Sandy Dennis

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Sandra Dale Dennis (April 27, 1937 – March 2, 1992) was an American theater and film actress.

She won two Tony Awards and an Academy Award for her role in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? during her career in the 1960s. Dennis was a well-known animal activist.

She rescued stray cats from Grand Central Terminal's bowels.

She had more than 20 cats at the time of her death in Westport, Connecticut, who were rescued by longtime friends to new homes.

Early life

Dennis was born in Hastings, Nebraska, as the niece of Yvonne (née Hudson), a secretary, and Jack Dennis, a postal clerk. After 39 years of marriage, her parents divorced in 1967. Frank, she had an elder brother. Dennis grew up in Kenesaw, Nebraska, and Lincoln, Nebraska, graduating from Lincoln High School in 1955; one of her classmates was writer and comedian Dick Cavett. She attended Nebraska Wesleyan University and the University of Nebraska, performing in the Lincoln Community Theatre Group before moving to New York City at age 19. She studied at HB Studio in New York City.

Personal life

Dennis lived with renowned jazz musician Gerry Mulligan from 1965 to 1974. An Associated Press article stating that she and Mulligan married in Connecticut in June of 1965 appeared in October 1965. Dennis confessed that they only became pregnant after she mistakenly became pregnant in a 1989 interview with People. "I'd have loved the child if I'd been a mother," Dennis said, "but I didn't have any association with it when I was pregnant." I never, ever wanted children. It would have been like having an elephant."

Dennis lived with actor Eric Roberts from 1980 to 1985. She was riding her German Shepherd when he collided his car with Roberts on June 4, 1981. Roberts, who was under the influence of cocaine at the time, was trapped in a coma for 72 hours and had to pull out of the Broadway show Mass Appeal. Dennis' dog survived the accident. In spring 1983, she and Roberts were supposed to marry, but the ceremony didn't take place.

Dennis' sexual orientation was under fire in 1968, when the scandal magazine Uncensored published a story identifying her as a lesbian. Eric Roberts named her bisexual in an essay that appeared more than 20 years after Dennis' death. Dennis, according to Roberts, had many lesbian relationships and that she "appreciated the beauty of women." However, she also liked and appreciated what a very young man could do to a woman, I suppose."

In Dennis' lifetime, in-depth published interviews with her, including one with The Christian Science Monitor during her tenure as a member of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in 1981, made no mention of close friendships with women. The following exchange about her marital status was included in her interview:

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Career

Dennis made her television debut in 1956 with the soap opera The Guiding Light.

In William Inge's The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1957), directed by Elia Kazan, she had an early break when she was cast as an understudy. Dennis was cast in Dennis' debut feature film, a small part in Splendor in the Grass (1961), which starred Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty.

Dennis was cast in Face of a Hero (1960) on Broadway with Jack Lemmon. Dennis had only been playing for a short time, but the play was well-received. Graham Greene's Complaisant Lover (1961–62) was more popular, with 101 performances; Michael Redgrave and Googie Withers were also cast members;

Dennis gained a Tony Award for her role in Herb Gardner's A Thousand Clowns (1962–63), for which she received a Tony nomination. The show attracted 428 viewers.

Dennis appeared on episodes of "Idylls of a Running Back," 1962, "Carrier"), The Fugitive ("The Other Side of the Mountain"), 1967), and Mr. Broadway ("Don't Mention My Name in Sheboygan") during this period. Any Wednesday (1964–66), she was the leader of the Broadway comedy Any Wednesday (1964–66), which lasted for 983 performances and earned her her second Tony.

In Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Dennis' second film role was as Honey, George Segal's fragile, neurotic young wife. (1966). The film, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, was a huge critical and commercial success, and Dennis received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role.

Dennis appeared in a production of The Three Sisters (1966) with Geraldine Page and Kim Stanley, which went to London and was shot.

Dennis' first lead role in a film was in Up the Down Staircase (1967), directed by Robert Mulligan, a box-office hit, as was The Fox (1967), directed by Mark Rydell, despite its tumultuous subject matter. Dennis was named the 18th greatest celebrity in the United States in 1967.

Dennis travelled to Broadway for a brief period of time in Cottage D (1967).

She appeared in Sweet November (1968) as a terminally ill woman with multiple partners, as well as a television version of The play A Hatful of Rain (1968).

Dennis came to London to act in A Touch of Love (1969), which flopped at the box office, and That Cold Day in the Park (1969), despite being directed by Robert Altman. The Out-of-Towners (1970), a Neil Simon comedy with Jack Lemmon, was a hit.

Only Way Out Is Dead, Dennis Whitman, was a TV film that starred Stuart Whitman. (1970) She returned to Broadway for Alan Ayckbourn's "Average Loves (1971), which attracted over 100 performances, and then starred Steven Spielberg in another TV film Something Evil (1972), which attracted a mixed audience.

Let Me Hear You Smile (1973) on Broadway only lasted one performance, but Absurd Person Singular (1974–76) was a major hit, with 591 performances.

Joan of Arc, Barbara of Arc, appeared in Witness to Yesterday, Patrick Watson's collection of interviews with influential people from the past.

Dennis appeared in Mr. Sycamore (1975) with Jason Robards and had a small role in Larry Cohen's low-budget horror film God Told Me To (1976). In the New York Times, Vincent Canby's appearance in the British comedy Nasty Habits (1977) drew scathing criticism.

Dennis guest appeared in Police Story ("Day of Terror... Night of Fear," 1978), and Wilson's Reward (1981). She appeared on Broadway for a brief time as part of the long-running Same Time, Next Year cast.

She appeared in Alan Alda's The Four Seasons (1981) on Broadway for Gene Saks. She appeared in Robert Altman's Come Back to the Five and Dime (1982), and Jimmy Dean (1982).

Dennis acted less in the mid- to late 1980s, owing to rising health problems. She appeared on television in Young People's Specials ("The Trouble with Mother"), 1985), The Love Boat ("Roommates/Heartbreaker/Out of the Blue"), Alfred Hitchcock Presents ("Arthur, or the Gigolo") and The Equalizer ("Out of the Past") and The Equalizer ("Out of the Past" 1986). She appeared in motion pictures in a 1986 remake of Laughter in the Dark, which never finished, Woody Allen's Another Woman (1988), and the horror films 976-EVIL (1989).

Her last role was in the crime drama The Indian Runner, which was shot in 1990 and released in 1991. Sean Penn's debut as a film director was seen in the film. Viggo Mortensen, a performer who appeared in two of her two sons, wrote about the preparations for the film and filming in Omaha, Nebraska.

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