Cloris Leachman
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Cloris Leachman (born April 30, 1926) is an American actress and comedian.
She has won eight Primetime Emmy Awards, a Daytime Emmy Award, and an Academy Award for her participation in The Last Picture Show (1971), spanning seven decades. Miss Chicago Leachman was ranked in the 20th Miss America pageant and placed in the Top 16 in 1946.
Phyllis Lindstrom, the nosy and cunning landlady, appeared on CBS sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spin-off Phyllis Lindstrom in the 1970s was her longest-running appearance. She appeared in three Mel Brooks films, Young Frankenstein (1974), High Anxiety (1977), and History of the World (1981).
Beverly Ann Stickle appeared in The Facts of Life from 1986 to 1988, and Granny in The Beverly Hillbillies (1993). Leachman appeared on Fox's Malcolm in the Middle's recurring role as Grandma Ida, and in Bob Saget's Comedy Central Roast in 2008. In 2008, she appeared on Dancing with the Stars, partnering with Corky Ballas.
She was 82 at the time and was the oldest contestant to have competed in the series.
She appeared on Fox's Raising Hope from 2010 to 2014. She appeared on the Starz drama American Gods in 2017.
Early life
The eldest of three children, Leachman, was born in Des Moines, Iowa, on April 30, 1926. Cloris (née Wallace) and Berkeley Claiborne "Buck" Leachman were her parents. Her father worked at Leachman Lumber Company, a family-owned company. Claiborne Cary, her younger sister, was an actor and singer. Mary, her older sister, was not in show business. Their maternal grandmother was of Bohemian (Czech) descent. She attended Theodore Roosevelt High School.
Leachman performed in plays by local youth on weekends at Drake University in Des Moines as an adolescent. She attended Northwestern University in the School of Education after graduating from high school.
She became a member of Gamma Phi Beta at Northwestern University, and she was a classmate of up-andcoming comedians Paul Lynde and Charlotte Rae. She debuted on television and in films shortly after winning Miss America in 1946 as Miss Chicago.
Personal life
Leachman was married to Hollywood impresario George Englund from 1953 to 1979. Mabel Albertson, a character actress, was her former mother-in-law. Bryan (died 1986), Morgan, Adam, Dinah, and George were among the four sons and one daughter's that were born together. Some of them are in show business. Morgan's son Morgan appeared on Guiding Light for many years.
The Englunds were Bel Air neighbors of Judy Garland, Sid Luft, and their children Lorna and Joey Luft in the early 1960s. Lorna Luft wrote Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir that Leachman was "the kind of mom I'd only seen on television." Leachman cooked meals for the children and made them feel welcome when they needed a place to stay, despite being aware of the chaos at the Luft home but never mentioning it.
Mort Sahl and Marlon Brando, who met under Elia Kazan in the 1950s, was also a mentor. Marlon Brando: The Way It's Never Been Done Before (2005), she introduced him to her husband, who became close to Brando, as well as directing him in The Ugly American (1963) and writing a book about their friendship.
Leachman, a vegetarian and an animal rights campaigner, was an animal rights activist. In 1997, she appeared on the front page of Alternative Medicine Digest, posing nude while body painted with images of fruit in a parody of Demi Moore's 1991 Vanity Fair cover photo. For a 2009 PETA campaign, she also dressed in a lettuce jacket. In 2013, she appeared in a comedic PETA ad on spay and neuter, in which she opened a condom wrapper with her teeth.
Anabel Englund, Leachman's granddaughter, is a singer. In addition to Anabel, Leachman had other grandchildren and Braden, one grandson.
The leachman was an atheist.
Career
Leachman studied under Elia Kazan at the Actors Studio in New York City after winning a scholarship in the Miss America pageant and placing in the top 16. During Rodgers and Hammerstein's original run of Nellie Forbush, she had been cast as a replacement. She appeared in William Inge's Come Back, Little Sheba's Broadway bound production but left the show early in production of William Shakespeare's As You Like It's Come Back, Katharine Hepburn. In Arthur Miller's seminal drama The Crucible, Leachman was supposed to portray Abigail Williams. From January 15-17, 1953, the production appeared at the Playhouse Theatre in Wilmington, Delaware, from January 15- 17, 1953, before opening on Broadway on January 22. However, Leachman left the production the day before the opening night in Wilmington, with Madeleine Sherwood taking the spotlight. The Leachman's name had been widely distributed prior to the production's opening, and her name was also in the printed magazine; a sign was seen at the box office in Wilmington refusing the change.
