Will Dudding

Sep 3, 2024 | nytimes.com | Will Dudding

James Darren, an actor and singer whose starring role as a California surfer in the "Gidget" movies made him one of the most popular heartthrobs of the late 1950s and early '60s, died on Monday in Los Angeles. He was 88. His son Jim Moret said the cause of his death, in a hospital, was congestive heart failure.

Sep 14, 2023 | nytimes.com | Will Dudding

This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. In 1931, when the Penobscot dancer Molly Nelson arrived in Paris to perform at the International Colonial Exposition, she was pleasantly surprised. To win audiences in North America, she had learned, she had to resort to Native American stereotypes, like wearing a floor-length feathered headdress — and not much else.