Rhonda Fleming, Film Star of ’40s and ’50s, Dies at 97

Rhonda Fleming, Film Star of ’40s and ’50s, Dies at 97
Lovely Rhonda Fleming in her penthouse apartment in Italy on March 1, 1955. Jim Pringle/AP Photo
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LOS ANGELES—Actress Rhonda Fleming, the fiery redhead who appeared with Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Charlton Heston, Ronald Reagan, and other film stars of the 1940s and 1950s, has died. She was 97.

Fleming’s assistant Carla Sapon told The New York Times that Fleming died Wednesday in Santa Monica, California.