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A striking, red-headed leading lady of the 1940s and 50s, Rhonda Fleming was dubbed the "Queen of Technicolor" because of her highly photogenic green eyes and flaming auburn hair. She was signed by David O. Selznick directly out of high school and, after appearing in bit parts, was cast in her breakthrough role (her first in color and her first musical) opposite Bing Crosby in "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" (1949). Featured mostly for her decorative good looks, Fleming graced a number of Technicolor B-epics such as "Yankee Pasha" (1954), countless Westerns ("The Eagle and the Hawk" 1950) and in film noir played several femme fatale roles, such as the nervous secretary who frames a private eye for murder in "Out of the Past" (1947) and the adulterous wife in "While the City Sleeps" (1956)....
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Filmography

The Nude Bomb - ( Edith Von Secondberg / 1980 / Released / )
Backtrack - ( Carmelita Flanagan / 1969 / Released / )
The Patsy - ( / 1964 / Released / )
The Revolt of the Slaves - ( Fabiola / 1961 / Released / United Artists Pictures Inc. )
The Crowded Sky - ( Cheryl Heath / 1960 / Released / Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution )
Alias Jesse James - ( Cora Lee Collins / 1959 / Released / )
Home Before Dark - ( Joan Carlisle / 1958 / Released / Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution )
Gun Glory - ( Jo / 1957 / Released / MGM/UA Entertainment Company )
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral - ( Laura Denbow / 1957 / Released / )
The Buster Keaton Story - ( Peggy Courtney / 1957 / Released / Paramount Pictures )
The Killer Is Loose - ( Lila Wagner / 1956 / Released / )
The Queen of Babylon - ( Semiramis / 1956 / Released / )
While The City Sleeps - ( Dorothy Kyne / 1956 / Released / )
Tennessee's Partner - ( Duchess / 1955 / Released / RKO Pictures Distribution )
Jivaro - ( Alice Parker / 1954 / Released / Paramount Pictures )
Yankee Pasha - ( Roxana / 1954 / Released / Universal )
Inferno - ( Gerladine Carson / 1953 / Released / Fox Films, Ltd. )
Tropic Zone - ( Flanders White / 1953 / Released / )
Hong Kong - ( / 1952 / Released / Paramount Pictures )
The Last Outpost - ( / 1951 / Released / )
The Great Lover - ( / 1949 / Released / )
Out of the Past - ( Meta Carson / 1947 / Released / )
Spellbound - ( / 1945 / Released / )
The Spiral Staircase - ( / 1945 / Released / RKO Pictures Distribution )
In Old Oklahoma - ( / 1943 / Released / )

TV Credits
Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach ( 1996 / Released ): Actor
The Life and Times of Gary Cooper ( 1995 / Released ): Actor
Ronald Reagan: An American Success Story ( 1989 / Released ): Actor
Remembering Bing ( 1987 / Released ): Actor
The Wildest West Show of the Stars ( 1986 / Released ): Actor
Bob Hope Special: Bob Hope's Road to Hollywood ( 1983 / Released ): Actor
Love For Rent ( 1979 / Released ): Actor
Last Hours Before Morning ( 1975 / Released ): Actor
Have Girls -- Will Travel ( 1964 / Released ): Actor
The Dick Powell Show ( 1961 / Released ): Actor
The Red Skelton Chevy Special ( 1959 / Released ): Actor
Legends of the Screen ( Released ): Actor

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A striking, red-headed leading lady of the 1940s and 50s, Rhonda Fleming was dubbed the "Queen of Technicolor" because of her highly photogenic green eyes and flaming auburn hair. She was signed by David O. Selznick directly out of high school and, after appearing in bit parts, was cast in her breakthrough role (her first in color and her first musical) opposite Bing Crosby in "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" (1949). Featured mostly for her decorative good looks, Fleming graced a number of Technicolor B-epics such as "Yankee Pasha" (1954), countless Westerns ("The Eagle and the Hawk" 1950) and in film noir played several femme fatale roles, such as the nervous secretary who frames a private eye for murder in "Out of the Past" (1947) and the adulterous wife in "While the City Sleeps" (1956).

Profession(s):
Actor, singer
Sometimes Credited As:
Marrlyn C Louis
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Family
husband:Lang Jefferys (married in 1960; divorced in 1962)
husband:Lewis Morrill (married in 1952; divorced in 1954)
husband:Ted Mann (born c. 1926; married in 1977; retired owner of Mann Theatres, a theater chain; fifth husband; died on January 16, 2001 at age 84)
husband:Tom Lane (married in 1940; divorced in 1942)
husband:Hall Bartlett (married in 1966; divorced in 1972)
sister:Beverly Engle (older; died of a rare form of ovarian cancer in 1990; Fleming founded the Rhonda Fleming Mann Clinic for Women's Comprehensive Care at UCLA (1991))
son:Kent Lane (born in 1941; father Tom Lane)

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Education
Beverly Hills High School Beverly Hills, California
Milestones (Back to top)

1991 Made first TV appearance in almost 20 years as Robert Mitchum's wife in the TV-movie "Waiting for the Wind"
1991 With husband Ted Mann founded the Rhonda Fleming Mann Clinic for Women's Comprehensive Care at UCLA
1980 Final movie before "retirement", "The Nude Bomb"
1976 Starred in the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera revival of "Kismet"
1973 Broadway debut, "The Women"
1945 First film role, as a nymphomaniac in "Spellbound"
1943 Film debut (in bit part), "In Old Oklahoma"
1940 Spotted on the street by an agent while she was a 17-year-old high school senior; signed to a contract by producer David O Selznick who changed her name to Rhonda Fleming

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