RIP Cloris Leachman .

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RIP #ClorisLeachman

One of my all-time favourite character actresses. By the time I caught up with her she was in her legendary comedienne phase: the Mel Brooks movies(no, not Young Frankenstein, that came later for me), the Herbie movie, the Muppet movie, the Ernie Kovacs movie(truly, a TBT story for another day), The Beverly Hillbillies(even though I hadn't seen the original TV series - thank you #BarryNorman[RIP 😔], etc. etc. etc.

It was only later, much later, with the 1-2 punch of YF & Last Picture Show that I began to understand the range of her remarkable talent.

And what range!, what length!, what breadth! *So* many movies, TV shows, a few plays, rollicking interviews, acceptance speeches. She was in so much stuff, and had so much fun doing all this stuff that sometimes we took her for granted, no?

And that was never clearer when TBH and I made the mistake of immersing ourselves in the mindbending American Gods(👏) and we were both like, who was that? she was great!, and we quickly canceled autoplay(the scourge of this "golden" age of streaming that we find ourselves trapped in) to look at the credits to find out…

…as always, it was Cloris Leachman.

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#RIP #Cloris #Leachman #actor #actress #Hollywood #legend #TV #Oscars #Emmys

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Young Frankenstein (1974)
The Last Picture Show (1971)
The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970)
Malcolm in the Middle (2000)
Phyllis (1975)
High Anxiety (1977)
History of the World, Part I (1981)
Raising Hope (2010)
American Gods (2017)
Crazy Mama (1975)
Daisy Miller (1974)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
The Beverly Hillbillies (1993)
Bad Santa (2003)
A Brand New Life (1973)
Music of the Heart (1999)
Texasville (1990)
Never Too Late (1996)
Spanglish (2004)
Beerfest (2006)
Lassie (1957)
The Muppet Movie (1979)
Herbie Goes Bananas (1980)
The Wedding Ringer (2015)
Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter (1984)
The Croods (2013)
Love Hurts (1990)
Hanging Up (2000)
The Facts of Life (1986)
The Ellen Show (2001)
The Women (2008)
Mad About You (2019)
The Nutt House (1989)
Dancing With the Stars (2008)
Grandma Moses: An American Primitive (1989)
As You Like It (1950)
South Pacific (1952)

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