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She was 79. Raymond, a West Hollywood resident who had been in ill health for the last year, died Dec. 31 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, said Sally Carrocino, longtime friend. Astriking brunet who was under contract to Paramount and Columbia before signing with MGM in 1949, Raymond appeared in a suspense drama, opposite Grant; a western opposite Robert Taylor; of a romantic musical comedy starring Van Johnson and Esther Williams; and Tall acrime-drama co-starring Dick Powell. After leaving MGM, Raymond co-starred in the film for which she is best remembered: Beast From 20,000 the low-budget, 1953 science-fiction classic about a carnivorous dinosaur frozen in the Arctic ice until it is awakened by atomic testing.

was the first film I did after leaving MGM, and, compared to the production values of a big studio, it was Raymond once said. course, the movie was later bought by Warners, was a huge hit and has become an important cult Raymond also made dozens of guest appearances on television, including Electric Sunset Gun Will and turn the television on in the 1950s without seeing this woman she worked so said Michael Fitzgerald, who interviewed Raymond for his 1999 book co- written with Boyd Magers. acting career was sidetracked in 1962 when she was involved in a near-fatal car crash that severely damaged her face and required extensive plastic surgery. She returned to work within a year of the accident. that pretty much ended her said Carrocino, who first met Raymond 20 years ago when the actress was working as a secretary.

Raymond was born Paula Ramona Wright in San Francisco. Encouraged by her mother, she studied ballet, music, piano and voice as a child and sang coloratura roles in junior opera productions. As a teenager, she spent time in Hollywood, where her mother owned property. She made her film debut in 1938 opposite Jane Withers in a Hollywood- set comedy. Billed as Paula Rae Wright, Raymond played aspoiled child star, complete with Shirley Temple-style blond curls.

Raymond attended Hollywood High School but returned to San Francisco, where she attended college and appeared with theater groups. A wartime marriage to Marine Corps Capt. Floyd Patterson ended in divorce after two years. To support her young daughter, returned to Hollywood and worked as a secretary and model, which included posing for the cover of True Confessions magazine. She also relaunched her movie career, working first as an extra.

Signed to a contract at Paramount, where she was billed as RaePatterson, she played small roles in a handful of films. In 1947, after a year at Paramount, she was signed by Columbia, where, as Paula Raymond, she spent two years appearing in movies and had her first leading role, in of the a 1949 western with Charles Starrett. films I did at Columbia featured horses, dogs and children; forget the she told Fitzgerald. was just filling space. I was not given many acting roles.

I want to work, but I had a daughter to support. I became an actress because it was the only way I knew to earn a living. I trying to be a glamour movie Aguest role on an early television show brought her to the attention of director George Cukor, who gave her a screen test at MGM and a minor role in the 1949 comedy starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. Signed to a contract with the studio that year, she was given the glamour treatment and requisite publicity push. But despite good reviews for her work, Raymond was released from her MGM contract after less than two years, and thereafter worked independently.

Raymond is survived by a granddaughter. At her request, donations may be made to the Motion Picture Television Fund in Woodland Hills. Paula Raymond, 79; MGM Leading Lady in Prolific TV Actress MGM PAULA RAYMOND The striking brunet played opposite Cary Grant and other top stars in the early 1950s, but is best remembered in Beast From 20,000 From Associated Press Lynn Cartwright, a veteran character actress best known for her portrayal of an older version of the Geena Davis character in the movie League of Their has died. She was 76. Cartwright died Jan.

2 in her Los Angeles home of dementia-related illnesses following a hip fracture, said her daughter, Tara Gordon. health began to decline in Decemberafter the death of her husband of 50 years, screenwriter and western star Leo Gordon. The tall, auburn-haired beauty from Oklahoma appeared in such popular 1950s television shows as Called and as well as the 1958 Zsa Zsa Gabor cult film of Outer She appeared in several other films and in such local stage productions as and Cartwright worked for 15 years with the Group Repertory Theater in Los Angeles. was very bright on the said Lonny Chapman, the artistic director. Her biggest break in films did not come until she was 65, when director Penny Marshall selected her for the 1992 movie League of Their The film followed the story of two sisters involved in the first female professional base- ball league.

