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The late actress Sandy Dennis (Original Post) BootinUp Jan 2024 OP
She was good, elleng Jan 2024 #1
Adding: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966) BootinUp Jan 2024 #2
Graduated from high school jayschool2013 Jan 2024 #3
She looks like Olivia Colman there nuxvomica Jan 2024 #4
I had the pleasure of meeting her, and spending some time with her. She was extremely talented, and extremely gracious ashredux Jan 2024 #5

elleng

(135,637 posts)
1. She was good,
Sat Jan 27, 2024, 04:47 AM
Jan 2024

appeared in Dennis appeared in the films Up the Down Staircase (1967), The Fox (1967), Sweet November (1968), That Cold Day in the Park (1969), The Out-of-Towners (1970), God Told Me To (1976), The Four Seasons (1981), Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982), and Another Woman (1988).

BootinUp

(48,768 posts)
2. Adding: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966)
Sat Jan 27, 2024, 05:24 AM
Jan 2024

Last edited Sat Jan 27, 2024, 09:13 AM - Edit history (1)

She won the Academy award for Best Supporting Actress in that.

jayschool2013

(2,455 posts)
3. Graduated from high school
Sat Jan 27, 2024, 06:42 AM
Jan 2024

She grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska and graduated from Lincoln High School with Dick Cavett in 1955.

nuxvomica

(12,837 posts)
4. She looks like Olivia Colman there
Sat Jan 27, 2024, 06:44 AM
Jan 2024

I remember her fondly, especially in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, one of my favorite movies.

ashredux

(2,696 posts)
5. I had the pleasure of meeting her, and spending some time with her. She was extremely talented, and extremely gracious
Sat Jan 27, 2024, 07:32 AM
Jan 2024

She had great success, but was very firmly grounded and was very “non-diva”….

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