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Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Frances Sternhagen, Tony-winning actor who thrived playing maternal figures, dies at 93 by Anita Gates / The New York Times

Beginning in the 1980s, when she played the controlling working-class mother of the oddball postal carrier Cliff Clavin on “Cheers,” she sailed through a period of playing maternal figur…

SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 03:14PM
Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Rebecca Luker, a Broadway star for 3 decades, dies at 59 by Anita Gates / The New York Times

Her Broadway career, fueled by her crystal-clear operatic soprano, brought her Tony Award nominations for “Show Boat,” “The Music Man” and “Mary Poppins.”

SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 05:38PM
Monday, May 18, 2020

Michel Piccoli, star of French stage and screen, dies at 94 by Anita Gates / The New York Times

The actor’s quiet intensity and mature sensuality made him a fixture of French cinema for more than a half-century

SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 06:40PM
Saturday, February 24, 2018

Nanette Fabray, Star of TV and Stage Comedies, Dies at 97 by Anita Gates / The New York Times

Nanette Fabray, whose enthusiastic charm, wide smile and diverse talents made her a Tony Award-winning performer in the 1940s and an Emmy Award-winning comic actress in the 1950s, died on Th…

SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 11:05AM

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