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Biography

Early life

Barbara Harris was born in Evanston, Illinois, the daughter of Oscar Harris, an arborist who later became a businessman, and Natalie Densmoor, an accomplished pianist. When she was a teenager, Harris began her career on the stage at the Playwrights Theatre in Chicago, Illinois. Her young fellow players included Edward Asner, Elaine May and Mike Nichols. She was also a member of The Compass Players, the first ongoing improvisational theatre troupe in the USA, directed by Paul Sills, whom she married. The Compass Players became an enormous hit in Chicago and attracted national attention. They debuted on Broadway at the Royale Theater on September 26, 1961 in a more refined and polished version, called The Second City. The musical revue was called From the Second City. Harris is generally acknowledged to be not only one of the pioneering but also among the most formidably gifted women in the field of improvisational theatre, along with Elaine May. Scenes that Harris created with Alan Arkin, Severn Darden, Paul Sand, and other celebrated members of the Compass and Second City companies continue to be studied and emulated as masterpieces of the form. Incorporated City in 1872. ... Official language(s) English Capital Springfield Largest city Chicago Area  Ranked 25th  - Total 57,918 sq mi (149,998 km²)  - Width 210 miles (340 km)  - Length 390 miles (629 km)  - % water 4. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... A businessman (sometimes businesswoman, female; or businessperson, gender neutral) is a generic term for a wide range of people engaged in profit-oriented enterprises, generally the management of a company. ... Pianist Claudio Arrau, Carnegie Hall, 1954. ... Serge Sudeikins poster for the Bat Theatre (1922). ... Flag Seal Nickname: The Windy City Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location Location in Chicagoland and northern Illinois Coordinates , Government Country State Counties United States Illinois Cook, DuPage Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 606. ... Edward Asner (born November 15, 1929 in Kansas City, Kansas) is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and later continued in a spinoff series, Lou Grant. ... Elaine May (b. ... Mike Nichols (born Michael Igor Peschkowsky) is an Academy Award winning movie director of films such as The Graduate and Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. He was born on November 6, 1931 in Berlin, to a Jewish Russian family. ... Improvisational Theatre (also known as improv or impro) is a form of theatre in which the actors perform spontaneously, without a script. ... Elaine May (b. ... Alan Wolf Arkin (born March 26, 1934) is an American actor. ... Severn Darden was a gifted comedian, and co-founder of The Second City Chicago-based comedy troupe. ... The second city of a country is the city that is (or was) the second-most important, usually after the capital or first city, according to some criteria. ...

Broadway Stage Triumphs

She received a nomination for the 1962 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her Broadway debut in the original musical revue production From the Second City (1961), which ran at the Royale Theater from September 26, 1961 to December 9, 1961. The revue also featured the young Alan Arkin and Paul Sand. Produced by the legendary Max Liebman (among others) and directed by Paul Sills, Harris appeared in such sketches as Caesar's Wife, First Affair, Great Books, I Got Blues, The Bergman Film and The Hoboken Story, winning great critical and audience acclaim for her unique personality, brilliance with improvisation, fine singing voice, sex appeal, and chameleonic ability to create wholly original characters. In a rare 2002 interview in a Phoenix, Arizona newspaper, she recalled her ambivalence about even bringing the troupe to New York from Chicago. She said, "When I was at Second City, there was a vote about whether we should take our show to Broadway or not. Andrew Duncan and I voted no. I stayed in New York, but only because Richard Rodgers and Alan Jay Lerner came and said, "We want to write a musical for you!" Well, I wasn't big on musical theater. I had seen part of South Pacific in Chicago and I walked out. But it was Richard Rodgers calling!" What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ... Broadway theatre[1] is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1961 calendar). ... Alan Wolf Arkin (born March 26, 1934) is an American actor. ... The second city of a country is the city that is (or was) the second-most important, usually after the capital or first city, according to some criteria. ... An autographed photo of Richard Rodgers Richard Charles Rodgers (June 28, 1902 – December 30, 1979) was one of the great composers of musical theater, best known for his song writing partnerships with Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II. He wrote more than 900 published songs, and forty Broadway musicals. ... Alan Jay Lerner (August 31, 1918 – June 14, 1986) was an American Broadway lyricist and librettist. ... The South Pacific is an area in the southern Pacific Ocean. ...

