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Originally Posted by pyramider
And she was nuttier than a fruitcake.
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I'm afraid you're right.
Her acting was not much to write home about either. She had a shrill voice that always sounded like she was whinning and screaming hysterically at the same time, and she never wavered from that. As in Cleopatra when she exclaims to Richard Burton, "You will kneel! I requested it from him [Ceasar] I DEMAND IT FROM YOOU!"
She was almost painful to watch at times. If she was a nagging and whinny in real life I can imagine why so many men departed from her various marriages.
And she didn't do the hobby any favor for her dreadful performance as a messed-up callgirl in Butterfield 8. She embodied all the worst stereotypes. In one scene she explains that she got into sex when she was very, very young [draw your own conclusions] with her mom's boyfriend, and then she goes on to scream in her own horrific voice,
"And you know what! I LIKED it!!!"
Of course characters like hers in movies in those days could never get out of it alive. Her character dies in a car wreck when she's driving too fast. I suppose according to that little morality play she either deserved it, or was just put out of her misery.
She was a terrible actress and not that great of a person, and she really hurt the hobby as well.