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- Dale Olson was born on February 20, 1934 in Fargo, North Dakota, USA. He was a producer, known for The Klansman (1974), Deadly Intent (1988) and World Safari (1967). He was married to Eugene Harbin. He died on August 9, 2012 in Burbank, California, USA.
- SpouseEugene Harbin(2008 - August 9, 2012) (his death)
- Olson, who lived in the Hollywood Hills, died at a nursing facility in Burbank.
- Hollywood publicity corps whose assignments over a four-decade career included representing Rock Hudson during the last months of the actor's struggle with AIDS. Olson's many other clients included Clint Eastwood, Steve McQueen, Gene Kelly, Laurence Olivier and Shirley MacLaine.
- Olson lived in the Hollywood Hills.
- Olson helped craft campaigns for stars such as Maggie Smith in "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" (1969), Shirley MacLaine in "Terms of Endearment" (1983) and Robert Duvall in "Tender Mercies" (1983).
- During 18 years at Rogers and Cowan, he rose to head the agency's motion pictures division, leaving to run his own Beverly Hills publicity firm, Dale C. Olson & Associates, in 1985.
- [on Richard Burton in 1974] The good news is that you will be the first see Richard Burton after the split.
- [on Rock Hudson's AIDS illness] I spoke to him and said, 'You have a terminal disease. This is going to affect a lot of people. And you can be the first person who can make other people aware of it.
- With all these clients dying. I sometimes worried about my business-that I'd be known as, you know the Kevorkian of publicists.
- Joan Crawford was the ultimate movie star. Katharine Hepburn was grumpy, Gene Wilder never was. Judy Garland was so terrified of being left alone, you couldn't leave until she passed out.
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