Betty Marion White Ludden

Actress and comedian Betty White, with a television career
spanning over 80 years, has worked longer in that medium
than anyone else in the television industry. She is regarded
as a pioneer of television, and was one of the first women
to exert control in front of and behind the camera and is
recognized as the first woman to produce a sitcom (Life
with Elizabeth),^[which contributed to her receiving the
honorary title Mayor of Hollywood in 1955.

Betty White (center) on The Mary Tyler Moore Show which
aired on CBS from 1970 – 1977.

Dawn Elberta Wells (October 18, 1938 – December 30. 2020)

(Fox News) – Dawn Wells, who famously played Mary Ann Summers,
on “Gilligan’s Island” has died. Her publicist said the actress died
in Los Angeles of COVID-19 related causes Wednesday morning.

Wells starred as the unapologetic “good girl” who was stranded
on an island with six other castaways. “Gilligan’s Island“ ran from
1964 to 1967 on CBS – for three seasons – and yet it has never
gone off the air. It continues to be screened across the world in
over 30 languages.

Jean Stapleton  (Jeanne Murray)
(January 19, 1923 – May 31, 2013)

At the dedication of a military cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, during the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln (above)
delivered one of the most memorable speeches in American history:
the  Gettysburg Address.  

LOS ANGELES (AP) — 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. She was 97. Her assistant Carla Sapon told The Associated
Press, Fleming died Wednesday in Santa Monica, California.

Rhonda Fleming (Marilyn Louis)
(August 10, 1923 – October 14, 2020)