While Rodgers and Lerner were busy working on their original musical for her, she won the Theatre World Award for her role in playwright Arthur Kopit's dark comedic farce, Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad. Next, she received a nomination for the 1966 Tony for Best Actress in a Musical for On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1965), a Broadway musical created for her in the end by Alan Jay Lerner and Burton Lane, but not by Richard Rodgers, who left the project. She starred as "Daisy Gamble," a disarmingly neurotic and touching New Yorker who seeks out the help of a psychiatrist to stop smoking. Under hypnosis, the apparently kooky, brash, and quirky character reveals unexpected hidden depths. In fact, during hypnotic trances, she becomes fascinating to the psychiatrist as she reveals herself as a woman who has lived many past lives, one of them quite tragic and melancholy. Broadway audiences often gasped aloud at Harris' lightning-fast and utterly convincing transformations from a quirky modern day character to an elegant titled British woman of position and back again. While critics were divided over the merits of the show, they compared Harris' performance to some of the greatest performers and comediennes of all time, including the inimitable Laurette Taylor, Beatrice Lillie, and Judy Holliday. The show opened on October 14, 1965 at the Mark Hellinger Theater. ran for 280 performances, and earned a total of three Tony nominations. The Theatre World Award is an American honor given annually to an actor or an actress in recognition of an outstanding breakout performance in their New York City stage debut. ... Arthur Lee Kopit (born 1937) was an US playwright. ... On a Clear Day, You Can See Forever is an original musical play with music by Burton Lane and lyrics and book by Alan Jay Lerner. ... Alan Jay Lerner (August 31, 1918 – June 14, 1986) was an American Broadway lyricist and librettist. ... Burton Lane (February 2, 1912, New York City - January 5, 1997, New York City) was a composer and lyricist. ... An autographed photo of Richard Rodgers Richard Charles Rodgers (June 28, 1902 – December 30, 1979) was one of the great composers of musical theater, best known for his song writing partnerships with Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II. He wrote more than 900 published songs, and forty Broadway musicals. ... Theater legend, born Helen Loretta Cooney (although other birth names have been tossed about) in New York on April 1, 1884, whose major roles include her unforgettable performances in the eponymous Peg o My Heart and as deluded Southern matriarch Amanda Wingfield in the original Broadway production of Tennessee Williams... Beatrice Lillie (May 29, 1894-January 20, 1989) was the outstanding comedic actress of her time. ... Judy Holliday (June 21, 1921 – June 7, 1965) was an American actress. ... Tony can mean any of the following: a slang word for Cocaine Tony Award a nickname for the male names Antoine, Antony, Antonio, Anthony, and Manraj, and for the female name Antoinette. ...

She next appeared on Broadway with Anne Bancroft in a legendary 1963 production of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage, staged by Jerome Robbins, performed at the Martin Beck Theater, and awarded with five Tony Award nominations. Anne Bancroft and Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate Anne Bancroft (September 17, 1931 – June 6, 2005) was an iconic Academy Award-winning American actress. ... Bertolt Brecht. ... Mother Courage (German Mutter Courage) is a character from a Grimmelshausen novel Lebensbeschreibung der Ertzbetrügerin und Landstörtzerin Courasche (The Runagate Courage) dating from around 1670. ... Jerome Robbins in Three virgins and a devil. ... What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ...

