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Maila Nurmi, aka, Vampira, died Thursday, Jan. 10, in her sleep at her Hollywood home. She was 86. MSTies will recall that she appeared, buried under a ton of makeup, as the sorceress hag in the movie in episode 411 – THE MAGIC SWORD. Born in 1921 in Finland, the model and […] LOS ANGELES–Actor, writer and producer Bill Idelson died here Dec. 31 of complications from a June hip injury. He was 88. He is perhaps best remembered as Herman Glimsher, Sally’s longtime boyfriend on TV’s “The Dick Van Dyke Show.” MSTies may recall that he cowrote the screemplay to the movie in episode […] IRVINE, Calif. (AP) — Jeanne Carmen, the “little country girl” who became a 1950s pinup and actress and hobnobbed with Frank Sinatra and other stars, died of lymphoma at her Orange County home on Thursday, Dec. 20. She was 77. MSTies will remember her as Lillibet in episode 112- UNTAMED YOUTH.
Read […] PHILADELPHIA — Frank Capra Jr., a producer who helped build a major television and movie studio, died Wednesday, Dec. 19, at a hospital here after a long fight with prostate cancer. He was 73. MSTies will recall that he was an associate producer on the 1969 film “Marooned,” which Film Ventures international turned […]
Singer-songwriter Dan Fogelberg, best known for tunes including “Leader of the Band” and “Same Old Lang Syne,” died Sunday at his home in Maine after battling prostate cancer. He was 56.
Dan was a MSTie, who requested–and was granted–a special visit to the set during the 90s. You were one of the good […] |
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