Colleen Dewhurst

She was great.

r1 Yes, yes she was.

I remember best as Marilla Cuthbert in Anne Of Green Gables (1985)

(Oh, how I've fought with people that love Anne with an E)

She hit me in the head with a fondue pot.

I know she did other things but I loved Marilla with Rachel Lynde.

She doesn't look a thing like her son. Neither does the son's father. What's up with that?

A lot of people don't look like their parents, R13. Campbell has his father's eyes.

r12 I think her and (Richard Farnsworth) Matthew were perfectly cast...

r12 The pudding - teacher dinner scene... I can't find an adequate link for it but it just captures all of the actors well.

Or when Rachel got told off after the ranting about the raspberry cordial

Don't fuck with me, Dewhurst!

Amazing actress but scared the shit out of me as the Archangel in The Nun's Story.

What's that movie where she is the mother of a bad guy and she appears brandishing a rifle?

Ah - The Dead Zone.

Not a rifle, a revolver.

Why aren’t her Anne of Green Gables films available on streaming in the US? They’re classics.

MEDDLING in other peoples affairs!

R14 No, not a lot. Most people look like their parents.

I think Campbell smiles like his mother. George was not much of a smiler.

She had a real presence and GRAVITAS.

She was a very handsome woman.

She was so handsome she looked like a man.

Her gravel voice was the inspiration for Harvey Feirstein.

My husband took piano lessons with Campbell when they were kids (Bedford, NY). His mother used to chat with Colleen while waiting for the lesson to be over. She said she was very nice and down to Earth. My husband didn’t like Campbell. None of the other kids did either. Said he was aloof and whined a lot.

R34- You do have to admit he had a nice ass in Longtime Companion when he took off hit bathing suit to swim in the ocean.

I would agree, R35!

Loved huh. A national treasure.

She was a Christian Scientist so she refused all medical treatment. Stupid, because the cervical cancer that killed her could've been easily treatable and survivable.

An actor I worked with told me he worked with her and George C. Scott, said nut job George got mad at her and chased her all around the theater and out the stage door and down the street.

I saw her in two plays (one was Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf) and tbh I liked her better on TV and in movies. She was okay onstage, I don't know why but I wasn't that impressed.

Someone upthread posted that Colleen looked like a man. She may not have aged well (or we unaccustomed to a naturally aged face), but she was a very attractive young woman and for a time had a sensuous/earthy quality.

And here...

I never thought she looked like a man. She did have a deep, rough-sounding voice.

Never looked like a man.

R34- Here it is- his Nice ass

Play the video

Loved her. I mentioned her name out loud a few days ago and suddenly heres a thread. I also mentioned im against people having kids for their own selfish reasons, and there was suddenly a thread. This happens a lot. Anyway i loved Coleen and Megan Follows in Anne of Green Gables...they just came out of nowhere one xmas yet so many people found it and loved it. 😍

[quote] Based on the life of Kitty O'Neil (Stockard Channing), a young girl who overcame her deafness to become one of the top stuntwomen in Hollywood, and the holder of the women's land-speed record for driving a rocket-powered racing car.

mother played by Colleen Dewhurst

She has some kind of speech impediment. Does she say her Vs like W?

R46 A glitch in the matrix.

Colleen Dewhurst - Sword of Gideon - 1986

She gave one of the greatest stage performances I've ever seen in A Moon For The Misbegotten, with Jason Robards and Ed Flanders.

I think she was one of our last "actresses" here in the states - they still exist in England. She was comfortable on stage (I've been told her work with O'Neill's scripts was tremendous). She could also do film and TV. She can be funny, incredibly scary and Anne's adoptive mother in Green Gables. Marvelous.

I saw her in "You Can't Take it With You" in NYC decades ago - delightful production. She was effervesant as the Russian countess, who arrives to make blintzes.

Wow, some of you are really fucking old to have seen her on stage.

Publisher: Scribner (April 29, 2002) Length: 400 pages ISBN13: 9780743242707

the degrees of separation.... seriously

I saw her onstage in "Moon for the Misbegotten." All I remember is that she was barefoot and had a big laugh and seemed to be an Earth Mother.

[quote] had a big laugh

from her big jaw.

She won her first Tony the first she was nominated, for "All the Way Home" in 1961.

r67 on mobile and streaming devices, you can find the movies on cinema, beetv, most of the questionable apks.

It might end up being the only place in a few years time without being split between exuberant fees for each service and costs for individual episodes skyrocketing with this... like paramount since creating their streaming network has seemingly scrubbed the net of the love boat. She was in two episodes. season 8 episode 11 & 12.

The NYT back in 1967 claimed that Colleen Dewhurst Outshone Ingrid Bergman in O'Neill Play.

I bet that was because Dewhurst kept on walking into Ingrid's light.

The Moon for the Misbegotten is one of those plays that you're supposed to admire but is a chore to sit through. Even with CD and Jason Robards in the cast.

r70 it is slow to start but has its moments midway thru

Her reaction at 9:00 in R67 is charming.

