Howard Keel, Musical Star, Is Dead at 85
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CHICAGO  - Howard Keel, who sang and  danced to stardom in the heyday of MGM musicals, died Sunday of  colon cancer at his home in Palm Desert, Calif. He was 85.
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US actor Glenn Ford, who made over 100 films, dies aged 90, at his home in Beverly Hills.
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Howard Keel, a coal miner's son who  overcame childhood poverty to star in some of MGM's most famous  musicals, including "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers," and  later revived his career on TV's "Dallas," died on Sunday at  age 85, his family said.
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Award-winning US choreographer Michael Kidd, best known for his work on Broadway musicals, dies.
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Singer and author died at his London home, aged 80.
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American jazz singer Anita O'Day, a star of the Big Band era, dies in Los Angeles at the age of 87.
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Comedian Joey Bishop, the last surviving member of the super-hip team of entertainers known as the Rat Pack and led by Frank Sinatra, has died at age 89, his longtime friend and publicist, Warren Cowan, said on Thursday.
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Artie Shaw, the famed bandleader of the 1930s swing era, has died at home today at the age of 94. His attorney says Shaw died of natural causes, and had been ill for some time.
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Legendary TV star Johnny Carson dies at the age of 79, after battling the respiratory disease emphysema.
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Frankie Laine, the full-voiced singer who became one of the most popular entertainers of the 1950s with such hits as "I Believe," "Jezebel" and the theme to the TV Western "Rawhide", died on Tuesday at 93.
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By Carl Macgowan, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Dec. 15--Mercurio Clement Caronia III, a hair colorist who found his voice playing Dean Martin in local clubs, has died. He was 75.   Caronia, known as Mac, died Nov.
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John Peel, the Radio 1 disc jockey who brought fame to a string of obscure bands, has died on holiday in Peru. The 65-year-old suffered a heart attack last night after being taken ill during
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The man who soared to fame as the star of the Superman films and was grounded by a paralyzing accident in mid career has died at the age of 52.
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Artie Shaw, the legendary jazz band leader who enthralled audiences with his clarinet during the swing era, has died at the age of 94, the BBC reported.
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ACTRESS Janet Leigh, best known for her role as the screaming victim of a shower slashing scene in the classic Alfred Hitchcock thriller Psycho, has died at the age of 77.
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Actress Betty Hutton, who found fame in the Hollywood musical Annie Get Your Gun, dies aged 86.
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Howard Keel, star of post-war US musicals, and later in the hit TV series Dallas, dies of cancer.