(ANSA) - ROME, OCTOBER 17 - Rhonda Fleming, star of the '40s and' 50s, nicknamed 'The Queen of Technicolor ", - Le catenedella fault (" Out of the Past "), considered among the best noirds of the time and" I'll Save You "(" Spellbound ") among her best-known films - she died Wednesday in Santa Monica, California, according to her secretary Carla Sapon. She was 97.
Fleming has appeared in more than 40 films and has worked with directors such as Alfred Hitchcock. in “Spellbound,” Jacques Tourneur in “Outof the Past,” and Robert Siodmak in “The Spiral Staircase.”
She had become a philanthropist and advocate for numerous organizations that fight cancer, homelessness and child abuse.
His starring roles include such classics as the 1948 fantasy music "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" opposite Bing Crosby, 1957 Western "Gunfight at the OK
Corral" and the noir "Slightly Scarlet" opposite John Payne.
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