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04-23-2020 08:03 AM
04-23-2020 08:59 AM
Didn't she marry Cornell Wilde? (too lazy to look it up)
04-23-2020 09:08 AM
If she is the same as whom I am thinking she also played Brooke Shields mother in Endless Love.
04-23-2020 09:26 AM
Years ago watching late night movies while babysitting, I saw her in a movie called Five Gates To Hell with Neville Brand. I googled it...it was James Clavell's first screenwriting job. Shirley Knight played a nun. She was beautiful, and a great actress. May she Rest In Peace.
04-23-2020 10:03 AM
She also played the character of Hope's mother in Thirtysomething.
04-23-2020 10:18 AM
I had recorded The Group and watched it last night. Knight was the best thing in what IMO was a mediocre movie. I haven't seen the movies for which she was nominated for an Oscar. Trust TCM will have some tribute to her.
04-23-2020 11:58 AM
@Judaline wrote:Didn't she marry Cornell Wilde? (too lazy to look it up)
Nay. First husband was Eugene Persson, an actor and producer. Second was British writer John Hopkins. Both deceased.
A shame -- I really liked her.
Godspeed.
04-23-2020 12:32 PM
@just bee Thanks, you were right. It was Jean Wallace. I think maybe I got them mixed up all the time when I was young. Apparently I still do, lol
04-23-2020 01:28 PM
@RoughDraft wrote:Played Helen Hunt's mother in As Good as it Gets.
@RoughDraftThank you - that is where I know her from. It would have driven me crazy all day had you not posted this.
04-23-2020 02:34 PM
@Puppy Lips wrote:
@RoughDraft wrote:Played Helen Hunt's mother in As Good as it Gets.
@RoughDraftThank you - that is where I know her from. It would have driven me crazy all day had you not posted this.
Bit of trivia, that role in As Good as it Gets was first offered to Betty White, as soon as she read that the little dog gets put down in the dumbwaiter, White declined the part.
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