Veteran actors Soumitra Chatterjee, Supriya Devi and Sabitri Chatterjee were conferred the Lifetime Achievement Award by West Bengal government on Tuesday for their contribution to Bengali cinema.

Bollywood and Tollywood actor Mithun Chakraborty was awarded 'Mahanayak Uttam Kumar Samman 2012', at a function held in Kolkata.

The awards, which comprise Rs two lakh besides a citation and plaque, were given on the death anniversary of Uttam Kumar, Bengal's evergreen matinee idol.

Announcing the awards to 46 actors, film directors, musicians, scriptwriters and technicians, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said she wanted to bridge the gap between those who supported her and those who have strong Marxist leanings.

Soumitra has always been considered close to the Communist Party of India (Marxist) which ruled West Bengal for 34 years at a stretch at the head of a Left Front government before Mamata Banerjee's party Trinamool Congress ousted the Front in assembly elections in May last year.

Praising her for the initiative, Soumitra Chatterjee said such awards were earlier given by the state government only for dancing and music but none for those in the film world.

“I hope that this initiative will give an opportunity not only to contemporary artistes in the film world but also inspire the younger generation,” said Soumitra.

Mamata Banerjee described Soumitra, who features in a number of films directed by maestro Satyajit Ray, as the “pride of Bengal” and congratulated him for accepting the award.

Soumitra had stayed away from the inaugural ceremony in the last edition of the Kolkata Film Festival complaining that he was not properly invited by the state government. However, the authorities later on made up with him and he had attended the closing function.

Sunset Boulevard is a 40-kilometer winding thoroughfare from Los Angeles to the blue Pacific, covering Hollywood. It is known for the galaxy of restaurants, clubs and abode of movie stars. But “Sunset Boulevard” is also a famous American film on a waning movie star. Directed by Billy Wilder with Gloria Swanson and William Holden in the lead, it is considered an all time black and white classic.

In life, every successful person is Sunset Boulevard's, Gloria Swanson, in some form or the other. In the film industry, it is most visible because of the enormity of a star's popularity. But then for some stars, there is no fading. Grace Kelly or Audrey Hepburn for example; they were always in the news. In the subcontinent, we have that in Dilip Kumar who went on to become the Sheriff of Mumbai once the chips were down, and in the Bengali community -- Suchitra Sen. In spite of being a recluse for decades, even today if there is news that she has had a sneezing bout, her fans get flu!

When Shabnam and Robin Ghosh visited Pakistan after a 12-year hibernation to accept Lifetime Achievement Award from Pakistan Television, the sun never seemed to set in that country. From April 23 to May 14, it was a grand gala with people all around suddenly bouncing back to life in the midst of bomb blasts and political rife. The couple during their nostalgic “safar” sent the entire nation into a frenzy; there was ecstasy all around. The press, electronic media, professionals' associations, business groups, politicians were literally in competition to extend hospitality to the couple; and when they were in public places, special security measures had to be arranged to keep the “aam” at bay.

Shabnam and Robin Ghosh left Dhaka in 1968 to seek greener pastures in the then West Pakistan film industry. It was incidentally the time when the industry there, was going through a transformation. Sabiha, Shamim Ara, Musarrat Nazir, Nayyar Sultana, Neelo were past their peak and the new generation of actors notably Zeba, Rani, Deeba, Rozina, Sangeeta and Nisho were successfully taking over. In music, Rashid Attre and Feroze Nizami were dead; Khurshid Anwar, GA Chisti and Tassaduq Hussain were almost spent forces. But composers like Master Inayat Hussain, A. Hamid, Nisar Bazmi, Nashad, Khalil Ahmad, Lal Mohammad Iqbal, M. Ashraf and Sohail Rana were doing commendable work. Thus, for Shabnam and Robin Ghosh, the future was not to be a cakewalk, that also in a different cultural platform.

Shabnam, despite her flawed Urdu, soon developed a school of acting that was unique to the Pakistani audience while Robin Ghosh added a new dimension in the music industry. Over the years, their films ran from months to years generating business unheard of. In a country where quality of films was not much of a factor, they put dashes of refinement, wherever possible, albeit Bengali style to capture the heart of cine goers and become “industry standard”. The way Shabnam carried herself in Pakistan not only caught fancy of the common man but also of personalities like Nusrat Bhutto and even President General Ziaul Huq's daughter, who secretly flew in once a week to meet her favourite star in Lahore with due support from her mother!

