Year: 2008

Larry Haines, born Larry Hecht (August 3, 1918 – July 17, 2008) was an American actor. He was born in Mount Vernon, New York.

Haines first became known in the 1930s as a voice actor on the radio crime series Gangbusters. Four decades later, he would return to radio, starring in many episodes of the CBS Radio Mystery Theater.

His best-known role was that of next-door neighbor Stu Bergman on the soap opera Search for Tomorrow. He joined the show for its eleventh episode in 1951, and remained on the serial for the show’s duration. In this role, which he played from 1951 to 1986, Haines became very popular. He won Daytime Emmy Awards in 1976 and 1981, and was First Lady Pat Nixon’s favorite soap opera actor.

He also earned several Tony nominations for his work on Broadway, and appeared in the film version of The Odd Couple.

Death of Larry Haines
Haines died on July 17, 2008. He was predeceased by his former wives, Gertrude Haines and Jean Pearlman Haines as well as by his only daughter, Debora Haines. Larry Haines was 89 years old at the time of his death.

Jo Stafford (November 12, 1917 – July 16, 2008), born Jo Elizabeth Stafford, in Coalinga, California, was an American pop singer whose career spanned the late 1930s through the early 1960s. Stafford is greatly admired for the purity of her voice and was considered one of the most versatile vocalists of the era. She was also viewed as a pioneer of modern musical parody, having won a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album in 1961 (with husband Paul Weston) for their album Jonathan and Darlene Edwards in Paris.

Death of Jo Stafford
Jo Stafford is died of congestive heart failure.
Jo Stafford was 90 years old at the time of her death

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Albums
Kiss Me, Kate (1949)
Jo Stafford with Gordon MacRae (1949)
Autumn in New York (1950)
Songs for Sunday Evening (1950)
American Folk Songs (1950)
Songs of Faith (1950)
Jo Stafford: Capitol Collectors Series (1950)
As You Desire Me (1952)
Starring Jo Stafford (1953)
Broadway’s Best (1953)
New Orleans (1954)
Garden of Prayers (1954)
My Heart’s in the Highland (1954)
Soft and Sentimental (1955)
Songs of Scotland (1955)
Memory Songs (1955)
Happy Holiday (1955)
Ski Trails (1956)
A Girl Named Jo (1956)
Once Over Lightly (1957)
Swinging Down Broadway (1958)
Ballad of the Blues (1959)
I’ll Be Seeing You (1959)
Jo Stafford’s Greatest Hits (1959)
Jo + Jazz (1960)
Music of My Life (1961)
Jonathan and Darlene Edwards in Paris (1961)
Whispering Hope (1962)
The Hits of Jo Stafford (1963)
Peace in the Valley (1963)
Joyful Season (1964)
Getting Sentimental over Tommy Dorsey (1964)
Sweet Hour of Prayer (1964)
This is Jo Stafford (1966)
Do I Hear a Waltz? (1966)
Big Band Sound (1970)
Piano Artistry of Jonathan Edwards (1985)
G.I. Joe (1987)
Broadway Revisited (1987)
You Belong to Me (1989)
America;s Most Versatile Singing Star (1990)
Fabulous Song Stylists (1991)
You’ll Never Walk Alone (1992)
Greatest Hits (1993)
Sixteen Most Requested Songs (1995)
The Very Best of Jo Stafford (1995)
Say It’s Wonderful (1995)
For You (1995)
Spotlight on Jo Stafford (1996)
Jazz (1996)
Drifting and Dreaming with Jo Stafford (1996)
Jo Stafford Story (1997)
The One and Only (1997)
Walkin’ My Baby Back Home (1998)
G.I. Jo Sings the Hits (1998)
Too Marvellous for Words (1998)
Coming Back Like a Song: 25 Hits: 1941-47 (1998)
No Other Love (1998)
Jo Stafford (1940-44 (1998)
Happy Holidays: I Love the Winter Weather (1999)
Jo + Broadway (1999)
Jo + Blues (1999)
Songs of Faith, Hope and Love (1999)
Just Reminicin’ (2000)
Jo and Friends (2000)
The Columbia Hits Collection (2001)
Candy (2001)
Haunted Heart (2001)
A–You’re Adorable (2001)
International Hits (2001)
Cocktail Hour (2001)
The Magic of Jo Stafford (2001)
My Darling, My Darling (2001)
Jo Stafford on Capital (2001)
Best of the War Years (2001)
The Old Rugged Cross (2001)
The Two of Us (2001)
I Remember You (2002)
The Ultimate Jo Stafford (2002)
The Best of Jo Stafford (2003)
Meet Jo Stafford (2003)
You Belong to Me (2003)
Stars of the Summer Night (2004)
Over the Rainbow (2004)
Alone and Together (2005)
Memories Are Made of These (2005)
Love, Mystery and Adventure (2006)
Sincerely Yours (2006)
This is Gold (2006)
Vintage Years (2006)
All Hits (2006)
Ultimate Capitol Collection (2007)
Jo Stafford and Friends (2007)
Her Greatest Hits (2008)

