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Rhonda Fleming, film star of โ40s and โ50s, dies at 97
Read full article: Rhonda Fleming, film star of โ40s and โ50s, dies at 97FILE - In this Sept. 28, 1981 file photo, Actress Rhonda Fleming poses for a photo in Hollywood, Calif. Actress Rhonda Fleming, the fiery redhead who appeared with Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Charlton Heston, Ronald Reagan and other film stars of the 1940s and 1950s, has died, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020. She was 97. (AP Photo/Wally Fong)
Rhonda Fleming, film star of โ40s and โ50s, dies at 97
Read full article: Rhonda Fleming, film star of โ40s and โ50s, dies at 97(AP Photo/Wally Fong)LOS ANGELES โ Actress Rhonda Fleming, the fiery redhead who appeared with Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Charlton Heston, Ronald Reagan and other film stars of the 1940s and 1950s, has died. Fleming died Wednesday in Santa Monica, California, assistant Carla Sapon told The Associated Press. Legend or not, at 19 Louis was awarded a six-month contract at the studio of David O. Selznick and a new name: Rhonda Fleming. Iโm much more fulfilled today than at any time in my life.โAfter Flemingโs sister, Beverly Engel, died of cancer in 1991, Fleming and her husband established the Rhonda Fleming Mann Resource Center for Women with Cancer at the UCLA Medical Center. A couple of years after Mann died, Fleming married for a sixth time, to Derol W. Carlson, who died in 2017.
Olivia de Havilland, Oscar-winning actress, dies at 104
Read full article: Olivia de Havilland, Oscar-winning actress, dies at 104FILE - In this June 18, 2016, file photo, U.S. actress Olivia de Havilland poses during an Associated Press interview, in Paris. Olivia de Havilland, Oscar-winning actress has died, aged 104 in Paris, publicist says Sunday July 26, 2020. Havilland, the sister of fellow Oscar winner Joan Fontaine, died peacefully of natural causes, said New York-based publicist Lisa Goldberg. I wanted to be a stage actress, she recalled. De Havilland allegedly never got along with Fontaine, a feud magnified by the 1941 Oscar race that placed her against her sister for best actress honors.
Olivia de Havilland embodied old Hollywood, and shook it up
Read full article: Olivia de Havilland embodied old Hollywood, and shook it upOlivia de Havilland, Oscar-winning actress has died, aged 104 in Paris, publicist says Sunday July 26, 2020. Fans and actors alike owe much to de Havilland, the Oscar-winning performer who became, almost literally, a law unto herself. De Havilland, who died Sunday at 104, was one of the last survivors of Hollywoods so-called Golden Age. De Havilland died peacefully of natural causes at her home in Paris, publicist Lisa Goldberg said. Flynn was a compulsive womanizer even by Hollywood standards, but de Havilland insisted that her bond with the dashing actor remained, somehow, platonic.
Mansion that inspired 'Gone With the Wind' up for auction
Read full article: Mansion that inspired 'Gone With the Wind' up for auctionThe mansion that inspired the Twelve Oaks plantation, home of the Wilkes family in "Gone With the Wind," is going up for sale. (CNN) - The mansion that inspired the Twelve Oaks plantation, home of the Wilkes family in "Gone With the Wind," is going up for sale. On top of the image, she wrote "Twelve Oaks" and "I like this for Ashley's home," according to the book "David O. Selznick's Gone with the Wind." The majestic white mansion features 12 bedrooms, 12 bathrooms, more than 3 acres of gardens, a pool, 12 fireplaces, a grand dining room, a formal parlor and a four-car carriage house, according to Target Auction Company. "This would make a magnificent home, a lucrative business or both," Dewey Jacobs of Target Auction said in a news release.