rosemary. Tea and Sympathy opened in September, 1953, to successful reviews.
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Rory Calhoun: 76
Born Francis Timothy McCown, he adopted his stepfather's surname and became Francis Durgin following his own father's disappearance at sea. He would become a boxer, a lumberjack, a mechanic, a truck driver, a cowpuncher. Tall and handsome [ 6'3" ], he benefited from a screen test at 20th Century-Fox, arranged for him by Sue Carol, a Hollywood agent and the wife of actor Alan Ladd, who is said to have spotted Calhoun in the first place. He debuted on the screen in SOMETHING FOR THE BOYS (1944), with Carmen Miranda.
Dropping out of high school, he turned to car theft, serving three years in the federal refomatory in El Reno OK (blackmailers nearly ruined his career over this in the mid-'50s, but he foiled them by bringing the story out himself). Alan Ladd - did - spot him riding a horse in Los Angeles, and suggested he take that screen test.
His final appearance, when he was 70 years old but handsom as ever, was as Ernest Tucker in PURE COUNTRY (1992). A long series of Western movies ensued, as well as the TV series "The Texan" (1958-1960). He died while being treated for diabetes and emphysema at St. Joseph's Medical Center in Burbank CA.
b. - August 8th, 1922 in Los Angeles, California
d. - April 28th, 1999
F.Scott Fitzgerald:
Scott Fitzgerald, Author, Dies at 44 - HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Dec. 22nd, 1040 (AP) -- F.Scott Fitzgerald, novelist, short story writer and scenarist, died at his Hollywood home yesterday. His age was 44 and he had suffered a heart attack three weeks ago.
Richard Rodgers:
Richard Rodgers Is Dead at Age 77; Broadway's Renowned Composer.
Richard Rodgers, the world renowned composer and lyricist, died at his East Side home in Manhattan at 10:28 P.M. last night after a long illness.
Madlyn Rhue:
Los Angeles, Dec. 19 (AP) -- Madlyn Rhue, whose acting career spanned three decades and scores of television appearances on shows ranging from "Perry Mason" to "Murder, She Wrote," died on Tuesday, Dec. 16th, 2003 at age 68. Ms. Rhue, who had multiple sclerosis, died of pneumonia at the Motion Picture and Television Fund Hospital.
Hope Lange:
Hope Lange, who earned an Oscar nomination for her supporting role in the 1957 film "Peyton Place" and won two Emmys for her charming turn as Carolyn Muir on the popular television series "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir," has died at age 70. Hope died on Friday, December 19th, 2003 at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica after suffering an infection caused by an intestinal inflammation known as ischemic colitis, said her husband, theatrical producer Charles Hollerith Jr.
Jeanne Crain:
Jeanne Crain, the winsome beauty who starred in lightweight 1940s romances and comedies such as "Margie" and "An Apartment for Peggy" and earned an Academy Award nomination as a black girl passing for white in the controversial "Pinky," has died of a heart attack at her Santa Barbara home early Sunday morning, December 14th, 2003, according to her son Paul Brinkman Jr. She appeared in 64 films and many television shows during her long career, playing opposite such stars as Frank Sinatra, Kirk Douglas and William Holden.
Elia Kazan:
Director Elia Kazan, who helmed A Streetcar Named Desire and won directing Oscars for Gentleman's Agreement and On the Waterfront has died at his home in New York City. He celebrated his 94th birthday on September 7th. Kazan made some of the most important films of the 1950s and worked particularly well with young talent. In Streetcar he introduced Marlon Brando to the world, gave James Dean his major motion picture debut in East of eden and provided Warren Beatty with his big break in Splendor in the Grass. The child of Greek immigrants, Kazan's first love was the stage and he first gained notoriety with his productions of A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE and the 1948 first run of Arthur Miller's DEATH OF A SALESMAN, also ~ worked as director on the Broadway smash hit TEA AND SYMPATHY starring the two players from the film with the same name, Deborah Kerr and John Kerr. In addition to Miller, Kazan worked with many of the greatest playwrights and writers of the 20th century, including Tennessee Williams, John steinbeck and Thornton Wilder.
b. September 7th, 1909 ~ Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
d. September 28th, 2003 ~ New York City (Manhattan)
Lili (or Lille):
b. Albany, New York - 1983 d. October, 2003 - North Swan St., Albany, N.Y.
