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Gena Rowlands Passes

August 15, 2024 9:55AM PDT
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Gena Rowlands Passes
FILE – Actor Gena Rowlands poses for a portrait at the London West Hollywood hotel in West Hollywood, Calif., on Dec. 4, 2014. Rowlands, hailed as one of the greatest actors to ever practice the craft and a guiding light in independent cinema as a star in groundbreaking movies by her director husband, John Cassavetes, and later charmed audiences in her son’s tear-jerker “The Notebook,” has died at age 94. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File) used locally Aug 15th 2024 @ap.images

Actress Gena Rowlands has died, losing a long battle with Alzheimer’s.

Twenty years ago, Rowlands played a character named Allie in a box office hit called “The Notebook”.   In that movie, Allie suffered from Alzheimer’s.

Gena Rowlands, who garnered a Golden Globe, and Emmy Award and an Honorary Oscar Award, was 94. 

She passed away at her home in Indian Wells CA on Wednesday August 14th 2024.

 

 

FILE – Actor Gena Rowlands poses for a portrait at the London West Hollywood hotel in West Hollywood, Calif., on Dec. 4, 2014. Rowlands, hailed as one of the greatest actors to ever practice the craft and a guiding light in independent cinema as a star in groundbreaking movies by her director husband, John Cassavetes, and later charmed audiences in her son’s tear-jerker “The Notebook,” has died at age 94. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File) used locally Aug 15th 2024

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