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| children = Kent Lane (actor) | yearsactive = 1943–1990 | website = http://www.rhondafleming.com}} Rhonda Fleming (born Marilyn Louis, Hollywood, California, August 10, 1923), is an American film and television actress. She acted in more than forty films, mostly in the 1940s and 1950s, and became renowned as one of the most glamorous actresses of her day. She was nicknamed the "Queen of Technicolor" because her fair complexion and flaming red hair photographed exceptionally well in Technicolor.〔(Profile ), briansdriveintheater.com; accessed September 20, 2014.〕 ==Career== Fleming began working as a film actress while attending Beverly Hills High School,〔(Seeing-Stars Beverly Hills High website ); accessed September 20, 2014.〕 from which she graduated in 1941. She was discovered by the well-known Hollywood agent Henry Willson.〔(Rhonda Fleming interview, Warner Archive Podcast. ) Warner Bros. Entertainment.〕 After appearing uncredited in a several films, she received her first substantial role in the thriller ''Spellbound'' (1945), produced by David O. Selznick and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. She followed this with supporting roles in another thriller, ''The Spiral Staircase'' (1946), directed by Robert Siodmak, the Randolph Scott western ''Abilene Town'' (1946), and the film noir classic ''Out of the Past'' (1947) with Robert Mitchum. Her first leading role came in ''Adventure Island'' (1947), a low-budget action film made in the two-color Cinecolor process and co-starring Rory Calhoun.〔(TCM overview of Adventure Island ); accessed September 25, 2014.〕 She co-starred with Bing Crosby in her first Technicolor film,〔(Rhonda Fleming Bing Crosby tribute )〕 ''A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court '' (1949), a musical loosely based on the story by Mark Twain. Fleming exhibited her singing ability, dueting with Crosby on “Once and For Always” and soloing with “When Is Sometime”. She and Crosby recorded the songs for a 78 rpm Decca soundtrack album. She sang on NBC's ''Colgate Comedy Hour'' during the same live telecast that featured Errol Flynn, on September 30, 1951, from the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood.〔(Profile ), classictvinfo.com; accessed September 20, 2014.〕 In 1953, Fleming portrayed Cleopatra in ''Serpent of the Nile''. That same year she appeared in two films shot in 3-D, ''Inferno'' with Robert Ryan and the musical ''Those Redheads From Seattle'' with Gene Barry. The following year she starred with Fernando Lamas in ''Jivaro'', her third 3-D release. Much of the outdoor location work for Fleming's appearance in the 1955 Western ''Tennessee's Partner'', in which she played Duchess opposite John Payne as Tennessee and Ronald Reagan as Cowpoke, was filmed at the storied Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth, California, known as the most heavily filmed outdoor location in the history of the movies and television. She was filmed riding a horse over the movie ranch's rocky terrain, and one of those rocks, a distinctive monolithic sandstone feature behind which Fleming, as Duchess, hid during an action sequence, later became known as Rhonda Fleming Rock. The rock remains in place today and is part of a section of the former movie ranch known as Garden of the Gods, which has been preserved as public parkland. Among Fleming’s subsequent cinematic credits are Fritz Lang's ''While the City Sleeps'' (1956), co-starring Dana Andrews; Allan Dwan's ''Slightly Scarlet'' (1956), co-starring John Payne and Arlene Dahl; John Sturges’s ''Gunfight at the O.K. Corral'' (1957) co-starring Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas; and the Irwin Allen/Joseph M. Newman production of ''The Big Circus'' (1959), co-starring Victor Mature and Vincent Price. Her most recent film was ''Waiting for the Wind'' (1990).〔(Rhonda Fleming profile ), Official Rhonda Fleming webpage; accessed September 20, 2014.〕 During the 1950s and into the 1960s, Fleming frequently appeared on television with guest-starring roles on ''The Red Skelton Show'', ''The Best of Broadway'', ''The Investigators'', ''Shower of Stars'', ''The Dick Powell Show'', ''Death Valley Days'', ''Wagon Train'', ''Burke's Law'', ''The Virginian'', ''McMillan & Wife'', ''Police Woman'', ''Kung Fu'', ''Ellery Queen'', and ''The Love Boat''. On March 4, 1962, Fleming appeared in one of the last segments of ABC's ''Follow the Sun'' in a role opposite Gary Lockwood, who was nearly 14 years her junior. She played a Marine in the episode "Marine of the Month". In 1958, Fleming again displayed her singing talent when she recorded her only LP, entitled simply ''Rhonda'' (reissued in 2008 on CD as ''Rhonda Fleming Sings Just For You''). In this album, which was released by Columbia Records, she blended then current songs like "Around The World" with standards such as "Love Me Or Leave Me" and "I've Got You Under My Skin". Conductor-arranger Frank Comstock provided the musical direction. One of her final film appearances to date was a bit-role in the 1980 comedy ''The Nude Bomb'' (starring Don Adams) as Edith von Secondburg. Fleming has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.〔(Celebrity Information biography on Rhonda Fleming ), mysticgames.com; accessed September 25, 2014.〕 In 2007, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars was dedicated to her.〔(Palm Springs Walk of Stars by date dedicated ), palmspringswalkofstars.com; accessed September 20, 2014.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rhonda Fleming」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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