June Allyson:
b. October 7th, 1917 - The Bronx, New York
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Dame Flora Robson:
b. March 28th, 1902 - South Shields, Durham, England
d. July 7th, 1984 - Brighton, East Essex, England
Dame Wendy Hiller:
b. August 15th, 1912 - Bramhall, Cheshire, England
d. May 14th, 2003 - Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England
Charles Bronson:
Charles Bronson was best known for his roles in what were some of Hollywood's most violent films of the 1970s. None were more violent than the 1974 movie "DEATH WISH," in which Mr. Bronson portrayed an architect turned vigilante who hunts muggers in New York after his wife is killed and his daughter raped by thugs. The critics denounced the film as a vehicle for legitimizing violent behavior. Vincent Canby, reviewing it for The New York Times, called it "a despicable movie, one that raises complex questions in order to offer bigoted, frivolous, oversimplified answers."
The movie nevertheless became a hit and made Mr. Bronson, then in his early 50s and already a success in Europe, a star in America.
b. November 3rd, 1921 - Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania
d. August 30th, 2003 - Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
( pneumonia )
Dame Elizabeth Taylor:
Beautiful, gifted, and charismatic. Elizabeth Taylor has proven herself to be much more than a Hollywood legend. This stunning, compassionate and loving human being is a savvy businesswoman, and a beloved icon of the silver screen.
Born into a wealthy family and introduced to Hollywood at the tender age of nine, she has been in the public eye for most of her life. As a young actress, her talent and her striking beauty ~ punctuated by her creamy complexion and famed eyes ~ suggested a depth of emotion that was far beyond her years. And indeed, when put to the test, young Elizabeth proved that she had a talent greater than any other child star. In 1944, she was cast as the lead in "National Velvet," and a star was born.
In the years that followed, Elizabeth became a legend with such unforgettable films as "Can on a Tin Roof " and " Butterfield 8. " But even as she became known as a power to be reckoned with in Hollywood ~ earning cool million to appear in " Cleopatra " in 1963 ~ her artistic efforts were often overshadowed by her tumultuous personal life. As she fell in and out of love and moved from one husband to another, the media always codemned her.
b. February 27th, 1932 - Hampstead, London, England
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Greer Garson:
She learned to accept that the world would always confuse her with Mrs. Miniver, the brave British housewife who endured German air raids in the 1942 movie with the same name that gave the Irish-born star her Oscar. Classic Garson, in such films as the 1942 weeper RANDOM HARVEST, radiated femininity and selfless devotion. "There were jokes," she recalled later, after moving to Dallas with her third husband, oilman E.E. Fogelson. "Like the one that I was the human Lassie. But there are worse images."
Yet Greer Garson onscreen was not so different from Garson in life.
B. September 29th, 1904 - London, England
d. April 6th, 1996 - Dallas Texas (heart failure)
Jean Seberg:
Education: Iowa University Gamine blond actress who landed the title role in Otto Preminger's SAINT JOAN (1957) after a much-publicized contest involving some 18,000 hopefuls. The failure of that film, and the only moderate success of her next, BONJOUR TRISTESSE (1958), combined to stall Seberg's career, until her role in Jean-Luc Godard's landmark New Wave feature, BREATHLESS (1959), brought her renewed international attention. Seberg gave a memorable performance as a schizophrenic in the title role of Robert Rossen's LILITH (1964) and was directed by husbands Francois Moreuil, in PLAYTIME (1962), and Romain Gary, in BIRDS COME TO DIE IN PERU (1968)/LES OISEAUX VONT MOURIR AU PEROU/BIRDS IN PERU. Jean Seberg was found dead under mysterious circumstances in a Paris suburb in 1979.
b. November 13th, 1938 - Marshalltown, Iowa
d. September 8th, 1979 - Paris France.
