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Dina Merrill and Larry Blyden in “What Makes Sammy Run?”
Photofest; thumbnail, Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images, 2002
Dina Merrill
Died on May 22, 2017 at age 93
Ms. Merrill was an actress and heiress to two fortunes who wintered at her family’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., as a child before becoming a leading lady in movies, most often in upper-class roles.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.