Davis starred as one of the sisters, Dottie Hinson, and Cartwright portrayed an older version of the same character. daughter said the role was her favorite. Cartwright also is survived by a sister, Wilburt Locke of Oklahoma City. The family said memorial services would be private. Lynn Cartwright, 76; Character Actress in Films and Television LYNN CARTWRIGHT The actress in 1958, left, in an episode of Hitchcock and in 1992, when director Penny Marshall chose her for the film League of Their Takashi Ishihara, 91; President, Chairman of Nissan Motor Co.

Takashi Ishihara, 91, who as head of Nissan Motor Co. helped turn the Japanese car- maker into a global competitor, died of heart failure Dec.31 in a Tokyo hospital. Ishihara, president of the company from 1977 to 1985 and chairman for another seven years, helped create the first manufacturing plants outside Japan, including those in the U.S. and Great Britain. His efforts helped spur other Japanese manufacturers to develop multinational operations.

During his tenure as president, he helped Japan outpace Detroit to become the largest auto producer. Born in Tokyo and educated in law at Tohoku University, where he was a star rugby player, Ishihara joined Nissan in 1937. Twenty years later, as head of export operations, he launched a determined export program to change world consumer belief that Japanese products were shoddy. Ishihara established a design studio near San Diego that turned out innovative designs, including the 1986 Hardbody pickup, 1987 Pathfinder and 1987 Pulsar NX. Joseph Church, 85; Psychologist, Author on Child Development Joseph Church, 85, a psychology professor and author who wrote two well-regarded texts on child development, died Dec.

23 in New York City, Associated Press reported. Church co-wrote and Adolescence: A Psychology of the Growing with L. Joseph Stone. Published in 1957, the book proposed a model of development less rigid than the dominant views of the time. The book discussed new research, including Jean theory on the stages of cognitive development, and presented the field of child psychology as one with many uncertainties.

In 1960, Church wrote and the Discovery of which described language acquisition as learning how to express feelings and needs, rather than learning a system of labels. Anative of Gardner, Church earned his undergraduate degree at the New School of Social Research in New York City. He earned his degree at Cornell and his doctorate at Clark University. He taught at Vassar from 1954 to 1967. He then taught at Brooklyn College and the City University of New York Graduate Center until he retired in 1985.

Gordon McNeill, 61; FBI Agent Injured in Landmark Shootout Gordon G. McNeill, 61, an FBI agent wounded in a bloody Miami shootout that led to changes in the arming of law enforcement officers, died of cancer Jan. 1 at his home in Haddonfield, N.J. An April 11, 1986, confrontation between FBI agents and two bank robbers left two agents dead and five wounded, McNeill among them. The bank robbers also died in what is considered the bloodiest gunfight in FBI history.

The agents, equipped only with handguns, were seriously outgunned by the ex-military outlaws, who were armed with assault rifles. A total of 131 shots were fired, and only one of the 10 people involved an FBI agent escaped injury. The shootout became the catalyst for providing personnel in the FBI and other law enforcement agencies with stronger weapons and bigger supplies of ammunition. McNeill, the most seriously wounded of those who survived, was shot in the head, neck and right hand. Born in Philadelphia, McNeill graduated from St.

University before joining the FBI. He served in field offices in San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Detroit and Miami, where he was an anti- drug and organized crime unit supervisor. After his retirement in 1997, McNeill, who worked on the fatal Polly Klaas kidnapping, served as a consultant to law enforcement agencies in child kidnapping cases. From Times Staff and Wire Reports PASSINGS Associated Press TAKASHI ISHIHARA Looking for an obituary that appeared in The Times last week? You can still find it on the Internet. Go to The Web site at la- times.com/obits.

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