Selma Archerd, an actress who was well-known in Hollywood because the vivacious spouse of longtime Selection columnist Military Archerd, has died. She was 98.
Selma Archerd died Dec. 14 in Los Angeles, in response to a Legacy.com posting on the Los Angeles Instances’ web site.
Selma Archerd was seen as a hostage in 1988’s “Die Exhausting” and had a recurring position as Nurse Amy in Fox’s Nineteen Nineties cleaning soap “Melrose Place.” She logged quite a few cameos and bit components from the Nineteen Seventies via the Nineteen Nineties on films and TV exhibits starting from “The Brady Bunch” to “Serpico” to “Deadly Weapon” and “Deadly Weapon 3.” Different notable movies through which she appeared embody: “Enjoyable with Dick and Jane,” “Americathon,” “Can’t Cease the Music,” “Mommie Dearest” and “Scrooged.” TV appearances additionally embody: “Charmed,” “Roseanne,” “The Trials of Rosie O’Neill,” “The Love Boat,” “Cagney & Lacey,” “Knot’s Touchdown,” “Resort” and “Marcus Welby, M.D.”
Selma and Military Archerd have been regulars on the Hollywood social circuit for many years, attending premieres, award exhibits and charity dinners all year long throughout their 39-year marriage. Military Archerd wrote the “Simply For Selection” column — the last word trade’s insiders report that was picked with information and dishy bits separated by ellipses — that ran on Web page 2 of Every day Selection for 52 years. Military Archerd, who additionally had cameos and bit components in additional than 100 TV exhibits and flicks, died in 2009 at age 87.
Selma Archerd’s survivors embody two sons, James Rosenblum and Richard Rosenblum, and a grandson, Ryan Rosenblum.
The household requests that donations be made in Archerd’s reminiscence to the Culver Metropolis, Calif.-based Distinctive Youngsters’s Basis.
