Re: R.I.P. Melinda Dillon
Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2023 8:22 am
Sandy Dennis won back-to-back Tonys - Best Featured Actress for of 1962/63 for A Thousand Clowns over Dillon and Best Actress of 1963/64 for Any Wednesday. She lost the film versions of those to Barbara Harris and Jane Fonda, respectively. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was only her second film following a small role in Splendor in the Grass five years earlier.
Dillon's film career took longer to get off the ground and she never had a starring role in a major film, unlike Dennis, but like Dennis, she stood out in practically everything she did. I hadn't seen her in so long I was surprised to find out she was 83 when she died. I would have thought she was a good ten years younger.
Dillon's film career took longer to get off the ground and she never had a starring role in a major film, unlike Dennis, but like Dennis, she stood out in practically everything she did. I hadn't seen her in so long I was surprised to find out she was 83 when she died. I would have thought she was a good ten years younger.