

I was 4, he was 7," she told People magazine in a statement. And it all started when he saw me in a dance recital wearing a hula skirt.

"My brother Bobby was a dancer unparalleled. His sister, Tony Award-winning actress Patti LuPone, honored the performer after news of his death was made public. The actor and dancer - a Tony Award nominee for his work in "A Chorus Line" - was 76. 27 after a three-year battle with pancreatic cancer, the MCC Theater, which he co-founded, confirmed. Bruce Cusamano on "The Sopranos," died on Aug. And so I spoke out and protested… I was an articulate liberal, and that was bad." After Marsha was blacklisted, she said, "I was told that in fact it wasn't really about communism - that was the thing that frightened everybody - it was about control and about power."īroadway star Robert LuPone, who also memorably played Tony Soprano's neighbor Dr. But I was shocked at the behavior of my government and its mistreatment of my industry. "I was very much interested in my industry, my country and my government. "You know, I was never interested in communism," she later told Film Talk. The actress-turned-activist - who notably starred alongside Lana Turner in 1939's "These Glamour Girl," Laurence Olivier in 1940's "Pride and Prejudice," Mickey Rooney in 1943's "The Human Comedy" and many more films - was 104. 7 of natural causes at her home in Sherman Oaks, California, "Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity" documentary writer-director Roger C.
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Marsha Hunt - a movie star during Hollywood's Golden Age whose career suffered when she was blacklisted amid the government's communist witch hunt in Hollywood and accused of being sympathetic to subversive causes - died on Sept. RELATED: See Loretta Lynn's life and career in photos I didn't write for the men I wrote for us women. Of her music, she told the Associated Press in 2016, "It was what I wanted to hear and what I knew other women wanted to hear too.

The Grammy winner - whose best known songs include "Coal Miner's Daughter" (which inspired Loretta's book about her life as well as a Hollywood movie of the same name), "You Ain't Woman Enough," "The Pill," "Don't Come Home a Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)," "Rated X" and "You're Looking at Country" - was the first woman to ever win entertainer of the year at both the Country Music Association Awards and the Academy of Country Music Awards, feats she accomplished in the '70s. "Our precious mom, Loretta Lynn, passed away peacefully this morning, October 4th, in her sleep at home at her beloved ranch in Hurricane Mills ," her family announced on social media the same day. Country music icon Loretta Lynn - the singer-songwriter from Appalachia who used her experiences as a coal miner's daughter living in poverty in Kentucky as inspiration for her lauded music - is dead at 90.
