Why did Trish Van Devere’s career go straight down the shitter?

She was just a so so actress that never really stood out. Just about everyone in the 70s with a name got a golden globe nomination, so don’t put much stock in that op. Funny this thread was started, I was watching one of her B movies the Hearse on YouTube. She probably wasn’t very ambitious. Bet she could tell some stories about being married to George C Scott for all those years.

She was from the Jill Ireland/Sondra Locke school of acting : jump on a famous cock and hope for the best.

Yikes.

Being married to an abusive alcoholic killed her spirit, no doubt.

She somehow got into movies when she had a face for TV at best. She should have been Abby on Eight is Enough or Barrie Youngfellow on It’s A Living.

Damned if I know. Why does datalounge have one poster who obsesses over actresses careers going down the shitter?

Even if her career was headed for great things, and it wasn't, does anyone think George C. Scott would have allowed his wife to have more success than he did? Once she married George C., she was consigned to second banana.

Hmmm I’m trying to decide whether to go off on OP or thank him.

Trish was the only one of Lt Colombo's murderers who when arrested doesn't thank him or otherwise collapse into a quivering ball of jelly. She calmly says she will fight the case, the only one who ever did. Her character is also having an affair with a Judy Garland type troubled performer, that too was rare for the time.

I thought Trish did just fine.

This is supposed to be her in later years, or maybe someone else with the same name.

She looks like a lez in the picture.

BORING actress, peculiar and annoying voice. The end.

She was intimidated by Erika Slezak.

She was also one of the many Patti's on "Search For Tomorrow" (which also included Nancy Pinkerton, the original Dorian, and Tina Sloan of "Guiding Light"). Something tells me that she worked because she wanted to act and left when the business was no longer fun for her.

First she was in a BO bomb that seemed to be aimed at children (Day of the Dolphin) . Then she starred in The Savage Is Loose.

Her birth name was Patricia Louise Dressel. I can see why she needed to change it for show biz. But I think she overshot the runway a bit with 'Trish Van Devere.'

Could anyone live up to that name? We think not. Certainly not a serious actress. It really sounds like a name for a show girl or a very expensive call girl.

Oh, my. Well, maybe it's a good name for her, after all.

R16 It worked for me!

We used to call her Tush van Derriere.