Sondra Locke
Sondra Locke | |
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Born | Sandra Louise Smith May 28, 1944 Shelbyville, Tennessee, U.S. |
Died | November 3, 2018 Los Angeles, California, U.S. | (aged 74)
Other names |
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Alma mater | Middle Tennessee State University |
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Years active |
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Spouse |
Gordon Anderson (m. 1967) |
Partner(s) | Clint Eastwood (1975–1989) Scott Cunneen (1990–?) |
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Sandra Louise Anderson (
An alumna of
Locke went on to appear in such box office successes as
Locke's persona belied her age. She claimed to have been born several years later than 1944, often playing roles written for women far younger than herself, and kept her true age a secret throughout her career.[1] For reasons never made clear, her death was not publicly announced and was only confirmed by vital statistics six weeks after she died of cardiac arrest at the age of 74.[2] From 1967 until her death, Locke was the wife of sculptor Gordon Leigh Anderson, in a mixed-orientation union they reputedly never consummated.[3][4]
Background, early life and education
Sandra Louise Smith was born on May 28, 1944,
Locke was a cheerleader and class valedictorian in junior high.[44] She played basketball as an eighth-grader for Shelbyville Mills School, making her hardwood debut on December 5, 1957 against Wartrace.[45] From 1958, she attended Shelbyville Central High School, where she was again valedictorian and voted "Duchess of Studiousness" by classmates.[46] She continued to play on the girls' basketball team, served as PTSA representative, and was president of the French club.[24][25][26][27] Regardless, she wasn't considered "date material" by the more socially prominent boys in her class.[10] Her first beau, according to locals' reminiscences, was Fred Thomas Jones, a carpenter's son. Her graduation yearbook listed her grade average 97.72% and her ambition "always to take disappointment with a smile."[27] In 1962, Locke matriculated at Middle Tennessee State University (then Middle Tennessee State College) in Murfreesboro on a full scholarship.[36] Majoring in drama,[47] she was a member of the Alpha Psi Omega honor society while at MTSU and appeared on stage in Life with Father and The Crucible.[41][48][49] She dropped out after completing two semesters of study.[50]
In or around 1963,[51] Locke essentially broke off contact with her family, concluding: "It made no sense for any of us to spend our lives pretending to have relationships that did not really exist."[35] She never knew her biological father,[52] and did not attend the funerals of her mother (deceased 1997)[53] or stepfather (deceased 2007),[54] nor did she have anything to do with her brother, sister-in-law and three nieces.[30][46][55][f] Donald blamed Gordon Anderson – Locke's best friend since adolescence and future husband – for the rift, claiming Anderson had "an almost hypnotic spell on her."[46]
Locke held a variety of jobs, including as a bookkeeper for
Career
Rise to prominence
In July 1967, Locke competed with 590 other Southern actresses and dozens of New York hopefuls for the part of Mick Kelly in a big-screen adaptation of Carson McCullers' novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter opposite Alan Arkin.[63][g] For the first audition in Birmingham, then-fiancé Gordon Anderson gave his bride a so-called Hollywood makeover: he bound her bosom,[65] bleached her eyebrows[36] and carefully fixed her hair, makeup and outfit so as to create a more gamine appearance.[66] Locke lied about her age, shaving off six years to make herself seem younger[67][h] – a pretense she would keep up not only for the rest of her career, but also the entirety of her public life.[i] After callbacks in New Orleans and Manhattan, she was cast in the role by recommendation from casting director Marion Dougherty.[63][75] The film's shooting wrapped in the fall of 1967. Locke, who had quit her post at WSM, opted to wait until its release before choosing a follow-up project.[76] In the nine-month interim, she said she was asked to play the female protagonists in True Grit and Michelangelo Antonioni's Zabriskie Point.[61] She said she turned down the latter because of the nudity required.[61]
Heart came out in the summer of 1968 to critical acclaim.
