April 30: Happy Birthday Cloris Leachman - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

TMC · 04-30-2018, 12:07 PM

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Oscar and Emmy winner Cloris Leachman is turning 92 today. She studied at Northwestern and then at the Actors Studio, and began working regularly on screen and stage at the end of the 1940s. She appeared on Broadway several times, including as Nellie Forbush in South Pacific, made her film debut in Kiss Me Deadly in a small but memorable role, and was a regular on Lassie for one season. But she didn’t really start to become well known until the early 1970s. In 1971 she played Ruth Popper, the neglected wife of a high school coach, in The Last Picture Show, and won Best Supporting Actress at the Oscars and the BAFTA Awards. A year earlier, she made her first appearance in her best-known TV role, as Phyllis Lindstrom on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Leachman won two Emmys in the Outstanding Supporting Actress category during her time on the series, and then in 1975 continued in the role in the spinoff series, Phyllis.

Leachman has eight Primetime Emmys in her trophy case. The two most recent were as Outstanding Guest Actress for appearances on Malcolm in the Middle. She also won a Golden Globe for the first season of Phyllis, and a Daytime Emmy for a 1983 ABC Afterschool Special (remember those?). Leachman remains active in her nineties; she plays a recurring character on American Gods, and costarred in the recent release I Can Only Imagine.

Yong Fang · 05-09-2018, 12:10 AM

I was watching an episode of MTM Show with Cloris Leachman in it, and she looked attractive to me for the first time. I am now 51 and like women around my age and she was in her 40's then. Weird because as a kid she looked like an ancient lady and now she is younger then than myself at that age.

She has been around a long time, since probably the late 1950's and has been on many shows in the 1960's.

I never cared for the Afternoon Specials. I got annoyed as a kid when the CBS version of the show cancelled the local showing of Leave it to Beaver and the Munsters.

05-09-2018, 12:10 AM	#2
Yong Fang Member Forum 3000 Club Member Join Date: Aug 04, 2009 Location: Memphis Tennessee Posts: 3,073	I was watching an episode of MTM Show with Cloris Leachman in it, and she looked attractive to me for the first time. I am now 51 and like women around my age and she was in her 40's then. Weird because as a kid she looked like an ancient lady and now she is younger then than myself at that age. She has been around a long time, since probably the late 1950's and has been on many shows in the 1960's. I never cared for the Afternoon Specials. I got annoyed as a kid when the CBS version of the show cancelled the local showing of Leave it to Beaver and the Munsters.