Actress Mala Powers dead at 75

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LOS ANGELES (AFP) — Actress Mala Powers, who found fame in a string of hit 1950s films, has died after suffering complications from leukemia, it was reported on Wednesday. She was 75.

Powers, who was best remembered for playing Roxane in the 1950 screen version of classic French tale "Cyrano de Bergerac," died on Monday at the Providence St Medical Center, the Los Angeles Times reported.

The hospital was not immediately available to comment.

Powers was born in 1931 to journalist parents who moved to Hollywood, where their daughter began training as an actress at an early age.

She had bit parts in several 1940s actors but it was not until 1950 when her career took off.

Her performance in "Cyrano de Bergerac" earned her a Golden Globe...