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Elizabeth Taylor, 79

March 23, 2011 Bill Gatevackes

She might only be remembered by some for all the jokes told about her numerous marriages. For a whole generation, her most memorable film role was as Fred Flintstone’s mother-in-law in 1994’s The Flintstones. But [click for more]

Jane Russell, 89

March 1, 2011 Rich Drees

Jane Russell, the curvaceous actress who starred in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and The Outlaw, has passed away yesterday of respiratory failure at her home in Santa Maria, Calif. She was 89. It was Russell’s voluptuous [click for more]

NARNIA Exec Producer Perry Moore Found Dead

February 18, 2011 Rich Drees

Perry Moore, the executive producer of the successful Chronicles Of Naraia film series, was found dead in his Soho Manhattan apartment Thursday, the victim of an apparent drug overdose. He was found yesterday morning at [click for more]

Kenneth Mars, 75

February 15, 2011 Rich Drees

Kenneth Mars, the comic actor who appeared in two of director Mel Brooks’ best comedies, has died this past Saturday of pancreatic cancer at his home in Granada Hills, Calif. He was 75. In Brooks’ [click for more]

Betty Garrett, 91

February 14, 2011 Rich Drees

Betty Garrett, the comic actress who pursued Frank Sinatra across Manhattan in the1949 musical comedy On The Town, has died Saturday morning in Los Angeles of an aortic aneurysm. She was 91. Garrett became a [click for more]

Tura Satana, 72

February 6, 2011 Rich Drees

She was the quintessential Russ Meyers woman – a curvy figure with a tough-as-nails attitude. Tura Satana, the star of exploitation film director Meyers’ cult classic Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, has died yesterday in Reno [click for more]

John Barry, 77

January 31, 2011 Rich Drees

Five time Academy Award winner composer John Barry, whose most recognizable work is probably that which he wrote for the James Bond franchise, died in Glen Cove, New York of a heart attack yesterday. He [click for more]

Director Peter Yates, 82

January 10, 2011 Rich Drees

British director Peter Yates, four time Academy Award nominee for his work on Breaking Away and The Dresser and the helmer of the influential 1968 thriller Bullitt, has died in London after a long illness. [click for more]

Anne Francis, 80

January 3, 2011 Rich Drees

Anne Francis, the blond beauty who wowed the crew members of Crusier C-57D in the 1956 science-fiction classic Forbidden Planet, has died yesterday, Sunday, January 2, in Santa Barbara from complications from pancreatic cancer. She [click for more]

Oscar Nominated Pete Postlethwaite, 64

January 3, 2011 Rich Drees

British actor Pete Postlethwaite, who was nominated for an Academy Award for his role as Daniel Day-Lewis’ father in 1993’s In The Name Of The Father, has died Sunday, January 2, 2011 in Shropshire, England [click for more]