John Wayne:
b. May 26th, 1907 - Winterset, Iowa
d. June 11th, 1979 - Los Angeles, California ( lung and stomach cancer )
Maurice Chevalier:
b. September 12th, 1888 - Paris, France
d. January 1st, 1972 - Paris, France
( cardiac arrest after surgery for a kidney problem )
Height 5' 11 1/2"
His heavy French accent, his melodic voice and his charm made Maurice Chevalier the prototype of the galant French monsieur in the American cinema of the thirties. Before he went to Hollywood he worked as peon, circus acrobat, cabaret singer and since 1908 as comical actor in the French cinema, a few times even with 'Max Linder'. Being in the French infantery during World War I he was German prisoner from 1914 to 1916. After the success of his first film in Hollywood "The Love Parade" (1929) he worked in various comedies of Ernst Lubitsch, "The Merry Widow" (1934). He retired from the movies in 1967 after having played in the end mainly roles of friendly patriarchs.
Francoise Sagan : 69
Francoise Sagan, writer of the bestselling novel "BONJOUR TRISTESSE" about seduction and infidelity among the idle rich, died September 24th, 2004 in Honfleur, France of heart and lung failure. She was 69.
"Bonjour Tristesse" was filmed into a 1958 Otto Preminger movie with Deborah Kerr and David Niven, and her novel GOODBYE AGAIN became a 1961 film starring Ingrid Bergman as a 40-year-old woman having an affair with a 24-year-old man. Many of her other novels and short stories were adapted as French films or TV movies.
Born Francoise Quoirez in the town of Cajarc in southwest France, Sagan wrote "Bonjour Tristesse" in six weeks while a student at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1953. Published in 1954, the book sold more than 2 million copies worlwide and was translated into at least 15 languages.
Sagan, who selected her pen name from a character in Marcel Proust's A CITY OF LOST TIME, went on to write 30 novels and compilation of novellas as well as nine plays.
A longtime smoker with a penchant for fast cars, Sagan was fined for using cocaine in the mid-1990s and ordered to seek treatment. In 2002, a court convicted her of tax fraud.
She was survived by her son.
Elaine Stewart:
One of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's loveliest and most promising youngsters, who made her first musicalk, BRIGADOON. First seen in a small part in The Story of Three Loves, she has subsequently made several screen appearances, including the only female role in TAKE THE HIGH GROUND.
b. May 31st, 1929 in Montclair, New Jersey
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John Frankenheimer:
He was born February 19th, 1930, in New York City. He died July 6th, 2002, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California; after suffering a massive stroke due to complications following spinal surgery.
His first feature film assignment, The Young Stranger (1957), itself an adaptation of a Frankenheimer-directed TV show. He followed this with a minor film about urban youths, The Young Savages (1961), and then the popular, but somewhat sentimental and sluggish The Birdman of Alcatraz (1962).
Freddie Bartholomew:
was born Frederick Llewellyn. He was raised by his maiden aunt, Millicent Bartholomew, after his disinterested parents granted guardianship to her. "Aunt Cissy" brought him to the United States and to MGM, where he landed the role of young David Copperfield, and was an immediate sensation. He had made a small fortune by his teen years, but spent most of it fighting a custody battle between aunt Cissy (whom he wanted to stay with), and his parents. When his acting career ended, he worked as a TV host, a director, then an edvertising executive.
b. London, England, March 28th, 1924
d. Sarasota, Florida, January 23rd, 1992
Jean Kent:
One of the pleasures of forties cinema is watching Jean Kent mature from a pretty bit of decoration feeding lines to Askey and Hanley into a sexy famme fatale. There's also a great deal of pleasure to be had from watching her cope with the flighty foreign floozy parts she got lumbered with in the process.
She was born into show business with her parents working in Music Halls. She was put into the business from an early age and when times got tough in the depression joined the chorus at the infamous Windmill Theatre (at the age of fifteen).
