Word: actressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...born to be an actress, and if they take it away from me, I will just lie down...
...that time, Sandy had got some solidity in her life. She had always sworn better dead than wed ("My life is on that stage; I am an actress; I can't do both"). But in June 1965, after three weeks' courtship, she married one of the pathfinding composers of modern jazz, Baritone Saxophonist Gerry Mulligan, now 40. Curiously, Mulligan had been the last love of the tragicomedienne most often likened to Sandy, Judy Holliday, who had just died of cancer. One dissonant note: Sandy is tone-deaf, ignorant of jazz, and the only records she owned were...
...very big star," foxed the trade by gambling on her in his $6,000,000 adaptation of the bile-black comedy Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Director Mike Nichols was frankly worried about Dennis' reputation for being obstreperous, but happily found her "just about the easiest actress to work with that I have ever met." And her co-stars agreed...
...most selfless and unactressy actresses I have ever worked with." The picture will be released before the Oscar deadline in December, because Director Rydell scents a best-actress nomination for Sandy. Her next film, in the can but not due for release until next summer, also has a somber-sounding scenario, suggesting that Dennis movies may soon see the last of the Radio City Music Hall. Sweet November is the name, and Sandy plays a dying girl who changes lovers every month...
...Actress Barbara Baxley, an old friend and trouper since their Inge days, says that Sandy responds more to animals than to humans. "She figures that humans can take care of themselves. It's the helpless that she responds to." Her response approaches aeluromania. Between her Hudson-view apartment in Manhattan and her handsome country home near Weston, Conn., Sandy now has five dogs and 21 cats. She just can't resist a stray. She has been heard to comment, while emptying yet another box of Kitty Litter: "I bet you wouldn't find Ava Gardner doing this...