Shabnam's artistic skills blessed the Pakistan silver screen with about 160 films and in the process she worked with actors, popular and unknown, to produce some of the greatest box office hits of all times. With over 50 block busters ranging from a minimum 25 week to 400 week run, including films like “Andaleeb”, “Dosti”, “Anmol”, “MereHumsafar”, “Sharafat”, “Chahat”, “Aaj Aur Kal”, “Pakeeza”, “Qurbani”, “Uff Yeh Biviyan”, “Aaina”, “Bivi Ho to Aisa”, “Dooriyan”, “Naaraz”, she became an all-time film legend and one of the greatest feminine icons of her time. Upheld as a standard of beauty, grace and style, her talent and persona influenced the directors so strongly that they attempted to make other actresses into her image without success.

Robin Ghosh did not lag behind in his field. He was already a much talked about composer in that country through his Urdu compositions in “Chanda”, “Talash”, “Karwaan”, “Bhaiya” and “Chokori”. He took off in style in “Jahan Tum Wahan Hum” and then produced outstanding music in “Do Sathi”, “Ehsas”, “Sharafat”, “Chahat”, “Aaina”, “Bandish”, “Ambar”, “Nahin Abhi Nahin”, “Aahat”, “Kiran Aur Kali”, “Umang”, “Dooriyan” and “Bhigey Badan” to be amongst the all-time greats in Pakistan film music. Just as in Dhaka, when he composed those exquisite numbers for Ferdousi Begum, Anjuman Ara, Farida Yasmeen, Bashir Ahmad, and Abdul Jabbar, he did the same for Mehdi Hasan, Akhlaq Ahmad, Alamgir, Nayyara Noor and Mahnaz giving them a new boost to their careers.

So, there was every reason for the Pakistani cine-goers to rejoice once the couple arrived. Besides the regular TV shows, interviews, Pakistan TV hosted a grand reception for them on April 28 at the governor's house in Lahore. It was a show unprecedented in the history of the Pakistan film world, though qualitatively, the musical programme presented could have been more imaginative.

Former Prime Minister Gilani flew in from Islamabad to hand over the Lifetime Achievement Award to the couple, saluting them as “the greatest cultural ambassadors of the two countries”. Stars of yesteryears and fans jointly voiced that a street or boulevard should be named after them -- an honour given only to the unforgettable Noorjahan, not to forget the Pakistan Arts Council-Nigar programme in Karachi where it was proposed that the couple be given a special status by the two countries.

But there is an unfortunate part too. The Lifetime Achievement Award was from Pakistan Television for which neither Shabnam nor Robin Ghosh ever took part as an actor or a musician and not from the cultural ministry or anything of that sort. Was it therefore a strategy to uplift the face of the 'not so popular' government TV channel or an image building effort of the ruling party, or perhaps both? The opposition, primarily Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz Sharif, a Robin Ghosh fan) and MQM with able support from the “non government” TV channels, took their turns too with flashy receptions. After all the elections are close! But so what? It only proved the enormous 'vote power' that “Shabnam Begum or Shabnam Bhabi” as popularly known, still has in that country. Yes, not all stars fade.

Sounds like a fairy tale? Just Google or YouTube “Shabnam Robin 2012” and you are there for some 'jhalak'!

1. Audrey Hepburn

Hepburn was a cosmopolitan from birth as her father was an English banker and her mother a Dutch baroness. In the movies she appeared as a delicate adolescent, a look which remained until her last movie Always (1989) directed by Steven Spielberg. Her career as actress began in the English cinema and after having been selected for the Broadway play "Gigi" she debuted in Hollywood in 1953. With Roman Holiday (1953) she won an Oscar; her favorite genres were the comedies like Sabrina (1954) or Love in the Afternoon (1957). At the end of the sixties she retired from Hollywood but appeared from time on the set for a few films. From 1988 on she worked also for UNICEF.