The turning point in her career came when she was given a part in Fanny by Gaslight and was allowed to "go dramatic".
Ida Lupino:
In most of her movies she was cast as the hard, but sympathetic woman from the wrong side of the track. In "The Sea Wolf (1941)" and "High Sierra (1941)" she played the part magnificently.
It has been said that no one could do hard-luck dames the way Ida Lupino could do them.
She is the child of british revue star and comedian Stanley Lupino. She married Howard Duff in 1951 to 1984 and they had a daughter Bridget Duff.
b. February 4th, 1914 in London, England
d. August 3rd, 1995 of a stroke while battling colin cancer - Los Angeles, Calif.
Gregory Hines: 57; Tap Dancer, actor, singer
Gregory Hines, The genial, suave dancer, singer and actor who for many personified the art of classical tap in the 1980s and 90s, a master of a distinctively earthy, roughhewn tap style, the Tony and Daytime Emmy award-winning performer died late Saturday on his way to a hospital from his home in Los Angeles.
b. New York City, February 14th, 1946
d. Los Angeles, California, August 9th, 2003
Ian Hunter:
b. Capetown, South Africa, June 13th, 1900 - d. London, England, September 23rd, 1975
Wife: Catherine Pringle
Children: Two Sons
Hair Colour: Brown
Eye Colour: Blue
Height: 6 feet
Buddy Ebsen: 95,
b. Belleville, Illinois, April 2nd, 1908 - d. Torrance, California hospital, June 6th, 2003
Carlos Rivas: 78,
b. Odessa, Texas, September 16th, 1928 - d. Los Angeles, California, June 16th, 2003 of prostate cancer
Skip Ward aka James Ward: 69,
b.Cleveland, Ohio, September 12th, 1932 - d. at the Motion Picture and Television Home, Calabasas, California, July 4th, 2003
Gregory Peck: 87,
b. La Jolla, California, April 5th, 1916 - d. at home in Los Angeles, California, June 12th, 2003
Katharine Hepburn: 96,
b. Hartford, Connecticut, May 12th, 1907 - d. Old Saybrook, Connecticut, June 29th, 2003
Montgomery Clift - Best Known As:
Pvt. Prewitt in the film From Here to Eternity
He started acting on Broadway as a teenager; by age 18 he was playing leading roles and was an early member of the prestigious Actor's Studio. He eventually moved on to Hollywood, where his brooding, reluctant-hero presence was a new thing and made him a popular leading man of the post-war era. His most famous role may have been the troubled Private Prewitt in FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (1953, with Frank Sinatra and Burt Lancaster). Monty was nominated for an Academy Award for this film, and also for the films THE SEARCH (1948), A PLACE IN THE SUN (1951), and THE MISFITS (1961, Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable's last film). He is also known for the turmoil in his private life. His sex life has been much-discussed ~~ he apparently was gay, though at times he dated women ~~ and he sometimes drank heavily,especially after a 1957 car crash broke his jaw and nose and damaged his face badly. Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor had a famous friendship.
Lance Comfort:
He entered the film business while in his teens. The industry was booming and he tried his hand at just about everything from sound recording to trick photography for a variety of production companies. He became an assistant director/technical advisor under John Baxter on a number of films including Song of the Road and Love on the Dole.
After directing a handful of children's shorts, he got his feature break with Penn of Pennsylvania. This didn't make much of an impression despite having Deborah Kerr in the cast; his next film, Hatter's Castle did. He worked steadily in the 40s and it looked like he was going to really make an impression. Somehow, he never did.