Commercial ups and downs, missed roles, TV work
Hoping to shed the plain image she accentuated in her screen debut, in January 1969 Locke posed for a semi-nude pictorial by photographer Frank Bez,[81] which was published in the December issue of Playboy.[82] The Playboy layout established Locke's status as a sex symbol, and the images were recycled in other men's magazines as her fame increased.[83] Nearly three decades later, Locke said she still got those photos in fan mail requesting her autograph.[36]
Her next role was as Melisse in
In 1971, Locke co-starred with
In 1973, Locke was attached to star in Terminal Circle. "It's a woman's role that comes along once in a lifetime," she said.[98] The San Francisco-based film was to be directed by Mal Karman and shot by cinematographer Robert Primes, who did camerawork for Gimme Shelter, but it was scrapped for lack of funds.[98] She was up for a big part in Earthquake (1974), but lost out to Geneviève Bujold.[99]
Locke guested on top-rated television drama series throughout the first half of the 1970s, including
Films with Clint Eastwood
In 1975, Locke was cast in the
Over the course of their decade-and-a-half-long personal relationship, Locke did not work in any capacity on any theatrical motion picture other than with Eastwood except for 1977's experimental horror western The Shadow of Chikara.[118] The home invasion film Death Game (1977), though released after they became an item, was actually shot in 1974.[119] "Clint wanted me to work only with him," said Locke.[36] "He didn't like the idea of me being away from him."[120]
In 1978, Locke and Eastwood appeared with an
During this period, Eastwood did a few movies that had no prominent female character for Locke to play. In the meantime, she accepted some television offers, co-starring with an all-female ensemble cast in Friendships, Secrets and Lies (1979) and portraying big band era vocalist Rosemary Clooney in Rosie: The Rosemary Clooney Story (1982).[124] While the biopic followed Clooney from ages 17 to 40, Locke was 38 when she played the role, and though hardly counting as a proper exception due to its nonlinear structure, this marked the only time she played a mother onscreen.
Locke starred as a bitter heiress who joins a traveling
Locke never appeared in a wide release after Sudden Impact.[128] The film premiered five months before her 40th birthday, declared by People magazine as "the pre-Fonda age cutoff for actresses."[129] Despite Locke's past nomination for an Academy Award and repeat appearances in box office hits, she had failed to achieve first-magnitude stardom or win the affection of the moviegoing public. By 1979, the year she and Eastwood made their fourth film together, there were accusations of nepotism.[130] Cultural critic Joe Queenan, writing for Mail & Guardian, would express particular contempt for her in a 2010 editorial about Eastwood's career, believing that "his worst movies, without question, are the ones he made with Sondra Locke, who briefly played Linda McCartney to Eastwood’s Sir Paul."[131] In late 1983, Locke announced plans to develop and star in a movie about Marie Antoinette, but the project fell apart.[132] Eastwood then directed Locke in a 1985 Amazing Stories episode entitled "Vanessa in the Garden".
Directing
In 1986, Locke made her feature directorial debut with
Locke's second foray behind the camera was
After a long interruption in her career due to legal difficulties and health issues, Locke directed the made-for-television film Death in Small Doses (1995), based on a true story, and the independent feature Trading Favors (1997), starring Rosanna Arquette.
Memoir and final projects
In 1997, Locke's autobiography The Good, the Bad, and the Very Ugly: A Hollywood Journey was published by William Morrow and Company. In it she called Eastwood "a completely evil, manipulating, lying excuse for a man."[35] Eastwood's lawyers sent a warning letter to the publisher, and although no slander charges arose, Entertainment Tonight canceled a scheduled interview with Locke.[137] She was also bumped from The Oprah Winfrey Show and, in her words, "shut out of most venues to promote the book, in particular the networks."[138] The book received a supportive rave review from New York Daily News writer Liz Smith,[139] while Entertainment Weekly's Dana Kennedy dismissed the book as a "peculiar, not terribly consequential, life story."[140]
Locke told a Spanish website that she'd been informed Entertainment Weekly originally planned to publish a positive review, but for reasons unclear, it was pulled and a negative review appeared instead.