2. Sissy Spacek

As a kid, Sissy Spacek climbed trees, rode horses, swam, and played in the woods. She was born Mary Elizabeth Spacek on December 25, 1949, in Quitman, Texas. Sissy attended Quitman High School and was homecoming queen. After graduating, she embarked on an acting career, gaining interest in the profession through her cousin, actor Rip Torn. Sissy relocated to New York, and through him, enrolled in the New York branch of the Actors Studio. She studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Institute while also pursuing work as a model and singer, appearing in West Village showcases such as the Bitter End for $10 a night. Sissy eventually broke into film and one of her first roles was as Holly in the classic Badlands (1973). The art director on that film was Jack Fisk, with whom she would marry in 1974 and ultimately collaborate on eight films. Sissy followed this landmark film with a star-making and Oscar nominated performance in Carrie (1976), in which she played a humiliated prom queen who goes postal with her telekinesis. Sissy has had an enduring and award winning career in movies and television, which includes an Oscar as Best Actress for Coal Miner's Daughter (1980). The parents of two grown daughters, Sissy and Jack live on a large horse ranch in the foothills of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains. Even though she continued to appear in film and television during the late 1980s and 1990s, Sissy devoted most of those years to her family. Then, in 2001, Sissy returned to the big screen in a major way with a powerful performance in In the Bedroom (2001), which not only earned her a sixth Best Actress Oscar nomination, but a win for Best Actress at the Golden Globes, Independent Spirit Awards, and numerous critics association awards. Sissy continues to work steadily as an actress, but in 2012, her credits expand even further to include a memoir, My Extraordinary Ordinary Life, as well as her directorial debut on the film Sweet Tea (????).

3. Mia Farrow

Mia Farrow is the daughter of the director John Farrow and the actress and Tarzan-girl Maureen O'Sullivan. She debuted at the movies in 1959 in very small roles. She was noticed for the first time in the film Rosemary's Baby (1968) by Roman Polanski. She showed her talent also on TV and at the theatre, but her final breakthrough was when she met Woody Allen and became his Muse after the film A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982). After that, Woody Allen wrote many other roles for her.

4. Ellen Page

Ellen Philpotts-Page was born on February 21, 1987, in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She wanted to start acting at an early age and attended the Neptune Theater School. Her first appearance was in the TV show "Pit Pony" (1999), for which she received a Young Artist and Gemini nomination for Best Performance. Ellen won the Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor Award (from the Atlantic Film Festival) and another nomination for Wilby Wonderful (2004). For the TV series "ReGenesis" (2004), Page was given a Gemini for Best Performance.

 5. Bette Davis

Ruth Elizabeth Davis was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, on April 5, 1908. Her parents divorced when she was 10. Her early interests were in dance. To Bette, dancers led a glamorous life, but then she discovered the stage. She gave up dancing for acting. To her, it presented much more of a challenge. She studied drama in New York City and made her debut on Broadway in 1929. In 1930, she moved to Hollywood where she hoped things would get better for her in the world of acting. They did indeed. She would become known as the actress that could play a variety of very strong and complex roles. She was first under contract to Universal Studios, where she made her first film, called Way Back Home (1931). After the unsuccessful film The Bad Sister (1931), made the same year, she was fired, which was wildly unpopular. She then moved on to Warner Brothers. Her first film with them was Seed (1931). More fairly successful movies followed, but it was the role of Mildred Rogers in Of Human Bondage (1934) that would give Bette major acclaim from the film critics. Warner Bros. felt their seven-year deal with Bette was more than justified. They had a genuine star on their hands. With this success under her belt, she began pushing for stronger and more meaningful roles. In 1935, she received her first Oscar for her role in Dangerous (1935) as Joyce Heath. In 1936, she was suspended without pay for turning down a role that she deemed unworthy of her talent. She went to England, where she had planned to make movies, but was stopped by Warner Bros. because she was still under contract to them. They did not want her to work anywhere. Although she sued to get out of her contract, she lost. Still, they began to take her more seriously after that. In 1938, Bette received a second Academy Award nomination for her work in Jezebel (1938) opposite the soon-to-be-legendary Henry Fonda. Bette would receive six more nominations, including one for her role as Margo Channing in All About Eve (1950). While she was a genuine star in the '30s and '40s, the '50s and early '60s saw her in the midst of films that all lost money. Then came What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) in which she played a deranged former child star and a rather spooky one at that. This brought about a new round of super-stardom for generations of fans who were not familiar with her work. Two years later she starred in Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964). Bette was married four times. Her last marriage, to actor Gary Merrill, lasted ten years, longer than any of the previous three. In 1985, her daughter Barbara Davis ("B.D.") Hyman published a scandalous book about Bette called "My Mother's Keeper." Sadly, Bette Davis died on October 6, 1989, of metastasized breast cancer.