Harris gave another tour-de-force performance in The Apple Tree, another Broadway musical created for her by composer Jerry Bock and lyricist Sheldon Harnick, known best for Fiddler On the Roof. The play, in which Harris co-starred with Alan Alda and Larry Blyden was directed by Mike Nichols, opened at the Shubert Theater on October 5, 1966 and closed on November 25, 1967. The show was based on three tales by Mark Twain, Frank R. Stockton, and Jules Pfeiffer and Harris starred in all three, again receiving exceptional reviews, even if the show did not. While Richard Watts Jr in the New York Post wrote "there are many high triumphs of the imagination in the vastly original musical comedy," he added "but it is Miss Harris who provides it with the extra touch of magic." . Critic Walter Kerr famously called her "the square root of noisy sex" and "sweetness carried well into infinity." Her beguiling performance captured the 1967 Tony for Best Actress in a Musical. Of her friend and colleague Mike Nichols, she said in 2002, "Mike Nichols was a toughie. He could be very kind, but if you weren't first-rate, watch out. He'd let you know." The Apple Tree is a musical with music by Jerry Bock and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick. ... Jerry Bock (born 1928) is a Jewish-American musical theatre composer best known for his collaboration with lyricist Sheldon Harnick on shows such as Fiddler on the Roof. ... Sheldon Harnick (born 1924) is an American lyricist best known for his collaboration with composer Jerry Bock on hit musicals such as Fiddler on the Roof. ... Fiddler on the Roof is one of the most famous stage and film musicals. ... Alan Alda as Benjamin Franklin Hawkeye Pierce Alan Alda (born Alphonso Joseph DAbruzzo on January 28, 1936) is an Oscar-nominated American actor, writer, director and sometimes political activist. ... Larry Blyden (June 23, 1925 - June 6, 1975) was an American actor. ... Shubert Theatre, Boston The Shubert Organization was founded by the Shubert brothers, Sam Shubert, Lee Shubert, and Jacob J. Shubert of Syracuse, New York in the late 19th century in upstate New York, entering into New York City productions in 1900. ... Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, satirist, novelist, writer, and lecturer. ... Frank Stockton, from an illustration in the 1903 publication of The Captains Toll-Gate Frank R. Stockton (1834-1902) was an American writer and humorist, best known for his fable The Lady or the Tiger? (1882), about a man sentenced to an unusual punishment for having a romance with... Tony can mean any of the following: a slang word for Cocaine Tony Award a nickname for the male names Antoine, Antony, Antonio, Anthony, and Manraj, and for the female name Antoinette. ...

Just as Harris appeared poised to join the first ranks of Broadway stars, she stopped appearing on stage after The Apple Tree. That her Broadway career was so legendary but so brief has long been considered by theater fans to be a major and baffling loss. Always a mercurial, private person, in a 2002 interview, Harris shed some light on why she stopped performing regularly on stage despite all the acclaim. She said, "Who wants to be up on the stage all the time? It isn't easy. You have to be awfully invested in the fame aspect, and I really never was. What I cared about was the discipline of acting, whether I did well or not." The Apple Tree is a musical with music by Jerry Bock and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick. ...

Hollywood Career

From 1962 through 1964, she appeared as a guest star on such popular television series as Naked City, Channing, The Defenders and The Nurses. In 1965, she made an auspicious feature film debut as social worker Dr. Sandra Markowitz in the screen version of the touching Tony winner for Best Play of 1963 A Thousand Clowns (1965) by Herb Gardner. She co-starred opposite Jason Robards, who played the freewheeling, eternally optimistic guardian of his teenage nephew whom authorities feel should be taken away from him. The New York Times critic wrote on December 9, 1965 that the movie "has the new and senational Barbara Harris playing the appropriately light-headed girl." Harris and Robards won Golden Globe nominations and the film won four Oscar nominations. Naked City was a John Zorn-led avant-garde music group that incorporated recognizable elements of jazz, surf music, metal, punk rock and literally dozens of other music genres. ... Channing is the name of a number of places in the United States of America: Channing, Michigan Channing, Texas This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... The Defenders is an American television series, a courtroom drama which ran on CBS from 1961-1964. ... A reel of film, which predates digital cinematography. ... A Thousand Clowns is a 1965 film which tells the story of a young boy who lives with his eccentric uncle, who is forced to conform to society in order to keep custody of the boy. ... Robards in Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) Jason Nelson Robards Jr. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and television programs, given out each year during a formal dinner. ... OSCAR is an acronym for Orbital Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio. ...

