Rhonda Fleming was an American film and television actress and singer. She acted in more than 40 films, mostly in the 1940s and 1950s. She sang on NBC’s Colgate Comedy Hour during the same live telecast that featured Errol Flynn, from September 30, 1951, to October 1, 1951.
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Rhonda Fleming was an American film and television actress and singer. She acted in more than 40 films, mostly in the 1940s and 1950s. She became renowned as one of the most glamorous actresses of her day. Her fair complexion and flaming red hair photographed exceptionally well and she was nicknamed the \”Queen of Technicolor\”, a moniker not worth much to her as she would have preferred to be known for her acting. She sang on NBC’s Colgate Comedy Hour during the same live telecast that featured Errol Flynn, from September 30, 1951, to October 1, 1951. She died in Los Angeles, California, on November 11, 2013. She was buried in Los Alamitos, California. She is survived by her husband, Robert Fleming, and two daughters. She had a son and a daughter with director David O. Selznick, who signed her to a seven-year contract without a screen test. She also had a stepson with director Alfred Hitchcock, who worked with her on Spellbound and The Spiral Staircase. She has a granddaughter with actor Robert De Niro, and a grandson with actor John C.
Graham, who starred in The Great Lover and The Eagle and the Hawk. Her great-great-grandson is actor Robert de Niro and his wife is actress Barbara Streisand, who appeared in several films with her. She played the leading lady in Ronald Reagan’s The Last Outpost, John Payne’s Western, and again in Hong Kong, The Crosswinds of Hong Kong. She appeared in the musical King Arthur’s Court, a musical loosely based on the story by Mark Twain, and sang with Bing Crosby on Once and For Always and soloing with \”When Is Sometime\”. She also sang on the 78-rpm Decca album, conducted by Victor Young, who wrote the film’s orchestral score. Her voice was praised by her vocal coach in Hollywood, Harriet Lee, saying, “she could be a musical comedy queen’s voice.” She also starred in the film noir classic Out of the Past, with Robert Mitchum and Kirk Douglas, at RKO, where she played a harried secretary. In 1950, she played the title role in a Western with Glenn Ford, The Redhead and the Cowboy, at Paramount.
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