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Article: Nobu McCarthy
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- April 11, 2002
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Nobu McCarthy, 67 Starlet, theather director
Thursday, April 11, 2002
Los Angeles -- Nobu McCarthy, a Hollywood starlet who later became
artistic director of the pioneering theater company East West
Players, died Saturday after being stricken on the set of a movie
that she was working on in Londrina, Brazil. She was 67.
McCarthy had just returned to work after recovering from pneumonia
and was stricken with what doctors diagnosed as an aneurysm in her
aorta, said Tamlyn Tomita, an actress also in the cast. The movie
"Gaijin II," about several generations of Japanese immigrants in
Brazil, suspended production after her death.
McCarthy was born as Nobu Atsumi in ...