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This story on Marlon Brando first appeared in the December 9, 2016 issue of of TheWrap’s Oscar magazine.

It isn’t surprising that the Academy’s early history has become pocked with colorful but entirely fictional lore–stories of landslide vote totals that never actually slid, of a mysterious figure who skulked to the dais and made off with the real winner’s prize, or of various gentlemen who served as the model for the Academy’s statuette.

But myths about the Oscars don’t all date from the early days of the organization. For instance, there’s the question of the current whereabouts of what has often been called the “Brando Oscar.” The phrase refers not to the 1954 award that Marlon Brando received for “On the Waterfront,” but to his second Best Actor statuette for 1972’s “The Godfather.”

A recent trade article suggested that the woman who had come to the stage in his place,...

Longtime entertainment industry publicist Henri Bollinger, died Monday of complications from surgery. He was 89 and a resident of the Motion Picture and Television Fund campus in Woodland Hills, Ca.

Bollinger was a publicist for 60 years and served five terms as president of the Publicists Guild, from which he received the Bob Yeager Award and Les Mason Award. He served for 37 years as chairman of the Publicists Awards Committee, which organizes the annual International Cinematographers Guild Publicists Awards Luncheon at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

Steven Poster, president of the International Cinematographers Guild, said, “Henri was beloved by everyone he came into contact with. He was a loyal and true member to our union. Henri helped everybody just by being Henri. I know many of us will feel we lost not just a friend but a gentleman we considered family.”

Tim Menke, who succeeded Bollinger as chair of the Publicists Awards Committee,...

Henri Bollinger, a five-time president of the Publicists Guild and a fixture for decades at its signature Publicists Guild Award luncheon, died Monday at the Motion Picture & Television Fund campus in Woodland Hills of complications from surgery, Deadline has learned. He was 89.

Bollinger’s Hollywood publicity career spanned 60 years. He joined the then-Publicists Guild of America in 1957, the second year of its existence.

Recalling those early years to writer Ed Crane in the Publicists Awards’ 50th anniversary program, Bollinger said, “attendance at General Membership meetings ranged between 150-200 members. In those days you were fined $15 if you missed a meeting [held usually at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel] without a valid reason.”

He served for more than 55 years on the Publicists Awards Committee, which organizes the annual ICG Publicists Awards Luncheon held at the Beverly Hilton. He was chairman of the committee for 37 years, retiring from that position earlier this year, though remaining a committee member.

Yet another puzzle picture, that came out on DVD back with the first wave of Wac films in 2010. An expensive romance with Albert Finney and Yvette Mimieux, it was filmed in Europe, co-written by Ray Bradbury and bears the music of Michel Legrand, including an exceedingly well known pop song. Yet it sat on a shelf for three years, only to make a humiliating world debut on TV — on CBS’s Late Nite Movie. It was clearly one of those Productions From Hell, where nothing went right.

The Picasso Summer

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1969 originally / Color / 1:85 enhanced widescreen / 90 min. / Street Date May 28, 2010 (not a mistake) / available through the WBshop / 17.99

Starring: Albert Finney, Yvette Mimieux, Luis Miguel Dominguín, Theodore Marcuse, Jim Connell,

Peter Madden, Tutte Lemkow, Graham Stark, Marty Ingels, Georgina Cookson, Miki Iveria, Bee Duffell, Lucia Bosé, Jean Marie Ingels.

Cinematography: Vilmos Zsigmond

Original Music: Michel Legrand

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Marty Ingels, the comic actor and husband of actress Shirley Jones, died Wednesday. He was 79. Marty Ingels Dies Ingels passed away at the Tarzana Medical Center in the Los Angeles area after suffering a massive stroke, according to The Wrap. “He often drove me crazy, but there’s not a day I won’t miss him […]

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Marty Ingels, the star of dozens of TV sitcoms in the 1960s ... and the husband of Shirley Jones has died after suffering a massive stroke. He was 79 years old. Ingels passed away Wednesday at the Tarzana Medical Center in the San Fernando Valley. He became a household name for his guest appearances on multiple shows, including "The Dick Van Dyke Show," "Bewitched," and "Pete and Gladys."  He also starred in the short-lived, but cult classic 1962 comedy,...

