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Robert Redford on Screen: Classic Roles That Shaped Hollywood

US screen legend Robert Redford, who died on Tuesday, aged 89, was one of the most successful stars of his generation as well as an Oscar-winning director. Here are some of his most famous films: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) Redford formed one of Hollywood's greatest double acts with Paul Newman in his breakthrough film, a hippy ...

Connie Francis, First Woman to Top Billboard Hot 100, Dies at 87

Connie Francis, the beloved pop star of the 1950s and 1960s and the first woman to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 as a solo artist, has died at the age of 87. Her passing comes just two weeks after it was revealed that she had been hospitalized due to “extreme pain.” The news was confirmed early Thursday, July 17, by Ron Roberts, ...