For an actor who won a lot of acclaim - 3 Tony nods (one win), an Oscar nod, and 3 Golden Globe nods - she pretty much disappeared.Big Magilla wrote: ↑Sun Sep 10, 2023 3:39 pm I saw Harry Kellerman so long ago that I've forgotten it, but Barbara Harris I'll never forget.
She and Elaine May were first female stars of improvisational theatre in the late 1950s-early1960s, the counterparts of Alan Arkin and Paul Sand.
By the mid-1960s, she was a great big Broadway star. Her performance on the original cast recording of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever easily outshines Barbra Streisand in the film version. On screen in 1965's A Thousand Clowns, she makes this monotonous film bearable while she's in it.
In the 1970s, she is haunting singing "It Don't Worry Me", closing out he film and is terrific utilizing her great comedic skills opposite Jodie Foster in the first film version of Freaky Friday. She was also memorable as one of the stars of Hitchcock's last film, Family Plot.
She turned up in the 1980s as Kathleen Turner's mother in Peggy Sue Got Married. She had a bit part in Grosse Point Blank and then she was gone, retired to academia, teaching acting to kids who had no idea who she was for her last twenty years on earth in Scottsdale, Arizona of all places.
I also liked her in Plaza Suite (with Walter Matthau), The War Between Men and Women (with Jack Lemmon) and The Seduction of Joe Tynan (with Alan Alda).
I think its time to finally catch up with her Oscar nominated performance which I have never seen.