Marty Ingels, an actor and talent agent known for his offbeat sense of humor, storytelling, and marriage to Shirley Jones died following a stoke Wednesday at Tarzana Medical center. Born Martin Ingerman in Brooklyn in 1936, Ingels got his start acting in the early 60s, appearing in numerous television roles including his own short-lived sitcom I’m Dickens, He’s Fenster, with John Astin. Among his other television roles, he guested on The Dick Van Dyke Show, Bewitched, The…...

Marty Ingels, veteran comic actor and husband of Shirley Jones, died Wednesday at the Tarzana Medical Center in the Los Angeles-area following a massive stroke. He was 79. Ingels was married to “The Partridge Family” star Jones for 40 years, and was stepfather to her three sons, Shaun, Ryan and Patrick Cassidy. “He often drove me crazy, but there’s not a day I won’t miss him and love him to my core,” Jones said in a statement. Also Read: Michael Stevens, Emmy-Winning Producer, Dead at 48 (Updated) Throughout his career, Ingels appeared on a number of iconic television shows including “I’m Dickens,...

Marty Ingels, an actor and comedian known for his co-starring role in the 1960s sitcom I'm Dickens, He's Fenster, has died, wife Shirley Jones announced Wednesday. He was 79. Ingels died Wednesday in Tarzana, Calif., as a result of complications from a stroke. "He often drove me crazy, but there’s not a day I won’t miss him and love him to my core," Jones said in a statement. { "nid": 764503, "type": "gallery", "title": "Hollywood's Notable Deaths of 2015", "path": "http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/gallery/hollywoods-notable-deaths-2015-764503", "relative-path": "/gallery/hollywoods-notable-deaths-2015-764503" } Ingels began his career

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As the fifth TCM Classic Film Festival comes to a close today, I want to share my interview with the belle of its opening night ball -- last Thursday's kickoff screening of the 1955 film Oklahoma! at the Tcl Chinese Theatre -- the great actress-singer Shirley Jones. I met up with Jones and her entourage -- Marty Ingels, her irrepressible second husband, to whom she has been married since 1977, plus her manager and publicist -- across the street from the theater at The Grill restaurant shortly after she introduced the screening of the beloved musical that she shot 60 years ago. Can

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Diana reporting from TCM Film Festival's Opening Night Red Carpet. The classic stars came out and Anne Marie and I talked to them.

Oscar winner Shirley Jones with her husband and the Oklahoma! premiere. [Photo: David Buchan/Getty Images]

4 P.M. Hollywood Blvd.

The red carpet is rolled out in front of Grauman’s, but crewmembers are still finagling with the Oklahoma! stop-and-turns as the press begins to descend on the barricades. Within a few moments, we chosen not-so-few (journalists, cameramen, bloggers) swarm to our allocated spaces along the carpet, with The Film Experience smack dab in front of the Grauman’s entrance. Tip sheet in hand and audio recorder on standby, we stand and wait.

5 P.M. The Red Carpet Opens

We are told that Shirley Jones has arrived. In the distance and with some squinting, you can see the Oklahoma! songbird looking bubbly yet elegant in a dark pantsuit with Marty Ingels, her...

Shirley Jones is sticking to her orgy guns -- insisting Joan Collins' ex did proposition a foursome way back in the 60s ... even though the story's being yanked from Shirley's book.As TMZ first reported ... Joan convinced the publisher of Shirley's autobiography, that Shirley's tale of an almost sex party with Joan and their husbands ... was untrue -- and got it yanked from all future printings of the book.But last...

Los Angeles — Shirley Jones opens the door to her house and appears every inch the ladylike Marian the librarian or sweet farm girl Laurey or cheerfully steady Mrs. Partridge, offering a warm smile and handshake.

Her elegant, modestly high-necked jacket is black, her makeup is discreet and her silver hair tidy. Jones' living room has the sort of traditional furniture and knickknacks (exception: a prominent Academy Award) that would fit any suburban house.

It all adds up to the publicly familiar Shirley Jones, whose crystalline soprano voice and dewy prettiness made her an immediate star in the 1950s film versions of "Oklahoma!" and "Carousel" and who captured a subsequent generation of fans in TV's "The Partridge Family" in the 1970s.

Then there's "Shirley Jones," her new autobiography (written with Wendy Leigh and published by Simon & Schuster's Gallery Books imprint) that turns the 79-year-old actress' image on its head in startling – even shocking – ways.

