RIP Piper Laurie

All of that filthy touch in’ with his hands all over me. And I liked it! I liked it!

Excellent as Newman's doomed girlfriend in THE HUSTLER.

Best performance in a horror movie ever. She deserved an Oscar for Carrie.

She was also great on Twin Peaks!

Oh no! I'll be weeping into my dirty pillows tonight.

She was robbed of an Oscar for that performance

I saw her off Broadway in Larry Kramer's The Destiny of Me and she was unforgettable.

Beatrice Straight was excellent in her small role in Network, but Piper really should have won that year.

I should've killed myself when he put it in me. After the first time, before we were married, Ralph promised never again. He promised, and I believed him. But sin never dies. Sin never dies. At first, it was all right. We lived sinlessly. We slept in the same bed, but we never did it. And then, that night, I saw him looking down at me that way. We got down on our knees to pray for strength. I smelled the whiskey on his breath. Then he took me. He took me, with the stink of filthy roadhouse whiskey on his breath, and I liked it. I liked it! With all that dirty touching of his hands all over me.

Margaret now, Margaret forever.

She was awesome as the snarky Catherine Martell on Twin Peaks. A true DataLounger, that one!

I don’t think big yellow polka dots did her look any favors.

Great actress. RIP.

What is this huge wave of death of ancient actors this week?

She also had the good sense to not be in that stupid Twin Peaks Season 3. That whole thing was a horseload of nonsense.

Love her!!!!

RIP, Piper.

Quite big tits

She later regretted going public with this.

R13 she was 91. You’re gonna see a lot of deaths because all the “greats” and OGs are now old, if not dead already.

Piper appears @19:55 After The Hustler she never made another film until Carrie

Her small guest turn in Frasier was hysterical.

I’ll never look at another bottle of Mateus without thinking of her…

Fun fact: She was named after Sarah Palin's daughter.

Excellent as the psycho foster parent in LAW AND ORDER: SVU.

Aww! I'm so bummed she passed. I mostly remember her as the bats*it crazy, overly religious mother in "Carrie" (1976).

I just recently watched her on an episode of "Cold Case" (a really good, underrated show) called "Best Friends." Piper played an elderly woman (and a great-grandmother) who, as a teenager during the Great Depression, had a forbidden, secret lesbian relationship with Billie, a black, butch teenager that went missing in 1932. We find out later on in the episode what happened to Billie. The ending of the episode is very "Thelma & Louise" (minus the fact that one of them survives).

RIP Piper!

She was terrific in The Hustler as was the entire cast

She looked very good in the op pic

She appeared in Curtis Harrington's Ruby. A cheap Florida set horror film was quickly thrown together to capitalize on Carrie.

R26- That girl looks a bit like Andrea McArdle from ANNIE.

A great long life, but I’m still sad to lose an actor I really admired. She was just so different and made so many interesting choices in her craft. That’s really something inspiring.

RUBY was so weird because she ran a drive in movie.....and they were showing 'Attack of the 50-Foot Woman' about five years before it was actually made.

Kinda like when Annie and Warbucks went to Radio City Music Hall and saw 'Camille' two years before it was made.

A phenomenal actress. She had a great sense of humor about Carrie, and showed up to a number of the cast reunions for the film. Faye Dunaway, you could learn a thing or two from her.

OMG I’m so upset! I haven’t been this upset since Angela Lansbury and the Queen.

I just don’t know how I can go on!!!!!

Then don't.

R11, you magnificent bitch.

She was a Jewess

F&F for improper thread title format...

R29, Virgo?

Of course R36. Of course.

I wanted to BE her character in "Tim" and have a young, beautiful, dumb and full of cum Mel Gibson as my husband.

She was so, so good in The Hustler. A beautifully nuanced performance - she could have gone all hammy with the part and instead chose to understate it throughout, with magnificent results. I love her delicate, expressive features, too. An intelligent beauty.

I never liked when that Margaret White would come around here.

She also had a small role in The Faculty

R41 Oh, yes….

Piper Laurie & Mel Gibson from Tim (1979)

Her memoir (published in 2011) is an entertaining easy read. She's very frank about the ups and downs of her career and life.

RIP

Loved this lady. 44 yo here and loved her speaking voice- Carrie, Twin Peaks, she always came across so awesome in interviews too...

I am going to read that book! Thanks R44!!!!

I posted this before: excellent long interview from last year.

R46. Thank you so much for posting. So I guess we can't list Children of a Lesser God among our favorite films because Bill Hurt abused Marlee? Somehow the film is tainted now? Good heavens how foolish to ask Piper how she feels about the film after Marlee's accusations of abuse.