Notable songs

Solo
"All The Things You Are"
"Allentown Jail"
"Autumn in New York"
"Black Is the Color"
"Day By Day"
"Early Autumn"
"Feudin’ and Fightin’"
"Goodnight Irene" 
"Haunted Heart"
"Here I’ll Stay"
"I Love You"
"Indiscretion"
"I’ll Be Seeing You"
"It Could Happen to You"
"It’s Almost Tomorrow"
"Ivy"
"Jambalaya"
 "Keep It a Secret"
"Just One Way to Say I Love You"
"The Last Mile Home"
"Let’s Take the Long Way Home"
"Long Ago (And Far Away)"
"Make Love to Me!"
"The Nearness of You"
"No Other Love" 
"On London Bridge"
"Out Of This World"
"Ragtime Cowboy Joe"
"September Song"
"Serenade of the Bells"
"Shrimp Boats"
"Some Enchanted Evening"
"Suddenly There’s a Valley"
 "Swingin’ On Nothin’"
"Symphony"
"Teach Me Tonight" 
"Thank You for Calling"
"That Sugar Baby O’ Mine"
"That’s for Me"
"(Now and Then) There’s a Fool Such As I"
"There’s No You"
"The Things We Did Last Summer"
"White Christmas" 
"Wind in the Willow"
"With a Little Bit of Luck"
"You Belong to Me"

With Frankie Laine
"Back Where I Belong"
"Basin Street Blues"
"Floatin’ Down To Cotton Town"
"Goin’ Like Wildfire"
"Hey Good Lookin’"
"In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening"
"Pretty-Eyed Baby"
"Settin’ The Woods On Fire"
"Way Down Yonder In New Orleans"

With Gordon MacRae
"’A’ — You’re Adorable"
"Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo (The Magic Song)" 
"Dearie"
"Echoes"
"My Darling, My Darling"
"Say Something Sweet To Your Sweetheart"
"Whispering Hope"

With Johnny Mercer
"Candy"
"It’s Great to Be Alive"

Jo Stafford Biography 

Early years
Stafford was born to Grover Cleveland Stafford and Anna York Stafford, a distant cousin of Sergeant Alvin York. Originally, she wanted to become an opera singer and studied voice as a child. However, because of the economic Great Depression, she abandoned that idea and joined her sisters Christine and Pauline in a popular vocal group, "The Stafford Sisters," which performed on Los Angeles radio station KHJ.

The Pied Pipers
When her sisters married, the group broke up and Stafford joined a new vocal group, The Pied Pipers. This group consisted of eight members: John Huddleston (who was Stafford’s husband at the time), Hal Hooper, Chuck Lowry, Bud Hervey, George Tait, Woody Newbury, and Dick Whittinghill, besides Stafford. The group became very popular, working on local radio and movie soundtracks, and caught the attention of two of Tommy Dorsey’s arrangers, Axel Stordahl and Paul Weston.

