LOS ANGELES — Jennifer Grey, the actress who became a global icon overnight as Frances “Baby” Houseman in the 1987 phenomenon Dirty Dancing, has finally broken more than…

William Hurt, the Oscar-winning actor whose controlled intensity and intellectual ferocity made him one of the most commanding screen presences of his generation, died at his home in…

LOS ANGELES — For nearly seventy years, the world believed it understood Gena Rowlands. It watched her shatter on screen in A Woman Under the Influence, saw her…

Margaret Sheridan, the actress Howard Hawks once believed would become one of the defining faces of American cinema, died on May 1, 1982, in Orange, California, from lung…

LONDON — Sir Cliff Richard, the man Britain spent more than six decades believing it knew completely, was never what the public saw, and the chasm between the…

NEW YORK — Tony Randall, the actor America knew as television’s most fastidious neat freak, carried a private life so carefully compartmentalized that even those closest to him…

Rosemary Clooney, the velvet-voiced icon who defined mid-century American elegance, lived a double life that remained hidden from the public for decades, a life marked by profound childhood…

Paul Lynde, the comedian whose withering one-liners and unmistakable voice made him one of the most recognizable faces on American television, died alone in his Beverly Hills home…

Stephen Colbert, the man America has welcomed into its living rooms for nearly three decades as a sharp-witted satirist and late-night host, has quietly carried a profound and…