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LIFTOFF, 43 YEARS AGO TODAY
GINGER ROGERS, BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1911
Ginger Rogers (Virginia Katherine McMath; July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995)
Ginger Rogers made her performing debut at age 14, moving on to Vaudeville and
then to Broadway. She arrived in Hollywood in 1931. Her first film, playing opposite Claudette Colbert as a 16 year old flapper, made her a star. She made a total 73
films. Musicals from 1933 to 1939 with RKO including Top Hat and Swing Time
with dance partner Fred Astaire remain classics today.
When Ginger’s mother died in 1877, she remained at the families Rogue River
Ranch in Oregon until 1990, when she sold the property and moved to nearby
Medford.
Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire
ACTRESS CELESTE HOLM DEAD AT 95
Celeste Holm (April 29, 1917 – July 15, 2012)
NEW YORK (AP) – Celeste Holm, a versatile, bright-eyed blonde who
soared to Broadway fame in "Oklahoma!" and won an Oscar in
"Gentleman’s Agreement" but whose last years were filled with
financial difficulty and estrangement from her sons, died early this
morning, a relative said.
Holm had been hospitalized about two weeks ago with dehydration. She
asked her husband on Friday to bring her home and spent her final days
with her husband,Frank Basile, and other relatives and close friends by
her side, said Amy Phillips, a great-niece of Holm’s.
She won the Academy Award in 1947 for best supporting actress for her
performance in "Gentlemen’s Agreement" and received Oscar nominations
for "Come to the Stable" (1949) and "All About Eve" (1950).
FILM PRODUCER HAS DIED AT 77
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Film producer Richard D. Zanuck, who won the best
picture Oscar for "Driving Miss Daisy" and was involved in such blockbuster
films as "Jaws" and "The Sting" after his father, Hollywood mogul Darryl F.
Zanuck, fired him from 20th Century Fox, died of a heart attack at his
Beverly Hills home Friday.
Richard Zanuck, right, with Steven Spielberg on the set of Jaws
.
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