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popular name: Gordon Scott

date_of_death: April 30, 2007

age: 80

cause_of_death: Post surgical complications

claim_to_fame: Show Business

best_know_for: In 1954 Gordon Werschkul was the lifeguard at the Sahara Hotel on the Las Vegas strip when movie producer Sol Lesser struck up a conversation with the handsome, muscle-bound lifeguard. Next thing you know Gordon was on a plane to Hollywood with a new last name, a loin cloth and a 7-year movie contract. Scott, arguably the most handsome of the Hollywood Tarzans, probably had a better build than the 17 others, weighing 218lbs with 19in biceps and standing 6ft 3in, all of which helped him continue his career in Italian "sword and sandals" epics. Over the next 5 years, starting with Tarzan’s Hidden Jungle (1955), Scott made 6 Tarzan movies as the 11th Tarzan to star in the movies. In the early 1960s, in an effort to avoid being typecast, he moved to Italy and made a series of "Sword and Sandals' movies followed by a few "Spaghetti Westerns". Oddly enough after a run of Scott made 24 movies including "Tarzan and the Lost Safari" (1957), "Tarzan's Fight for Life" (1958), "Tarzan and the Trappers" (1958), "Tarzan's Greatest Adventure" (1959, with Sean Connery and Anthony Quayle) and "Tarzan the Magnificent" (1960) he dropped out of show business all together. He essentially couch-surfed and lived with friends, living off of residuals and was a popular guest at film conventions and autograph shows and never made another appearance in film or television. Upon his death, he was laid to rest at Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York.

popular name: Eve Arden

date_of_death: November 12, 1990

age: 82

cause_of_death: Cardiac arrest and arteriosclerotic heart disease

claim_to_fame: Show Business

best_know_for: For nearly six decades Eve Arden was a Hollywood legend and star of film, radio, stage, and television. She performed in leading and supporting roles in such classics as Mildred Pierce, Anatomy of a Murder, Having Wonderful Time, the Marx Brother's movie At the Circus, and Grease. She worked alongside such screen legends as Clark Gable, Lucille Ball, Ginger Rodgers, Katharine Hepburn, Jimmy Stewart and Marlene Dietrich.

popular name: Rudy Vallée

date_of_death: July 3, 1986

age: 84

cause_of_death: Throat cancer

claim_to_fame: Show Business

best_know_for: Rudy Vallée was an American singer, musician, actor, and radio host who is considered by many to be the first modern American teen idol and pop star. After playing drums in his high school band, Vallée played clarinet and saxophone in bands around New England as a teenager. From 1924 to 1925, he played with the Savoy Havana Band at the Savoy Hotel in London and upon return to the states he graduated with a degree in philosophy from Yale University. After graduation, he formed Rudy Vallée and the Connecticut Yankees, having named himself after saxophonist Rudy Wiedoeft. With this band (formed in 1928), which included two violins, two saxophones, a piano, a banjo, and drums, he started singing. He had a thin, wavering tenor voice and seemed more at home singing sweet ballads than jazz songs. But his singing, suave manner, and boyish good looks attracted attention, especially from young women. In the 1920s and early '30s he had a hit radio program, The Fleishmann's Yeast Hour (although his explosive, ego-driven personality made his cast and crew hate him). In the early 1930s he was ranked with the likes of Bing Crosby and the tragic Russ Columbo in the Hit Parade. A huge hit on radio in 1933 with his program Vallee was considered a bastard by his staff. He was known to instigate fist fights with virtually anyone who got on his nerves. During his show's run he slugged photographers, threw sheet music at pianists' heads, and socked hecklers in their noses. While audiences loved him, most of his staff hated him. As a very popular star in nightclubs, on records, and in movies, he helped other singers, such as Alice Faye--who was his band singer for a while--and Frances Langford to start their careers. In his early movies he often played the romantic lead, but later he switched to stuffy and comic parts and later also appeared on Broadway. In his final years Rudy took a turn at performing standup comedy ... badly.