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Starting from ELECT Parking | WiFi Available 1760 Ocean Avenue | Santa Monica, CA 90401 $ KRONOVET 310.393.6711 + Taxes FOR RENT CONTROL BOARD 88 SeaviewHotel.com News 2 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2020 Visit us online at www.smdp.com dine in the great Rhonda Fleming, film star of utdoors ‘40s and ‘50s, dies at 97 By The Associated Press story, after Deanna Durbin dropped out to retire to France. Crosby was so impressed Actress Rhonda Fleming, the fiery that he recommended her to Bob Hope, redhead who appeared with Burt Lancaster, with whom she starred in “The Great Lover.” Kirk Douglas, Charlton Heston, Ronald Ironically, the Crosby/Hope films that Reagan and other film stars of the 1940s established her as a luminary proved to and 1950s, has died. She was 97. be ones she was never able to top. She Fleming died Wednesday in Santa remained a star for 15 years, but except for Monica, California, assistant Carla Sapon the Lancaster-Douglas “Gunfight at the OK told The Associated Press. Corral,” most of her performances came in B From her first film in color, “A pictures that exploited her looks. Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court “I made the mistake of doing lesser films ” (1949) with Bing Crosby, Fleming became for good money,” she reflected in a 1976 immensely popular with producers because interview. “I was hot — they all wanted of her vivid hues. It was an attraction she me — but I didn’t have the guidance or would later regret. background to judge for myself.” “Suddenly my green eyes were green. Among her 1950s films were “While My red hair was flaming red. My skin was the City Sleeps,” directed by Fritz Lang porcelain white,” Fleming remarked in a and co-starring Dana Andrews. She played 1990 interview. “There was suddenly all this Cleopatra in the 1953 film “Serpent of the ica on attention on how I looked rather than the N ile.” Join us in our beautiful m a roles I was playing. But many titles were forgettable: “The t n “I’d been painted into a corner by the Eagle and the Hawk,” “The Last Outpost,” courtyard for an authentic, a s studios, who never wanted more from me “Little Egypt,” “The Killer Is Loose,” “Slightly natural Italian al fresco dining orto than my looking good and waltzing through Scarlet,” “Crosswinds” and “Pony Express” a parade of films like ‘The Redhead and the (with Charlton Heston), “Inferno,” “Those experience. Cowboy,’” she said. Redheads from Seattle,” “Yankee Pasha,” and Before Reagan entered politics, the “Gun Glory.” actress co-starred with him in “Hong Kong,” After her film career cooled off, Fleming 502 Santa Monica Blvd. 424-433-8100 ortosantamonica.com “Tropic Zone,” “The Last Outpost” and took a singing act to Las Vegas, appeared “Tennessee’s Partner.” in TV shows and commercials, starred on “He surprised everyone because he never Broadway in a revival of “The Women” and looked in a mirror,” she once said of Reagan. sang as the temptress Lalume in “Kismet” “How many actors can you say that about?” for the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera. Fleming possessed a fine singing voice, She was born in Los Angeles in 1923. Her and later in her career sang onstage in Las mother, Effie Graham, had appeared in a Prepare for Vegas and in a touring act. 1914 Broadway musical with Al Jolson, and In the big-studio era, many new her grandfather was a theatrical producer power outages personalities were publicized as having in Salt Lake City. She studied acting, but been discovered in quirky ways: Kim Novak as a backup also took classes in shorthand, while riding a bicycle past an agent’s office, typing and bookkeeping. with a Generac Lana Turner spotted in a malt shop. While still in her teens, Fleming married In Fleming’s case, young Marilyn Louis her high school sweetheart, Thomas Lane. home standby was reported to have been headed to class A son, Kent, was born in 1941. When Lane at Beverly Hills High School when a man returned from Army service, Rhonda had generator followed her in a big black car and told her, become a star, and the marriage ended in “You ought to be in pictures.” She eluded 1947. Three other marriages also ended him, but he turned up at her home and in divorce, to Beverly Hills surgeon Lewis offered to be her agent. Morrill (1952-1958); actor Lang Jeffries SCHEDULE YOUR FREE INHOME Legend or not, at 19 Louis was awarded (1960-1962); and producer-director Hall a six-month contract at the studio of David Bartlett (1966-1972). ASSESSMENT TODAY! O. Selznick and a new name: Rhonda In 1977, Fleming married mogul Ted Fleming. She played a bit part in the 1944 Mann, who built the Mann Theater chain, wartime drama “Since You Went Away,” and and the marriage lasted until his death in 4244167340 then Alfred Hitchcock chose her to play a 2001. For many years, they lived in matching nymphomaniac in “Spellbound,” starring 4,300-square-foot condominiums, one on Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck. top of the other in a Century City high-rise. “I rushed home, and my mother and “I treasure my privacy, and Ted needs his,” I looked up ‘nymphomaniac’ in the she once explained. “We love each other dictionary,” she recalled. “We were both very much. I’m much more fulfilled today FREE shocked.” than at any time in my life.” 7-Year Extended Warranty* “Spellbound” led to another suspense After Fleming’s sister, Beverly Engel, died film, “The Spiral Staircase,” in which she of cancer in 1991, Fleming and her husband A $695 Value! was strangled by the villain, George Brent. established the Rhonda Fleming Mann With Selznick concentrating on the career of Resource Center for Women with Cancer O er valid August 24, 2020 - December 31, 2020 his wife, Jennifer Jones, he lost interest in his at the UCLA Medical Center. They also was contract players, and Fleming left the studio active in various other charities for cancer to freelance. patients, children and the homeless. Her next films: “Abilene Town,” a A couple of years after Mann died, Special Financing Available Randolph Scott Western; “Out of the Past,” Fleming married for a sixth time, to Derol Subject to Credit Approval a film noir with Robert Mitchum; and W. Carlson, who died in 2017. “Adventure Island,” a tropics thriller starring *Terms & Conditions Apply Rory Calhoun. The late Associated Press correspondent Bob She won a role in “A Connecticut Yankee,” Thomas compiled material for this story. a Crosby musical based on the Mark Twain Local Visit us online at www.smdp.com TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2020 3
