Posted on 01/27/2021 2:07:43 PM PST by EdnaMode
Oscar winner and multiple Emmy winner Cloris Leachman, best remembered as the delightfully neurotic Phyllis Lindstrom on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and her own subsequent sitcom, died of natural causes on Tuesday in Encinitas, Calif. She was 94.
“It’s been my privilege to work with Cloris Leachman, one of the most fearless actresses of our time,” her longtime manager Juliet Green said. “There was no one like Cloris. With a single look she had the ability to break your heart or make you laugh ’till the tears ran down your face. You never knew what Cloris was going to say or do and that unpredictable quality was part of her unparalleled magic.”
The daffy, self-absorbed Phyllis, a character she claimed was close to her own persona, brought the actress two Emmys as a featured actress in a series during the mid-’70s and made Leachman a household name.
Leachman also won a supporting actress Oscar in the early part of the decade for a far different character, an embittered small-town housewife in Peter Bogdanovich’s elegiac “The Last Picture Show”; she would later reprise the role in the film’s less successful sequel “Texasville.” Both films were based on the writings of Larry McMurtry.
Overnight success for the actress, however, came only after two decades of hard work in theater, television and some films. Leachman was in her 40s when stardom finally hit.
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She showed up in a lot of interesting work. Quite a career.
RIP
Frau Blucher (a horse whinnies)
Frau Blucher, RIP!
An amazing actress, I remember watching her on The Facts of Life after Charlotte Rae left..funny lady, RIP Cloris
Damn. I got to meet her a couple of times as she liked to frequent a certain coffee shop that I also frequented. The was a sweetie.
Funny lady, RIP.
Wow, 94. I remember her from “The Last Picture Show,” a dark but interesting movie.
Yes— that was her “Last Picture Show”-— character in that one of the most depressing sad as hell individuals. Entire film one giant defeatist anti-rural America corrupted small town— ever put out by hollyweird.
Yes. A lot of interesting work,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_Hope
I’ve binged this twice. It’s quite good.
Cloris as Maw-Maw just made this show a hit!
Beat me to it.
Frau Blucher>> YAZZZ, HEE VASS MINE BOYFRIEND !!
Condolences to family and friends of Cloris Leachman
i’m devastated!
RIP
He was my . . . boyfriend!
“There wolf’’. “There castle’’.
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