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Sandy Dennis was born Sandra Dale Dennis in Nebraska in 1937. An accomplished actress, she starred in such films as Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Academy Award, Best Supporting Actress), Up the Down Staircase, and Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean; and on stage, including A Thousand Clowns (Tony Award, Best Supporting Actress) and Any Wednesday (Tony Award, Best Actress). She spent her last years in Westport, Connecticut, surrounded by her gardens, close friends, and her many, many cats. A quiet, gentle, kind person, she died of ovarian cancer in 1992 at the age of fifty-four.
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Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis are such a joy to watch in THE OUT-OF-TOWNERS, which has a zesty comedy screenplay by Neil Simon. There's non-stop hilarity in store whenever Jack Lemmon is on the screen, and this movie is no exception. Sandy Dennis is ... wonderful here, with her zany deadpan performance as Gwen. If you enjoyed "Barefoot in the Park", you'll adore the original THE OUT-OF-TOWNERS.
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For whatever reason, Sandy Dennis had a way of being around when Hollywood fell into moral-panic mode during the 1960s, as Production Code censorship broke down and the new MPAA ratings system was born. She was in the adaptation of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? that sparked earnest discussions in 1966 between Warner Bros. and the MPAA, which was edgy about the cinematic debuts of the word “screw” and the phrase “hump the hostess.”
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In the most unorthodox show biz autobiography you'll read all year, the late Sandy Dennis (A Thousand Clowns, Any Wednesday, many others) reveals a real flair for poetic evocation of the bright and dark moments of her short, cat-filled life. Brought to unhappy endings with nearly all the humans in her life (including jazzman Gerry Mulligan), she takes solace in enough strong-personality kitties to make Andrew Lloyd Webber ponder a sequel. She refers to her film career not at all, and when she speaks of her stage career she never bothers to reveal a title, but remembers fond personal details, such as how warm and belonging she felt on one of her homey sets. Written mostly during her long, losing battle with ovarian cancer, the 77 pages of prose poems read like vivid, impressionistic dreams.
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Sandy Dennis stars as Sylvia Barrett, a green but idealistic young teacher who takes a job at a tough inner-city high school. Troubled by the apathy of both her students and fellow teachers, Barrett revels in her few successes. But her naïveté may prove a fatal flaw, despite her good intentions. Eileen Heckart, Jean Stapleton and Patrick Bedford co-star in director Robert Mulligan's adaptation of Bel Kaufman's novel.
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Sandy Dennis was born here. At Mary Lanning Hospital in 1937. And she lived here—in Hastings and Kenesaw. With dad and mom, Jack and Yvonne. And brother, Frank. In 1946, she moved to Lincoln, but even during her teen years, she often returned to visit her family.
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