In 1938, Weston persuaded Dorsey to sign The Pied Pipers for his radio show, and they went to New York for a broadcast date. Dorsey liked them enough to sign them for ten weeks, but after the second broadcast the sponsor heard them and disliked them, firing the group. They stayed in New York for three months, but landed only a single job that paid them just $3.60 each, though they did record four sides for RCA Victor Records.

Half the members of the Pied Pipers returned to Los Angeles, but they had a difficult time trying to make a living until they got an offer from Dorsey to join his big band in 1939. This led to success for the whole group, but especially for Stafford, who was also featured in solo performances. The group also backed Frank Sinatra in some of his early recordings.

In 1942, the group had an argument with Dorsey and left, but in 1943 it became one of the first groups signed to Johnny Mercer’s new label, Capitol Records. Capitol’s music director was the same Paul Weston who had been instrumental in introducing Stafford to Dorsey. Weston and Stafford married in 1952. They went on to have two children, Tim and Amy.

Solo career
In 1944, Stafford left the Pied Pipers to go solo. Her tenure with the USO, in which she gave countless performances for soldiers stationed overseas, acquired her the nickname "GI Jo."

Beginning in 1944, she hosted the Tuesday and Thursday broadcasts of an NBC musical variety radio program — the Chesterfield Supper Club.

In 1948 Stafford and Gordon MacRae had a million-seller with their version of "Say Something Sweet to Your Sweetheart" and in 1949 repeated their success with "My Happiness".

In 1950, she left Capitol for Columbia Records, then returning to Capitol in 1961. At Columbia, she was the first recording artist to sell twenty-five million records. During her second stint at Capitol, Stafford also recorded for Frank Sinatra’s Reprise label. These albums were released between 1961 and 1964, and were mostly retrospective in nature. Stafford left the label when Sinatra sold it to Warner Bros.

In the 1950s, she had a string of popular hits with Frankie Laine, six of which charted; their duet of Hank Williams’ "Hey Good Lookin’" making the top ten in 1951. It was also at this time that Stafford scored her best known hits with huge records like "Jambalaya," "Shrimp Boats," "Make Love to Me," and "You Belong to Me". The last song was Stafford’s all-time biggest hit, topping the charts in both the United States and the United Kingdom (the first song by a female singer to top the UK chart).

Comedy career
Stafford briefly experimented with comedy under the name "Cinderella G. Stump" with Red Ingle and the Natural Seven. True success in the comedy genre, though, would come about almost accidentally.

Throughout the 1950s, Stafford and Paul Weston would entertain guests at parties by putting on a skit in which they assumed the identities Jonathan and Darlene Edwards, a bad lounge act. Stafford, as Darlene, would sing off-key in a high pitched voice; Weston, as Jonathan, played an untuned piano off key and with bizarre rhythms.

Finding that she had time left over following a 1957 recording session, Stafford, as a gag, recorded a track as Darlene Edwards. Those who heard bootlegs of the recording responded positively, and later that year, Stafford and Weston recorded an entire album of songs as Jonathan and Darlene, entitled Jo Stafford and Paul Weston Present: The Original Piano Artistry of Jonathan Edwards, Vocals by Darlene Edwards. As a publicity stunt, Stafford and Weston claimed that the Edwardses were a New Jersey lounge act that they had discovered, and denied any personal connection; much time would pass before people realized (and Stafford and Weston admitted) that they were in fact the Edwardses. The album was followed up with a "pop standards" album, on which the pair intentionally butchered popular music. The album was a commercial and critical success; it proved to be the first commercially successful musical parody album, laying the groundwork for the careers of later "full time" musical parodists such as Weird Al Yankovic.

The couple continued releasing Jonathan and Darlene albums, with their 1961 album, Jonathan and Darlene Edwards in Paris winning that year’s Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album (they "tied" with Bob Hope, as the Grammys decided, in a rare move, to issue two comedy awards that year. Hope was given an award for "Spoken Word Comedy.") It was the only major award that Stafford ever won.

