BREMERTON, Wash., May 1 (UPI) -- U.S. film and television actress Dorothy Provine has died in Bremerton, Wash., at age 75, her husband said.
Robert Day told The New York Times his wife died Sunday of emphysema.
Provine appeared in more than 40 films and TV series. She played Emmeline Marcus Finch in Stanley Kramer's "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" and was Pinky Pinkham ABC-TV's 1960s series "The Roaring '20s."
A native of Deadwood, S.D., Provine dropped out of the University of Washington in the mid-1950s and went to seek her fortune in Hollywood, the Times said. She made her film debut in 1958, in "The Bonnie Parker Story."
Her other film credits include "Good Neighbor Sam," "That Darn Cat," "The Great Race" and "Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die."
She married her film director husband in 1958. In addition to Day, she is survived by a son, Robert; and two sisters, Patricia Coldiron and Susan Cameron.
