Rhonda Fleming
| Rhonda Fleming | |
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Fleming circa 1950s
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| Born |
Marilyn Louis August 10, 1923 Hollywood, California, United States |
| Years active | 1943–1990 |
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| Children | Kent Lane (actor) |
| Website | rhondafleming |
Rhonda Fleming (born Marilyn Louis; August 10, 1923, in Hollywood, California) is an American film and television actress.
She acted in more than forty films, mostly in the 1940s and 1950s, and became renowned as one of the most 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 actress while attending Beverly Hills High School, from which she graduated in 1941. She was discovered by the well-known Hollywood agent Henry Willson. After appearing uncredited in several films, she received her first substantial role in the thriller Spellbound (1945), produced by David O. Selznick and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. She followed this with supporting roles in another thriller, The Spiral Staircase (1946), directed by Robert Siodmak, the Randolph Scott western Abilene Town (1946), and the film noir classic Out of the Past (1947) with Robert Mitchum. Her first leading role came in Adventure Island (1947), a low-budget action film made in the two-color Cinecolor process and co-starring Rory Calhoun.
She co-starred with Bing Crosby in her first Technicolor film,A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949), 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 the songs for a three-disc, 78 rpm Decca album, conducted by Victor Young, also of the film. She 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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