The couple continued to release Jonathan and Darlene albums for several years, and in 1977 released a final, one-off single, a cover of The Bee Gees’ "Stayin’ Alive" backed with "I Am Woman." The same year also saw a brief resurgence in the popularity of Jonathan and Darlene albums when their cover of "Carioca" was featured as the opening and closing theme to The Kentucky Fried Movie.

Retirement
In 1966, Stafford went into semi-retirement, retiring completely from the music business in 1975. Except for the 1977 Jonathan and Darlene Edwards version of "Stayin’ Alive," Stafford wouldn’t perform again until 1990, at a ceremony honoring Frank Sinatra.

Stafford won a breach-of-contract lawsuit against her former record label in the early 1990s, which won her the rights to all of her old recordings, including the Jonathan and Darlene recordings. Following the lawsuit, Stafford, along with son Tim, reactivated the Corinthian Record label which began life as a religious label the deeply religious Paul Weston had started. With Paul Weston’s help, she compiled a pair of Best of Jonathan and Darlene albums, which were released in 1993. In 1996, Paul Weston died of natural causes. Stafford continued to operate Corinthian Records. In 2006, she donated her library and her husband’s to the University of Arizona.

Charles H. Joffe (July 16, 1929 – July 9, 2008) was an American film producer. He is most well known as being, in partnership with Jack Rollins, the producer, and sometimes also executive producer, of virtually all of the films directed by Woody Allen. Joffe won the 1977 Academy Award for Best Picture as producer of Allen’s Annie Hall. Joffe was the stepfather of director Nicole Holofcener.

He died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, after suffering from a long illness (lung disease).

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Robert Anthony "Tony" Snow (June 1, 1955 – July 12, 2008) was a White House Press Secretary, the third under President George W. Bush. Snow also worked for President George H. W. Bush as chief speechwriter and Deputy Assistant of Media Affairs. Snow served as White House Press Secretary from May 2006 until his resignation effective September 2007.

Between his two White House stints, Snow was a broadcaster and newspaper columnist. After years of regular guest-hosting for The Rush Limbaugh Show and providing news commentary for National Public Radio, he launched his own talk radio program, The Tony Snow Show, which went on to become nationally syndicated. He was also a regular personality on Fox News Channel since 1996, hosting Fox News Sunday, Weekend Live, and often substituting as host of The O’Reilly Factor. In April of 2008, shortly before his death, Snow joined CNN as a commentator.

Death of Tony Snow
On the early morning of July 12, 2008, Tony Snow died at Georgetown University Hospital as a result of colon cancer that had spread to his liver
Tony Snow was 53 years old at the time of his death

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Music
Snow was an avid musician. He played the trombone, flute, piccolo, accordion, saxophone, and guitar, and belonged to a cover band, Beats Workin’, which featured fellow Washington-area professionals. Beats Workin’ played publicly with a number of rock bands, including Snow’s friends Skunk Baxter (The Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan) and Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull. He was featured on an episode of VH1 Classic’s Rock ‘n Roll Fantasy Camp.

Career

Early career
Snow began his newspaper career in 1979 in newspapers as an editorial writer for The Greensboro Record in North Carolina, next working as an editorial writer at The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Virginia (1981–82), editorial page editor of The Daily Press in Newport News (1982–84), deputy editorial page editor of The Detroit News (1984–87) and editorial page editor of The Washington Times (1987–91). Also, The Detroit News published his commentary from 1993 to 2000, and he was a Counterpoint Columnist for USA Today from 1994 to 2000.

Snow also wrote a syndicated column for Creators Syndicate between 1993 and 2000. As a nationally syndicated columnist, his commentaries appeared in more than 200 newspapers nationwide. Snow won numerous awards during his print career, including citations from the Virginia Press Association, the Detroit Press Club, the Society of Professional Journalists, the American Society of Newspaper Editors, The Associated Press and Gannett.