I was in New York in 1983 and saw You Can't Take it With You on stage. My strongest memory is Jason Robards walking in the street in the daytime and smiling at me as I passed and recognized him. My hotel was in the Broadway district.

Fantastic smokers voice. She was one tough broad.

Was she a self-centered megalomaniac?

[quote]My strongest memory is Jason Robards walking in the street in the daytime and smiling at me as I passed and recognized him. My hotel was in the Broadway district.

Fascinating. Start your own fucking thread.

r72 That was her gift, she could communicate so much with so little.

her acting itself was spotty at times in performance to performance but her body language, movement was always stellar. A lot of actresses are afraid to look ugly, afraid to react, afraid to laugh, screram or cry on camera or in front of an audience. She would let loose. Or with Marilla, so tightly wound and yet also fidgety, repressed and ready to explode. . . that quiver in her voice that sounded as if she was frustrated and on the verge of tears, whenever she spoke

r75 As much as any other performer. She was the stereotype of the bohemian artist with a touch of a sailor's wife or house madam. . . flightly and always moving, introspective and focused on her craft, with a whiskey voice and a cigarette always nearby, with bawdy stories to tell and a wild infectious laugh.

R78- That's the definition of a BROAD.

She was a classy broad.

A drunk George C. Scott would beat Colleen black and blue.

R77- You torture me. I was getting into the scene and the show and then the video ended.

r82 I've tried looking for popup free streaming options, even a few of the sites that play ads of the full thing. That bloody teachers dinner and Marilla's reaction....

or the 2nd one with frenemy teacher coworker -- I really wish they expanded on that story with Ms Brooks more...

Or Diana's great aunt and her love of Anne-girl... more so than her great niece.

George C. Scott beat the shit out of Ava Gardner when they were dating. Frank Sinatra intervened - he told Scott that if he ever went near Gardner again he would be a dead man.

She was absolutely lovely in person. I met her when she emceed a small fundraiser that was a private Natalie Cole concert. Randomly , it was hosted by the Limited’s Lex Wexner and we all met Jeffrey Epstein that night too. He was a nobody then, it was pre-island and only a little money. It was in the first couple of years of hanging out with Wexner.

r82

Respect.

R44 You really think that looks like a man?

She lacked discipline as a punching bag.

In two marriages to me.

I've always gotten a kick out of the fact that the two Emmys she won in 1989, for Murphy Brown and Those She Left Behind, were for performances that aired on the same night.

r85 did you rail lines with Natalie?

Her voice and Bergen's matched up well. Bergen's parents said the only thing she learned to do in her Swiss boarding school was smoke and drink.

We'll have to do a side thread on Candice Bergen, but Edgar and Frances were kinda cunts, weren't they?

r93

Here's a story about Colleen Dewhurst for you, OP.

When I was a young gayling watching Murphy Brown, I gasped with shocked delight when THE Marilla Cuthbert came on as Avery Brown. I may have even jumped up and down while clasping my chest. My father, who enjoyed watching Anne of Green Gables with me, was amused that I didn't realize she acted in other parts.

When she died, I was inconsolable, and sobbed when Murphy named the baby after her.

Not the type of story you were searching for, but the only one I have to offer. I will always adore that woman.

Gently, R95, do you allow your Dad's amusement might have been about something else entirely?

you can't take it with you (1984)

R97 - thanks for the link. That's the production I saw with my parents! Similar story to R95's but with a different actor. When the character Tony Kirby arrived on stage, I gasped, because it was the same actor who played Mike Roy on All My Children (and I loved Mike Roy) - Nicolas Surovy. For all of the famous people on stage, I thought it was so cool that Surovy was doing TV during the day and a Broadway show at night.

I loved that TV movie she did with Farrah Fawcett where she played Farrah’s mother in law.

[QUOTE]Her voice and Bergen's matched up well. Bergen's parents said the only thing she learned to do in her Swiss boarding school was smoke and drink.

This is BS about her voice. I smoked and drank and my voice hasn't changed in 40 years. Back when everyone smoked a lot, they all didn't sound like Colleen Dewhurst (or the older Lucille Ball). Those of you who push this line 24/7 ought to realize that.

There should be a Colleen Dewhurst Channel.

She was great in When a Stranger Calls. Colleen Dewhurst and Charles Durning turned the movie from C list to A list. Scary and wonderful.

[quote]Why aren’t her Anne of Green Gables films available on streaming in the US? They’re classics.

R26, they're available to rent or buy as stand-alone films, trilogy, or bundle on Gazebo, unfortunately, there is no option to buy only the first two films as a bundle. Gazebo also has free content:

[quote][bold]Free Previews of Anne of Green Gables[/bold] Enjoy the first 15 minutes of Anne of Green Gables for free.

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[quote][bold]Unforgettable Anne Moments:[/bold] A series of fans' favorite moments from the films.

[quote][bold]Green Gables: Behind The Scenes:[/bold] Exclusive never before seen archival footage. Find out everything you need to know about how the iconic Anne of Green Gables movies were created.