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Domestic violence can happen to anyone, relationships. and anyone can be an abuser. This past This lifetime connection was discovered weekend Zachery Ty Bryan, the former child by Dr. Vincent Felitti when he was studying star who played the son Brad on Home the causes of obesity and misspoke when Improvement, was arrested for abusing his asking how old his patients were when they partner. The father of three was charged were first sexually active, instead he asked with strangulation, and interfering with how much they weighed. This mistake led to a an investigation. It’s just further proof that discovery that many obese patients had been anyone, even someone who has had great sexually abused as children and used their success and fame, and I’m assuming financial weight as a way to protect themselves from success, is capable of abuse and violence. future abuse. Bryan was only charged, so he’s not guilty What started out as a mistake by Dr. Felitti yet of anything, at least criminally – but for started him down a path that culminated in all intents and purposes, on a civil suit for a what is known today as the Adverse Childhood restraining order, the court will most likely Experiences Study (ACES) that scores the issue a protective order in favor of the victim. amount of trauma a child has experienced The roots of anger and disappointment, and then correlates with the lifetime impact personal demons and lack of interpersonal on heart disease, shortened life expectancy skills are the source of domestic abuse and and other metrics. The ACES test asks 10 violence. The truth is that humans are a questions, and your score is a simple result warlike creature. We have short tempers, and of how many “Yes” answers you have. I’m a only with learned behavior do we improve 6 which is not what you want to be. But I’ve our actions and suppress our first reactions of known people who are 8s and 10s and they’re anger. If you doubt me, just look at children. still trying to undo the damage well into their Anyone who has spent time around kids 40’s and 50’s. You can check your score here: knows that they will resort to hitting, kicking https://acestoohigh.com/got-your-ace-score/. No recovery, No fee and screaming to get their way. Abuse comes in many forms, from direct These are built in behaviors and we have abuse like when someone is strangling your to work to overcome them. We may learn or has hit you, to the verbal abuse that attacks as children from our parents how to resolve your self-esteem, to living in an environment differences, how to ask for and get what we where you may not be a direct victim (if want without continuing to resort to violent you’re a child) but your parents constant and abusive behaviors, but without good fighting creates an anxiety-filled home life parenting that sets limits, establishes strong that has the children living in a constant boundaries, and models good behavior, we state of fear. Being in a heightened state of will revert to our brutish warlike inner self. awareness will cause children to engage in PUBLISHER STAFF WRITERS Ross Furukawa Brennon Dixson Our inner demons are rarely, if ever, truly several coping mechanisms from developing [email protected] [email protected] 1640 5th Street, Suite 218 vanquished. 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I how harmful domestic violence and abuse is Charles Andrews, see this often in my family law practice where to direct victims, but we have a long way to EDITOR IN CHIEF Cynthia Citron, The Santa Monica Daily Press publishes one party has a substance abuse problem go in recognizing the long term effects it has Matthew Hall Jack Neworth, Monday - Saturday with a circulation of 8,200 that leads to incidents that lead to the filing on children, and more importantly in finding [email protected] David Pisarra, on weekdays and 8,000 on the weekend. The Sarah A. Spitz Daily Press is adjudicated as a newspaper of of a Domestic Violence Restraining Order. ways to create the healing necessary. ADVERTISING DIRECTOR general circulation in the County of Los Angeles It’s quite sad on the one hand because it and covers news relevant to the City of Santa Jenny Rice PRODUCTION David Pisarra is a Los Angeles Divorce and Child [email protected] Monica. 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A fire inside an official Los Angeles County he said. ballot drop box is being investigated as arson Janice Hahn, also a member of the county and has been reported to the FBI, authorities Board of Supervisors, said the fire was said Monday. reprehensible. The fire was reported Sunday night in a “Burning ballots is not just vandalism, it curbside box outside a library in suburban is an attack on our democracy and on our Baldwin Park, east of Los Angeles. residents’ right to vote,” she said. “Whoever Firefighters put out the fire, cut open the did this must be found and prosecuted to the box and pulled out envelopes, some charred. fullest extent of the law.” The county registrar-recorder’s office said Baldwin Park Mayor Manuel Lozano the items were being reviewed “to determine noted frustrations in America about the the appropriate notifications to voters whose voting process and told KABC the incident ballots may have been impacted and will sends “a very bad message.” ensure they can exercise their fundamental The fire came at the end of a week of right to vote.” controversy over unofficial ballot drop boxes Ballots were last collected from the box placed in various locations in California by shortly after 10 a.m. Saturday. Voters who the state Republican Party. dropped off ballots after that time were asked California’s secretary of state said Friday to call the registrar recorder. that the GOP removed the unstaffed, County Supervisor Hilda L. Solis said unofficial ballot drop boxes, and subpoenas the fire had “all the signs of an attempt to were being issued to get more information disenfranchise voters and call into question about them as the state attorney general looks the security of our elections.” into possible election law violations. The frequency of ballot pickups at all Republicans confirmed they pulled boxes boxes was being increased immediately. improperly labeled “official.” But they say Local voter John Rios told KABC-TV the they will continue to use dozens of other incident made him angry. boxes without the labels that have been sent “I’m 80 years old. I’ve been voting since I to various counties. was 19. I’ve never seen something like this,”
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