Other major movie roles followed in which she minted a beguiling screen persona that combined scatterbrained charm and endearingly childlike qualities. In Neil Simon's Plaza Suite with Walter Matthau, the British entertainment magazine Time Out called the "delightful" Harris' gifts "wasted." She had only slightly better opportunities in The War Between Men and Women with Jack Lemmon and the screen version of Arthur Kopit's darkly comic Oh, Dad Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You In the Closet And I'm Feeling So Sad with Rosalind Russell as the monstrous mother of Robert Morse who takes on trips the stuffed corpse of her dead husband. Reviewing the latter film for the New York Times on February 16, 1967, critic Bosley Crowther wrote, "Barbara Harris from the original play cast is as wacky as she was on the stage -- casual and direct and totally blase about the biosterous business of sex. Her tussle to accmplish her purpose, with the corpse falling out into the roam every time she is about to score a field goal, is still the funniest scene." Marvin Neil Simon (born July 4, 1927 in The Bronx, New York City), is an American playwright and screenwriter. ... Based on the play by Neil Simon, Plaza Suite is a 1971 movie starring Walter Matthau, Maureen Stapleton, Barbara Harris, and Lee Grant. ... Walter Matthau Walter Matthau (October 1, 1920 – July 1, 2000) was an Academy Award winning American comedy actor. ... Time-out can mean: sport time-out, a break in play that may be called by a side to formulate strategy or respond to an players injury. ... Jack Lemmon at Expo 1967. ... Arthur Lee Kopit (born 1937) was an US playwright. ... Rosalind Russell (June 4, 1907 - November 28, 1976) was an American film and stage actress. ... Actor Robert Morse photo taken by Carl Van Vechten, 1958 Robert Morse, (born May 18, 1931) is an American actor. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ...

She earned an Oscar nomination for the 1971 film co-starring Dustin Hoffman, Who Is Harry Kellerman And Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?, about a rich, successful, womanizing pop song writer suffering a debilitating but oddly liberating mental crisis.

Harris Vs. Two Master Directors

In 1975, Harris appeared in one of her signature film roles in Robert Altman's masterpiece Nashville, playing "Albuquerque," a ditzy, scantily clad country singing hopeful who may be far more opportunistic and calculating than she would first appear. Accounts of the film's chaotic and inspired production, particularly in Jan Stuart's book The Nashville Chronicles: The Making of Robert Altman's Masterpiece, indicate a clash between actress and director. Still, even among rich and inventive performances by Lily Tomlin, Karen Black, Henry Gibson, Ned Beatty, Ronee Blakely, Shelley Duvall, Keenan Wynn, Keith Carradine, Barbara Baxley, Geraldine Chaplin and others, Harris' wildly eccentric performance and her singing of "It Don't Worry Me" in the devastating finale rank high among the great achievements of the film. Despite her character's possibly having been given short shrift by Altman, Harris gained one of eleven Golden Globe nominations for the film that became one of the most talked-about and influential of its era. As Oscar nominated co-star Lily Tomlin put it, "I was the hugest of Barbara Harris fans; I thought she was so stunning and original." Although the two were set to reunite with Altman in a sequel, that film was never made. Filmmaker Robert Altman on the set of The Gingerbread Man. ... For other cities named Nashville, see Nashville (disambiguation). ... Tomlin as The West Wings Deborah Fiderer. ... Black in Five Easy Pieces, 1970 Karen Black (born July 1, 1939) is an Oscar-nominated American actress, screenwriter, singer and songwriter. ... Henry Gibson (born September 21, 1935 in Germantown, Pennsylvania) is an American actor who was famous as a cast member of Rowan and Martins Laugh-In. ... Ned Beatty Ned Thomas Beatty (born Louisville, Kentucky July 6, 1937 to Charles William Beatty and Margaret Lennis) is an American character actor, who has appeared in over 100 films. ... Ronee Blakley in Nashville Ronee Blakley (b. ... Shelley Duvall in a publicity photo from the 1970s. ... Wynn in Warning Shot (1967) Keenan Wynn (July 27, 1916 – October 14, 1986) was an American character actor and member of a well-known show-business family. ... Keith Carradine Keith Carradine (born August 8, 1949, in San Mateo, California) is an Academy Award-winning actor born into a family of actors. ... Geraldine Chaplin (born July 31, 1944 in Santa Monica, California) is an Anglo-American actress. ... Altmann, Altman (old man) refers to: Altmann Charlotte Lotte E. Altmann, second wife of Stefan Zweig Dora Altmann Elisabeth Altmann-Gottheiner Elisabeth Altmann, Gila Altmann, see Green Party faction (Bundestag) Jeanne Altmann, see List of members of the National Academy of Sciences Klaus Altmann, see Klaus Barbie Lisanne Altmann, see... The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and television programs, given out each year during a formal dinner. ... Tomlin as The West Wings Deborah Fiderer. ... Altmann, Altman (old man) refers to: Altmann Charlotte Lotte E. Altmann, second wife of Stefan Zweig Dora Altmann Elisabeth Altmann-Gottheiner Elisabeth Altmann, Gila Altmann, see Green Party faction (Bundestag) Jeanne Altmann, see List of members of the National Academy of Sciences Klaus Altmann, see Klaus Barbie Lisanne Altmann, see...

