5/26/2023 0 Comments Sally kellermanSally Kellerman in the made-for-television movie Verna: USO Girl. She returned to the big screen for the derivative comedy Moving Violations, in which she played a scheming judge, and the next year starred in the Rodney Dangerfield vehicle Back to School, in which she played the love interest, a sexy professor. In the early 1980s Kellerman began to do a series of TV movies, including Big Blonde, based on the Dorothy Parker story, and September Gun, a Western in which she played madam Mama Queen. Kellerman had a more interesting role in her next picture, the teen-girls-go-astray pic Foxes, in which she and Jodie Foster established in a few scenes a believably complicated mother-daughter relationship. The actress played the mother of a very young Diane Lane in the delightful A Little Romance, but the focus here was on the teen lovers Kellerman and Arthur Hill were in the picture to have a troubled marriage from which Lane's character sought escape. Kellerman appeared in the critically acclaimed Great Performances outing Verna: USO Girl, starring Sissy Spacek. Returning to television, where she had started, Kellerman had a major role in NBC's mammoth 1978 Centennial miniseries, starring as Raymond Burr's daughter, who marries the fur trapper Pasquinel, played by Robert Conrad, who is central to the story. Variety said: "Kellerman, singing in a whiskey baritone or dropping supposedly sophisticated comments, reflects that particular type of blasé Attitude that WWII curtailed, if it didn't kill it." She appeared in the critically acclaimed Great Performances outing Verna: USO Girl, starring Sissy Spacek. READ MORE: Dog sitter shares woman's 'ridiculous' demands , made by Altman acolyte Alan Rudolph (and produced by Altman), Kellerman played a realtor, frantic because her husband is cheating on her, who is among the women that a songwriter played by Keith Carradine sleeps with during a sojourn in Los Angeles. Elizabeth Dehner in the Star Trek episode, 'Where No Man Has Gone Before.' (CBS via Getty Images) Kellerman reteamed with Arkin along with a young Mackenzie Philips for another wacky road movie, 1975's Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins, then was part of the starry cast assembled for the spoof disaster movie The Big Bus. She starred with James Caan in the goofy 1973 road movie Slither (in which the actress played a witch, no less) and was among the starry cast of the musical version of Lost Horizon. She's great with a put-down and her retorts have bite." She starred next opposite Alan Arkin in the Gene Saks-directed Neil Simon effort Last of the Red Hot Lovers the Cleveland Press said: "Sally Kellerman as the first woman makes out the best, managing to be both alluring and hostile. In this film, which did not have a conventional narrative, Kellerman played Louise, the mother of the bewinged Cort character, Brewster. The willowy blonde actress with the characteristically throaty voice appeared in two Altman films in 1970 the other was the more experimental Brewster McCloud, in which she starred with Bud Cort and Michael Murphy. READ MORE: Sean Penn arrives in Ukraine amid Russian invasion Actress Sally Kellerman has died aged 84.
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