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Sandy Dennis (April 27, 1937 – March 2, 1992) was an Academy Award and Tony-winning American theater and film actress. Image File history File links SandyDennis. ...
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April 27 is the 117th day of the year (118th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 248 days remaining. ...
1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...
March 2 is the 61st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (62nd in leap years). ...
1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ...
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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. ...
For other usages see Theatre (disambiguation) Theater (American English) or Theatre (British English and widespread usage among theatre professionals in the US) is that branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle —...
Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ...
Actors in period costume sharing a joke while waiting between takes during location filming An actor is a person who acts, or plays a role, in a dramatic production. ...
Born Sandra Dale Dennis in Hastings, Nebraska, and a high-school classmate of Dick Cavett, Dennis made her television debut in 1956 in The Guiding Light and her film debut in Splendor in the Grass (1961). However she was more committed to following a career in the theater. Hastings is a city located in Adams County, Nebraska. ...
Dick Cavett in 1974 Richard Alva Cavett (born November 19, 1936) is an American television talk show host known for his conversational style of in-depth and often serious issues discussion. ...
This Guiding Light logo, which debuted in 1982, was used, save for background changes, until 1990. ...
Splendor in the Grass, an American movie from 1961, tells a story of sexual repression. ...
She won consecutive Tony Awards for her performances in A Thousand Clowns and Any Wednesday, and the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966). She followed this with well-received performances in Up the Down Staircase (1967), The Fox (1967), Sweet November (1968) and The Out-of-Towners (1970). 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. ...
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. ...
Any Wednesday is a 1966 comedy film directed by Robert Ellis Miller, starring Jason Robards, Jane Fonda and Dean Jones. ...
Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ...
Best Supporting Actor or Best Supporting Actress is an accolade given by a group of film or theatre professionals in recognition of the work of supporting and character actors. ...
Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a play by Edward Albee that opened on Broadway at the Billy Rose Theater on October 13, 1962. ...
Up the Down Staircase is a humorous novel written by Bel Kaufman, and published in 1965. ...
The Fox was the nickname given to Malcolm Fairley who, in the summer of 1984 attacked several victims in their homes at night within a small area of Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire. ...
Sweet November is a romantic drama originally release in 1968 and written by Herman Raucher. ...
The Out-of Towners is a 1970 comedy starring Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis. ...
An advocate of method acting, Dennis was often described as neurotic and mannered in her performances; her signature style included running words together and oddly stopping and starting sentences, suddenly going up and down octaves as she spoke, and fluttering her hands. Walter Kerr famously remarked that she treated sentences as "weak, injured things" that needed to be slowly helped "across the street." Nonetheless, William Goldman, in his book The Season, referred to her as a quintessential "critics' darling" who got rave reviews no matter how unusual her acting and questionable her choice of material. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
Walter Kerr (July 8, 1913 – October 9, 1996) was an American writer and Broadway theater critic. ...
William Goldman (born August 12, 1931) is an American novelist, playwright and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter. ...
Her last significant film role was in Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982). Dennis lived for many years with jazz great Gerry Mulligan until they split up in 1976. Although Mulligan often referred to Dennis as his second wife, Dennis later revealed that they had never married. She also lived with actor Eric Roberts from 1980 to 1985. Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean is a play by Ed Graczyk, and its film version, directed by Robert Altman, and starring Sandy Dennis, Cher, Mark Patton (his first film role), Karen Black, Sudie Bond and Kathy Bates. ...
Gerald Joseph Gerry Mulligan (April 6, 1927 – January 20, 1996) was an American jazz musician, composer and arranger best known for his baritone saxophone playing. ...
Eric Roberts Eric Anthony Roberts (born on April 18, 1956, in Biloxi, Mississippi) is an American film actor. ...
There have been persistent rumors that she was lesbian (more accurately bisexual) -- possibly as a result of her playing a lesbian character in the 1967 movie "The Fox". She does not seem to have publicly acknowledged being a lesbian. A lesbian is a female who is emotionally, sexually, and/or romantically attracted to other females. ...
In human sexuality, bisexuality describes a man or woman having a sexual orientation to persons of either or both sexes (a man or woman who sexually likes both sexes; people who are sexually and/or romantically attracted to both males and females). ...
She died from ovarian cancer in Westport, Connecticut, aged 54. Ovarian cancer is a malignant ovarian neoplasm (an abnormal growth located on the ovaries). ...
Location in Connecticut Coordinates: NECTA Bridgeport-Stamford Region South Western Region Incorporated 1835 Government type Representative town meeting First selectman Gordon F. Joseloff Town meeting moderator Alice H. Shelton Area - City 86. ...
Filmography - Splendor in the Grass (1961)
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
- Up the Down Staircase (1967)
- The Fox (1968).
- Sweet November (1968).
- Thank You All Very Much(1969).
- That Cold Day in the Park(1969)
- The Out-of-Towners(1970)
- Mr. Sycamore(1974).
- God Told Me To(1976).
- Nasty Habits(1976).
- The Animals Film(1981).
- Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean(1982).
- Another Woman(1988).
- Parents(1989).
- 976-Evil(1989).
- The Indian Runner(1991).
Winters in Cry of the City (1948) Shelley Winters (August 18, 1920 – January 14, 2006) was a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress. ...
A Patch of Blue is an Academy Award winning film directed by Guy Green about the relationship between an African American man (played by Sidney Poitier) and a blind white girl (Elizabeth Hartman), and the problems that plague their relationship when they fall in love in a racially divided America. ...
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ...
Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a play by Edward Albee that opened on Broadway at the Billy Rose Theater on October 13, 1962. ...
Estelle Margaret Parsons (born November 20, 1927 in Marblehead, Massachusetts) is an Academy Award-winning American theater, film and television actress of Jewish descent. ...
Bonnie and Clyde (1967) is a film about Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, who roamed the United States Southwest robbing banks during the Great Depression. ...
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