The following year, Alfred Hitchcock cast her in Family Plot as a bogus spiritualist hunting with her cab driver boyfriend for a missing heir and a family fortune. Among a cast that included Bruce Dern, Karen Black and WIlliam Devane, Hitchcock was particularly delighted by Harris' quirkiness, skill and intelligence. She received critical kudos for the film, which was based upon the novel The Rainbird Pattern by Victor Canning and which marked a reunion of Hitchcock with Ernest Lehman, who created the original screenplay for North by Northwest. In a rare interview published in a 2002 edition of the Phoenix New Times, she admitted, "I turned down Alfred Hitchcock when he first asked me to be in one of his movies." But, finally agreeing to star in Family Plot, she recalled, "Mr. Hitchcock was a wonderful man" Family Plot is a 1976 Universal motion picture directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris and William Devane, with Cathleen Nesbitt. ... Bruce MacLeish Dern (born Winnetka, Illinois, June 4, 1936) is an American actor. ... Black in Five Easy Pieces, 1970 Karen Black (born July 1, 1939) is an Oscar-nominated American actress, screenwriter, singer and songwriter. ... The Rainbird Pattern is a 1972 novel by Victor Canning. ... Victor Canning (born 1911) was a prolific British author of spy thrillers and adventure novels. ... Ernest Lehman (born December 8, 1915 in New York City - died July 2, 2005 in Los Angeles, California) was a successful screenwriter in Hollywood. ... North by Northwest is a 1959 MGM thriller by Alfred Hitchcock and is generally considered one of his best works. ... The Phoenix New Times is a free, weekly Phoenix, Arizona newspaper, put out every Thursday. ... Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was a highly influential director and producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres. ... Family Plot is a 1976 Universal motion picture directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris and William Devane, with Cathleen Nesbitt. ...

Later Career and Vanishing Act

Harris continued to appear in films of the '70s and '80s including Freaky Friday with a young Jodie Foster, Movie Movie for director Stanley Donen, and The North Avenue Irregulars with Cloris Leachman. She co-starred in The Seduction of Joe Tynan with one of her former Broadway leading men Alan Alda in his self-directed tale of a liberal Washington Senator caught in an affair with a younger woman, played by Meryl Streep. In 1981, she starred in Second-Hand Hearts for esteemed director Hal Ashby as "Dinette Dusty," a highly unsual recently widowed waitress and would-be singer who marries a boozy carwash worker named "Loyal", played by Robert Blake to get back her children from their paternal grandparents. The film, based on a highly sought-after "road movie" screenplay by Charles Eastman, was a disaster that tarnished the careers of all concerned. Critic Vincent Canby in his negative New York Times review on May 8, 1981 opined, "The film's one bright spot is Barbara Harris, who plays Dinette as sincerely as possible under awful conditions. She looks great even when she's supposed to be tacky, and is genuinely funny as she tries to make sense out of Loyal's muddled philosophizing, which, of course, the screenplay requires her to match." Freaky Friday is a childrens novel by Mary Rodgers first published in the USA in 1972, in which a teenage girl and her mother switch bodies and learn to understand each other better. ... Jodie Foster (born November 19, 1962) is a two-time Academy Award–winning American actress, director, and producer. ... Stanley Donen (born April 13, 1924) is an American film director and choreographer hailed by David Quinlan as the King of the Hollywood musicals. His most famous work is Singin In The Rain, which he co-directed with Gene Kelly. ... The North Avenue Irregulars is a 1979 Disney film starring Albert Fay Hill and Don Tait. ... Cloris Leachman Cloris Leachman, DFA (h. ... Alan Alda as Benjamin Franklin Hawkeye Pierce Alan Alda (born Alphonso Joseph DAbruzzo on January 28, 1936) is an Oscar-nominated American actor, writer, director and sometimes political activist. ... Meryl Streep (born Mary Louise Streep on June 22, 1949) is a double Academy Award winning American actress who has performed in movies, television and the theater. ... Hal Ashby (September 2, 1929 - December 27, 1988) was an American film director and Academy Award winner. ... There have been several notable individuals with the name Robert Blake: Robert Blake (admiral) (1599 - 1657) Robert Blake, Baron Blake (1916-2003), British historian Robert Blake (actor), (born 1933), of TVs Baretta Robert Blake (management), developed the Managerial Grid Model. ... Dr. Charles Alexander Eastman (Sioux: Ohiyesa, February 19, 1858 - January 8, 1939) was a Native American author, physician and reformer. ... Vincent Canby (July 27, 1924 – September 15, 2000) was an American film critic. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ...

