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Oscar Nominee Sondra Locke Dies at 74
Variety ^ | 12/13/18 | Dave McNary

Posted on 12/13/2018 8:11:43 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo

Actress and director Sondra Locke, who received a supporting actress Oscar nomination in her first movie role for “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter,” died Nov. 3 at 74. The Los Angeles County Public Health Department confirmed her death.

She died due to breast and bone cancer, according to Radar Online, which reported that she was laid to rest at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park & Mortuary.

Locke had a contentious relationship of more than a decade with Clint Eastwood, who first cast her in “The Outlaw Josey Wales.”

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KEYWORDS: bonecancer; breastcancer; cancer; clinteastwood; hollywood; sondralocke
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Loved her in "Sudden Impact"
1 posted on 12/13/2018 8:11:43 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo
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2 posted on 12/13/2018 8:15:28 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

She passed in early November.

Well kept secret.


3 posted on 12/13/2018 8:17:43 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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To: BenLurkin

RIP..


4 posted on 12/13/2018 8:19:15 PM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73....8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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One of the best... A perfect match for Clint, IMHO...
Awful young to die...


5 posted on 12/13/2018 8:19:22 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Clint Eastwood uttered one of my favorite lines to her in Bronco Billy. He was telling her about his first wife and he said he caught her in bed with his best friend. It went something like this:

Locke: What did you do?
Eastwood: I shot her
Locke: You shot her? Why did you shoot her?
Eastwood: Well, I couldn’t shoot him. He was my best friend


6 posted on 12/13/2018 8:20:02 PM PST by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

RIP


7 posted on 12/13/2018 8:21:42 PM PST by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

Lol


8 posted on 12/13/2018 8:21:56 PM PST by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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Awful young to die...

Bone and breast cancer. An awful way to die...

9 posted on 12/13/2018 8:23:21 PM PST by CatOwner
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Yes it certainly is; one of THE worst cancer combos there is.


10 posted on 12/13/2018 8:26:02 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

lol...and Clint’s response to her hysteria in the Gauntlet—’nag, nag, nag’


11 posted on 12/13/2018 8:27:26 PM PST by Electric Graffiti (Cocked, locked and ready to ROCK!)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

She was a great Mick Kelly in “Th Heart is a Lonely Hunter”. She got an Oscar nomination for her first film.


12 posted on 12/13/2018 8:29:39 PM PST by CaptainK ('No collusion, no obstruction, he's a leaker')
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"Loved her in "Sudden Impact""

Locke: "You need a lift?"

Young man: "Sure!"

Locke: "Then stick a jack up your a$$!"

I always thought Sondra was cute.

And she could really act, too.

Her role in The Gauntlet was priceless.

13 posted on 12/13/2018 8:32:29 PM PST by boop (You went to bed and woke up stupid!)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

RIP Miss Locke.


14 posted on 12/13/2018 8:34:58 PM PST by SirLurkedalot (10/10/51-7/7/16 RIP Dad, I'll be missing you until I cross over to Eternity)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

She was good in Any Which Way You Can. “Right turn, Clyde.”


15 posted on 12/13/2018 8:36:10 PM PST by Ken H (2019 => The House of Representin')
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,She changed her named to Sondra in her early 20s and won a nationwide talent search in 1967 for the part of teenager Mick Kelly in the movie adaptation of Carson McCullers’ novel “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.” Locke starred opposite Alan Arkin, who was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar.

That was the one and only year I went to all 5 best actor movies. Don't aske me why. In any case, Arkin turned in a masterful performance as John Singer, a deaf mute, and I thought he was a shoe-in for best actor. But nope, Cliff Robertson won for "Charly", a mentally challenged adult subjected to medical experiments. Arkin did the superior job.

16 posted on 12/13/2018 8:38:38 PM PST by Robwin (very)
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Hogwash. Her role in that film was only because she was Clint’s flame at the time.
And the movie sucked. They must have shot a million rounds to make that house look as such, and yet they escaped! Plot sucked, acting sucked,


17 posted on 12/13/2018 8:39:04 PM PST by Fungi
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To: BenLurkin

She was hot....


18 posted on 12/13/2018 8:39:52 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZGw2M)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

RIP, Sondra Locke. Loved her in the Clint Eastwood movies.

She was first diagnosed with cancer in 1990, so she lived a long time afterward.


19 posted on 12/13/2018 8:41:12 PM PST by Tired of Taxes
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Clint’s Yoko


20 posted on 12/13/2018 8:45:15 PM PST by heights
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