Earl Holliman, Star of 'Forbidden Planet' and 'The Rainmaker,' Dies at 96

Earl Holliman, the Golden Globe-winning star of "The Rainmaker," has died at the age of 96, according to media reports. Holliman starred in the 1956 adaptation of the N. Richard Nash play about a spinsterish woman named Lizzie Curry, played by Katherine Hepburn, who falls in love with a con man played by Burt Lancaster that promises to bring rain to her family's drought-stricken farm. Holliman played Jim, one of Lizzie's brothers. That same...