Now This: July 5, 2000

Summary

• The chapter announces the death of three-time Oscar-winning actress Celia St. James from emphysema at the age of 61.
• St. James was originally from a wealthy family in Georgia and earned the nickname Georgia Peach.
• She first gained fame with her role as Beth in the 1959 adaptation of Little Women, for which she won her first Academy Award.
• St. James was nominated for Oscars four more times in her career and won twice, once for Best Actress in 1970 for Our Men and for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Lady Macbeth in a 1988 adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy.
• St. James was also known for her attractive, girl-next-door image and her fifteen-year marriage to football star John Braverman, which ended in divorce in the late 1970s. Braverman died in 1980 and St. James did not remarry.
• St. James's estate will be managed by her brother, Robert Jamison, who is married to actress Evelyn Hugo, a former co-star of St. James.