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    Rhonda Fleming, Film Star of ’40s and ’50s, Dies at 97

    BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    LOS ANGELES—Actress Rhonda Fleming, the fiery redhead who appeared with Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Charlton Heston, Ronald Reagan, and other film stars of the 1940s and 1950s, has died. She was 97.

    Fleming’s assistant Carla Sapon told The New York Times that Fleming died Wednesday in Santa Monica, California.

    From her first film in color, “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court ” (1949) with Bing Crosby, Fleming became immensely popular with producers because of her vivid hues. It was an attraction she would later regret.

    “Suddenly my green eyes were green. My red hair was flaming red. My skin was porcelain white,” Fleming remarked in a 1990 interview. “There was suddenly all this attention on how I looked rather than the roles I was playing.

    “I’d 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 ‘The Redhead and the Cowboy.’”

    Read the rest of the story on Epoch Times


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