After 13 years away from acting, Locke reemerged in 1999 to appear opposite Dennis Hopper in The Prophet's Game and Wings Hauser in Clean and Narrow, the latter shot in Texas. Both films went straight to video. About that time, she planned to direct "a two-guys-on-the-run film" called The Hard Easy, which did not eventuate.[142] In 2014, it was announced that Locke would serve as an executive producer on the Eli Roth film Knock Knock, starring Keanu Reeves.[143] She came out of retirement once more in 2016, shooting Alan Rudolph's indie Ray Meets Helen with Keith Carradine.[144] The film was screened at Laemmle Music Hall on May 6, 2018, less than six months before Locke died.[145]
Philanthropy
In the 1960s during her tenure at WSM, Locke participated in the annual United Cerebral Palsy (UCP) telethons. One year, she toured Birmingham with folk singer Richard Law.[146]
Following her then-partner's April 15, 1986, inauguration as the 30th mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, Locke became the de facto First Lady of Carmel.
In 1992, she served as honorary chairwoman for the "Starry, Starry Night" silent auction in
Personal life
Marriage
On September 25, 1967,[65] Locke married sculptor Gordon Leigh Anderson[n] (born August 2, 1944, Batesville, Arkansas) at the First Presbyterian Church in Nashville,[154] one week after The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter commenced principal photography.[63] Dr. Walter Rowe Courtenay presided over the ceremony.[22] They remained married for 51 years until her death in 2018.[4][o]
Locke had known Anderson since at least the late 1950s; accounts as to when they met vary by as much as four years.
According to a 1989 affidavit, the marriage was "tantamount to sister and brother" and they never consummated it.[159] Anderson was gay.[3][160][161][162] Locke, testifying under oath to a jury, characterized her husband as being "more like a sister to me" and explained, "it's funny the sort of cultural changes, but in those days males and females never lived together unless they were married."[163] According to her death certificate, the two were residing at the same address when she died,[23] and he was the person who registered her death.[164]
Anderson is a central presence in Locke's autobiography, but she does not elaborate on her reasons for marrying him beyond the following passage:
However conventional or unconventional our marriage might turn out to be honestly did not concern me that much. I was very young,[q] but I had come to feel that, for me, sex was the least important element in a relationship and the one thing that time had proven to me was that my love for Gordon came from such a deeply connected place that it transcended everything else.[36]
Romances
Given that Locke waited decades to confirm that her marriage was platonic, most of her actual romantic attachments went unpublicized. In the mid-1960s, she dated her supervisor at WSM-TV's PR department, Brad Crandall.[168][169] She started as secretary to Tom Griscom in local sales for WSM Radio.[170] According to co-worker Alan Nelson, fellow staff members perceived Locke's promotion as an act of nepotism.[171]
George Crook, a cameraman for WSM, squired Locke to Nashville society events including the 1965 hunt ball.[172][173] He later got into local politics and was elected mayor of Belle Meade in 2000.[174] Another early boyfriend, personal injury attorney Gary Gober,[175] starred with Locke in Circle Players' productions while attending Vanderbilt University Law School.[148][149] Locke also dated a sculptor (she did not name him) prior to marrying Anderson.[36]
During her marriage, Locke was rumored to have been linked amorously to co-stars
Locke referred to these intervals as "casually exploring for a romantic relationship," noting that she had not fallen in love with any of the men. "Love ... was not something to search out actively; it finds you, I believed."[36]
Life with Eastwood
Locke and actor/director
Eastwood was married during the early years of their relationship,
Late in the 1970s, Locke became pregnant by Eastwood twice;
I adamantly deny and deeply resent the accusation that either one of those abortions or the tubal ligation were done at my demand, request or even suggestion. As to the abortions, I told Locke that whether to have children or terminate her pregnancies was a decision entirely hers. Particularly with regard to the tubal ligation, I encouraged Locke to make her own decision after she had consulted with a physician about the appropriateness of and the necessity for that surgical procedure.[32][195]
Locke professed mixed feelings on the matter, stating in one chapter of her autobiography that she was grateful she hadn't had Eastwood's children, while writing in another, "I couldn't help but think that that baby, with both Clint's and my best qualities, would be extraordinary."[36] Eastwood claimed Locke told him on multiple occasions that she never wanted to have children.[196]
