Alan Wolf Arkin (March 26, 1934 – June 29, 2023)
Oscar winner Alan Arkin, whose background in improvisation
with characters from the 1960s comedy “The Russians Are
Coming, the Russians Are Coming”, “Glengarry Glen Ross”
to “Little Miss Sunshine”, and “Argo,” died at his home in
Carlsbad, California Thursday at age 89. He had a history
of heart problems.
1992
Alan Arkin and Alec Baldwin.
Judy Garland (Frances Ethel Gumm)
(June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969)
Judy Garland was an award winning actress,
singer, dancer and vaudevillian. While critically
acclaimed for many different roles throughout
her career, she is widely known for playing the
part of Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz (1939).
Melvin (Mel) James Brooks (Kaminsky)
Mel Brooks is an actor, comedian, and filmmaker. With a career
spanning over seven decades, he is known as a writer and
director of a variety of successful broad farces and parodies. A
recipient of numerous accolades, he is one of 18 entertainers to
win the EGOT, which includes an Emmy Award, a Grammy Award,
an Academy Award ("Oscar"), and a Tony Award. He received a
Kennedy Center Honor in 2009, a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in
2010, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2013, a British Film
Institute Fellowship in 2015, a National Medal of Arts in 2016, a
BAFTA Fellowship in 2017, and the Honorary Academy Award
in 2023.
He began his career as a comic and a writer for Sid Caesar‘s
variety show Your Show of Shows from 1950 to 1954.
1974
1974
On June 27, 1939, one of the most famous scenes in movie history
was filmed: Rhett Butler and Scarlett O’Hara parting in Gone with
the Wind. Director Victor Fleming also shot the scene using the
alternate line, “Frankly, my dear, I just don’t care,” in case the film censors objected to the word “damn.” The censors approved the
movie but fined producer David O. Selznick $5,000 for including
the curse.
Victor Lonzo Fleming
(February 23, 1889 – January 6, 1949)
1979
1979
From “Falling Down” (1993)
Frederic Fenimore Forrest Jr.
(December 23, 1936 – June 23, 2023)
Frederic Forrest, known for roles in "Apocalypse Now,"
“Falling Down” and "The Rose," died on Friday at his
home in Santa Monica, California.
