SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- From 1927 to 1951, some of Hollywood's top stars made up to an extra $5,000 per year -- $75,000 in today's dollars -- endorsing tobacco, researchers say.

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LOS ANGELES, June 13 (UPI) -- One of Hollywood's most beloved movie stars of the 1940s, Betty Grable, is having her career chronicled in a new DVD set.

Today is Sunday, Dec. 18, the 352nd day of 2005 with 13 to go.

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- Film, stage and TV star Sheree North, best known for her roles on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and "Seinfeld," has died in Los Angeles at age 72.

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 20 (UPI) -- Two California women have a different kind of photography business -- creating pinup photographs of wives and girlfriends for soldiers stationed overseas.

BRENTWOOD, Calif., July 6 (UPI) -- Actress and singer June Haver, who left Hollywood to join a convent and later married actor Fred MacMurray, died at her Brentwood, Calif., home at 79.

Today is Saturday, Dec. 18, the 353rd day of 2004 with 13 to go.