He appeared on radio and television programs worldwide including The McLaughlin Group, The MacNeil–Lehrer NewsHour, Face the Nation, Crossfire, and Good Morning America. Until 1994, Snow was the writer, correspondent and host of a PBS news special, The New Militant Center.

In 1991, Snow took a sabbatical from journalism to work in the White House for President George H. W. Bush, first as chief speechwriter (Deputy Assistant to the President for Communications and Director of Speechwriting) and later as Deputy Assistant to the President for Media Affairs (1992–1993).

From 1996 to 2003, he served as the first host of FOX News Sunday, a Sunday morning interview and roundtable program produced by Fox News, airing on affiliates of the Fox Broadcasting Company and later in the day on Fox News Channel.

Snow served as the primary guest host of Rush Limbaugh’s program from the mid-1990s on. He was also a frequent commentator on National Public Radio. Snow’s own Tony Snow Show on Fox News Radio premiered in late 2003. It ended when he became White House Press Secretary in April 2006.

Return to the White House
In April 2006, Snow was named White House Press Secretary to replace Scott McClellan in the George W. Bush administration. His appointment to the position was formally announced on April 26, 2006. The position of White House Press Secretary has historically been filled by individuals from news media backgrounds.

His selection as press secretary was initially criticized because of some of his past comments about Bush. Bush acknowledged Snow’s prior criticisms during the announcement of his appointment, stating that Snow was "not afraid to express his own opinions". Snow considered having input into the administration’s policy debates a requirement for him to take the position.

Snow began his new press secretary duties on May 8, 2006.

On July 3, 2007, Snow had a combative press conference with White House reporters about the President’s decision to commute a prison term for top Vice-Presidential aide Irving Lewis "Scooter" Libby, sentenced to 30 months in prison for obstruction of justice; Bush had once vowed to fire any White House staffer convicted in the case. When Snow denied Libby’s commutation was motivated by party politics, one reporter accused Snow of "insulting their intelligence."

In his final press briefing on September 13, 2007, Snow commented that he would miss the duties of the position. "I love these briefings," he said.

Illness
Snow, having suffered for years from ulcerative colitis, was at an increased risk for colon cancer. On February 2005, this risk proved real, as he developed cancer in his colon. After having his colon removed, he returned to work in April 2005. On March 23, 2007, Snow announced that he would be undergoing surgery the following Monday to remove and investigate an abdominal growth. On March 27, the White House announced that the growth was cancerous and had metastasized. In Snow’s absence, the press briefings began to be covered by Deputy Dana Perino. On April 21, Snow made an appearance at the annual White House Correspondent’s Association Dinner, where he introduced a joking tape by David Letterman. Snow returned to work on April 30, 2007. On May 12, Snow delivered the Commencement Address for the Catholic University of America, in Washington, D.C., where he was presented with a degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa. On September 19, it was reported in the AP that a cancerous growth was found inside his brain. Though Snow has been reluctant to describe himself as terminally ill, on September 27, he admitted to Jay Leno on The Tonight Show that he will have cancer for the rest of his life, "unless and until they find a cure." He then announced on October 4 on the Late Show With David Letterman that his cancer was in remission.

On April 23, 2008, the Associated Press reported that Snow was admitted to a Spokane hospital with an undisclosed illness. On April 22, he canceled appearances scheduled at Eastern Washington University. He was also expected to appear that day on CNN to analyze the Pennsylvania primary which occurred that day.

On May 28, 2008, he was forced to cancel speaking appearance at Ohio’s Ashland University because of an unspecified illness and was told by his doctors he couldn’t travel.

Hiroaki Aoki (October 9, 1938 – July 10, 2008) was a former Japanese Olympic wrestler (He qualified for the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, but did not compete.).

He is better known in the United States by his Anglicized name, Rocky Aoki under which he founded in 1964 the Benihana chain of "Japanese Steakhouse" restaurants.

He is also the father of supermodel and actress Devon Aoki, and Dim Mak Records CEO Steve Aoki.

