LOS ANGELES (AP) — Betty Garrett, the vivacious Broadway star who played Frank Sinatra’s sweetheart in two MGM musicals before her career was hampered by the Hollywood blacklist, has died in Los Angeles, her son said Sunday.

Garrett was best known as the flirtatious girl in love with the shy Sinatra in "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" and "On the Town," both in 1949, and later in life she became well-known to TV audiences with recurring roles in the 1970s sitcoms "All in the Family"
and "Laverne and Shirley." Garrett died Saturday at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, most likely from an aortic aneurysm, said her son, Garrett Parks.

 

Kim Novak is best known for her performance in the 1958 Hitchcock thriller Vertigo. She retired from acting in 1991 and has since become an accomplished artist of oil paintings. She lives with her Veterinarian husband on a ranch in Eagle Point, Oregon, where they raise livestock.

Kim Novak with James Stewart in a scene from Vertigo

 
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Josh James Brolin  has acted in theater, film and television roles since 1985,
and won acting awards for his roles in the films W. (2008), No Country for Old
Men (2007),and Milk (2008). He recently appeared in the Coen Brothers
adaptation of True Grit (2010). Brolin started his career in TV movies and
guest spots on TV shows before getting a more notable role as Brand Walsh
in the Richard Donner-directed, filmed in Astoria, movie The Goonies (1985).

Josh Brolin in The Goonies

Actor Burt Reynolds is most noted for his roles as Bo ‘Bandit’ Darville in Smokey and the
Bandit (1977), Lewis Medlock in Deliverance (1972), and as Paul Crew in The Longest Yard (1974. He is one of America’s most recognizable film and television personalities with more than 90 feature film and 300 television episode credits.

Burt Reynolds in Deliverance

Burt Reynolds in Breaking In, a 1989 picture filmed in Portland

Thomas Alva Edison was a scientist, inventor, and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, electric light bulb. He was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production and  is often credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory.