"film was the drama ""The Misfits"" (1961). Monroe's troubled private life received much attention. She struggled with substance abuse, depression, and anxiety. Her second and third marriages, to retired baseball star Joe DiMaggio and playwright Arthur Miller, respectively, were highly publicised and both ended in divorce. On August 5, 1962, she died at age 36 from an overdose of barbiturates at her home in Los Angeles. Although Monroe's death was ruled a probable suicide, several conspiracy theories have been proposed in the decades following her death. Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortenson at the Los Angeles County Hospital on June"
"cancer at a convalescent home in Los Angeles on February 17, 2015, at the age of 68. She was survived by her daughter, Megan Mull; a 2-month-old grandson; and her brother, Jerry Wilson. Fairchild had divorced twice. June Fairchild June Edna Fairchild (September 3, 1946 – February 17, 2015) was an American actress and dancer. Fairchild starred or co-starred in more than a dozen major notable film roles before her addictions to drugs and alcohol effectively ended her professional acting career. Fairchild was born June Edna Wilson on September 3, 1946, in Manhattan Beach, California. Her father was a musician"
"California on June 6, 1958, nearly a month to the day after Sheldon Lewis. She was 72. Funeral services were held at the Pierce Brothers Hollywood Chapel. She was buried in an unmarked grave in Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery. Virginia Pearson Virginia Belle Pearson (March 7, 1886 – June 6, 1958) was an American stage and film actress. She made fifty-one films in a career which extended from 1910 until 1932. She was born on March 7, 1886 in Anchorage, Kentucky to parents Joseph F. Pearson and Mary Alice Calloway. She had one younger brother, Harvey Thompson Pearson. Virginia was"
"more children. She made several more television appearances in 1962, then retired from acting altogether. She and Nelson divorced in 1976. Lawrence has a star at 1735 Vine Street in the Television section of the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It was dedicated on February 8, 1960. Barbara Lawrence died of kidney failure on November 13, 2013, aged 83, in Los Angeles, California, but her death was not reported until January 3, 2014. She was cremated and her ashes scattered in North Carolina where she had a vacation home. Barbara Lawrence Barbara Jo Lawrence (February 24, 1930 – November 13, 2013)"
"their daughter. After her husband died in 1957, she retired from acting and made no more film appearances, except for a small role in ""The Purple Gang"" (1960). She was the mother of actress June Lockhart and grandmother of actress Anne Lockhart. She died on 18 February 1978 in Los Angeles, California following an undisclosed illness. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6241 Hollywood Boulevard. Her grave is located next to her husband Gene's, in Culver City's Holy Cross Cemetery. Kathleen Lockhart Kathleen Lockhart (née Arthur; 9 August 1894 – 18 February 1978) was a"
"work of the late Brooklyn Poet Laureate Ken Siegelman. While residing in Paris, Kentucky, Gallardo died on January 2, 2012, eleven days before her 59th birthday, at Jewish Hospital, Louisville. A cause of death was not released. Silvana Gallardo Sandra Silvana Gallardo (January 13, 1953 – January 2, 2012) was an American film and television actress. Born in New York City, Gallardo's television credits include episodes of ""Starsky & Hutch"", ""Lou Grant"", ""Quincy"", ""Hill Street Blues"", ""Cagney & Lacey"", ""Kojak"", ""Falcon Crest"", ""Trapper John, M.D."", ""The Golden Girls"", ""Knots Landing"", ""MacGyver"", ""L.A. Law"", ""Babylon 5"", ""ER"" and ""NYPD Blue"". She"
"4, 2008, at the age of 92. She was survived by her three children, three grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Her husband, Herbert K. Insul, predeceased her. She was buried at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California. Sally Insul Sally Insul (October 3, 1916 – August 4, 2008) was an American actress who appeared in over fifty different television and film roles during her career. Insul was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. She wrote and directed her first play when she was 16 years old. She received her degree from Wilbur Wright College, but also trained at"
"operator of a bus station/diner in the fictitious town of Sunrise, Colorado. Geraldine Brooks died of a heart attack while battling cancer at Central Suffolk Hospital in Riverhead, New York. She was either 51 years old or, per her ""New York Times"" obituary, 52. Her interment was in Mount Sinai, New York's cemetery, Washington Memorial Park. Geraldine Brooks (actress) Geraldine Brooks (born Geraldine Stroock; October 29, 1925 – June 19, 1977) was an American actress whose three-decade career on stage as well as in films and on television was noted with nominations for an Emmy in 1962 and a Tony"