He was an offshore powerboat racer along with the 1986 APBA world champion Powerboat throttleman Errol Lanier, a former Fort Lauderdale, Florida fireman who saved his life in a near fatal powerboat crash in 1979 under the Golden Gate Bridge.

He faced deportation from the United States over a conviction for tax evasion. Celebrity columnist Cindy Adams asked her readers to send letters on his behalf to the government, and ultimately he was granted relief by the immigration judge (unlike fellow businessman, Peter Gatien, who was deported in 2003).

Before his death, he had become a U.S. citizen.

Mr. Aoki is the recipient of The International Center in New York’s Award of Excellence.

Rocky Aoki’s Death
Rocky Aoki is died of Cancer. Rocky Aoki was 69 year old at the time of his death.

Rocky Aoki on TV commercial, 1985

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Sir John Marks Templeton (29 November 1912 – 8 July 2008) was an American-born British stock investor, businessman and philanthropist.

In 2007, Templeton was named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People (Time 100) under the category of "Power Givers."

Death of John Templeton
On 8 July 2008, John Templeton died at Doctors Hospital in Nassau, Bahamas of pneumonia at 12.20 local time. John Templeton was 95 years old at the time of his death.

Templeton became a billionaire by pioneering the use of globally diversified mutual funds. His Templeton Growth, Ltd. (investment fund), established in 1954, was among the first who invested in Japan in the middle of the 1960s. In 2006 he was listed in a 7-way tie for 129th place on the Sunday Times Rich List. He rejected technical analysis for stock trading, preferring instead to use fundamental analysis. Money magazine in 1999 called him "arguably the greatest global stock picker of the century”. He renounced his U.S. citizenship in 1968, thus avoiding U.S. income taxes. He had dual naturalized Bahamian and British citizenship and lived in the Bahamas.

As a philanthropist, Templeton established

• the John Templeton Foundation
• the Templeton Prize for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities in 1972.
• the Templeton Library in Sewanee, Tennessee.

Dorian Leigh (born as Dorian Elizabeth Leigh Parker; April 23, 1917 – July 7, 2008) was a supermodel, considered by some to be world’s first.

She worked from the late 1940s to the 1960s, at a time when modeling for photographs was considered the most prestigious segment of the profession (photographic models were paid more than those who worked fashion shows and considered themselves above such work). While in demand as a cover girl, Dorian Leigh also became the signature model for the cosmetic line, Fire and Ice, for Revlon. It is believed that she is the inspiration for the Audrey Hepburn character in the film musical, Funny Face.

In her professional life, Leigh modeled from the mid 1940s to the mid 1960s. She opened her own agency in Paris, but, due to the illegal activities of her husband, Iddo, the agency had to be closed down. Instead, Dorian took up her long love of cooking and became a chef in Paris, New York and Italy.

In 1980, Dorian published an autobiography "The Girl who had Everything".

The Cause of Dorian Leigh’s death is not known at this moment

Evelyn Keyes (November 20, 1916 – July 4, 2008) was an American actress.

Film career
A chorus girl by age 18, Keyes was put under contract by Cecil B. DeMille. After a handful of B movies at Paramount Pictures, she landed her most notable role, that of Scarlett O’Hara’s sister Suellen in Gone with the Wind (1939). Keyes’ last important film role was a small part as Tom Ewell’s vacationing wife in The Seven Year Itch (1955), which starred Marilyn Monroe. Keyes officially retired in 1956, but continued to act.

Death of Evelyn Keyes
She died of uterine cancer on July 4, 2008 at her home in Montecito, near Santa Barbara

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Evelyn Keyes as Helen: Janos and Helen "If I Never Knew You"

Personal life
She was married to Barton Bainbridge from 1938 until his death in 1940. Later she married and divorced director Charles Vidor (1943 – 1945), actor/director John Huston (23 July 1946 – 1950), and bandleader Artie Shaw (1957 – 1985). Keyes said of her many relationships, "I was always interested in the man of the moment, and there were many such moments". While married to Huston, the couple adopted a Mexican child, Pablo, whom Huston had discovered while on the set of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

In her 1977 biography she writes of the personal cost she paid having an abortion just before Gone with the Wind was to begin filming. The experience left her unable to have children.

