Photo Flash: Remembering Rita Gam by Walter McBride

Actress and filmmaker Rita Gampassed away earlier this month from respiratory failure. She was 88 years old.Gam was bornRita MacKayin Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Belle Fately, who was born inRomania, and Milton A. MacKay, who was born inAlsace-Lorraine, to parents from Romania. She took on the surname of her stepfather, Russian-born Benjamin Gam.Gam was raised in New York City.

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