RIP Cloris Leachman

We don't have many left...

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An absolute legend indeed...sad to hear of her passing

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Cloris Leachman was so great to watch on the screen. I mostly know her from the Mary Tyler Moore show.

She was terrific in The Last Picture Show. R.I.P.

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An Oscar and eight time Emmy winner...one of the most versatile actresses in the business. This woman could do absolutely anything onscreen. From the self-absorbed Phyllis Lindstrom on The Mary Tyler Moore Show to the love-starved housewife in The Last Picture Show...comedy, drama, music, Leachman could do it all. Yes, I said music, I don't if anyone remembers a television production of the Broadway musical Of Thee I Sing with Carroll O'Connor, but she had a wonderful singing voice. Loved her as Tea Leoni's mother in Splanglish and who didn't love Frau Blucher? 2021 is beginning to look as bad as 2020. I just realized Leachman's passing leaves Edward Asner, Gavin MacLeod. Betty White, and John Amos as the only surviving cast members of The Mary Tyler Moore Show. RIP, Cloris

God, I loved her!


RIP

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R.I.P.

Just this past year, I watched all of The Mary Tyler Moore Show for the first time, she was a real bright spot on that show.

Though her part was on the tiny side, I loved her in Lovers and Other Strangers

Very sad to hear this. She was one of the greatest actresses to ever come to Hollywood. She had a wonderful life of 94 years.

Cloris Leachman on the Letterman morning show. Even at 54, she was such a vibrant presence..

LOL. 54 is not exactly ancient.

In the clip, Leachman introduces her teenage daughter, and the contrast between the daughter and Cloris' bright-eyed glow is stark, like some kind of Freaky Friday shenanigans.

Even though I knew she had died, I overlooked this thread as so many have passed on so close together and this thread sank down the page. I loved Cloris Leachman. Any movie I saw her in, and of course the TV shows, like The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Never got to see the spinoff, Phyllis with Cloris. I watched the show Raising Hope with her religiously, never missing an episode. She played Maw Maw and her memory would come and go, with her daughter and son-in-law (Martha Plimpton and Garret Dillahunt) sometimes talking about getting Maw Maw's house when/if she passed, then Maw Maw would suddenly snap back to reality. She was really funny in that.

I think my favorite role of hers in a Mel Brooks film was as Nurse Diesel, the bullet-bra wearing, hairy upper-lipped, cigar-smoking, S&M partner of Harvey Korman with designs on taking over the Institute for the Very, Very, Nervous:



Godspeed, Cloris!

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I think my favorite role of hers in a Mel Brooks film was as Nurse Diesel, the bullet-bra wearing, hairy upper-lipped, cigar-smoking, S&M partner of Harvey Korman with designs on taking over the Institute for the Very, Very, Nervous:



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