Her autobiography, Scarlett O’Hara’s Younger Sister: My Lively Life in and Out of Hollywood, was published in 1977. Keyes has expressed her opinion that Mrs. Mike was her best film.

Filmography
The Buccaneer (1938) as Madeleine
Dangerous to Know (1938) (uncredited)
Men with Wings (1938) (uncredited) Nurse
Sons of the Legion (1938) as Linda Lee
Artists and Models Abroad (1938) aka Stranded in Paris (UK) (uncredited)
Paris Honeymoon (1939) (uncredited) as Village Girl
Sudden Money (1939) as Mary Patterson
Union Pacific (1939) as Mrs. Calvin
Gone with the Wind (1939) as Suellen O’Hara
Slightly Honorable (1940) as Miss Vlissingen
The Lady in Question (1940) as Francois Morestan
Before I Hang (1940) as Martha Garth
Beyond the Sacramento (1940) aka Power of Justice (UK) as Lynn Perry
The Face Behind the Mask (1941) aka Behind the Mask (UK) as Helen Williams
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) as Bette Logan
Ladies in Retirement (1941) as Lucy
The Adventures of Martin Eden (1942) aka High Seas (USA reissue title) as Ruth Morley
Flight Lieutenant (1942) as Susie Thompson
The Desperadoes (1943) as Allison McLeod
Dangerous Blondes (1943) as Jane Craig
There’s Something About a Soldier (1943) as Carol Harkness
Nine Girls (1944) as Mary O’Ryan
Strange Affair (1944) as Jacqueline Harrison
A Thousand and One Nights (1945) aka 1001 Nights as the Genie
Renegades (1946) as Hannah Brockway
The Thrill of Brazil (1946) as Vicki Dean
The Jolson Story (1946) as Julie Benson
Johnny O’Clock (1947) as Nancy Hobson
The Mating of Millie (1948) as Millie McGonigle
Enchantment (1948) as Grizel Dane
Mr. Soft Touch (1949) aka House of Settlement (UK) as Jenny Jones
Mrs. Mike (1949) as Kathy Flannigan
The Killer That Stalked New York (1950) aka Frightened City (UK) (USA copyright title) as Sheila Bennet
Smuggler’s Island (1951) as Vivian Craig
The Prowler (1951) as Susan Gilvray
Iron Man (1951) as Rose Warren
One Big Affair (1952) as Jean Harper
C’est arrivé à Paris (1953) aka It Happened in Paris (USA) as Patricia Moran
Rough Shoot (1953) aka Shoot First (USA) as Cecily Paine
99 River Street (1953) aka Crosstown as Linda James
Hell’s Half Acre (1954) as Donna Williams
The Seven Year Itch (1955) as Helen Sherman
Top of the World (1955) as Virgie Rayne (Mrs. Gannon)
Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) as The Flirt
Across 110th Street (1972) cameo
A Return to Salem’s Lot (1987) as Mrs. Axel
Wicked Stepmother (1989) as Witch Instructor

Jesse Alexander Helms, Jr. (October 18, 1921 – July 4, 2008) was a five-term United States Senator from North Carolina, and a member of the Republican Party. He also served as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He is known as the purest Republican who never changed.

Helms died from natural causes during the early morning hours of July 4, 2008, at the age of 86. Mr. Helms died at 1:15 a.m., said the Jesse Helms Center at Wingate University in North Carolina. The center’s president, John Dodd, said in a statement that funeral arrangements were pending

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Larry Harmon (January 2, 1925 – July 3, 2008) was an American entertainer, best-known as Bozo the Clown.

Together with a group of investors, Harmon purchased the licensing rights to the Bozo character from Capitol Records. Harmon marketed the Bozo property aggressively. By the late 1950’s Harmon had created local Bozo TV shows in nearly every major U.S. market, and across the world in places as far away as Thailand, Greece and Brazil.