From the Entertainment Insiders site:
Silent screen and early talkie actress Mae Madison died at age 89. Ms. Madison was a favorite of director Busby Berkley. She appeared in most of his films in the 1930s. Ms. Madison said, “Buzz got to like me so I was never out of his pictures. He’d telephone me and say, “Mae, bring your swimsuit to the studios your gonna be my gal in this new picture.” You know the pictures where the girl jumps off the high board into the pool and swims through the legs of thirty girls and comes up smiling? I was that girl!” In addition to her work with Busby Berkley, Ms. Madison worked with John Barrymore in “The Mad Genius,” John Wayne in “The Big Stampede” and William Wellman in “So Big!” among others.
Actress Elizabeth Rogers died of complications from a series of strokes and lung cancer. Ms. Rogers played Lt. Palmer on the original “Star Trek” TV series. She also played David Keith’s mother in Taylor Hackford’s “An Officer and a Gentleman.” She appeared in bit parts in “The Poseidon Adventure,” “The Towering Inferno” and “The Swarm.” Ms. Rogers’s other credits include “Something Evil,” “Grand Theft Auto,” “The Van,” “Mannix,” “Gunsmoke,” “The Little House on the Prairie,” “Bonanza” and “The Time Tunnel.”
Actress Rusty Allen died at age 60 in Las Vegas. Rusty Allen starred in Herschel Gordon Lewis’s nudist camp exploitation film “Daughter of the Sun.” In addition to her starring role in “Daughter of the Sun,” Ms. Allen also appeared with Elvis in “Girl Happy.” She had a minor role as one of Linda Darnell’s prostitutes in the Rory Calhoun Western “Black Spurs.” Ms. Allen was also the star of the 1965 exploitation film “The Sexperts.” Ms. Allen’s real name was Terri Kay Cooper.
