Patty Andrews (pictured recently above on the right with actress Joan Leslie) was
the lead singer of The Andrews Sisters, an extremely popular and successful close
harmony singing group of the swing and boogie-woogie eras. The group consisted
of three actual sisters…Patty, Laverne, and Maxene Andrews (shown below). They
were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 1998. Their biggest  hit was
“Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy”. 

The Andrews Sisters from left to right, LaVerne, Patty, and Maxene

Jane Seymour, is an English actress well-known for her roles as the Bond
Girl in the 1973 James Bond film Live and Let Die, and the CBS-TV series
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993 – 1998).


Jane Seymour with Roger Moore in Live and Let Die

Jane Seymour as Dr. Michaela “Mike” Quinn

Laura Elizabeth Dern is an actress,film director and producer. She has acted in 
such films as Smooth Talk (1985), Blue Velvet (1986), Fat Man and Little Boy
(1988), and Jurassic Park (1993). She was nominated for an Academy Award for
Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance in the 1991 film Rambling
Rose. Laura is the daughter of actors Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd.

                    Laura Dern with Sam Neil in Jurassic Park

Mia Farrow  has appeared in more than forty-five films and won numerous awards,
including a Golden Globe award and seven additional Golden Globe nominations.She
is also notable for her extensive humanitarian work. In 2008 she was selected by Time
magazine as one of the most influential people in the world.  

Mia Farrow’s first leading film role was in Rosemary’s Baby (1968), which was a critical and commercial success at the time and continues to be widely regarded as a classic
of the horror genre. Her performance earned numerous awards, including a Golden
Globe for New Star of The Year-Actress, and established her as a leading actress.

                                     Mia Farrow in Rosemary’s Baby

Maria Schneider (Above), the French actress who was Marlon Brando’s young co-star in the steamy 1972 film "Last Tango in Paris," has died, her talent agency said. She was 58.

A representative of the Act 1 agency said Schneider died in Paris on Thursday "following a long illness," but declined to provide details.

Schneider was 19 when she starred opposite Marlon Brando in Bernardo Bertolucci’s racy "Last Tango in Paris." In it, she played a young Parisian woman who takes up with a middle-aged American businessman, played by Brando.

Throughout her career, Schneider appeared in more than two dozen films, most of them French. (AP)