The well-known Hollywood actress and active wife of longtime Variety columnist Army Archerd Selma Archerd died at the age of 98. According to the source of legacy.com’s post on the Los Angeles Times website, Salma died on December 14 in Los Angeles.
The cause of the actress’s death has not been stated by the family. The family had only made a request for any donations, saying that if there’s any interest in making one in memory of Arched, then it has to be done to the Culver City, California-based Exceptional Children Foundation.
Salman has children from her former husband and is left with them as survivors behind her, which are her two sons, James Rosenblum and Richard Rosenblum, and a grandson, Ryan Rosenblum.
Everything to know about Selma Archerd
Selma Helene Archerd was a well-known American actress born on February 26, 1925. Selma had attended UCLA and was a member of Alpha Epsilon Phi. She was first married to Howard M. Rosenblum on June 27, 1943.
The marriage couldn’t last, and they got divorced in October 1968—Salma and Howard share two sons, James and Richard Rosenblum. On November 15, 1968, Salma got married to columnist Army Archerd and stayed in marriage with him until his death on September 8, 2009.
Selma is popularly known for her roles in Die Hard, a 1988 release. The movie has a storyline of Detective McClane, who lands in LA with the plan to spend Christmas with his wife. Later he learns about a hostage situation happening in an office building. Hans Gruber is the culprit who is behind all this and McClane’s wife is one of the hostages. In the same movie Selma has played the role of one of the hostages.
Lethal Weapon (1987), and Lethal Weapon 3 (1992) are the other movies that made her known in the industry. Selma has mostly played the roles of a background actress, for instance, sales lady, customer, hostage, and passenger, during her 27-year acting career in television and films.
She had played a recurring role as Nurse Army in Fox’s 1990s soap opera “Melrose Place.” It aired first on 8 July 1992; the story revolves around the lives and relationships of a young adult friend group. The group resides at a Spanish-Style apartment in Melrose neighborhood area of Los Angeles.
During her life period from the 1970s to the 1990s, she was a part of numerous cameos and bit parts of movies or TV shows like The Brady Bunch, Serpico, Lethal Weapon, and Lethal Weapon 3.
Other than these, her appearances in movies like Fun with Dick and Jane, Americathon, Can’t Stop the Music, Mummy Dearest, and Scrooged have brought awareness to her name. Selma has also made TV show appearances, which include Charmed, Roseanne, The Trials of Rosie O’Neill, The Love Boat, Cagney and Lacey, Knot’s Landing, Hotel, and Marcus Welby, M.D.
Army Arched once wrote a “Just for Variety” column that was based upon the ultimate industry’s insider report, including the news and the day bits; it was even separated by ellipses. It ran on page 2 of the Daily Variety for almost 52 years after it was published. Army Arched has also done cameos and roles in bit parts in TV shows and movies, which are more than 100 in number.
Armand Andre Archerd, popularly known as Army Archerd was an alma mater of the University of California. In 1953, he was hired by Variety as a Columnist to replace Sheilah Graham. Since then, he had been working as an American Columnist for Variety for over 50 years before taking his retirement from the “Just for Variety” column in September 2005. He started blogging for Variety in November and was working on a memoir during his last days on 8 September 2009.
Throughout their 39 years of marriage, Selma and Army Archerd have been regulars on the Hollywood social circuit for decades. They have attended premieres, award shows, and charity dinners together.
