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Mrs. Rockefeller married one of the richest men in America and, after their divorce six years later, won a settlement regarded as a record in its day.
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Mr. Law was the handsome movie actor who captured attention as an angel in the futuristic “Barbarella” and a lovesick Russian seaman in “The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming.”
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Ms. Phillips played mostly supporting roles on Broadway and in more than 50 films in the 1930s and ’40s and was a co-writer of the 1958 horror film “The Blob.”
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Ms. Page, the stepdaughter of Jack L. Warner, a president of the Warner Brothers studio, made her film debut as a Bulgarian newlywed in “Casablanca.”
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Ms. Barron composed the first electronic score for a feature film — the eerie gulps and burbles, echoes and weeeoooos of the 1956 science-fiction classic “Forbidden Planet.”
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Ms. Burton’s talent agency represented many of the top juvenile actors in Hollywood, including River and Joaquin Phoenix and Henry Thomas of “E.T.”
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Ms. Court was a British actress who began as a popular ingénue and became a cult figure as a “scream queen” in horror films on both sides of the Atlantic.
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A chorus girl in the 1940s and ’50s, Ms. Burton later started a talent agency that represented River and Joaquin Phoenix and Henry Thomas, the boy in “E.T.”
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Mr. Johnston was the last of the Disney “nine old men,” as the studio’s core group of senior animators was called.
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Mr. Osheroff was a carpenter and leftist provocateur who was wounded in the Spanish Civil War, then helped keep alive the memory of that struggle.
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