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“#Film star Rhonda Fleming dead at 97<\/strong>”
\nActress Rhonda Fleming, the fiery redhead who app<\/a>eared with Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Charlton Heston, Ronald Reagan and other film stars of the 1940s and 1950s, has died. She was 97.<\/p>\n

Fleming\u2019s assistant Carla Sapon\u00a0told The New York Times<\/a>\u00a0that Fleming died Wednesday in Santa Monica, California.<\/p>\n

From her first film in color, \u201cA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur\u2019s Court \u201d (1949) with Bing Crosby, Fleming became immensely popular with producers because of her vivid hues. It was an attraction she would later regret.<\/p>\n

\u201cSuddenly my green eyes were green. My red hair was flaming red. My skin was porcelain white,\u201d Fleming remarked in a 1990 interview. \u201cThere was suddenly all this attention on how I looked rather than the roles I was playing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d been painted into a corner by the studios, who never wanted more from me than my looking good and waltzing through a parade of films like \u2018The Redhead and the Cowboy.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

Before Reagan entered politics, the actress co-starred with him in \u201cHong Kong,\u201d \u201cTropic Zone,\u201d \u201cThe Last Outpost\u201d and \u201cTennessee\u2019s Partner.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe surprised everyone because he never looked in a mirror,\u201d she once said of Reagan. \u201cHow many actors can you say that about?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Fleming possessed a fine singing voice, and later in her career sang onstage in Las Vegas and in a touring act.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In the big-studio era, many new personalities were publicized as having been discovered in quirky ways: Kim Novak while riding a bicycle past an agent\u2019s office, Lana Turner spotted in a malt shop.<\/p>\n

In Fleming\u2019s case, young Marilyn Louis was reported to have been headed to class at Beverly Hills High School when a man followed her in a big black car and told her, \u201cYou ought to be in pictures.\u201d She eluded him, but he turned up at her home and offered to be her agent.<\/p>\n

Legend or not, at 19 Louis was awarded a six-month contract at the studio of David O. Selznick and a new name: Rhonda Fleming. She played a bit part in the 1944 wartime drama \u201cSince You Went Away,\u201d and then Alfred Hitchcock chose her to play a nymphomaniac in \u201cSpellbound,\u201d starring Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck.<\/p>\n

\u201cI rushed home, and my mother and I looked up \u2018nymphomaniac\u2019 in the dictionary,\u201d she recalled. \u201cWe were both shocked.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSpellbound\u201d led to another suspense film, \u201cThe Spiral Staircase,\u201d in which she was strangled by the villain, George Brent. With Selznick concentrating on the career of his wife, Jennifer Jones, he lost interest in his contract players, and Fleming left the studio to freelance.<\/p>\n

Her next films: \u201cAbilene Town,\u201d a Randolph Scott Western; \u201cOut of the Past,\u201d a film noir with Robert Mitchum; and \u201cAdventure Island,\u201d a tropics thriller starring Rory Calhoun.<\/p>\n

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Ida Eisenhower, mother of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, sits by Randolph Scott, star of the movie \u201cAbilene Town\u201d, shortly before its premiere in Abilene, Kansas, Jan. 19, 1946. From left: Scott, Mrs. Eisenhower, Rhonda Fleming.<\/span>AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

She won a role in \u201cA Connecticut Yankee,\u201d a Crosby musical based on the Mark Twain story, after Deanna Durbin dropped out to retire to France. Crosby was so impressed that he recommended her to Bob Hope, with whom she starred in \u201cThe Great Lover.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ironically, the Crosby\/Hope films that established her as a luminary proved to be ones she was never able to top. She remained a star for 15 years, but except for the Lancaster-Douglas \u201cGunfight at the OK Corral,\u201d most of her performances came in B pictures that exploited her looks.<\/p>\n

\u201cI made the mistake of doing lesser films for good money,\u201d she reflected in a 1976 interview. \u201cI was hot \u2014 they all wanted me \u2014 but I didn\u2019t have the guidance or background to judge for myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among her 1950s films were \u201cWhile the City Sleeps,\u201d directed by Fritz Lang and co-starring Dana Andrews. She played Cleopatra in the 1953 film \u201cSerpent of the Nile.\u201d<\/p>\n

But many titles were forgettable: \u201cThe Eagle and the Hawk,\u201d \u201cThe Last Outpost,\u201d \u201cLittle Egypt,\u201d \u201cThe Killer Is Loose,\u201d \u201cSlightly Scarlet,\u201d \u201cCrosswinds\u201d and \u201cPony Express\u201d (with Charlton Heston), \u201cInferno,\u201d \u201cThose Redheads from Seattle,\u201d \u201cYankee Pasha,\u201d and \u201cGun Glory.\u201d<\/p>\n

After her film career cooled off, Fleming took a singing act to Las Vegas, appeared in TV shows and commercials, starred on Broadway in a revival of \u201cThe Women\u201d and sang as the temptress Lalume in \u201cKismet\u201d for the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera.<\/p>\n

She was born in Los Angeles in 1923. Her mother, Effie Graham, had appeared in a 1914 Broadway musical with Al Jolson, and her grandfather was a theatrical producer in Salt Lake City. She studied acting, but as a backup also took classes in shorthand, typing and bookkeeping.<\/p>\n

While still in her teens, Fleming married her high school sweetheart, Thomas Lane. A son, Kent, was born in 1941. When Lane returned from Army service, Rhonda had become a star, and the marriage ended in 1947. Three other marriages also ended in divorce, to Beverly Hills surgeon Lewis Morrill (1952-1958); actor Lang Jeffries (1960-1962); and producer-director Hall Bartlett (1966-1972).<\/p>\n

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Actress Rhonda Fleming reads in her penthouse apartment in Rome in 1955.<\/span>AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 1977 Fleming married mogul Ted Mann, who built the Mann Theater chain, and the marriage lasted until his death in 2001. For many years, they lived in matching 4,300-square-foot condominiums, one on top of the other in a Century City high-rise. \u201cI treasure my privacy, and Ted needs his,\u201d she once explained. \u201cWe love each other very much. I\u2019m much more fulfilled today than at any time in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

After Fleming\u2019s sister, Beverly Engel, died of cancer in 1991, Fleming and her husband established the Rhonda Fleming Mann Resource Center for Women with Cancer at the UCLA Medical Center. They also were active in various other charities for cancer patients, children and the homeless.<\/p>\n

A couple of years after Mann died, Fleming married for a sixth time, to Derol W. Carlson, who died in 2017.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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