Golden Globe Award winner Peter Gallagher The O.C., American Beauty takes on the role of George Bailey, joining the star-studded cast of the Geffen Playhouses special oneday-only reading of Its A Wonderful Life. The cast also features four-time Academy Award nominee Annette Bening The Kids Are All Right, Being Julia, American Beauty, three-time Emmy Award winner BryanCranston Breaking Bad, Broadway star and favorite TV mom Shirley Jones The Partridge Family along with her real life husband Marty Ingels, character actor Leslie Jordan Will and Grace, The Help, television actress Lorraine Toussaint Friday Night Lights, Saving Grace, and acclaimed stage and screen actors Gregory Itzin Adaptation, 24, Glenne Headly who will be seen later this season on the Geffen stage in The Jacksonian and Drop Dead Divas Josh Stamberg who was also seen alongside Annette Bening in The Female of the Species at the Geffen. Helmed by L.A. director Bart DeLorenzo,...

Golden Globe Award winner Peter Gallagher The O.C., American Beauty takes on the role of George Bailey, joining the star-studded cast of the Geffen Playhouses special oneday-only reading of Its A Wonderful Life. The cast also features four-time Academy Award nominee Annette Bening The Kids Are All Right, Being Julia, American Beauty, three-time Emmy Award winner BryanCranston Breaking Bad, Broadway star and favorite TV mom Shirley Jones The Partridge Family along with her real life husband Marty Ingels, character actor Leslie Jordan Will and Grace, The Help, television actress Lorraine Toussaint Friday Night Lights, Saving Grace, and acclaimed stage and screen actors Gregory Itzin Adaptation, 24, Glenne Headly who will be seen later this season on the Geffen stage in The Jacksonian and Drop Dead Divas Josh Stamberg who was also seen alongside Annette Bening in The Female of the Species at the Geffen. Helmed by L.A. director Bart DeLorenzo,...

John Travolta will portray John Gotti Jr. in Gotti: Three Generations, directed by Nick Cassavetes. Indie producer Fiore Films announced today that a news conference has been set for April 12th in New York with Travolta, Gotti, Cassavetes and producer Marc Fiore. Travolta has been rumored for the John Gotti Jr. role several months. Leo Rossi wrote the script which is being described as revealing the relationship of a father who lived and died by the mob code and his son who made the decision to leave that world behind and redeem himself. The film is being shot entirely in New York and Marty Ingels is serving as an executive producer on Gotti: Three Generations. Gotti's father, the flamboyant head of New York's Gambino crime family, spent the last ten years of his life before his death in 2002...

John Travolta has never shied away from playing the bad guy. But will he be joining the Mob to play one of America’s most notorious figures?

TMZ and Entertainment Weekly both report that Travolta is in talks to play John Gotti, the former head of the Gambino crime family.

Gotti, nicknamed ”The Dapper Don” by the press, was quite a flamboyant figure in American organized crime, famous for his flashy style and outspoken ways.

He was arrested and tried numerous times, but always managed to dodge prison, leading to a new media nickname of “The Teflon Don.” In 1992, he was arrested and tried again on 13 counts of murder, loansharking, racketeering, obstruction of justice, illegal gambling and tax evasion. This time, the charges stuck to the Teflon Don. He was found guilty and spent the rest of his life in prison, leaving behind a colorful and violent crime legacy.

The biopic,...

"Extra" has confirmed that John Travolta is indeed in discussions about playing the role of notorious mobster "Teflon Don" Gotti.

A rep for Travolta tells us that the former "Vinnie Barbarino" is considering a number of roles, with Gotti being one of them. The flamboyant gangster, known for his ability to escape conviction, died of throat cancer in prison in 2002.

John Travolta Photos Through the Years!

Executive producer Marty Ingels told TMZ on Monday that...

John Travolta will be playing mafia boss John Gotti in a new planned biopic. The film's executive producer, Marty Ingels, was positive the actor will take the role, though Travolta apparently hasn't signed on yet.

As per TMZ, Travolta dined at the Italian restaurant Amici in Brentwood earlier this week with Ingels and co-exec producer Marc Fiore, who purchased the rights to the Gotti story in September. The actor was mum about the role, but Ingels said he will play the lead role in "Gotti."

The website's sources reveal that "Alpha Dog" director Nick Cassavetes is currently rewriting the screenplay and will be the director.

