Marty Richards, the producer behind the Broadway productions of "Sweeney Todd" and "La Cage aux Folles," as well as the 2002 big-screen adaptation of "Chicago," died Monday, Playbill reports. He was 80. Richards, born Morton Richard Klein in the Bronx, started out as a performer, joining the cast of the 1944 musical comedy "Mexican Hayride" at 10 and performing as a nightclub singer while studying architecture at Nyu. Small television and movie parts followed, with Richards later working as a casting director for Fox and Paramount. Also read: Notable Celebrity Deaths of...
- 11/27/2012
- by Tim Kenneally
- The Wrap
June Havoc Dies For the most part, both her film roles and performances were negligible. Although she played leads in minor fare such as Intrigue (1947), with George Raft, and Lady Possessed (1952), with James Mason, her best remembered role is that of Gregory Peck’s Jewish secretary who tries to pass for a Gentile in Elia Kazan’s Academy Award-winning drama Gentleman’s Agreement (1947). June Havoc was much more successful onstage. Among her most important Broadway productions were Cole Porter’s Mexican Hayride (1944); Sadie Thompson (also 1944), replacing Ethel Merman in this musical based on W. Somerset Maugham’s short story "Rain"; That Ryan Girl (1945), in the title role; and a revival of Dinner at Eight [...]...
- 3/29/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
June Havoc, the actress who inspired Stephen Sondheim vaudeville musical Gypsy, has died in Connecticut at the age of 97.
The actress and writer passed away from natural causes at her home in Stamford on Sunday, her publicist Shirley Herz has confirmed.
Havoc was the younger sister of Louise, aka stripper Gypsy Rose Lee, whose memoir served as the basis for the original stage show, about a child forced into the entertainment industry from the age of 18 months.
Havoc was married three times and had a daughter, April Hyde Kent, with her first husband, who she married at the age of 13 after meeting on the vaudeville circuit.
She went on to appear in more than 12 productions on Broadway, from Mexican Hayride and Sadie Thompson in 1944 to her final New York stage performance in an early 1980s version of Annie.
She also stared in 26 films including Gentleman's Agreement and My Sister Eileen.
The actress and writer passed away from natural causes at her home in Stamford on Sunday, her publicist Shirley Herz has confirmed.
Havoc was the younger sister of Louise, aka stripper Gypsy Rose Lee, whose memoir served as the basis for the original stage show, about a child forced into the entertainment industry from the age of 18 months.
Havoc was married three times and had a daughter, April Hyde Kent, with her first husband, who she married at the age of 13 after meeting on the vaudeville circuit.
She went on to appear in more than 12 productions on Broadway, from Mexican Hayride and Sadie Thompson in 1944 to her final New York stage performance in an early 1980s version of Annie.
She also stared in 26 films including Gentleman's Agreement and My Sister Eileen.
- 3/29/2010
- WENN
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