Eastwood and Locke were still cohabiting when, in the latter half of the 1980s, he secretly fathered another woman's two children[197][198] – a fact that did not come to light for almost 20 years.[u] Despite her affirmed ignorance, Locke sensed growing tension in the relationship around 1985, recollecting that "although I definitely still loved Clint, I didn't very much like him." In retrospect, she gathered "either he changed from white to black, or I had been living with somebody I didn't even know."[141]
Palimony suit
According to court testimony, Locke confronted Eastwood over his
On the morning of April 3
During their 14 years as husband and wife de facto, Locke and Eastwood had occupied seven homes and acquired four, including a retreat in Sun Valley, Idaho, and the Rising River Ranch near Cassel.[205][206] Locke sought half of Eastwood's earnings and an equal division of property,[207] requesting title to the house in Bel-Air and to the Gothic-style West Hollywood place Eastwood had leased to Gordon Anderson since 1982.[44] She also asked Judge Dana Senit Henry to bar Eastwood from the Bel-Air house "because I know him to have a terrible temper ... and he has frequently been abusive to me."[208]
Locke battled Eastwood in court for 19 months; she developed breast cancer during proceedings and said the treatments sapped her will to fight.[186] In November 1990, the parties reached a private settlement wherein Eastwood set up a $1.5 million multiyear film development/directing pact for Locke at Warner Bros. in exchange for dropping the suit.[120] She was awarded the West Hollywood property (valued at $2.2 million), $450,000 cash, and unspecified monthly support payments as well.[195]
The breakup affected Locke's social life. Her closest friends had been the wives of Eastwood's colleagues:
Fraud suit
Between 1990 and 1993, Warner Bros. rejected more than 30 scripts that Locke pitched to the studio – including those for
The case went to trial in September 1996.[216] One juror disclosed that the panel sided with Locke by a 10-to-2 vote (nine votes are needed for a verdict) and were only debating the amount.[217] Before any court decision could be made, Locke settled the case with Eastwood for an undisclosed amount of money.[217] The outcome, Locke said, sent a "loud and clear" message to Hollywood, "that people cannot get away with whatever they want to just because they're powerful."[218] According to Locke, "in this business, people get so accustomed to being abused, they just accept the abuse and say, 'Well, that's just the way it is.' Well, it isn't."[44]
For his part, Eastwood waved the lawsuit off as a "dime-novel plot,"[217] continuing, "it's all about money ... about getting something for nothing."[219] He accused Locke of using her cancer to gain the jury's sympathy: "She plays the victim very well. Unfortunately she had cancer and so she plays that card."[220]
Locke brought a separate action against Warner Bros. for allegedly conspiring with Eastwood to sabotage her directorial career.[221] As had happened with the previous lawsuit, this ended in an out-of-court settlement, in May 1999.[222][223] By then, Locke had fired Garrity and hired Neil Papiano to represent her.[224][w] The agreement with Warner Bros., Locke said, was "a happy ending."[226] "I feel elated. This has been the best day in a long, long time," she told reporters on courthouse steps.[227] The case is used in some modern law-school contract textbooks to illustrate the legal concept of good faith.[228]
Illness; last relationship
A lifelong nonsmoker (save for a few film roles),[229] Locke practiced Transcendental Meditation[230] and worked out with weights, though she hated running.[231] In September 1990, she confirmed reports that she had breast cancer.[232] "Due to factors in my personal life, I have sustained two years of extreme and unnecessary stress, which my doctors tell me has been my enemy," Locke said at the time.[232] She added that Eastwood never communicated with her after her diagnosis: "He doesn't care if I live or die."[203][233]
Locke underwent a double
In February 2001, Locke purchased a six-bedroom gated mansion in the Hollywood Hills, where she resided for the remainder of her life.[239] Built in 1925, the home's interior was redesigned to look like Locke's old house on Stradella Road.[141] She and Cunneen eventually broke up,[240] albeit without publicity, since she had faded from public view.[x]
In 2015, after a 25-year period of apparent remission,
Death
Locke died at age 74 on November 3, 2018, at her Los Angeles home from
Media blackout