A combination of career frustrations, personal challenges and other issues kept Harris off the movie screen until 1986 when she played a supporting role as the mother of Kathleen Turner in Peggy Sue Got Married for Francis Ford Coppolla. Her last films to date were the 1988 black comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels starring Michael Caine and Steve Martin and Grosse Point Blank, in which she played the strange mother of John Cusack. Many have tried to lure Harris with other film, stage, and television projects, including Bette Midler who called her "the greatest thing I've ever seen on stage," and tried to get Harris for a role as one of the star strippers in the "You Gotta Have a Gimmick" in the 1993 TV version of the Stephen Sondheim and Jule Styne musical Gypsy. Turner as private eye V.I. Warshawski Kathleen Turner (born June 19, 1954) is an American actress. ... Peggy Sue Got Married is a 1986 comedy / drama film which tells the story of a woman, on the verge of divorce, who finds herself transplanted back to the days of her high school prom. ... Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a 1988 comedy film directed by Frank Oz and starring Steve Martin and Michael Caine as the con artists of the title. ... John Paul Cusack (born June 28, 1966) is an American film actor and writer, born in Evanston, Illinois to an Irish-Catholic family. ... Stephen Sondheim (Birthname: Stephen Joshua Sondeim b. ... Jule Styne (December 31, 1905 – September 20, 1994) was a British born United States songwriter. ... Look up gypsy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Harris currently teaches and directs. Asked if she might one day be lured back to mainstream stage, film or television, Harris said in 2002, "Well, if someone handed me something fantastic for 10 million dollars, I'd work again. But I haven't worked in a long time as an actor. I don't miss it. I think the only thing that drew me to acting in the first place was the group of people I was working with: Ed Asner, Paul Sills, Mike Nichols, Elaine May. And all I really wanted to do back then was rehearsal. I was in it for the process, and I really resented having to go out and do a performance for an audience, because the process stopped; it had to freeze and be the same every night. It wasn't as interesting." In 2005, she tantalizingly resurfaced, guest starring as "The Queen" and "Spunky Brandburn" on the Radio Repertory Company of America audio drama, Anne Manx on Amazonia, aired on XM Satellite Radio. XM Satellite Radio Holdings (XM) NASDAQ: XMSR is a satellite radio (DARS) service in the United States and Canada. ...

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Trivia

• Left-handed
• Childless
• Height: 5 ft 7 in (1.7 m)

Filmography

• A Thousand Clowns (1965) as Sandra Markowitz
  • nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress - Motion Picture, Musical/Comedy
• Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad (1966)
• Plaza Suite (1971) as Muriel Tate
• Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? (1971) as Allison Densmore
  • nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
• The War Between Men and Women (1972)
• Nashville (1975) as Albuquerque
  • nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture
• Family Plot (1976) as Blanche Tyler
  • nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress - Motion Picture, Musical/Comedy
• Freaky Friday (1976)
  • nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress - Motion Picture, Musical/Comedy
• Movie Movie (1978) as Trixie Lane
• The North Avenue Irregulars (1979)
• The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979)
• Second Hand Hearts (1980)
• Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) as Evelyn Kelcher
• Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988) as Fanny Eubanks

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External links

• Barbara Harris at the Internet Movie Database
• Barbara Harris at the Internet Broadway Database