In the 1950s, Leachman appeared on several live television broadcasts, including Suspense and Studio One. Timmy (Jon Provost), the mother of "Lassie's" second master Timmy (Jon Provost), was briefly employed during the film's first season before being called late in her only season with the cast by June Lockhart due to labour controversies. In Carnegie Hall (1947), she made her film debut as an extra, but her first real role was in Robert Aldrich's film noir Kiss Me Deadly, which was released in 1955. During the shooting, Leachman was several months pregnant and appeared in one scene running down a darkened highway wearing only a trench coat. In The Rack (1956), she appeared opposite Paul Newman and Lee Marvin a year later. She appeared in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) for a brief period of time.
She continued to work in television, with appearances on Rawhide and in the Twilight Zone's "It's a Good Life" as well as the sequel "It's Also a Good Life" in the 2002–2003 UPN series revival. In an episode titled "Premonition" (1955), Leachman appeared opposite John Forsythe on the anthology.
On the television show "Legal Revenge" in 1956, she appeared as "Flory Tibbs" in a complex role as an abused captive.
Ruth Martin, Timmy Martin's foster mother, appeared in the last half of season four (1957) of Lassie. "Cloris did not feel particularly strained by the role," Jon Provost, who portrayed Timmy, said. Basically, she wanted out after she learned that all she'd been doing was baking cookies. In 1958, she was fired by June Lockhart.
She appeared in "The Dark Room," a One Step Beyond episode starring Marcel Dalio, in which she portrayed an American photographer living in Paris. In the Checkmate episode "The Mask of Vengeance," Marilyn Parker, the roommate of Janice Rule's character, Elena Nardos, appeared in 1960.
In 1961, she appeared as Boni, a cold-hearted woman who would sell out her husband for $500 in the television Western Gunsmoke (S6E36 - "For The Love of Money).
On Wagon Train, she appeared in "The Nancy Davis Story" as a forlorn bar maid desperate for love in 1962, as well as "Where Beauty Lies" opposite George Nader on an episode of Laramie that year.
Gloria Shine appeared on Perry Mason in "The Case of the Crafty Kidnapper" in 1966. Leachman appeared in one episode of That Girl as Don Hollinger's sister, Sandy.
Ruth Popper, the high-school gym teacher's neglected wife with whom Timothy Bottoms' character has an affair, was depicted in The Last Picture Show (1971), based on Larry McMurtry's best-selling book. Ellen Burstyn had initially been offered the part, but Burstyn wanted another role in the film. During recording, director Peter Bogdanovich correctly predicted that Leachman would receive an Academy Award for his work; she was named Best Supporting Actress.
On The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Leachman played Phyllis Lindstrom. Lindstrom, a recurring character on the show for five years, was later known in a spinoff series called Phyllis (1975-1977) for which Leachman received a Golden Globe Award. The series lasted for two seasons.
She appeared on The Muppet Show episode 2.24 in 1977. She received the Sarah Siddons Award in 1978 for her work in Chicago's theater. In 1987, she appeared on Schoolhouse Rock's VHS! For Disney's Cannon Tales production of Hansel and Gretel, she portrayed the evil witch Griselda. In 1986, she returned to television, replacing Charlotte Rae's character Edna Garrett as the den mother in The Facts of Life. Beverly Ann Stickle, Leachman's sister, could not save the long-running film, and it was cancelled two years later.
