Rhonda Fleming

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Rhonda Fleming (born Marilyn Louis; August 10, 1923) is a retired American film/television actress and singer.

She acted in more than 40 films, mostly in the 1940s and 1950s, and became renowned as one of the most glamorous actresses of her day, nicknamed the "Queen of Technicolor" because she photographed so well in that medium.

Personal life and death

Fleming worked for several charities, especially in the field of cancer care, and served on the committees of many related organizations. In 1991, her fifth husband, Ted Mann, and she established the Rhonda Fleming Mann Clinic for Women's Comprehensive Care at the UCLA Medical Center.

In 1964, Fleming spoke at the "Project Prayer" rally attended by 2,500 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. The gathering, which was hosted by Anthony Eisley, a star of ABC's Hawaiian Eye series, sought to flood the United States Congress with letters in support of mandatory school prayer, following two decisions in 1962 and 1963 of the United States Supreme Court, which struck down mandatory school prayer as conflicting with the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Joining Fleming and Eisley at the rally were Walter Brennan, Lloyd Nolan, Dale Evans, Pat Boone, and Gloria Swanson. Fleming declared, "Project Prayer is hoping to clarify the First Amendment to the Constitution and reverse this present trend away from God." Eisley and Fleming added that John Wayne, Ronald Reagan, Roy Rogers, Mary Pickford, Jane Russell, Ginger Rogers, and Pat Buttram would also have attended the rally had their schedules not been in conflict.

Fleming married six times:

Through her son Kent Lane (b. 1941), Rhonda also had two granddaughters (Kimberly and Kelly), four great-grandchildren (Wagner, Page, Lane, and Cole), and two great-great-grandchildren.

She was a Presbyterian However she may have embraced the Jewish faith of fifth husband, producer Ted Mann, as she was eventually interred in his plot at the Jewish Hillside Memorial park upon her death.

She was a Republican who supported Dwight Eisenhower during the 1952 presidential election.

Fleming died on October 14, 2020, in Saint John's Health Center, Santa Monica, California, at the age of 97. She is interred at Hillside Memorial Park in Culver City, California.

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Career

Marilyn Louis was born in Hollywood, California, to Harold Cheverton Louis, an insurance salesman, and Effie Graham, a stage actress who appeared opposite Al Jolson in the musical Dancing Around at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York from 1914 to 1915. John C. Graham, an actor, theater owner, and Utah newspaper editor, was Fleming's maternal grandfather.

She began acting as a film actress while attending Beverly Hills High School, where she graduated in 1941. She was discovered by well-known Hollywood agent Henry Willson, who changed her name to "Rhonda Fleming."

Later, Fleming said, "It's so strange." "He barred me from crossing the street." It was like a little bit scary when I was 16 or 17. He committed to a seven-year contract without the use of a screen test. It was a Cinderella tale, but those things could have happened in those days."

Willson, Fleming's employee, went to work for David O. Selznick, who placed her under house arrest. Selznick's Since You Went Away (1944) and When Strangers Marry (1944) have bits of her.

Spellbound (1945), directed by Alfred Hitchcock and produced by Selznick, was her first significant appearance in the thriller. Fleming wrote: "Hitch told me I was going to play a nymphomaniac." "I remember running home to look it up in the dictionary and being as shocked as it was." Selznick appeared in the film The Spiral Staircase (1946), directed by Robert Siodmak, and it was a hit.

Selznick was lent out to appear in supporting roles in Randolph Scott's acclaimed film noir film noir (1947) with Robert Mitchum and Kirk Douglas at RKO, where she appeared as a harried secretary.

Rory Calhoun was Fleming's first leading role in Adventure Island (1947), a low-budget action film made for Pine-Thomas Productions at Paramount Pictures in the two-color Cinecolor process and co-starring Selznick contractee Rory Calhoun.

Fleming auditioned for the female lead in a Bing Crosby film, a role Deanna Durbin played in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949), a musical loosely based on Mark Twain's story. Fleming performed her singing abilities, appearing on "Once and Forever" and soloing with "When Is Sometime." They recorded the songs for a three-disc, 78-rpm Decca film, directed by Victor Young, who wrote the film's orchestral score. Harriet Lee, the Hollywood vocal coach, praised her "lovely voice" and said, "she might be a musical comedy queen". This was Fleming's first Technicolor film. Her fair complexion and flaming red hair shot beautifully, and she was dubbed the "Queen of Technicolor," a moniker that may not have cared for as she would not have been known for her acting. Maureen O'Hara, an actress, expressed a similar attitude when she was given the same name at the time.

In this case, Bob Hope played another leading role in The Great Lover (1949). It was a big success, and Fleming was established. "I wasn't fortunate enough to produce good directors after that," Fleming said. "I made the mistake of doing lesser films for good money." I was hot – everyone wanted me to be sure, but I didn't have the knowledge or experience to judge for myself."

Selznick transferred his workers to Warner Bros in February 1949, but he kept Fleming.

In 1950, she portrayed John Payne's love affair in The Eagle and the Hawk, a Western.

