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Tuesday, October 11, 2022

Angela Lansbury, Broadway star and spunky detective in 'Murder, She Wrote,' dies at 96 by Valerie J. Nelson

Angela Lansbury, a Tony Award-winning actor who captured television viewers as the star of the hit series 'Murder, She Wrote,' has died. She was 96.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:46PM
Monday, May 25, 2015

Noel Taylor dies at 97; longtime costume designer for stage and screen by Valerie J. Nelson

Nominated four times for an Emmy Award, Taylor won in 1978 for costume design for the PBS drama "Actor: The Paul Muni Story." He also had designed for more than 70 Broadway plays, many local…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:58PM

Neva Patterson dies at 90; actress played Cary Grant's fiancee in 'An Affair to Remember' by Valerie J. Nelson

Patterson's career spanned six decades and more than 100 film and TV roles. She played an ambitious mother in the science-fiction NBC-TV movie 'V' and its sequel, the miniseries 'V: The Fina…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:58PM
Sunday, December 16, 2012

Hal Schaefer dies at 87; musician known for Marilyn Monroe liaison by Valerie J. Nelson

He orchestrated arrangements for several Broadway musicals, including "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" and "Foxy" in the 1960s and composed music for the films "The Money Tra…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:58AM
Monday, April 9, 2012

Anne Commire dies at 72; playwright tackled women's hardships by Valerie J. Nelson

Also an editor and author, her plays - 'Shay,' 'Put Them All Together' - intertwined comedy and pathos.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:28AM
Thursday, June 30, 2011

Edith Fellows dies at 88; child actress by Valerie J. Nelson

Fellows had made about 30 films by the age of 13, when she became the subject of a high-profile 1936 custody case driven, she later said, by "my money — past, present and future." She late…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:12PM
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