"cancer, aged 89. Her remains were interred in Aaron Cemetery, Walker County, Alabama. Margalo Gillmore Margaret Lorraine ""Margalo"" Gillmore (31 May 1897 – 30 June 1986) was an English-born American actress who had a long career as a stage actress on Broadway. She also appeared in films and TV series, mostly in the 1950s and early 1960s. Gillmore was the daughter of Frank Gillmore, a founder and former president of Actors' Equity, and the actress Laura MacGillivray, and the sister of actress Ruth Gillmore. Her great-aunt was the British actor-manager Sarah Thorne, and her great-uncles were the actors Thomas Thorne"
"Feldman jumped from the fourteenth floor of 51 Fifth Avenue. Her suicide preceded the release of Warhol's ""Heat"", in which she had a much larger role than in previous Warhol films, by only three weeks. Feldman's performance garnered positive reviews. Judith Crist, a critic for ""New York"" magazine wrote: ""The most striking performance, in large part non-performance, comes from the late Andrea Feldman, as the flat-voiced, freaked-out daughter, a mass of psychotic confusion, infantile and heart-breaking."" Andrea Feldman Andrea Feldman (April 1, 1948 – August 8, 1972) was an American actress and Warhol Superstar. She committed suicide in 1972. Andrea"
"getters in each category, Davis placed third for best actress above the officially nominated Grace Moore. The academy's nomination and winner database notes this under the 1934 best actress category and under the Bette Davis search. Bette Davis Ruth Elizabeth ""Bette"" Davis (; April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989) was an American actress of film, television, and theater. With a career spanning 60 years, she is regarded as one of the greatest actresses in Hollywood history. She was noted for playing unsympathetic, sardonic characters, and was famous for her performances in a range of film genres, from contemporary crime"
"Paul Green contests that, while Selznick helped facilitate her career and seek roles for her,"" Jones excelled because she not only possessed outstanding beauty but she also possessed genuine talent."" Jennifer Jones Jennifer Jones (born Phylis Lee Isley; March 2, 1919 – December 17, 2009), also known as Jennifer Jones Simon, was an American actress and mental health advocate. Over the course of her career, which spanned over three decades, she was nominated for the Academy Award five times, including one win for Best Actress; as well as a Golden Globe Award win for Best Actress in a Drama. Jones"
"Marilyn Monroe Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962) was an American actress, model, and singer. Famous for playing comic ""blonde bombshell"" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and was emblematic of the era's attitudes towards sexuality. Although she was a top-billed actress for only a decade, her films grossed $200 million by the time of her unexpected death in 1962 (equivalent to $ billion in ). More than half a century later, she continues to be a major popular culture icon. Born and raised in Los"
"Bette Davis Ruth Elizabeth ""Bette"" Davis (; April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989) was an American actress of film, television, and theater. With a career spanning 60 years, she is regarded as one of the greatest actresses in Hollywood history. She was noted for playing unsympathetic, sardonic characters, and was famous for her performances in a range of film genres, from contemporary crime melodramas to historical and period films, suspense horror, and occasional comedies, although her greatest successes were her roles in romantic dramas. After appearing in Broadway plays, Davis moved to Hollywood in the summer of 1930. However,"
"Stevens Burns died in January 2018 at the age of 92. Naomi Stevens Naomi Stevens (November 29, 1925 – January 13, 2018) was an American character actress of film and television from the 1950s through the 1980s. She appeared in almost 100 roles over the years, usually depicting mothers, landladies, gossips, or neighbors. Her most frequent characterizations were Italian, Jewish, Latin, or East European, and usually with a comic touch. She appeared in many television series and in such feature films as ""Valley of the Dolls"", ""Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell"", and, most notably, in ""The Apartment"" as Mrs. Dreyfus, the"
"died in Los Angeles County in 1984 of complications from skin cancer at age 43. Indus Arthur Indus Arthur (April 28, 1941 – December 29, 1984) was a 1960s film and television actress. Born Indus Jo Saugstad, she was from Los Angeles County. Both she and her grandmother were named for the Indus River in Tibet. Her grandmother once visited the river, and Arthur possessed a desire to do so. Her father was a still cameraman for a number of Hollywood studios. He opposed the fact that Arthur and her two sisters were becoming involved in films. Arthur signed as"