In Cry Danger (1951), a film noir, Fleming was loaned to RKO to play a femme fatale opposite Dick Powell. She appeared in a Western with Glenn Ford, The Redhead and the Cowboy (1951), back in Paraphrasedoutput.

She ended her Selznick tenure after eight years in 1950, though her deal with him lasted another five years.

Fleming has signed a three-picture contract with In a Western, The Last Outpost (1951), John Payne's leading lady in the adventure film Crosswinds (1951), Pine-Thomas used her as Ronald Reagan's leading lady (1951). She also worked with Reagan in Hong Kong (1951).

On September 30, 1951, from the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood, she appeared on NBC's Colgate Comedy Hour.

When Sam Katzman's The Golden Hawk (1952) with Sterling Hayden, he was reunited with Reagan for Tropic Zone (1953) at Pine-Thomas. In 1953, Fleming portrayed Cleopatra in Katzman's Serpent of the Nile for Columbia. Inferno with Robert Ryan at Fox in 1953, and the musical Those Redheads from Seattle with Gene Barry. She appeared in Jivaro, her third 3-D debut in Jivaro, in a year after. With Jeff Chandler, she went to Universal for Yankee Pasha (1954). In Queen of Babylon (1954), Fleming also went to Italy to compete in Semiramis.

Jane Russell, Connie Haines, and Beryl Davis were among a gospel singing quartet with Jane Russell, Connie Haines and Beryl Davis.

The majority of the location shoot for Fleming's 1955 Western Tennessee's Partner, in which she played Duchess opposite John Payne as Tennessee and Ronald Reagan as Cowpoke, was shot at the Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth, California (known as the most heavily shot outdoor location in film and television history). Fleming (as Duchess) hid behind a spectacular sandstone structure that later became known as the Rhonda Fleming Rock. The rock belongs to a section of the former movie ranch "Garden of the Gods," which has been preserved as public parkland.

In a noir at RKO, Slightly Scarlet (1956), Fleming was revived with Payne and fellow redhead Arlene Dahl. She appeared in other thrillers this year; The Killer Is Loose (1956) with Joseph Cotten and Fritz Lang; While the City Sleeps (1956), co-starring Dana Andrews, RKO. In an adventure film directed by Warwick Films, Odongo (1956), Fleming was top billed.

In John Sturges' Gunfight at the O.K., Fleming had the female lead. Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas co-starring Corral (1957) was a big hit. In The Buster Keaton Story (1957) and Stewart Granger in Gun Glory (1958) at MGM, she supported Donald O'Connor (1957).

Fleming performed a nightclub act at the Tropicana in Las Vegas in May 1957. It was a massive success. "I just wanted to know if I could do it if I could," the singer says.

And I did!

... My heart was supposed to do more stage work, but I had a boy so I couldn't, but I had a son so I couldn't, but that was in my heart."

Fleming was Guy Madison's co-star in Bullwhip (1958) for Allied Artists, and she praised Jean Simmons in Home Before Dark (1958), which she later referred to as her favorite part ("It was a marvellous stretch").

Fleming was reunited with Bob Hope in Alias Jesse (1959) and appeared on Wagon Train for the first time. She appeared in The Big Circus (1959), co-starring Victor Mature and Vincent Price. This was made for Allied Artists, who later sued for unpaid commissions.

Fleming returned to Italy to make The Revolt of the Slaves (1959), the second billed in The Crowded Sky (1960).

She referred to herself as "retired" in 1960, having made money in real estate acquisitions. In Las Vegas and Palm Springs, she toured her nightclub act this year.

Fleming appeared on television as an amateur, 1960s, and 1970s actress, with guest-starring roles on The Red Skelton Show, The Best of Broadway, The Investigators, The Witness, Burke's Law, The Virginian, McMillan & Wife, Ellery Queen, and The Love Boat.

Fleming showed her singing abilities on her first album, Rhonda, which was reissued on CD as Rhonda Fleming Sings Just For You). She incorporated then-current songs like "Around The World" with hits like "Love Me or Leave Me" and "I've Got You Under My Skin" in this collection, Columbia Records' Columbia Records' compilation. Frank Comstock, the conductor, provided the musical direction.

Fleming appeared in one of ABC's Follow the Sun's last segments on March 4, 1962, opposite Gary Lockwood. In the episode "Marine of the Month," she appeared as a Marine.

In December 1962, Fleming was portrayed as the glamorous Kitty Bolton in "Loss of Faith," a syndicated anthology series hosted by Stanley Andrews. Joe Phy (Jim Davis) and Peter Gabriel (Don Collier) are matched for sheriff of Pima County, Arizona, against each other in a story line. The rivalry has triggered violence.

Fleming began performing on stage and in Las Vegas in the 1960s and expanded to other areas.

Edith von Secondburg appeared in the comedy The Nude Bomb (1980) starring Don Adams in one of her last film appearances. In Waiting for the Wind (1990), she appeared in Waiting for the Wind.

On the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Fleming has a celebrity. A Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars in 2007 was dedicated to her.

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