Barbara Rush, the Golden Globe-winning star of "It Came from
Outer Space" and "Peyton Place" has died.
Later in her career, Rush became a regular performer in the
television series Peyton Place, and appeared in TV movies,
miniseries, and a variety of other programs, including the
soap opera All My Children and family drama 7th Heaven.
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March 24, 1989: One of the worst oil spills in U.S. history began
when the supertanker Exxon Valdez, owned and operated by
the Exxon Corporation, ran aground on a reef in Prince William
Sound in southern Alaska. An estimated 11 million gallons of oil eventually spilled into the water.
Attempts to contain the massive spill were unsuccessful, and
wind and currents spread the oil more than 100 miles from its
source, eventually polluting more than 700 miles of coastline.
Hundreds of thousands of birds and animals were adversely
affected by the environmental disaster.
Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor
(27 February 1932 – 23 March 2011)
Elizabeth Taylor began her career as a child actress in the early
1940s and was one of the most popular stars of the classical
Hollywood cinema in the 1950s. She then became the world’s
highest paid movie star in the 1960s, remaining a well-known
public figure for the rest of her life. In 1999, the American Film
Institute ranked her seventh on its greatest female screen
legends list.
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Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra in the 1963 epic drama film.
Randolph and co-star Art Carney in a promo photo
for The Honeymooners (circa 1955).
NEW YORK — “Honeymooners” actress Joyce Randolph, who
played Ed Norton’s sarcastic wife Trixie, has died. She was 99.
Her son Randolph Charles told The Associated Press Sunday,
his mother died of natural causes Saturday night at her home
on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
She was the last surviving main character of the beloved comedy
from television’s golden age of the 1950s.
The Honeymooners is a television sitcom that originally
aired from 1955 to 1956, created by and starring Jackie
Gleason, and based on a recurring comedy sketch of the
same name that had been part of Gleason’s variety show.
Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, Audrey Meadows and Joyce Randolph.
It was the ultimate All-American romance: the tall, handsome hero
of the country’s national pastime captures the heart of the beautiful, glamorous Hollywood star. But the brief, volatile marriage of Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio–the couple wed on January 14, 1954–
barely got past the honeymoon before cracks began to show in
its brilliant veneer.
In 1952, the New York Yankees slugger DiMaggio asked an
acquaintance to arrange a dinner date with Monroe, a buxom
blonde model-turned-actress whose star was on the rise after
supporting roles in films such as Monkey Business (1952) and
a leading role in the B-movie thriller Don’t Bother to Knock (1952).
The press immediately picked up on the relationship and began to
cover it exhaustively, though Monroe and DiMaggio preferred to
keep a low profile, spending evenings at home or in a back corner
of DiMaggio’s restaurant. On January 14, 1954, they were married
at San Francisco City Hall, where they were mobbed by reporters
and fans. Monroe had apparently mentioned the wedding plans to someone at her film studio, who leaked it to the press.
