Rest in Peace Madeleine LeBeau (10 June 1923 – 1 May 2016), the last surviving cast member of the classic film Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
She and her husband Marcel Dalio, who is also in Casablanca, fled Nazi-occupied Paris in June 1940. Less than a year later they wear appearing in Hollywood films as refugees from Occupied France.
At the end of the war, she returned to a film career in her native France as well as in the UK and Italy.
Rest in Peace Maureen O’Hara! || 17 August 1920 – 24 October 2015
“Every star has that certain something that stands out and compels us to notice them. -As for me I have always believed my most compelling quality to be my inner strength, something I am easily able to share with an audience. I’m very comfortable in my own skin. I never thought my looks would have anything to do with becoming a star. Yet it seems that in some ways they did.”
“I´m not ashamed of what I am—of how I pass through this life. What I am has given me the strength to do it. At my lowest ebb I have never contemplated suicide. I value what is here too much. I have a contribution to make. I am not just take up space in this life. I can add something to the lives I touch. I don´t like everything I know about myself, and I´ll never be satisfied, but nobody´s perfect. I’m not sure where the next years will take me —what they will hold—but I´m open to suggestions.”
Lauren Bacall (September 16, 1924 ~ August 12, 2014)
Don’t think of it as dying, said Death. Just think of it as leaving early to avoid the rush.
Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
RIP Terry, your incredible literary mind and wit will be sorely missed.
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Rest in Peace Luise Rainer
(January 12th, 1910 – December 30th, 2014)
“For my second and third pictures, I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me.”
“The secret of a long life is to never trust a doctor.”
“I don’t believe in acting. I think that people in life act, but when you are on the stage, or in my case also on screen, you have to be true."
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