Princess Diana and Mother Teresa died within a week of each other, on 31 August and 05 September 1997, respectively.
Between the deaths of Princess Diana and Mother Teresa, Conductor Georg Solti died. He was scheduled a month later to conduct his 1,000th concert after 30 years as director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Helen Beardsley (1930-2000) was a 30 year old widowed mother of eight when she married Frank Beardsley (1915-2012). a widowed naval officer with 10 children. They had two children together and wrote a memoir that was the basis of the highly fictionalized movie Yours, Mine, and Ours, in which the 45 year old Frank was played by 63 year old Henry Fonda 30-31 year old and pregnant Helen was portrayed by 57 year old Lucille Ball.
Henry Fonda won the Academy Award for best actor in On Golden Pond (1981), his final film role. He died the following year, 1982, at 77.
Henry Fonda and Bette Davis played together in Jezebel, the famous 1938 black-and-white film about a red dress. It was produced about the same time as Gone with the Wind, and involved similar characters in the same era. The role was offered to Ms. Davis after she was turned down for the lead in Gone w. t. W.; she hand-picked Mr. Fonda to play opposite her; the film was a major boost to both their careers.
Bette Davis won the Best Actress Academy Award for her performance in Jezebel. The Best Picture award went to Frank Capra’s You Can’t Take It With You. The Best Picture the following year was GWTW.
Ingrid Bergman received one Tony, two Emmys, three Oscars, and four Golden Globe awards. But none of these, nor any of the four performances for which she was nominated for, but didn’t receive, the Best Actress Academy Award, were for her most famous role, as Miss Ilsa Lund in Casablanca.
George Clooney has been nominated for an Oscar across 6 different categories.
George Clooney’s aunt, Rosemary Clooney, had four songs in the early 50s that reached the number one spot on the hit parade.
Rose Marie, or Rose Marie Mazzetta, was a costar on the Dick Van Dyke Show. She was paired with Morey Amsterdam on that show. From 1977 to 1985, Rose Marie paired with Rosemary Clooney in 4 Girls 4 (with two other girls), a musical revue that toured the US and also appeared on TV. Born in 1923, Rose Marie is still alive at the age of 91, while born in 1928, Rosemary Clooney died in 2002 at the age of 74.
Rose Marie (as Baby Rose Marie) sang My Bluebird’s Singing The Blues in International House which starred W. C. Fields.
Missed the edit window. Her name is spelled Rose Marie Mazetta. One Zed, not two.
The Professor is in play:
Rose Marie’s best (IMHO) line on The Dick van Dyke Show: Rob (DvD) phones RM and is told she has beer and eggs in her hair. Why? I was attacked by a band of boot-legging chickens.
I’ll just let myself out. I was never here!
When DvD was 86 years old he married 40-year old Arlene Silver.
46 years younger than he - lucky dog. I’m right behind you, burpo, I’ll let myself out too.
HMS Mary Rose, a British warship, foundered and sank unexpectedly in 1545. Later studies suggest she was very unstable and capsized when a sudden gust of wind forced her lowest row of gunports underwater, flooding her. Her wreck was raised in 1982 and is now preserved in Portsmouth, England.
ETA: The ship’s silver was not recovered, as far as I can determine.
The Vasa (or Wasa) is a Swedish warship built 1626–1628 (images link). The ship foundered and sank after sailing about 1,300 m (1,400 yd) into her maiden voyage on 10 August 1628. It was raised from the bottom of Stockholm Harbor where the icy waters preserved the wood excellently for some 300 years. The Vasa can be visited in Stockholm at the Vasa Museum (Vasamuseet). It is quite impressive to see, and it is not far from Stockholm’s Nobel Prize Museum.
Xenophyophores have been found living at a depth of 10.6 km (6.6 mi) below the surface, at the bottom of the Marianas Trench. That’s further below the ocean surface than the height of Mount Everest.
Billy Ocean performed in the music video for his song “When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going” with two of the three stars of the 1985 movie The Jewel of the Nile, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito. Michael Douglas did not appear.
Michael Douglas starred in Fatal Attraction (1987) and Disclosure (1994).
Both are movies that every red-blooded young American male needs to see, IMHO.
Boxing’s “Queensberry Rules” are named after John Sholto Douglas, the 9th Marquess of Queensberry. Douglas was notorious for his immorality and his reputation as a lunatic.