"age 73. Tracy Langan died of a brain tumor in 2001. Adele Jergens-Langan, who retired from the screen in 1956, died on November 22, 2002, from pneumonia in her Camarillo, California, home. Her death came just four days before her 85th birthday. She was buried beside her husband and son at Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery in Chatsworth, California, under the headstone marked Langan. Adele Jergens Adele Jergens (November 26, 1917 – November 22, 2002) was an American actress. Born in Brooklyn, New York, as Adele Louisa Jurgens (some sources say Jurgenson), she rose to prominence in the late 1930s when"
"Alvaleta Guess Alvaleta Guess (born November 24, 1955, Kansas City, Missouri — d. September 2, 1996, New York City, New York) was an American stage/musical theatre actress, both on and off-Broadway, but also played the occasional supporting role on television and in feature films. She appeared on Broadway in ""Swinging on a Star"". The show was nominated for several Tony Awards and she appeared in the Tony Awards telecast. The telecast was her last public appearance as a performer. Her sole appearance on television was in an episode (""Custody"") of ""Law & Order"". She died from breast cancer, aged 40,"
"before retiring. Francis died in Los Angeles on October 30, 1959, at age 53. Noel Francis Noel Francis (born Noel Frances Sweeney, August 31, 1906 – October 30, 1959) was an American actress of the stage and screen during the 1920s and 1930s. Born in Texas, she began her acting career on the Broadway stage in the mid-1920s, before moving to Hollywood at the beginning of the sound film era. Originally cast in films for her song and dance abilities, when musicals began to fall out of favor, she became better known for her tough girl characters. However, by the"
"Death of Marilyn Monroe Marilyn Monroe was found dead of a barbiturate overdose in the early morning hours of Sunday, August 5, 1962, at her 12305 Fifth Helena Drive home in Los Angeles, California. She was a major sex symbol and one of the most popular Hollywood stars during the 1950s and early 1960s. She was a top-billed actress for a decade, and her films had grossed $200 million by the time of her death in 1962. Monroe had suffered from mental illness and substance abuse for several years prior to her death, and she had not completed a film"
"include the following productions: Florence Shirley Florence Shirley (June 5, 1892 in New York City, New York – May 12, 1967 in Hollywood, California) was an American stage and film actress. Shirley began her stage career in Boston and enjoyed moderate success on Broadway. After the sinking of in April 1912, she participated in a benefit concert for survivors held at the George M. Cohan Theatre. Her last Broadway appearance was in ""Alice in Arms"" (originally called ""Star in the Window"") alongside Kirk Douglas. She appeared in more than 50 films throughout her film career. Shirley's film credits include the"
"April 27, 2011, from Alzheimer's disease, in Newbury Park, California, at the age of 75. She was survived by her second husband; her daughter, Deidre Whitaker; and a sister. Marian Mercer Marian Ethel Mercer (November 26, 1935 – April 27, 2011) was an American actress and singer. Born in Akron, Ohio, she graduated from the University of Michigan, then spent several seasons working in summer stock. She made her Broadway debut in the chorus of the short-lived musical, ""Greenwillow"" in 1960. She drew critical notice for her performance in ""New Faces of 1962"", and won the Tony Award for Best"
"Los Angeles, California at the age of 66. Beverly Hope Atkinson Beverly Hope Atkinson (December 9, 1935 – December 11, 2001) was an American stage, film, and television actress from 1968 until 1991, known for her character work playing women down-on-their-luck or caught up in drug addiction. Atkinson studied under Lee Strasberg in the 1960s and later became a member of the Actors Studio. After attending New York's City College, she began her career on the New York stage with the Café LaMama Theater troupe and Theater West in Los Angeles, touring in such productions as ""The Skin of Our"
"studying under Elia Kazan and later joining his Lincoln Center Company. She met her future husband, actor, Lawrence Pressman, while performing on Broadway, and they were married from 1973 until her death. Saunders was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1982 and she left ""Days of our Lives"" three years later when she became too ill to continue in the role. She died on March 10, 2007. She was survived by her mother, brother (Theo Saunders), and her son, David Pressman. Lanna Saunders Svetlana Nikolaevna ""Lanna"" Saunders (December 22, 1941 – March 10, 2007) was an American actress, best known for"
"on November 15, 1996 at age 86. Lila Finn Lila Finn (born Lila Shanley; November 28, 1909 - November 15, 1996) was an American actress and stunt woman who performed in films for almost six decades and was known for such films as ""Gone with the Wind"", ""It's a Wonderful Life"", ""Blazing Saddles"", ""The Goonies"", ""Drum"", ""The Towering Inferno"", ""Suburban Commando"", """" and ""The Poseidon Adventure"". Finn was also an athlete who competed on the U.S. women's volleyball team from 1955 to 1960. At the age 50 Finn was awarded a silver medal in the 1959 Pan American Games in"
