Award-winning singer Florence Larue has served as the first lead singer
of the group The 5th Dimension. They won a Grammy for their 1976 hit
song. Love Hangover. Larue starred in the 1978 Broadway musical Ain’t
Misbehavin’.

Larue earned an Associate’s Degree in Music from Los Angeles City College
and later received a Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education from California
State University.
 

        Philip Seymour Hoffman (July 23, 1967 – February 2, 2014)

(FoxNews) – Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman has been found dead
of an apparent drug overdose at a Manhattan apartment, according to a law
enforcement source.  

The NYPD responded to an apartment in the West Village shortly after 11 a.m.
Sunday morning, the source said. 

"The Hunger Games" actor has amassed an impressive portfolio of roles going
back to the early 1990s, when he first appeared on the hit, New York City-based
show, "Law & Order."

He has since gone on to appear in notable movies like "Scent of a Woman,"
"Boogie Nights," "The Big Lebowski," "Almost Famous," "Capote," "Mission
Impossible III," and "Moneyball."

Hoffman has been nominated for four roles for an Academy Award, winning a
single time for his portrayal of journalist Truman Capote, author of, "In Cold
Blood."

Maximilian Schell (December 8, 1930 – February 1, 2014)

(Variety) – Austrian-born actor Maximilian Schell, a fugitive from
Adolf Hitler who became a Hollywood favorite and won an Oscar
for his role as a defense attorney in “Judgment at Nuremberg,”
has died.

Schell’s agent, Patricia Baumbauer, said Saturday he died
overnight at a hospital in Innsbruck following a “sudden and
serious illness.”

Maximilian made his Hollywood debut in Edward Dmytryk’s “The
Young Lions,” a World War II drama starring Marlon Brando,
Montgomery Clift and Dean Martin.

Tea Leoni and the legendary Maximilian Schell

Young Dorothy, 1940s

 
Dorothy Malone (Dorothy Eloise Maloney)

Dorothy  Malone won a Best Supporting Actress award for her
role in Written on the Wind in 1956. Her film career reached its
peak by the beginning of the 1960s. She achieved later success
with her ABC television role as Constance MacKenzie on Peyton
Place from 1964 to 1968.

Donna Reed (Donna Belle Mullenger) 

(January 27, 1921 – January 14, 1986)

Donna Reed appeared in over 40 films, receiving the 1953 Academy Award
for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Lorene Burke in the war
drama From Here to Eternity. She is also well known for her role as Mary
Hatch in Frank Capra‘s It’s a Wonderful Life (1946). She worked extensively
in television, notably as Donna Stone, an American middle class mother in
the ABC sitcom The Donna Reed Show (1958–1966), for which she received 
the 1963 Golden Globe Award for Best TV Star – Female.

 
            
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