Thread: Recent Obituaries, Classic Film Only.

Edited on Fri Dec-18-09 10:58 AM by CBHagman Adam Bernstein's Washington Post obituary is worth reading. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20... On edit: Jennifer Jones in Love Letters with Joseph Cotten:

I saw him on stage in London, my first visit to a London theatre, starring in "An Ideal Husband" with Margaret Lockwood. I have to be honest and say I don't really remember much about his performance - it was just so exciting to be in a West End theatre and to see on stage somebody I'd seen for years on film in Sydney. I still have the program.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/12/17/jennifer.j... snip: Jennifer Jones, who won the best actress Oscar for a 1943 film, died Thursday at age 90, according to a family spokesman. Jones starred in two dozen movies and was nominated for Academy Awards five times in her 35-year film career. snip: She changed her name to Jennifer Jones when she moved to Hollywood in the early 1940s for a screen test with legendary producer David O....

NEW YORK – Playwright and screenwriter Horton Foote, who movingly portrayed the broken dreams of common people in "The Trip to Bountiful," "Tender Mercies" and his Oscar-winning screen adaptation of "To Kill a Mockingbird," died Wednesday in Connecticut, Paul Marte, a spokesman for Hartford Stage, said. He was 92. Foote died in his apartment in Hartford where he was preparing work on "The Orphans' Home...

NEW YORK (AP) — Harve Presnell, whose booming baritone graced such Broadway musicals as "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" and "Annie," has died at age 75. The actor died Tuesday of pancreatic cancer at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif., said Gregg Klein, Presnell's agent. Although he was best known for his roles in musical theater, Presnell also is remembered as William H. Macy's father-in-law in...

And I'm glad I did. It's a fabulous film...directed by Michael Powell. And, as always, Deborah Kerr was simply superb. This is very sad news. One of my favorite actresses.

a Democrat first? Maybe that's when they disagreed.

Her part in Sayonara did more for Japanese-American relations than any ambassador, imho. RIP, Miyoshi-san.

I did not know that.

Gordon Scott, an actor known for his portrayal of jungle superman Tarzan in six films and later roles in westerns and sword-and-sandals gladiator movies, died Monday at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore of complications from several heart surgeries. He was 80. <snip> An unknown hotel lifeguard in the 1950s, Scott managed to beat out 200 other would-be Tarzans from across the world who had auditioned for the part by climbing...