Singer-actress Barbara McNair dies at 72
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Singer and actress Barbara McNair,  who starred opposite Elvis Presley and Sidney Poitier and  became one of the first black women to host her own television  variety show, has died at 72, her husband said on Monday.
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"She came to the conclusion that the more she spoke the truth, the more she was disbelieved"  Actress Pat Kirkwood, once a star of British musical theater, has died, a close family friend said Wednesday. She was 86.Kirkwood's career of more than 60 years included leading roles in musicals written by Noel Coward and Cole Porter. But Kirkwood was dogged her whole life by rumors of a romantic liaison with Prince Philip _ which she always denied _ after the two were spotted dancing at a London nightclub.Kirkwood died on Christmas Day at a nursing home in Ilkley, northern England, author and royal biographer Michael Thornton, said in a statement. She had been suffering from Alzheimer's Disease and a chest infection, he said. Read more
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Soprano Victoria de los Angeles, one of the great Spanish opera voices of the 20th century, died overnight in a Barcelona hospital at age 81, the Liceu opera house said on Saturday.
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Frankie Laine, the big-voiced singer whose string of hits made him one of the most popular entertainers in the 1950s, died Tuesday. He was 93.
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Singer Laura Branigan, best known for her 1982 hit &quot;Gloria,&quot; died Thursday at her East Quogue, NY, home of a brain aneurysm.
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Lady Bird Johnson, who quietly served as one of the most trusted advisers to her husband President Lyndon Johnson, died of natural causes on Wednesday at the age of 94, family spokeswoman Elizabeth Christian said.
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Veteran Hong Kong entertainer Lydia Shum died Tuesday aged 60 after a battle with liver cancer, her employer and local media said.
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Remembering the incandescent star on the 14th anniversary of her death
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Virginia Mayo, a 1940s screen siren  who co-starred opposite such greats as Danny Kaye and James  Cagney, died near Los Angeles on Monday of pneumonia and heart  failure, the Los Angeles Times reported on its Web site. She  was 84.
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The live-in girlfriend of former "Beverly Hillbillies" star Max Baer Jr. apparently shot herself and died several days later, authorities said Wednesday.
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Country music singer Skeeter Davis, a veteran of Nashville's Grand Ole Opry, died on Sunday, according to a family friend.
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Country music star Skeeter Davis dies of cancer aged 72. Plus more entertainment news in brief.
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NASHVILLE, Tennessee  - U.S. country singer Porter Wagoner, lanky Grand Ole Opry star whose flashy Nudie rhinestone suits dazzled fans when he sang with rising new performer Dolly Parton in the 60s, died on Sunday from lung cancer, said his publicity agent, Darlene Bieber. He was 80.
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Frankie Laine, who had a string of hit songs in the 1950s, dies in California at age 93
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Playbill - Roy Scheider, a character actor who in the 1970s found an unlikely career as a leading man, died on Sunday afternoon in Little Rock, AR, the New York Times reported. He was 75 and lived in Sag Harbor, N.Y.
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Scottish-born actress Deborah Kerr, best known for her performance as the adulterous wife alongside Burt Lancaster in the 1953 film "From Here to Eternity", has died aged 86.
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One of America's best-known opera singers, soprano Beverly Sills, dies from lung cancer in New York.