James Franco has reportedly been approached to play John Gotti, Jr.

John Travolta and James Franco are in talks to play father and son in a new film about America's notorious crime family the GOTTIs.

Producer Marty Ingels, who was spotted dining with Travolta in California on Monday night, has revealed the Grease star will play John Gotti in the film, while Franco is in the running to play John Gotti, Jr, according to TMZ.com.

The Notebook director Nick Cassavetes is reworking the script.

It's awesome casting ... John Travolta playing John Gotti in a new movie. Travolta was at Amici restaurant (Italian, of course) in Brentwood last night, where he was coy about taking the role. But Marty Ingels -- the Executive Producer of the movie who dined with John  -- was more direct, saying Travolta will play the lead role in the movie, titled "Gotti." Sources tell us Travolta has not signed on the dotted line yet. We're...

Beverly Hills -- Announcing "1 Voice": A  Star Filled Evening of Entertainment in support of the embattled Motion Picture Home's residents and its uncertain future. The Board of Directors of the Motion Picture & Television Fund (Mptf) is committed to closing the entertainment community's historic nursing home and hospital in Woodland Hills, CA. The impending closure displaces Hollywood's most frail and vulnerable residents from their campus home in the Long Term Care facility. '1 Voice' is a celebrity-packed evening to raise industry and community awareness of the resident's plight. The Neo Ensemble Theatre is sharing an evening of all-star entertainment in support of the efforts of Saving the Lives Of Our Own, the advocacy group dedicated to keeping the residents in the Motion Picture Home and to preserving the Mptf's historic mission and promise of "taking care of our own" to all entertainment industry workers. The Los Angeles based non-profit theater...

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His character is going to be involved in a major cliffhanger in the show's season 10 finale in May. But it's a pretty safe bet that Laurence Fishburne's Dr. Raymond Langston will make it out okay, since the actor has signed on for another season as 'CSI's' team leader.

The actor, who took over for William Petersen on the original 'CSI' series two seasons ago, has signed a deal to remain with the show at least through the 2010-11 TV season, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

And his Langston will be at the center of the season 10 finale (tentatively scheduled for May 27), as he engages in a mindgame battle with two serial killers: one played by 'Big Love's' creepy Alby, a.k.a. underrated actor Matt Ross, and the other by Bill Irwin, who reprises his role as "Dick and Jane Killer" Nate Haskell.

The leader of the "CSI" team will stay in charge for another season.

Laurence Fishburne has renewed his deal to remain on CBS' veteran crime drama "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation." The agreement will extend the Emmy-winning star's commitment to the show through the 2010-11 season.

In the upcoming Season 10 finale, Fishburne will face off against two serial killers in a battle of wits that will conclude in a life-and-death cliffhanger.

One villain is played by Matt Ross ("Big Love") in a guest-starring role. The other is Bill Irwin, who reprises his role as Nate Haskell, the Dick and Jane Killer. Also in talks to guest star in the finale, veteran actor Marty Ingels.

Fishburne, who's repped by Paradigm and Landmark Artists Management, took over for William Petersen two seasons ago in one of the richer casting deals on TV. Ross is repped by Icm and Framework; Irwin by Innovative and Viking.

Playboy boss Hugh Hefner has scrapped plans to feature 75-year-old TV star Shirley Jones in his raunchy adult magazine - because the actress "wouldn't show enough" skin.

The former Partridge Family star's husband/manager Marty Ingels revealed in May he was pushing for his wife to disrobe in a tasteful pictorial.

But Jones admits her Playboy dreams were dashed because she refused to pose nude.

She tells the National Enquirer, "My children and friends said, 'Shirley, are you crazy? You're going to pose nude?' I replied, 'No, I'm not going to pose naked, but I am going to show the best parts of my body.' In the end, Hef (Hefner) didn't run it because I wouldn't show enough. But I had a great time and the pictures were fabulous."...

Veteran actress Shirley Jones' husband is pushing the star to pose nude for Playboy at the age of 75.

The former Partridge Family star has been married to her manager, Marty Ingels, for the last 31 years.

And he's hoping Jones will strip off for Hugh Hefner's raunchy magazine and send a message that beauty is not dependent on age.

He tells the New York Post, "She's still drop-dead gorgeous, and at the age of 75, a natural beauty. I'm her husband, and I think it would be sensational. Mature women are relevant."...