 6. Emily Blunt

Emily Blunt is a British actress best known for her roles in The Young Victoria (2009) and The Devil Wears Prada (2006).

She was born on February 23, 1983, in Roehampton, South West London, England, the second of four children in the family of a teacher mother and barrister father. She received a rigorous education at Ibstock Place School, a co-ed private school at Roehampton. However, young Emily Blunt had a stammer, since she was a kid of 8. Her mother took her to relaxation classes, which did not do anything. She reached a turning point at 12, when a teacher cleverly asked her to play a character with a different voice and said, "I really believe in you". Blunt ended up using a northern accent, and it did the trick, her stammer disappeared.

From 1999 - 2001, Blunt went to Hurtwood House, the top co-ed boarding school where she would excel at sport, cello and singing. She also had two years of drama studies at Hurtwood's theatre course. In August 2000, she was chosen to perform at the Edinburgh Festival. She was signed up by an agent, Kenneth Mcreddie, who led her to the West End and the BBC, scoring her roles in several period dramas on stage as well as on TV productions, such as "Foyle's War" (2002), Henry VIII (2003) (TV) and "Empire" (2005). In 2001, she appeared as "Gwen Cavendish" opposite Dame Judi Dench in Sir Peter Hall's production of "The Royal Family" at Haymarket Theatre. For that role, she won the Evening Standard Award for Best Newcomer. In 2002, she played "Juliet" in "Romeo and Juliet" at the prestigious Chichester Festival.

Blunt's career ascended to international fame after she starred as "Isolda" opposite Alex Kingston in Warrior Queen (2003). A year later, she won critical acclaim for her breakout performance as "Tamsin", a well-educated, cynical and deceptive 16-year-old beauty in My Summer of Love (2004), a story of two lonely girls from the opposite ends of the social heap. Emily Blunt and her co-star, Natalie Press, shared an Evening Standard British Film award for Most Promising Newcomer. In 2005, she spent a few months in Australia filming Irresistible (2006) with Susan Sarandon and Sam Neill. Blunt gave an impressive performance as "Mara", a cunning young destroyer who acts crazy and surreptitiously provokes paranoia in others. She also continued her work on British television, starring as "Natasha" in Stephen Poliakoff's Gideon's Daughter (2005) (TV), opposite Bill Nighy, a role that won her a 2007 Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role.

She continued the line of playing manipulative characters as "Emily", a caustic put-upon assistant to Meryl Streep's lead in The Devil Wears Prada (2006). Blunt's performance with a neurotic twist added a dimension of sarcasm to the comedy, and gained her much attention as well as new jobs: in two dramas opposite Tom Hanks, then in the title role in the period drama, The Young Victoria (2009). Her most recent works include appearances as antiques dealer "Gwen Conliffe" in The Wolfman (2010) and as the ballerina in The Adjustment Bureau (2011).

Emily Blunt is a highly versatile actress and a multifaceted person. Her talents include singing and playing cello; she is also skilled at horseback riding. She was in a relationship with Canadian singer Michael Bublé, whom she met at the Australian Logie Awards in 2005 and, again, a few months later, backstage at his Los Angeles concert. Their relationship ended in 2008. Blunt's friend, Anne Hathaway, introduced her to John Krasinski, and they have been together since November 2008. On August 28, 2009, Blunt and Krasinski announced their engagement. The couple married on July 10, 2010, at the estate of their friend, George Clooney, on Lake Como in Italy. Emily Blunt and John Krasinsky are living in the Los Angeles area, California.

