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popular name: Ozzie Nelson

date_of_death: June 3, 1975

age: 69

cause_of_death: Liver cancer

claim_to_fame: Show Business

best_know_for: Oswald Nelson big band leader, actor, director, and producer. But he is most well known as the patient, loving father Ozzie Nelson with his lovely wife Harriet in once of America's most beloved TV shows. For 14 years, from 1952 to 1966, ”The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet” was a television staple, an American icon, which may have preceded ”Seinfeld” as the first show that was really about nothing. (The Nelsons made an extraordinary 435 episodes; by contrast, there are 180 episodes of ”Seinfeld.”). Unlike ”Leave It to Beaver,” which ran six years, and ”Father Knows Best,” which lasted nine, ”Ozzie and Harriet” may have endured far longer because the Nelson family blurred the line between fiction and reality. The show actually began on radio in 1944, with Ozzie and Harriet playing themselves and actors portraying the boys. Their real sons joined the show in 1949, and the whole family made the transition to television.

popular name: Paulette Goddard

date_of_death: April 23, 1990

age: 79

cause_of_death: Heart failure

claim_to_fame: Show Business

best_know_for: Paulette Goddard was an American actress and film producer best known for her work during the Golden Age of Hollywood. Born Marion Levy on June 3, 1910, in Whitestone Landing, Queens, New York, she began her career as a fashion model and stage performer before transitioning to film in the early 1930s. Goddard gained fame through her collaborations with Charlie Chaplin, particularly for her role as the Gamin in Modern Times (1936) and later in The Great Dictator (1940). Goddard's career flourished in the 1940s with notable roles in films like The Women (1939), North West Mounted Police (1940), and So Proudly We Hail! (1943), for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She was long regarded as one of Hollywood's richest and sexiest women. Her four husbands included comic great Charles Chaplin, actor Burgess Meredith and famed novelist Erich Maria Remarque, author of 'All Quiet on the Western Front.' She refused to discuss her private affairs and never admitted her 1936 marriage to Chaplin until she divorced him six years later.

popular name: Marion Davies

date_of_death: September 22, 1961

age: 64

cause_of_death: Malignant osteomyelitis (bone cancer) of the jaw

claim_to_fame: Show Business

best_know_for: In the Roaring Twenties, Marion Davies was a superstar. By 1923, Davies was the #1 female box office star in Hollywood due to the popularity of "When Knighthood Was in Flower" and "Little Old New York", which were among the biggest box-office hits of their respective years. Appearing in nearly four dozen films, both silent and “talkies,” Davies was everywhere. But many didn’t believe that she achieved her fame due to talent alone. Infamous for her 34-year relationship with business tycoon William Randolph Hearst, actress Marion Davies was maligned as a talentless gold-digger after "Citizen Kane" came out. After she retired to care for the ailing Hearst, even writer-director Orson Welles, defended Davies' record as a gifted actress and comédienne to whom Hearst's patronage did more harm than good. In his final years, Welles attempted to correct the widespread misconceptions which the film had created about Davies' popularity and talents as an actress.