Maria Elena Marques, 83, the Mexican actress who starred in the 1947 movie “The Pearl,” has died, her children announced Wednesday.
Marques played the long-suffering wife of a fisherman who finds a beautiful but ill-fated pearl in the film based on a book by John Steinbeck. The film won a Golden Globe award for the luminous cinematography of Gabriel Figueroa.
Tom Hunt, 85, the former chairman of Hunt Petroleum Corp. and nephew of famed oilman H.L. Hunt, died Tuesday of leukemia at a Dallas hospital. His death comes about five months after he helped engineer the $4.19 billion sale of Hunt Petroleum to XTO Energy Inc., which confirmed his death.
He served with the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II and was on the first bomber to land in Japan. He also was aboard a B-24 that performed a flyover of Tokyo Bay when the Japanese formally surrendered.
After the war, Hunt studied chemical engineering at the University of Arkansas until his uncle recruited him into the family business.
