Actress Mona Freeman, cast as a perpetual teenager throughout the 1940s and '50s in such films as The Heiress, Junior Miss, Dear Ruth and I Was a Shoplifter, has died. She was 87. Freeman died May 23 in her Beverly Hills home after a long illness, her daughter, actress Monie Ellis, told the Los Angeles Times. Freeman also was a painter, whose portrait of Mary See has been displayed for years in See's Candies stores across the U.S. Freeman played Marian Almond, the cousin of Olivia de Havilland's character who gets engaged in William Wyler's acclaimed film The Heiress (1949).
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- 6/6/2014
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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- 8/22/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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