On November 12, 1929, Grace Patricia Kelly was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to wealthy parents. Her girlhood was uneventful for the most part, but one of the things she desired was to become an actress which she had decided on at an early age. After her high school graduation in 1947, Grace struck out on her own, heading to New York's bright lights to try her luck there. Grace worked some as a model and made her debut on Broadway in 1949. She also made a brief foray into the infant medium of television. Not content with the work in New York, Grace moved to Southern California for the more prestigious part of acting -- motion pictures. In 1951, she appeared in her first film entitled Fourteen Hours (1951) when she was 22. It was a small part, but a start nonetheless. The following year she landed the role of Amy Kane in High Noon (1952), a western starring Gary Cooper and Lloyd Bridges which turned out to be very popular. In 1953, Grace appeared in only one film, but it was another popular one. The film was Mogambo (1953) where Grace played Linda Nordley. The film was a jungle drama in which fellow cast members, Clark Gable and Ava Gardner turned in masterful performances. It was also one of the best films ever released by MGM. Although she got noticed with High Noon, her work with director Alfred Hitchcock, which began with Dial M for Murder (1954) made her a star. Her standout performance in Rear Window (1954) brought her to prominence. As Lisa Fremont, she was cast opposite James Stewart, who played a crippled photographer who witnesses a murder in the next apartment from his wheelchair. Grace stayed busy in 1954 appearing in five films. Grace would forever be immortalized by winning the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Georgie Elgin opposite Bing Crosby in The Country Girl (1954). In 1955, Grace once again teamed with Hitchcock in To Catch a Thief (1955) co-starring Cary Grant. In 1956, she played Tracy Lord in the musical comedy High Society (1956) which also starred Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby. The whimsical tale ended with her re-marrying her former husband, played by Crosby. The film was well received. It also turned out to be her final acting performance. Grace had recently met and married Prince Rainier of Monaco. By becoming a princess, she gave up her career. For the rest of her life, she was to remain in the news with her marriage and her three children. On September 14, 1982, Grace was killed in an automobile accident in her adoptive home country. She was just 52 years old.

If a film were made of the life of Vivien Leigh, it would open in India just before World War I, where a successful British businessman could live like a prince. In the mountains above Calcutta, a little princess is born. Because of the outbreak of World War I, she is six years old the first time her parents take her to England. Her mother thinks she should have a proper English upbringing and insists on leaving her in a convent school - even though Vivien is two years younger than any of the other girls at the school. The only comfort for the lonely child is a cat that was in the courtyard of the school that the nuns let her take up to her dormitory. Her first and best friend at the school is an eight-year-old girl, Maureen O'Sullivan who has been transplanted from Ireland. In the bleakness of a convent school, the two girls can recreate in their imaginations the places they have left and places where they would some day like to travel. After Vivien has been at the school for 18 months, her mother comes again from India and takes her to a play in London. In the next six months Vivien will insist on seeing the same play 16 times. In India the British community entertained themselves at amateur theatricals and Vivien's father was a leading man. Pupils at the English convent school are eager to perform in school plays. It's an all-girls school, so some of the girls have to play the male roles. The male roles are so much more adventurous. Vivien's favorite actor is Leslie Howard, and at 19 she marries an English barrister who looks very much like him. The year is 1932. Vivien's best friend from that convent school has gone to California, where she's making movies. Vivien has an opportunity to play a small role in an English film, Things Are Looking Up (1935). She has only one line but the camera keeps returning to her face. The London stage is more exciting than the movies being filmed in England, and the most thrilling actor on that stage is Laurence Olivier. At a party Vivien finds out about a stage role, "The Green Sash", where the only requirement is that the leading lady be beautiful. The play has a very brief run, but now she is a real actress. An English film is going to be made about Elizabeth I. Laurence gets the role of a young favorite of the queen who is sent to Spain. Vivien gets a much smaller role as a lady-in-waiting of the queen who is in love with Laurence's character. In real life, both fall in love while making this film, Fire Over England (1937). In 1938, Hollywood wants Laurence to play Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights (1939). Vivien, who has just recently read Gone with the Wind (1939), thinks that the role of Scarlett O'Hara is the first role for an actress that would be really exciting to bring to the screen. She sails to America for a brief vacation. In New York she gets on a plane for the first time to rush to California to see Laurence. They have dinner with Myron Selznick the night that his brother, David O. Selznick, is burning Atlanta on a backlot of MGM (actually they are burning old sets that go back to the early days of silent films to make room to recreate an Atlanta of the 1860s). Vivien is 26 when Gone with the Wind (1939) makes a sweep of the Oscars in 1939. So let's show 26-year-old Vivien walking up to the stage to accept her Oscar and then as the Oscar is presented the camera focuses on Vivien's face and through the magic of digitally altering images, the 26-year-old face merges into the face of Vivien at age 38 getting her second Best Actress Oscar for portraying Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951). She wouldn't have returned to America to make that film had not Laurence been going over there to do a film, Carrie (1952) based on Theodore Dreiser's novel "Sister Carrie". Laurence tells their friends that his motive for going to Hollywood to make films is to get enough money to produce his own plays for the London stage. He even has his own theater there, the St. James. Now Sir Laurence, with a seat in the British House of Lords, is accompanied by Vivien the day the Lords are debating about whether the St James should be torn down. Breaking protocol, Vivien speaks up and is escorted from the House of Lords. The publicity helps raise the funds to save the St. James. Throughout their two-decade marriage Laurence and Vivien were acting together on the stage in London and New York. Vivien was no longer Lady Olivier when she performed her last major film role, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961).

