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AWARD WINNING ACTRESS HAS DIED AT 88

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Estelle Louise Fletcher
(July 22, 1934 – September 23, 2022)

Actress Louise Fletcher, who won an Academy Award
for her portrayal as the heartless Nurse Ratched — one
of the most reviled characters in movie history — in
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, has died.

Her son stated Fletcher died Friday of natural causes at
her home in Montdurausse, France. She had survived
two bouts with breast cancer.

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Fletcher with her Academy Award in 1954.

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HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY

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Sofia Loren is 88 years young today.

As of 2022, Loren is one of the last surviving major
stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema and
is the only remaining living person on AFI ‘s list.

Encouraged to enroll in acting lessons after entering
a beauty pageant, Loren began her film career at age
sixteen in 1950.

Loren’s performance as Cesira in the film Two Women
(1961) directed by
Vittorio De Sica won her the Academy
Award for Best Actress
, making her the first actor to win
an Oscar for a non-English-language performance.

She holds the record for having earned seven David
di Donatello Awards
for Best Actress. She has won
five special
Golden Globes (including the Cecil B.
DeMille Award
), a BAFTA Award, a Laurel Award, a
Grammy Award, the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the
Venice Film Festival and the Best Actress Award at the
Cannes Film Festival. In 1991, she received the Academy
Honorary Award
for lifetime achievements.

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LAST SURVIVING ADULT MEMBER HAS DIED

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Virginia Ann Marie Patton Moss
(June 25, 1925 – August 18, 2022)

(Fox News) – The last surviving adult cast member of Frank Capra’s classic holiday film It’s a Wonderful  Life, Virginia Moss passed
away on August 18th at an assisted living facility in Albany, GA.
at age 97.

Moss starred in the 1946 film as Ruth Dakin Bailey, the wife of Harry Bailey (Todd Karns) and the sister-in-law of the main character
George Bailey, portrayed by James Stewart. Moss was the last
living adult actor who had worked on the film, though several
It’s a Wonderful Life actors who appeared in the film as children
are still alive, such as Karolyn Grimes, who shared a tribute to
Moss on her personal Facebook page.

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Moss is kissed by James Stewart from It’s a Wonderful Life.

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ACTRESS SUCCUMBS TO INJURIES AT AGE 53

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Anne Celeste Heche (May 25, 1969 – August 11, 2022)

BALTIMORE (TND) — Actor Anne Heche has died one week after
a fiery car crash put her in a coma.

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ACTRESS FOUND DEAD ON THIS DAY IN 1962

Marilyn Monroe Found Dead of Suspected Overdose (Original Variety Report) -  Variety

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Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jeane Mortenson) 
(June 1, 1926 – August 4, 1962)

On August 5, 1962, movie actress Marilyn Monroe was found
dead in her home in Los Angeles. She was discovered lying
nude on her bed, face down, with a telephone in one hand.

Empty bottles of pills, prescribed to treat her depression,
were littered around the room. After a brief investigation,
Los Angeles police concluded that her death was “caused
by a self-administered administered overdose of sedative
drugs and that the mode of death is probable suicide.”

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