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Golden Age actress and singer Rhonda Fleming dies at 97

LOS ANGELES - Rhonda Fleming, the green-eyed, auburn-haired actress who was known as the Queen of Technicolor during Hollywood's Golden Age and who made a mark as a philanthropist by channeling her wealth and prominence into helping others, has died. She was 97.

Fleming died on Wednesday in a Santa Monica hospital, her assistant, Carla Sapon, told the New York Times.

As a budding Beverly Hills High School teenager in the early 1940s, Fleming caught the eye of a talent scout for producer David O. Selznick. Selznick cast her in the 1945 Alfred Hitchcock film "Spellbound" and launched

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