On October 17, Beijing time, according to reports from foreign entertainment media, Rhonda Fleming, a famous old drama bone in the United States and the sexy goddess of Hollywood's golden age, recently passed away, and the long-lived old man died at the age of 97.
It is reported that Rhonda Fleming died on Wednesday (October 14) local time, and her secretary has confirmed the news.
Ronda Fleming was just beginning to be active in Hollywood, where most of her films were in black and white, and was once recognized as the "Queen of Technicolor" because she was so photogenic in her color photographs.
Rhonda Fleming has appeared in more than 40 films in her lifetime, not a lot, but she has worked with many legendary directors such as Alfred Hitchcock, Jacques Tournelle, and Robert Theodemek.
She has appeared in films such as Spellbound, Out of the Past, and The Spiral Staircase. In 1949 she starred in the musical fantasy drama A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, in 1956 she starred in Slightly Scarlet, and in 1957 she starred in Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
During her acting career, Rhonda Fleming has worked with notable partners such as Kirk Douglas, Glenn Ford, Bert Lancaster, Bob Hope, and Locke Hudson. Fleming worked with Ronald Reagan, who later became President of the United States, and the two worked together on 4 films.
Rhonda Fleming, whose real name is Marilyn Louis, is legendary in her entry into show business, and while she was a student at Beverly Hills High School, she was discovered on her way to school by the famous scout Henry Wilson, who helped her change her name to Fran Fleming and put her in touch with the legendary producer of the golden age of Hollywood studios, David Fleming. O. Selznick signed a contract, which won Oscars for two consecutive years for Gone with the Wind and Butterfly Dream.
Due to her natural beauty and seductive charm, Rhonda Fleming has played various types of roles, but most of them are hot women and sluts, and her first film role was that of a female pornographer in Hitchcock's "Doctor Edward", when she had no idea what the word meant, and had to look up the dictionary to understand its connotations.
In addition to film appearances, Rhonda Fleming has appeared in several Broadway stage plays and television series. In 1960, her name was inscribed on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Rhonda Fleming's private life is also very legendary, and she has had six marriages in her lifetime. She married her first husband, Thomas Lane, in 1940, when she was only 17 years old, but the two divorced in 1942, and she married three more husbands, all of which ended in divorce. In 1977 she married her fifth husband, Ted Mann, who died in January 2001, and in 2003 she married her sixth husband, Darrol Wayne Carlson, who died in 2017.
Although married six times, Rhonda Fleming had only one child in her life, the son Kent she and her first husband had in 1941.
As a heyday of Hollywood, the old drama bones belonging to the golden age have gone one after another, and those who are still alive are already "national treasures", the years are merciless, and with the death of Ronda Fleming, the representative of Hollywood's golden age has one less.