After that of Rory Callum Sykes, we know the face of another of the 24 victims of the Los Angeles fires: the body of Dalyce Curry, known for her participation in the cult film The Blues Brothers (1980), was found on Sunday January 12, 2025, in the still smoking rubble of his house. The actress was 95 years old.
It was his granddaughter Dalyce Kelley who announced the sad news, Tuesday January 14, 2025, on social networks. The young woman had just spent several days looking for her grandmother, whom she was the last to see alive in her home in Altadena, Tuesday January 7, 2025.
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“She has come a long way and influenced my life in many ways. His loss is devastating,” his granddaughter said in a message posted on the social network Facebook.
From “Ten Commandments” to “Blues Brothers”
“She just loved life, she was always very active and you would never have thought she was 95 years old,” another granddaughter, Loree Beamer-Wilkinson, told ABC News.
Born in 1930 in Chicago, Dalyce Curry made a name for herself by starring in successful films such as The Ten Commandments (1956), Lady Sings the Blues (1972) but above all The Blues Brothers (1980), recalls Ouest France.
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But above all, she was one of the last representatives of the “Old Black Hollywood” cultural movement, which saw African-American artists slowly establish themselves in a film industry then prey to discrimination.
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