b. 1908 - d. August 25th, 1966
Hume Cronyn: 91,
b. London, Ontario, Canada, July 18th, 1911 - d. of prostate cancer, Fairfield, connecticut, June 15th, 2003
Fielder Cook: 80,
b. Atlanta, Georgia, March 9th, 1923 - d. from a stroke in charlotte, North Carolina, June 20th, 2003
David Brinkley: 82,
b. Wilmington, North Carolina, July 10th,1920 - d. Houston, Texas, June 11th, 2003
Patrick Cambell: 78,
b. Waukegan, Illinois, in 1925 - d. Covins, California, May 30th, 2003
Dame Flora Robson:
If Margaret Rutherford was this country's greatest example of the comic character actress then Flora Robson must be the best example of the serious character actress. though she's primarily remembered as portraying tight-lipped spinsters, her actual range of characters was much wider.
b. March 28th, 1902
d. July 7th, 1984
Valerie Hobson:
She was typcast as the Iron Maiden of British cinema. always perfectly groomed, nicely spoken, and with the sort of toughness that built the Empire. You can imagine her surviving The Black Hole of calcutta without a hair out of place. You can't imagine her enjoying a "knock-knock" joke. As a type it's gone out of fashion, but Valerie Hobson was cinema's best exponent of it at a time when the type was in demand, but therefore got to appear in some of the best films this country has ever produced.
In 1946 she got to play Estella in Lean's Great Expectations. She was perfect.
b. April 14th, 1917
d. November 13th, 1998
May Mallett and Jenny Laird:
Jenny Laird was a young Scottish actress whom I had seen often in the stage, notably in one of James Bridie's plays at the Westminster Theatre. I liked her directness and the way she got on with the job. Flora Robson, of course, was a Famous actress, and Alex Korda had made her a star when he played her as Queen Elizabeth in Fire Over England. Now she had agreed to play Sister Philippa, the gardener amongst the little party of nuns, and I was almost afraid of my good luck.
We passed them in review. Sister Philippa quite obviously had green fingers - she reminded me of one of my aunts. Sister Honey adored children and especially babies. Sister Briony, a tower of strength in every sense of the word, had a medical degree. Sister Ruth was the brainy one; she was a Ph.D., taught school and had fantastic nightmares. Sister Clodagh, ah! Sistere Clodagh! The veritable Admirable Crichton among missionary nuns. She is certainl of her vocation and proud to be tested now in her first command. She was to be tested. Gradually the images of the actresses that I had chosen took over from the imagees in the book. They were a wonderful team, inventive, afraid of nothing. I identified with them so strongly that sometimes, when I run the film today, I expect to see myself coming round the corner or along the twisting corridors of the House of Women.
Ayah, the masterful old guardian of the place, who brings a touch of bawdy realism into the nuns' airy plans is played by May Hallatt. I took a long chance in casting this diminutive English actress in the part, but it came off. There were sequences of her haunting the weird old place that were pure choreography, and she told me afterwards that she had no idea what I was driving at when I was miming them for her. Anyway, it worked.
Over Jean Simmons there was war between Larry and me, as I have already said. Messages flew to and fro between the opposing camps:
"Dear Larry, anybody can play Ophelia. I can play Ophelia. How about bobby Helpmann? Love micky."
"Dear Micky, how you could imagine that a typical English teenager, straight from the vicarage, can play a piece of Indian tail, beats me. I enclose a book of erotic Indian pictures to help your casting director. Love Larry."
"Dear Larry. Thank you for the book. I do my own casting, but it will come in handy for the make-up department. Micky."
"Dear Micky. Viv has read Black Narcissus. She wants to know if you are serrious about Jean playing Kanchi?"
"Perfectly serious. Micky."
"Dear Micky. Arthur Rank suggests that our two production managers get together over Jean Simmons. Do you agree? Larry."
"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. Love Micky."
In this way did the two plum parts of the year fall into Jean Simmons's luscious lap. she was lovely in both of them. I don't think that she was ever quite so good again.
