On Wednesday, Cammie King died at age 76.  If the name doesn’t ring a bell, it’s because she’s far better known as a character she played (rather than as an actress).  At age 5, she appeared as the daughter of Clark Gable’s Rhett Butler and Vivien Leigh’s Scarlett O’Hara in GONE WITH THE WIND, the little girl [...]

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Marge Champion turns 91 on September 2, five weeks before she’ll be our guest at the Black Bear Film Festival on October 9, 2010 in Milford, PA.  I’ve seen the wonderful new documentary short, KEEP DANCING, in which she appears with fellow dancer Donald Saddler, both of them still going strong.  Don’t be surprised if it’s [...]

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Carolyn Jones, who died much too young at 53 in 1983, got her share of pop-culture immortality for only two television seasons as Morticia on THE ADDAMS FAMILY (1964-66).  Prior to the series, she had been in the movies for a little over a decade, mostly paying dues, but gaining some real recognition by the [...]

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The loss of Patricia Neal (at 84) this week means that another great star actress of the twentieth century is gone.  When Neal suffered those three severe strokes at age 39 in 1965, who would have guessed that she had more than half of her life ahead of her?  Despite a life and career of [...]

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August 8th marks what would have been the 100th birthday of actress Sylvia Sidney, who died in 1999 at 88.  And what a career she had, beginning with stardom in the pre-Code Hollywood of the early 1930s and ending with a late-life resurgence in the sci-fi comedies of Tim Burton (BEETLEJUICE – 1988, MARS ATTACKS! – 1996, [...]

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