She appeared in numerous animated films, including My Little Pony (as Queen Gnorga), A Troll in Central Park (as Queen Gnorga), The Iron Giant, Gen13), and most notably as the voice of the cantankerous sky pirate Dola in Hayao Miyazaki's 1986 film Castle in the Sky. Leachman's role in this film, which Disney had in 1998, received almost unanimous praise. In the Penelope Spheeris film The Beverly Hillbillies, she appeared as a convincing Granny in 1993. On the Fox sitcom Malcolm in the Middle, the Leachman played embittered, cynical Slavic Canadian "Grandma Ida," for which she received the Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series (2006). She had been nominated for the role for six years in a row.
The Lifetime Television miniseries Beach Girls stars Rob Lowe and Julia Ormond, one of Leachman's later television appearances. In the Sony film Spanglish opposite Adam Sandler and Téa Leoni, Leachman was nominated for a SAG Award for his role as the wine-soaked former jazz singer and grandmother Evelyn. Anne Bancroft, who was in pain, had been brought back to the role. The film brought her together with Mary Tyler Moore, a writer, producer, and director James L. Brooks. In the remake of The Longest Yard, she appeared with Sandler again in the same year. She appeared in the Kurt Russell comedy Sky High as a school nurse with X-ray vision. In an episode ("Madame and Her Special Friend") of Two and a Half Men, she appeared as Charlie Harper's neighbor Norma.
In 2006, Leachman's role in the HBO film Mrs. Harris earned her an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or TV Movie, as well as a SAG Award nomination for Outstanding Achievement by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries. She was given an honorary doctorate in fine arts from Drake University on May 14, 2006.
Leachman appeared on Dancing with the Stars' seventh season, partnering with Corky Ballas, the oldest of the professions and father of two-time champion Mark Ballas. Leachman is the oldest individual to have competed on the show to date. She came in seventh place in the tournament. Leachman appeared alongside Jack Black in the "Stress Relief" episode of Season 5 of The Office, where the two actors appeared as love interests in a fictional film titled Mrs. Albert Hannaday.
She appeared in the American buddy beer comedy film Beerfest in 2006 as Great Gam Gam Wolfhouse.
Maw Maw, the matriarch of Raising Hope's family, received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series from 2010 to 2014. In comparison to being nominated more than 20 times, Leachman received a record-breaking eight Primetime and one Daytime Emmy Awards, including for her appearance on The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
In May 2015, Leachman appeared as a special guest star on Disney Channel's Girl Meets World in an episode titled "Girl Meets Gravity" (Season 2, Episode 1).
In the film I Can Only Imagine (2018), which is about the life of MercyMe's song of the same name, Leachman played Memaw.
In season one (2019) of Leachman's Showtime series American Gods, one of the evening stars, was Zorya Vechernya, one of the "old gods" who portrayed the evening star.
In her last film Not To Forget (2021) Leachman appears in Not To Forget (2021) in her final role. Karen Grassle and 5 Academy Award recipients: Cloris Leachman, Louis Gossett Jr., Tatum O'Neal, George Chakiris, and Olympia Dukakis appear in the film, directed by Valerio Zanoli.
In three Mel Brooks films, Young Frankenstein (1974), the nefarious villainess and psychiatric nurse Charlotte Diesel elicits the yelling of horses, the loud neighing of horses (an homage to a cinematic villain stereotype), High Anxiety (1977) as the demented villainess and psychiatric nurse Charlotte Diesel, Part I.
Leachman appeared on Brooks' short-lived NBC sitcom The Nutt House in 1989 as both head hotel housekeeper Mrs. Frick (a recreation of Frau Blücher's appearance) and hotel steward Mrs. Nutt, the hotel's senile owner.
She auditioned to reprise her role from Young Frankenstein in the 2007 Broadway revival opposite Megan Mullally (who replaced Kristin Chenoweth) and Roger Bart. Andrea Martin was omitted from the role. Brooks was quoted as joking that Leachman, then 81, was too old for the position. Brooks (also 81 at the time) told columnist Army Archerd, "We don't want her to die on stage," Leachman said. However, Leachman's triumph on Dancing with the Stars, Brooks later, doing a U-turn, has reportedly urged her to reprise her role as Frau Blücher in the Broadway production of Young Frankenstein, after Beth Leavel had replaced Martin. This was the last time the Broadway show was cancelled before this could have happened.