Brittany Murphy died from multiple prescription drug intoxication, pneumonia and iron deficiency anemia in what the Los Angeles County coroner concluded was a accidental death.

The coroner released its results Thursday.

Spokesman Craig Harvey said the primary cause of Murphy's death was pneumonia, with secondary factors of iron-deficiency anemia and multiple drug intoxication. Harvey said the drugs ingested were all prescription medications.

Murphy could still be alive today had she seen a doctor sooner, a Los Angeles coroner official said.

"This death could've been preventable," Assistant Chief Ed Winter told People.com. "Murphy was planning on seeing a doctor, but she unfortunately passed away before she did. This was a case of a person with pneumonia who was anemic (having a low blood count) who was taking medication when she should've been getting medical treatment."
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"Days of Our Lives" matriarch Frances Reid, who played Alice Horton on the long-running soap, died Wednesday at the age of 95.

Reid appeared last on NBC's hit show in December of 2007. She also had roles on "As the World Turns" and "The Edge of Night."

Reid played the silver-haired, mild-mannered matriarch of the show's Horton clan since 1965 – a role she initially turned down.

Reid was raised in Berkeley, Calif., and later moved to New York to pursue her acting career on the stage, landing roles in "Cyrano de Bergerac," "Hamlet" and "Twelfth Night."

Her character on "Days" was believed to have been killed off by the show's Salem Stalker in 2004, but it turned out to be a hoax and she returned later the same year.
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