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popular name: Mary Tyler Moore

date_of_death: January 25, 2017

age: 80

cause_of_death: Cardiopulmonary arrest with aspiration pneumonia, hypoxia and diabetes mellitus

claim_to_fame: Show Business

best_know_for: Mary Tyler Moore was an American actress, producer, and all around great human being. She is best known for her roles on The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–1966) and The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–1977), which "helped define a new vision of American womanhood." Moore won seven Primetime Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Ordinary People. In addition to her personal acting career, in 1969, Moore and her husband Grant Tinker founded MTM Enterprises, Inc. which produced The Mary Tyler Moore Show and other successful television shows and films. MTM Enterprises produced American sitcoms and drama television series such as Rhoda, Lou Grant and Phyllis (all spin-offs from The Mary Tyler Moore Show), The Bob Newhart Show, The Texas Wheelers, The Bob Crane Show, Three for the Road, The Tony Randall Show, WKRP in Cincinnati, The White Shadow, Friends and Lovers, St. Elsewhere, Newhart, and Hill Street Blues, and was later sold to Television South. All in, all of the MTM Enterprise shows won a total of 80 Emmy's including 29 just for The Mary Tyler Moore Show alone. Upon her death, she was laid to rest at Oak Lawn Cemetery in Fairfield CT.

popular name: Gloria Holden

date_of_death: March 22, 1991

age: 87

cause_of_death: Heart attack

claim_to_fame: Show Business

best_know_for: Alluring, dark-haired former model and English leading lady Gloria Holden was active in Hollywood from the late 1930s through the 50s. Holden is best remembered as the title character in "Dracula's Daughter" (1936) and as Paul Muni's wife in the Oscar-winning 1937 film "The Life of Emile Zola." Often cast as a femme fatale, Holden also appeared in "Test Pilot" (1938) opposite Spencer Tracy and Myrna Loy, "This Thing Called Love" (1941) and "The Eddie Duchin Story" (1956). Her performance in "Dracula's Daughter" influenced the writings of horror novelist Anne Rice, and Dracula's Daughter is directly mentioned in Rice's novel The Queen of the Damned. In July 1937, Holden was assigned to play the character of Marian Morgan in The Man Without a Country (1937). The Technicolor short co-starred John Litel and was nominated for a Short Subject (Color) Academy Award. Her film career ended with This Happy Feeling (1958).

popular name: Arthur Lake

date_of_death: January 9, 1987

age: 81

cause_of_death: Heart attack

claim_to_fame: Show Business

best_know_for: Arthur Lake portrayed the comic strip character Dagwood Bumstead and called for help with a high-pitched ''Blonnndie!'' in more than two dozen films throughout the 1940s. Lake was best known as the bumbling husband of Blondie, played by Penny Singleton, in the series of movies that ran from 1939 to 1950. The first picture cost a mere $85,000 and grossed more than $9 million. Arthur Lake was also a frequent guest at publisher William Randolph Hearts estate San Simeon where he met and subsequently married Patricia Van Cleeve. The parentage of Patricia is unclear, but at the time of her death, she is reported to have claimed to be the daughter of Davies and Hearst.