Maxine Cooper Gomberg Film Noir Star, Activist Has Died
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
The Kiss Me Deadly film actress, Maxine Cooper Gomberg died of natural causes on April 4 at her Los Angeles home, the LA Times reports. The actress was 84 years old. Then Gomberg, as Maxine Cooper, acted alongside Cloris Leachman and Ralph Meekers in the film noir classic. The film itself has been studied and been at the heart of several conspiracy theories, making it one of the most recognized classics of the 1950s. Gomberg also appeared in television shows like Dragnet, Perry Mason and The Twilight Zone.
Gomberg quit acting in the early 1960s to raise her children. It was then that she became a Hollywood activist, organizing the stars to march for Martin Luther King Jr. and protest during the Vietnam War.
