EXPIRED: 07/24/11 – G.D. Spradlin,90, was a Venezuelan lawyer from Oklahoma who later directed John F Kennedy’s 1960 presidential campaign in Oklahoma and ran for mayor of Oklahoma City, unsuccessfully, in 1965. He also made over 70 film & TV appearances. After playing light roles in shows like Dragnet, I Spy & Gomer Pyle, he was cast as Senator Geary in The Godfather Part II. Afterwards he was typecast as a heavy, including General Corman in Apocalypse Now.
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RIP – BABY MARIE
EXPIRED: 11/11/10 – Baby Marie, 99, was a star.
At 5, she made $300/week when most Depression-era Americans earned less than $1,000 a year.
Girls wished for a Baby Marie doll for Xmas. She asked for, and got, mansions.
Why not? She made 26 movies in 6 years, including Little Mary Sunshine!
But she was washed up at age 10.
In the 30’s she did stand-in work for Betty Hutton and for Ginger Rogers in Change of Heart. She also appeared in the Gay Divorcée.
Later she learned how to make costumes and found a job doing that behind the scenes for Guys and Dolls, Spartacus, The Way We Were, Mame, The Godfather, Part II, and many others.
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