Locke's death was kept secret until December 13, when Radar Online broke the news the day before Eastwood's latest film The Mule (2018) opened in theaters nationwide, citing the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.[243] The Associated Press said "it is not clear why it took nearly six weeks to come to light."[164] Anderson, according to the scant AP report, was unreachable,[164] and a representative for Locke ignored People's request for comment.[247] So hidden had basic facts been kept, that The New York Times oxymoronically noted 41 days after she died: "A list of survivors was not immediately [sic] available."[248]
Locke's death received no television coverage except for a 15-second spot on ABC World News Tonight. Eastwood did not comment on the death, nor did any of Locke's other living exes, nor any of her friends or relatives. Co-stars such as Richard Dreyfuss, Cicely Tyson, Louie Anderson, Sally Kellerman, Stacy Keach and Ted Neeley – all active on social media – were equally silent. On the 91st Academy Awards telecast, broadcast nearly four months after Locke died, she was omitted from the In Memoriam segment.[249]
Legacy
Locke is remembered as an early pioneer for women in Hollywood.[251] She was one of 11 female filmmakers in 1990, the year WB released her sophomore feature, Impulse.[167] By the time of Trading Favors (1997), her fourth effort, still only eight percent of all films were made by women, per the Directors Guild of America.[167]
Locke's influence as a feminist icon was duly acknowledged by the mainstream press. In 1989, Claudia Puig of the Los Angeles Times described her lawsuit against Clint Eastwood as a "precedent-setting legal case, as it raises the question of whether a woman, who is legally married to one man, can claim palimony rights from another."[118] Childfree by choice – unusual for a person of her generation[252] – Locke was among the first celebrities to publicly discuss her abortion experiences.[193] The avowal made Locke "a talking-point in America's sexual politics debate," according to The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw.[160] Locke's subsequent relationship with a doctor young enough to be her son added to her notoriety.[253]
Cinematographer David Worth credits Locke with his big break.[254] She is admired by such actresses as Frances Fisher and Rosanna Arquette, who applauded the strength of her directorial accomplishments, however short-lived.[251][255]
During the last quarter of her life, Locke maintained she was
Numerous outlets faced pushback over their chosen headlines for Locke's obituary. Several major publications prefaced news of her death by tagging Eastwood's name atop the article,
Among those voicing an unfavorable opinion of Locke was film critic Rex Reed, who had interviewed her for a 1967 profile in The New York Times.[262] "[She] lied so much during her brief but colorful career that when she lost her battle with cancer at age 74, I wondered if it was a publicity stunt," Reed wrote in an essay for Observer.[263]
Candid photographs of Locke and Eastwood in their heyday are on display at the Frazetta Art Museum in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, next to Frank Frazetta's exaggerated portrait of the couple that was used on the poster for The Gauntlet (1977).
The end credits of Bad Therapy (2020) pay homage to her.
Our Very Own
In 1971, fifth-graders at Eastside Elementary in Locke's hometown of Shelbyville, Tennessee, were left star-struck when Locke made a visit and held pretend "auditions" in the class to show them what it was like in Hollywood.[47] One student, Cameron Watson, was inspired by Locke and is now an actor/director. Watson's period drama Our Very Own (2005) takes place in Shelbyville in 1978 and concerns a group of teenagers who want to meet Locke when she returns to town for the local premiere of Every Which Way but Loose. Watson decided to do the movie after performing a standup routine about Locke and about how people in Shelbyville were obsessed with her.[264] Locke attended one of those performances in 2004 at the Tiffany Theater in West Hollywood. "The minute she heard the first reference to her or to her family, she threw up her arms: 'What the hell is this?'" Watson said. "By the end of the reading, she was doubled over."[265] Locke gave the script her blessing and accepted an invitation to be special guest at the film's premiere.[266] The movie was a "special gift" to Locke, according to Deborah Obenchain, another Eastside student who said she did not think Locke really understood her impact on the small town she once called home. "I think it meant just as much to her. … In our own way … we got to live out a little bit of our dreams by making the movie and meeting her."[47]
Filmography
As actress
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
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1968 | The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter | Margaret 'Mick' Kelly | Nominated—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer – Female Nominated—Laurel Award for Female Supporting Performance Nominated—Laurel Award for Female New Face |
[267] |
1970 | Cover Me Babe | Melisse | [268] | |