May Hallett:
b. Scarborough, England - May 1st, 1876
d. London, England - May 20th, 1969
Jenny Laird:
b. Manchester, England - February 13th, 1917
d. London, England - October 31st, 2001
Ann Todd:
At first glance, Ann Todd's career was a typical one: pretty young thing works her way up from ingenue roles to being a star actress before the gradual decline into character parts. It's a shame that she did no comedies because I suspect she would have been fun. She never thought much of her acting ability - she was a curiously unsympathetic figure, sombre, almost sullen, her face a mask. Only occasionally, when she was caught smiling, was there a suggestion that beneath the mask was someone worth getting to know. 1909 - 1993
Anton Walbrook:
He never lost his accent. He never lost his Teutonic personality. But even through the war, Anton Walbrook was Britain's favourite German. 1900 - 1967
Pepper LaBeija:
- 53, A legend in the land of extravagant make-believe, a glamorous queen of the Harlem drag balls immortalized in the 1991 documentary "Paris Is Burning" died at Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan of a heart attack 5/14/03
Frank Sinatra:
- 82, Singer and film actor 5/16/98
James Stewart:
- 89, Actor, Made more than eighty movies; national icon; won Oscar 7/3/97
Roy Rogers:
- 83, Singer and actor, movies and country record artist 7/7/98
Ginger Rogers:
- 83, Actress and dancer, Made seventy movies; won Oscar; humble upbringing 4/26/95
Red Skelton:
- 84, Actor and clown, TV, movies; began in vaudeville shows 9/18/97
Gene Autry:
- 91, Actor and businessman, Movies; owner of radio and TV stations and baseball team 10/3/98
Ella Fitzgerald:
- 79, Jazz singer 6/16/96
James Mitchener:
- 90, Novelist "Hawaii" and others 10/17/97
Harold Robbins:
- 81, Novelist "Never Love a Stranger" 10/15/97
Burt Lancaster:
- 80, Film actor. Circus acrobat turned Hollywood star in more than 70 movies; The Killers, From Here to Eternity, Separate Tables, 10/22/94.
Robert Mitchum:
- 79, Film actor. Motion Picture actoe in more than 100 movies; Cape Fear, The Story of G.I. Joe, 7 / 2/ 97
Dean Martin:
- 78, Film, TV and recording artist. Teamed with Jerry Lewis and the Rat Pack; comic on TV show and in films, 12 / 26 / 95
Robert Young:
- 91, Motion picture player and TV. Played wholesome characters in Father Knows Best and Marcus Welby, M.D. 7 / 23 / 98
E. G. Marshall:
- 84, Plays, TV and films.Character actor in The Defenders, The New Doctors, and in film with Yul Brynner + Deborah Kerr "The Journey" 8 / 26 / 98
Roddy McDowall:
- 70, Play, TV and film actor. Child star who became versatile actor; Lassie Come Home, How Green Was My Valley 10 / 4 / 98
Cesar Romero:
- 86, Play, TV and films. The Joker in "Batman" TV series; gigalo in films 1 / 3 / 94
Claudette Colbert:
- 92, Play, films and TV player. Won Oscar for It Happened One Night; made early film appearance in Cleopatra and made more than 60 films 7 / 31 / 96
Lana Turner:
- 75, Films, plays and TV performer. They Won't Forget, The Postman Always Rings Twice 7 / 1 / 95
Alice Faye:
- 83, Films, plays and radio. Left Hollywood at the height of her fame; Tin Pan Alley, Hello, Frisco, Hello
5 / 10 / 98
Mildred Natwick:
- 89, Plays, films and TV. Excelled at eccentricity; Barefoot in the Park, The Snoop Sisters, played the mother to Elizabeth Taylor in
"Butterfield 8" 10 / 26 / 94
Ross Hunter:
- 75, Film producer. Pillow Talk, Airport, more than 60 movies 3/12/96
Eleanor Roosevelt: 78
Died November 7th, 1962
Franklin Delano Roosevelt:
Eighty-two days into his fourth presidential term, F.D.R. suffered a cerebal hemorrhage. He died suddenly this day, April 12th, 1945, at his home in Warm Springs, Georgia.
Gregory Phillips:
He played the wonderful son to Judy Garland and ____________________ in " I Could Go On Singing. " He was born May 18th, 1948 in Hitchin, Hearts, England
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