Monday, Mar. 24, 1975
Marriage Revealed. Sean Connery, 44, Superspy James Bond in Diamonds Are Forever, Goldfinger and four other 007 fantasies; and Micheline Roquebrune, 39, a Tunisian-born French matron; in Casablanca, two months ago; he for the second time, she for the third.
Died. Susan Hayward, 55, Oscar-winning cinema actress; of a brain tumor; in Beverly Hills. Born Edythe Marrener in Brooklyn, the red-haired model was fresh out of high school when she was plucked from the pages of the Saturday Evening Post by David Selznick for a screen test. Hayward scored her first break opposite Gary Cooper in Beau Geste (1939). Mistress of a sultry, come-hither look, she reached her zenith in the 1950s as one of Hollywood's most popular stars, once ecstatically declaring: "I never dreamed this could happen to a girl from Brooklyn." Her most powerful roles portrayed deeply troubled or doomed women, such as the dipsomaniac in I'll Cry Tomorrow and the bar girl in I Want to Live who is framed on a murder charge and executed in a California gas chamber.
Died. Aristotle Onassis, 69, multimillionaire Greek shipping magnate; of bronchial pneumonia; in Paris (see THE WORLD).
Died. George Stevens, 70, American film director, of an apparent heart attack; in Lancaster, Calif. Stevens confected a series of comedies and melodramas in the 1930s, among them Swing Time, A Damsel in Distress and Gunga Din. His bitter wartime experiences (filming the scenes of Dachau death camp used at the Nuremberg trials) deepened his vision. Stevens' masterworks, Shane, Giant and A Place in the Sun, have become classic incarnations of American legend.
Died. Joseph Dunninger, 82, magician and mentalist; of Parkinson's disease; in Cliffside Park, N.J. Dunninger's first intimations of telepathic power came, he said, when he realized he could read grade-school classmates' minds and find solutions to math problems. Dunninger began as a magician (among his tricks: making an elephant disappear, sawing a woman in eighths), later perfected the mind-reading act that made him famous. Among the brains Dunninger picked were those of six Presidents and such luminaries as Thomas Edison and Pope Pius XII, who temporarily baffled him by thinking in Latin. Like his friend Houdini, Dunninger was a debunker of occult phenomena who modestly assessed his own skills: "Any three-year-old could do it --with 30 years' practice."
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