1971 | Willard | Joan Simms | [269] | |
1972 | A Reflection of Fear | Marguerite | [269] | |
1972 | Night Gallery | Sheila Gray | Episode: "A Feast of Blood" | [270] |
1972 | The F.B.I. | Regina Mason | Episode: "Dark Christmas" | [246] |
1973 | Cannon | Trish Caton | Episode: "Death of a Stone Seahorse" | [246] |
1973 | The ABC Afternoon Playbreak | Nora Sells | Episode: "My Secret Mother" | [246] |
1973 | Gondola | Jackie | TV movie | [246] |
1974 | The Second Coming of Suzanne | Suzanne | [246] | |
1974 | Kung Fu
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Gwyneth Jenkins | Episode: "This Valley of Terror" | [246] |
1974 | Planet of the Apes | Amy | Episode: "The Cure" | [246] |
1975 | Barnaby Jones | Alicia | Episode: "The Orchid Killer" | [246] |
1975 | Cannon | Tracy Murdock | Episode: "A Touch of Venom" | [246] |
1976 | Joe Forrester | Pam Wilson | Episode: "A Game of Love" | [246] |
1976 | The Outlaw Josey Wales | Laura Lee | [246] | |
1977 | Death Game | Agatha Jackson | [246] | |
1977 | The Shadow of Chikara | Drusilla Wilcox | [271] | |
1977 | The Gauntlet | Augustina 'Gus' Mally | [160] | |
1978 | Every Which Way but Loose
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Lynn Halsey-Taylor | [4] | |
1979 | Friendships, Secrets and Lies | Jessie Dunne | TV movie | [272] |
1980 | Bronco Billy | Antoinette Lily | Nominated— Razzie Award for Worst Actress
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[273] |
1980 | Any Which Way You Can | Lynn Halsey-Taylor | [274] | |
1982 | Rosie: The Rosemary Clooney Story | Rosemary Clooney | TV movie | [274] |
1983 | Sudden Impact | Jennifer Spencer | [274] | |
1984 | Tales of the Unexpected | Edna | Episode: "Bird of Prey" | [274] |
1985 | Amazing Stories | Vanessa Sullivan | Episode: "Vanessa in the Garden" | [274] |
1986 | Ratboy | Nikki Morrison | Also director Nominated— Razzie Award for Worst Actress
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[275] |
1999 | The Prophet's Game | Adele Highsmith (adult) | [247] | |
1999 | Clean and Narrow | Betsy Brand | [247] | |
2018 | Ray Meets Helen | Helen | [276] |
As director
Year | Title | Ref. |
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1986 | Ratboy | [277] |
1990 | Impulse | [278] |
1995 | Death in Small Doses | [279] |
1997 | Trading Favors | [280] |
Stage
Year | Show | Role | Venue | Ref(s) |
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1962 | The Monkey's Paw | Mrs. White | Bud Frank Theatre, Johnson City, Tennessee | [281] |
1962 | Life with Father | Mary Skinner | Tucker Theater, Murfreesboro, Tennessee | [41] |
1963 | The Crucible | Mary Warren | Tucker Theater, Murfreesboro, Tennessee | [48] |
1964 | Life with Mother | N/A | Belcourt Playhouse, Nashville, Tennessee | [282] |
1964 | The Innocents | Flora | Circle Theater, Nashville, Tennessee | [283] |
1964 | A Thousand Clowns | Dr. Sandra Markowitz | Circle Theater, Nashville, Tennessee | [284] |
1965 | Night of the Iguana
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Charlotte Goodall | Circle Theater, Nashville, Tennessee | [148] |
1965 | Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad | Rosalie | Circle Theater, Nashville, Tennessee | [149] |
1965 | The Glass Menagerie | Laura Wingfield | Circle Theater, Nashville, Tennessee | [150] |
1967 | Tiger at the Gates
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Helen of Troy | Vanderbilt Theatre, Nashville, Tennessee | [285] |
Discography
- 1978, "I Seek The Night / Don't Say You Don't Love Me No More", Elektra Records: E46007
- 1980, "Too Loose", Warner Records: WB49674
Footnotes
- ^ Various dates were given by the press for Locke's birth. Contradictory sources have either directly cited, or implied, 1940[5] and every year from 1943 to 1950,[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13] with some of the more brazen PR gimmicks even purporting it to be as late as 1952[14][15][16] or 1956.[17][18] Her most commonly reported year of birth was 1947; Locke's publicist gave that year on several occasions when asked to clarify the inconsistency.[19][20][21] However, Locke's marriage license,[22] death certificate,[23] yearbooks,[24][25][26][27] and her entry on public records indexes FamilySearch[28] and Intelius[29] establish the year as 1944. "Untruths have been a way of life for her," one former associate wrote to the Shelbyville Times-Gazette when the disparity came up.[30] Said another past acquaintance who knew Locke in the 1950s: "She was two years younger than me in Central High, but it is really strange now, because she has now become five years younger."[30]
- 1950 census, which misspells the family name as Lacke, upholds this.[33]
- ^ Smith may have died before Locke learned of him. The actress wrote in her autobiography that she found out he was her father "sometime during grammar school," but phrased all references to him in ambiguous past tense and evaded specifying years.