"was cremated after her death. On August 28, 2013, Broadway theaters dimmed their lights for one minute in honor of Harris. The asterisk (*) indicates a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress, and the caret (^) indicates a win. Julie Harris (actress) Julia Ann Harris (December 2, 1925 – August 24, 2013), was an American actress renowned for classical and contemporary stage work that brought her five ""best actress in a play"" Tony Awards. Debuting on Broadway in 1945, much against the wishes of her mother who wanted her to 'come out' as a ""society"" debutante, she was acclaimed for"
"her third husband, Robert C. Anderson, who would survive her, on August 27, 1983. Duguay died in Los Angeles on October 14, 1986, aged 54, from undisclosed causes. Yvette Dugay Yvette Dugay (born Audrey L. Pearlman; June 24, 1932 – October 14, 1986) was an American actress. Her name was often spelled as Yvette Duguay. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Pearlman, she began acting at the age of six months and continued her career well into adulthood, proving to be one of the few child stars of the time to maintain a successful career. Though Duguay’s family originated"
"one son Donald Voglin. She was a Democrat who supported Adlai Stevenson's campaign in the 1952 presidential election. On May 25, 1999, Brooke died from a blood clot in the lung at a hospital in Fallbrook, California. She was cremated with her ashes scattered at sea. Her brother, actor Arthur Peterson, died in 1996; For her contribution to the television industry, Hillary Brooke has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6307 Hollywood Boulevard. Hillary Brooke Hillary Brooke (born Beatrice Sofia Mathilda Peterson, September 8, 1914 – May 25, 1999) was an American film actress. Though American-born, she"
"Anne Bancroft Anna Maria Louisa Italiano (September 17, 1931 – June 6, 2005), known professionally as Anne Bancroft, was an American actress, director, screenwriter and singer associated with the method acting school, having studied under Lee Strasberg. Respected for her acting prowess and versatility, Bancroft was acknowledged for her work in film, theatre, and television. She won one Academy Award, three BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globes, two Tony Awards, and two Emmy Awards, and several other awards and nominations. After her film debut in ""Don't Bother to Knock"" (1952) and a string of supporting film roles during the 1950s, she"
"October 5, 1993 of a stroke at the age of 68. Jane Nigh Bonnie Lenora ""Jane"" Nigh (25 February 1925 – 5 October 1993) was an American actress, born in Hollywood, California. Her sister, Nancy, was also an actress, and her mother worked in research at a film studio. She was discovered in 1944 by Arthur Wenzler while working in a defense plant. (Another source identifies Ivan Kahn as the 20th Century Fox talent scout.) She later signed a contract with Fox Studios. She appeared in more than 40 films and television shows, including ""State Fair"" (1945), ""Give My Regards"
"Silvana Gallardo Sandra Silvana Gallardo (January 13, 1953 – January 2, 2012) was an American film and television actress. Born in New York City, Gallardo's television credits include episodes of ""Starsky & Hutch"", ""Lou Grant"", ""Quincy"", ""Hill Street Blues"", ""Cagney & Lacey"", ""Kojak"", ""Falcon Crest"", ""Trapper John, M.D."", ""The Golden Girls"", ""Knots Landing"", ""MacGyver"", ""L.A. Law"", ""Babylon 5"", ""ER"" and ""NYPD Blue"". She also appeared in films including ""Windwalker"", ""Death Wish II"", and ""Silence of the Heart"". She was also an acting coach and writer. Sandra Silvana Gallardo was the creator of the ""Gallardo Method,"" a method of acting where"
"died on May 20, 2018, at her home in West Hollywood. She was 103 years old. Patricia Morison Ursula Eileen Patricia Augusta Fraser Morison (March 19, 1915 – May 20, 2018) was an American stage, television and film actress of the Golden Age of Hollywood and mezzo-soprano singer. She made her feature film debut in 1939 after several years on the stage, and amongst her most renowned were ""The Fallen Sparrow"", ""Dressed to Kill"" opposite Basil Rathbone and the screen adaptation of ""The Song of Bernadette"". She was lauded as a beauty with large blue eyes and extremely long, dark"
"silent film actor and former star Ian Keith twice and they divorced twice. In both cases Clayton cited cruelty and excessive drinking. Clayton and Keith were first married in Minneapolis in 1928 and first separated on January 13, 1931. Ethel Clayton died on June 6, 1966 at Guardian Convalescent Hospital in Oxnard, California, aged 83. She was buried at Ivy Lawn Memorial Park in Ventura, California. For her contributions to the motion picture industry, Ethel Clayton has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Ethel Clayton Ethel Clayton (November 8, 1882 – June 6, 1966) was an American actress"