[quote][bold]The Missing Story of Marilla Cuthbert:[/bold] In this stand alone episode from Road to Avonlea, Marilla passes away and Rachel is left with Green Gables and the two young children they have adopted. This story provides the missing link in the chronology of the Green Gables films; between Anne of Avonlea (Anne II) and Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story (Anne III).

Registration is required to watch free content, I haven't watched any of it so I can't say how it is. I own the "Anne of Green Gables" and "Anne of Avonlea" DVDs but have also considered buying digital copies.

I defy you bitches not to mist up for this:

Or this... Dewhurst uses her voice like a delicately played instrument.

Her JAW is bigger and WIDER than Rachel Kempson's.

couldn't stand Megan Swallows

I saw her in Long Day’s Journey into Night.

Amazing

She was so totally miscast as Marilla.

Bullshit! Bullshit!

R110 To whom are you shrieking?

R109

R109- She WAS Marilla Cuthbert

Marilla Dewhurst

Collen Cuthbert

Much as I love Colleen, the quintessential Marilla was Helen Westley in the 1934 movie version.

Westley

Megan Follows was brilliant in Long Day's Journey Into Night.

R114, some of us weren't actually born then.

Colleen IS Marilla and Richard Farnsworth IS Matthew, even though he's an American.

R118 Thanks for getting us back to Colleen. I appreciate the opinions about actors in the same roles but the thread is about Colleen.

Is Colleen a true Irish colleen?

No, she was NOT Marilla. She was too hearty.

But then that whole series was a travesty.

I found this LAME ASS version of Anne Of Green Gables from 1975- TEN years before the best version. Anne is played by an actress who looks 35 years old. The Marilla in this sounds like an amateur in small town production. What sayeth the dl about this version?

Actually this is Anne Of Avonlea- Anne is still FAR too old and this version still SUCKS ASS.

[quote] SUCKS ASS.

An American slang idiom. Not to be done literally.

I work for one of the largest international film festivals in the Country, and a few years back she visited. She was connected to one of the independent films we had. She was lovely. She insisted we close the office at noon on a Saturday and took the entire staff and interns out to lunch (not cheap) - she was friendly and kind....loved her

Campbell was beautiful and should have had a bigger career.

Campbell was the Armie Hammer of his era.

[quote]Wow, some of you are really fucking old to have seen her on stage.

Tell us you're not the sharpest knife in the drawer without telling us you're not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

[quote]Wow, some of you are really fucking old to have seen her on stage.

Imagine how old that makes her!

That’s the BBC version of Anne of Avonlea. They also did Anne of Green Gables, but it’s lost.

She voiced Pazuzu in Exorcist III.

She was born in Canada.

This thread prompted me to read her autobiography, which is pretty good. She died before she finished writing it, so the editor Tom Viola interviewed her friends and family (including both sons and her last partner) and deftly interspersed their perspectives with her own. After she and George C. Scott divorced for the second time, a gay couple, antiques dealers she knew from Greenwich Village, moved in with her at "The Farm" in South Salem, NY, and helped raise her sons. Another gay man, whom she met when she was in Malibu and he knocked on her door randomly looking for work as a housecleaner, eventually moved to the Farm too and stayed for over a decade, trying to keep her chaotic house in order and in the process becoming a close friend. When she was President of Actors' Equity in the 1980s, she helped spur fundraising for AIDS support, and writes very movingly of the death of her friend the actor Orrin Reiley in 1984 at age 37, who was the first person she knew who had AIDS. She was a very loyal friend and by instinct a positive force in her personal and professional circles, although she memorably recounts her epic dust-ups with the directors Alan Schneider (on "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe") and Nikos Psacharopoulos (on "The Cherry Orchard"). Like Scott, she drank way too much for way too long, but sobered up in her last couple of years when she was battling cancer. Her mother had been a Christian Science "practitioner," and, surprisingly, her own misplaced faith in this religion led her to reject the advice of her oncologists. She worked for money when she had to, but even then would only take parts where she believed she could somehow create a interesting character, even if the script wasn't great. She had no regrets about turning down the role of Nurse Ratched in the movie "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," telling her disappointed agent who called her when Louise Fletcher won an Oscar for her performance, "Don't worry about it. I wouldn't have won it. You can't play someone you hate."

R133- What you said is very interesting. I can imagine her as Nurse Ratched. I can picture Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford as Nurse Ratched

DON'T FUCK WITH ME FELLAS!

I loved her so much as an actress. After seeing her play Murphy's mother and the mother in And Baby Makes Six, I wanted her as my mother. I truly think she brought realness and warmth to every character she played. Thank god for YouTube!

^I forgot to mention Ice Castles too. I haven't seen it in many years but I remember watching that movie over and over. Colleen was great and motherlike I remember.

Um, R135, don't ever watch the movie The Dead Zone... she's not very nice in that! And she plays a mother.

But I agree, she had a very warm quality that just cam off the screen.

It's that I gargle glass voice and the whole earth mother demeanour.

It's a real nice ham this year, Ma.

Colleen played mother to Candice, Diane and Stockard.

Today would have been her 100th birthday.

She was a teetotaler, she also recorded a lovey cover of Minnie Riperton's Loving You.

She was one of the greats.