- ^ Bayne was also wed to painter Thomas H. Nelson between marriages to William Elkins and Alfred Locke, for less than eight months.[38]
- ^ In 1945, Locke briefly took the surname of her then-stepfather, Elkins, before her mother changed it again in 1948. Her legal name was changed four times during her first 24 years of life: from Sandra Smith to Sandra Elkins, to Sandra Locke, to Sondra Locke, to Sondra Anderson.
- ^ Notwithstanding their ongoing estrangement, Bayne vocally supported her daughter during the litigious war between Locke and Clint Eastwood. She told journalist Leon Wagener: "One of those children Clint made her abort could have been the grandson I've always wanted."[56]
- ^ After-the-fact publicity claimed that 2,000 actresses tried out for the role.[64]
- ^ Bonnie Bedelia told the 8 October 1967 Los Angeles Times that "they decided I was too old" when she auditioned for the same role as Locke.[68] As it turns out, Bedelia was four years younger than Locke, who had lied about her age. Wayne Smith, a UA student five years Locke's junior,[69] played her love interest in the movie, even though his character is described as being a couple years older than she.
- The Nashville Tennessean[71] outed Locke for lying about her age, but it took decades for syndicated publications to catch on, and most sources would continue to use the incorrect birth year(s).[72] Locke admitted in The Good, the Bad, and the Very Ugly that she lied about her age early in her career, but claimed to have knocked only three years off, rather than six. In one of her final interviews, conducted in 2015 for The Projection Booth podcast, Locke said that she "was just graduating high school" when she made The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter when she was in fact in her mid-20s.[73] In addition, an international press release from 1967 omits Locke's time at MTSU as well as her residence in Nashville, where she had moved in 1963 after dropping out of college.[71][74]
- ^ Even though Locke played the leading female role, Warner Bros.-Seven Arts campaigned for Best Supporting Actress instead of Best Actress during awards season, seemingly to make winning easier. She lost to Ruth Gordon for Rosemary's Baby. Ruth Gordon would later appear with Locke in Every Which Way but Loose and Any Which Way You Can.
- ^ Locke's plaque was later lost or stolen on her trip home to L.A.[80]
- ^ A Reflection of Fear was not the first time Locke was considered to play a transsexual. In 1969, Christine Jorgensen, the trans woman famous for having sex reassignment surgery in Denmark in 1953, mentioned Locke and Mia Farrow as contenders for a planned film version of her life. A fan of Locke's performance in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Jorgensen observed that "in scenes where she didn't wear any makeup, Sondra looks very much like I did in my younger days. I think she might make an excellent choice."[97]
- Madeleine Kahn in the role she'd been eyeing. Edwards ultimately withdrew and was replaced by Richard Benjamin. Nevertheless, Eastwood disappointed Locke by not using his clout to get her in the movie.
- ^ Gordon Anderson went by the stage names 'C.B. Anderson'[148][149][150] and 'Gordon Addison'[151][152][153] during a brief acting career before he married Locke.
- ^ For a long time it was falsely presumed that Locke and Anderson had divorced.[132][155][156][157]
- ^ In magazine interviews, Locke and Anderson would variously claim to have met when they were 10,[40] 11[65] or 12,[158] while Locke's memoir states that they met in high school.[36] Anderson, like his late wife, always subtracted several years off his age, thus contributing to the plethora of discrepancies.
