Los Angeles Theatre Center. She founded Dance Outreach, now known as Infinite Dreams, in 1980, which, as of 2012, enrolls about 8,000 disabled children in dance-related activities throughout Southern California. Death On February 12, 2012, five days before her 67th birthday, Bethune was killed in an apparent hit and run accident while she was trying to help an injured opossum in Griffith Park, Los Angeles. Filmography References External links 1945 births 2012 deaths Actresses from New York City American people of Russian-Jewish descent American choreographers American female dancers 20th-century American dancers American film actresses American television actresses Jewish American actresses Burials at Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery Road incident deaths in California Pedestrian road incident deaths 20th-century American actresses Dancers from New York (state) 21st-century American Jews 21st-century American women