Gene Tierney was born in Brooklyn, New York, on November 19, 1920, to well-to-do parents. Her father was a very successful insurance broker and her mother was a former teacher. Her childhood was lavish indeed. She also lived, at times, with her equally successful grandparents in Connecticut and New York. She was educated in the finest schools on the East Coast and at a finishing school in Switzerland. After two years in Europe, Gene returned to the US where she completed her education. By 1938 she was performing on Broadway in What a Life! and understudied for The Primerose Path (1938) at the same time. Her wealthy father set up a corporation that was only to promote her theatrical pursuits. Her first role consisted of carrying a bucket of water across the stage, prompting one critic to announce that "Miss Tierney is, without a doubt, the most beautiful water carrier I have ever seen!" Her subsequent roles Mrs O'Brian Entertains (1939) and RingTwo (1939) were meatier and received praise from the tough New York critics. Critic Richard Watts wrote "I see no reason why Miss Tierney should not have a long and interesting theatrical career, that is if the cinema does not kidnap her away". After being spotted by the legendary Darryl F. Zanuck during a stage performance of the hit show The Male Animal (1940), Gene was signed to a contract with 20th Century-Fox. Her first role as Barbara Hall in Hudson's Bay (1941) would be the send-off vehicle for her career. Later that year she appeared in The Return of Frank James (1940). The next year would prove to be a very busy one for Gene, as she appeared in The Shanghai Gesture (1941), Sundown (1941), Tobacco Road (1941) and Belle Starr (1941). She tried her hand at screwball comedy in Rings on Her Fingers (1942), which was a great success. Her performances in each of these productions were masterful. In 1945 she was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal of Ellen Brent in Leave Her to Heaven (1945). Though she didn't win, it solidified her position in Hollywood society. She followed up with another great performance as Isabel Bradley in the hit The Razor's Edge (1946). In 1944 she played what is probably her best-known role (and, most critics agree, her most outstanding performance) in Otto Preminger's Laura (1944), in which she played murder victim named Laura Hunt. In 1947 Gene played Lucy Muir in the acclaimed The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947). By this time Gene was the hottest player around, and the 1950s saw no letup as she appeared in a number of good films, among them Night and the City (1950), The Mating Season (1951), Close to My Heart (1951), Plymouth Adventure (1952), Personal Affair (1953) and The Left Hand of God (1955). The latter was to be her last performance for seven years. The pressures of a failed marriage to Oleg Cassini, the birth of a daughter who was mentally retarded in 1943, and several unhappy love affairs resulted in Gene being hospitalized for depression. When she returned to the the screen in Advise & Consent (1962), her acting was as good as ever but there was no longer a big demand for her services. Her last feature film was The Pleasure Seekers (1964), and her final appearance in the film industry was in a TV miniseries, "Scruples" (1980). Gene died of emphysema in Houston, Texas, on November 6, 1991, just two weeks shy of her 71st birthday.