- ^ Actually, Locke was three years past the median age of first marriages for women in that era.[165] To obscure this – and accommodate her revisionist narrative – she often peddled the fallacy of having gotten married "right out of high school" or, as one ill-informed AP reporter put it, "during [her] childhood."[159] Locke also was older than her husband Anderson, though some profiles of the actress misstate that he was the elder spouse.[31] As a side effect of their changing age claims, dates erroneously attributed to the Andersons' wedding have ranged from as early as 1961[166] to as late as the early 1970s.[167]
- ^ Locke and Hopkins appeared as a couple on the game show Tattletales[178] when Locke was still talking up her marriage in the press. Incredulously, the conflicting gestures attracted no news commentary.
- ^ Philip Kaufman started to direct Josey, but was fired at Eastwood's command on October 24, 1975, three weeks into filming.[107][183] Although Eastwood had conquered Locke within 48 hours of her arrival on set, initially she had declined his advances, having already said yes to a date with Kaufman at the costume fitting.[36] According to biographer Patrick McGilligan, Eastwood begrudged the fact that a younger man had beaten him to the punch and therefore felt inclined to assert his dominance by getting rid of Kaufman.[107] The love triangle resulted in the Director's Guild passing new legislation, known as 'the Eastwood Rule', which prohibits an actor or producer from firing the director and then becoming the director himself.[184]
- IUD. Because my sex life was not very active, he did not think I should be constantly taking birth control pills. Clint complained of the IUD – it was uncomfortable for him, he said. And he too was not in favor of birth control pills, so he suggested a special clinic at Cedars Hospital where they taught a 'natural' method of birth control. It was the same 'rhythm' system that historically has been used to determine the fertile days for those who are attempting to achieve pregnancy. Of course, it could be used for the opposite results as well. Not only was I taught their method but I was constantly monitored with regular pregnancy checks. The whole process was awkward and entailed taking my temperature every morning and marking the calendar, etc. It was demanding and ultimately it had failed twice."
- ^ Eastwood's passive-aggressive gestures toward Locke included inviting Jane Brolin—a woman he was having an affair with—to join Locke and himself on their annual ski trip to Sun Valley. The two women got into a row just before New Year's Eve, Locke recalling, "I wanted to hit her, to pull every hair out of her head."[36]
- summary judgement after the original March 1994 filing, which the court granted, but in August 1997 the decision was reversed.[182] Garrity put 2,500 hours of work into the case, only to be ditched by Locke and replaced by Papiano in May 1998.[224] Garrity won her lawsuit, and remarked that the payment would not have cost Locke a dime more than what was already going to legal fees, since it would simply have come out of Papiano's one-third contingency fee.[225]
- Notable Names Database, generally considered to be an unreliable source, cites 2001.[72] Seeing as how the split was never formally announced, the timeframe aforesaid might be an approximation inferred from Locke's real estate transactions, as the L.A. Times reported she offloaded one of her properties that year.[241] In French historian Pierre Maraval's documentary L'album secret de Clint Eastwood (2012), partially filmed at Locke's last home, it's stated in the narration that she lived alone.[141]
- ^ Major media outlets including Variety wrongly reported that Locke "was laid to rest" at Westwood rather than cremated.[246]
- ^ In a 1968 interview, Locke told beauty columnist Lydia Lane she was a natural blonde.[250]
Gallery
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Sophomore basketball portrait, 1959
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Senior yearbook photo, 1962
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Modeling wardrobe by Bobbie Brooks, 1966
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From the front cover of The Nashville Tennessean Sunday Magazine, 1967
See also
- Age fabrication
- False premise
- List of actors with Academy Award nominations
- List of female film and television directors
- List of Middle Tennessee State University people
References
Readers' advisory: Since Locke claimed to be younger than she was, many of the works cited are riddled with chronological inaccuracy.
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External links
- Sondra Locke at IMDb
- Sondra Locke at the TCM Movie Database
- Sondra Locke at the British Film Institute
- Sondra Locke discography at Discogs
- Sondra Locke at AllMusic
- Sondra Locke at Rotten Tomatoes
- Sondra Locke at AllMovie
- Sondra Locke at Library of Congress
- Sondra Locke at the American Film Institute Catalog