Sondra Locke, actor in Clint Eastwood films, dies at 74
Source: The Guardian
Actor starred in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, before role in Eastwoods The Outlaw Josey Wales
Sondra Locke, the American actor who was nominated for an Oscar for her first film before co-starring in six films with her one-time partner, Clint Eastwood, has died.
The actor, who was 74, died at her home in Los Angeles after a cardiac arrest stemming from breast and bone cancer, according to a death certificate obtained by Associated Press. She died on 3 November and authorities were promptly notified at the time. It is not clear why it took nearly six weeks to be reported.
Locke was best known for the six films she made with Eastwood whom she dated for 13 years. Their professional association began with the western The Outlaw Josey Wales in 1976 and ended with the Dirty Harry movie, Sudden Impact, in 1983.
Born Sandra Louise Smith, she grew up in Tennessee, where she worked at a radio station and appeared in a handful of plays before winning a nationwide talent search in 1967 to be cast opposite leading man Alan Arkin in the movie adaptation of Carson McCullers 1940 novel The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/dec/14/sondra-locke-actor-and-former-partner-of-clint-eastwood-dies-at-74
hlthe2b
(102,361 posts)madaboutharry
(40,220 posts)She was a good actress, but for some reason after her films with Eastwood people didn't take her seriously.
Aristus
(66,462 posts)He knew powerful people in Hollywood. I guess just breaking up with her wasn't enough.
Eastwood may be a gifted film director, but he seems like an asshole.
madaboutharry
(40,220 posts)I think you're right about him being an asshole.
LittleGirl
(8,291 posts)only an asshole that talked to empty chairs.
ProfessorGAC
(65,171 posts)He's directed and acted in some wonderful films but he is a dick.
llmart
(15,552 posts)Played the same type role in every movie with that monotone voice.
As a person, don't like him at all.
melm00se
(4,995 posts)in the mid 1990s.
gldstwmn
(4,575 posts)how The Hollywood Reporter wrote her out of her own obituary and more about the career sabotage here:
This Is How a Woman Gets Written Out of Her Own Obituary
https://jezebel.com/this-is-how-a-woman-gets-written-out-of-her-own-obituar-1831097072
Marcuse
(7,507 posts)Eastwood's relationship with Locke (at the time, unaware of his infidelities[33]) ended acrimoniously in April 1989, and the post-breakup litigation dragged on for a decade. Locke filed a palimony lawsuit against him after he changed the locks on their home and moved her possessions into storage when she was at work filming her second directorial feature, Impulse.[53] In court, Eastwood downplayed the intensity of their relationship. He described Locke as a "roommate" before quickly redescribing her as a "part-time roommate."
KCDebbie
(664 posts)Claimed that Eastwood insisted that she have an abortion - I don't remember what year this was supposed to have happened, tho.
deurbano
(2,895 posts)elmac
(4,642 posts)R.I.P
elmac
(4,642 posts)working relationships have got to be hard. I have mixed feelings about Eastwood who is a lifelong fascist, doesn't quite fall into line with t-bagger fascism, more old school. I'm sure he is very arrogant, conceited, generally a prick in real life but I have enjoyed his films over the years.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)But I think he's a total a**hole as a person.
dhill926
(16,355 posts)that kind of bitchy coolness....man. And Clint was a complete asshole to her....not surprised by that at all...
RobinA
(9,894 posts)Eastwood was married to her at one point.
Kablooie
(18,641 posts)Just for a few minutes.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)She got taken advantage of, in the end, it seems like. But she had a good life. Success, love, children, pretty appearance, a comfortable existence I think.
Cancer is the scariest thing of all. We can't prevent it, even if we live healthy. It strikes randomly. I hope I drop down dead from a heart attack, or better yet, go in my sleep.
deurbano
(2,895 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)I had thought she was the mother of his daughter, but I forgot she's not.
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Duppers
(28,127 posts)He's not a good person.
appalachiablue
(41,171 posts)BootinUp
(47,188 posts)Passed. May she rest in eternal peace.