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DIED. AMRISH PURI, 72, Bollywood's most famous bad guy; of a brain hemorrhage; in Bombay. In more than 200 films he frightened and delighted generations of Indian children with his shaved-headed villains, notably the menacing Mogambo in the 1987 Hindi film Mr. India. He was best known to U.S. audiences as Mola Ram, the chief thug in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom...
...until age 40 with 1971's Reshma Aur Shera, Puri enjoyed a prolific film career, acting in more than 200 movies. His success in foreign features such as Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Gandhi brought him global recog-nition, while his role as devious gang leader Mogambo in 1987's Mr. India made him a cult figure at home...
Grace retired from Hollywood after only eleven films. Her first important role was as Gary Cooper's wife in High Noon. She played opposite Clark Gable in Mogambo, James Stewart in Rear Window and Frank Sinatra in High Society, and she won an Oscar in 1955 as Bing Crosby's wife in The Country Girl...
Carry On. NBC offered Dear Mr. Gable, a brisk review of the multifaceted life of the longtime king of Holly wood. There was footage of Gable with Mary Astor in Red Dust (1932), scenes from his triumph with Grace Kelly 22 years later in Mogambo. And there were shots of Gable as an Air Corps Captain in World...
Died. Sam Zimbalist, 57, M-G-M producer whose fondness for spectacle resulted in such films as Quo Vadis, King Solomon's Mines, Mogambo; of a heart attack on the set of one of the biggest splurges in cinema history-M-G-M's $10 million-plus Ben Hur; in Rome...