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    Ceremony date 02/08/1960

About
Rhonda Fleming
Born:
1923-08-10,
Hollywood,
California,
USA
Education:
NA
Ethnicity:
Caucasian
Death Date:
-0001-11-30
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Rhonda Fleming

Rhonda Fleming, is an American film and television actress.

She acted in more than 40 films, mostly in the 1940s and 1950s, and became renowned as one of the most beautiful and glamorous actresses of her day. She was nicknamed the “Queen of Technicolor” because her fair complexion and flaming red hair photographed exceptionally well in Technicolor.

Fleming began working as a film actor while attending Beverly Hills High School, from which she was graduated in 1941. After appearing uncredited in a several films, she received her first substantial role in the thriller Spellbound, produced by David O. Selznick and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. She followed this with supporting roles in another thriller, The Spiral Staircase, directed by Robert Siodmak, the Randolph Scott western Abilene Town, and the film noir classic Out of the Past with Robert Mitchum. Her first leading role came in Adventure Island, a low-budget action film made in the two-color Cinecolor process and co-starring Rory Calhoun.

The actress then co-starred with Bing Crosby in her first Technicolor film, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, a musical loosely based on the story by Mark Twain. Fleming exhibited her singing ability, dueting with Crosby on ?Once and For Always? and soloing with ?When Is Sometime.? She and Crosby recorded these songs for a 78 rpm Decca soundtrack album. She also sang on NBC’s Colgate Comedy Hour during the same live telecast that featured Errol Flynn, on September 30, 1951, from the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood.

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