Movies
Mercedes McCambridge, who won an Academy Award as best supporting actress for her 1949 screen debut in “All the King’s Men” and later supplied the chilling voice of the demon in “The Exorcist,” has died.
March 18, 2004
World & Nation
The son of Oscar-winning actress Mercedes McCambridge shot and killed his wife and two young daughters and then took his own life, Little Rock, Ark., police said.
Nov. 17, 1987
Entertainment & Arts
Actress Mercedes McCambridge will be getting a sad inheritance.
Dec. 14, 1987
Out of Yonkers: Mercedes McCambridge and Brooke Adams will star as Grandma Kurnitz and daughter Bella, respectively, when Neil Simon’s “Lost in Yonkers” comes to Los Angeles next summer.
Sept. 5, 1991
Business
In a letter found at his suicide scene, the son of actress Mercedes McCambridge exonerated her of any wrongdoing in his investment thefts from a Little Rock brokerage.
April 17, 1989
Sports
If you think the wave is ridiculous during baseball games, you should have seen it at 1:26 Friday morning.
Sept. 9, 1989
Television
Gone with the Wind (TBS Tuesday at 5:05 p.m.)
Nov. 17, 1996
The summit of film noir: Orson Welles’ (pictured) mesmerizing 1958 portrayal of guilt and betrayal in a hellish California border town ruled by Hank Quinlan, the omniscient, chili-loving detective who frames his suspects.
Jan. 14, 1996
Hammett (A&E; Sunday at 9 a.m.): Wim Wenders’ highly atmospheric 1982 film of the Joe Gore novel finds Dashiell Hammett (Frederic Forrest), while writing “The Maltese Falcon,” maneuvered into searching for a missing Chinese girl (Lydia Lei).
April 15, 1990
The American Cinematheque and Art Directors Guild Film Society series, “Setting the Scene,” continues Sunday at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica with a screening of Orson Welles’ 1958 film noir masterpiece, “Touch of Evil.”
June 26, 2013