[quote] What is this huge wave of death of ancient actors this week?

I think people are thinking about the possibility that Trump might get elected president again, and they’re just losing the will to live.

She fucked Ronald Reagan and Jim Jones. Not at the same time.

R50, Jonestown Jim Jones?

Yes, she had an affair with Jim Jones in the 70s.

[quote]She also had a small role in The Faculty

Wonder if she had the hots for Josh Hartnett?

Let’s dig her up and ask her

[quote]r53 she had an affair with Jim Jones in the 70s.

While they were both married?

She costarred with Stuart Whitman in ”Ruby”… who’d played Jim Jones in “Guyana: Crime of the Century”

Her real name was Rosetta Jacobs.

[quote]she had an affair with Jim Jones in the 70s.

And I LIKED it!

She also played the horrible woman who gets murdered in the Peter Ustinov/Hercule Poirot film "Appointment with Death" in 1988. It also starred Lauren Bacall, Carrie Fisher, John Gielgud & Hayley Mills.

I love that she always said she thought Carrie was a comedy.

R56, There was also a made for television Jonestown movie, with Powers Booth, who won an Emmy as Jim Jones.

Her finest role

"Piper Laurie was born Rosetta Jacobs in Detroit, Michigan on January 22, 1932. Laurie was the younger of two children (both girls) of Alfred Jacobs, a furniture dealer, and his wife, Charlotte Sadie (née Alperin) Jacobs. Her paternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Poland and her maternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Russia.

Laurie was delivered, according to her 2011 autobiography Learning to Live Out Loud, in a one-bedroom walk-up on Tyler Street in Detroit, where the family lived."

I started watching The Grass Harp in her honor last night but had to turn it off after about 30 minutes...What a crappy film! Piper is wonderful in it and Sissy Spacek (Carrie reunion!) plays her bitchy sister but the direction and screenplay are all over the place. I later read it was directed by a talentless nepobaby Charles Matthau and it suddenly all made sense. Post-facelift Jack Lemmon appears in the movie too, showing his scary new face.

I then rewatched Has Anybody Seen My Gal? instead, the delightful Douglas Sirk comedy. Piper and Rock Hudson were such a beautiful couple in that one.

Loved her RIP

Piper was lucky to have such a fine looking first lover.

Why is Peri Gilpin wearing such ugly flat shoes in that Frasier clip? Did Wardrobe think the camera wouldn't catch them? Or is there some prior plot point they made?

Piper Laurie will now be perennially tied to Mark Goddard and British theatre star Keith Baxter in a Triumverate of Death.

I’m holding out for a better threesome.

R46- What a great interview, at 90 she was still extremely "with it" and an extremely gracious and kind woman. I enjoyed that very much.

You can tell that the movie business was NOT her reason for living. What a cool lady.

R27 that's Janit Baldwin in the poster @ R26 She made her film debut in 1972s Prime Cut starring Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman and Sissy Spacek

You can download the audio book of her memoir for free at the link below. It's almost 15 hours long but Miss Laurie's soothing voice makes every one of those hours a pleasure to listen to.

We’re so sorry about your mother Cassie.

Did she have Tony?

r74 Good question! Did she have Richard Beymer too as they had great onscreen chemistry in Twin Peaks?

R75 Beymer more likely had Piper's Hustler co star Paul Newman when they worked on Hemmingway's Adventures as a Young Man

r76 Oh? Strong gay rumours about Beymer is there?

Rumors about the never married Beymer? Yes!

I watched UNTIL THEY SAIL last night. Piper's attempt at a New Zealand accent was pretty horrible but damn - the woman was just oozing onscreen charisma! Once her character disappears from the story the movie gets much duller.

Sorry Piper, but we're talking about Matthew Perry now.

Matthew Perry? What, did he die or something? 🙄🥴🙄🥴

[quote] Matthew Perry? What, did he die or something?

I think there was a thread about it.

Poor Matthew such a wasted, unhappy sexless existence

R80 Seeing that chinless junkie Perry and the wonderful Miss Laurie mentioned in the same sentence makes me throw up in my mouth a bit.

(^.^) makes me want to take a dump in a hot tub!

[quote]Piper's attempt at a New Zealand accent was pretty horrible

Piper had such a strange way of speaking I can't imagine her mastering any accent

[quote]Sorry Piper, but we're talking about Matthew Perry now.

Piper must be paid the respect she's entitled to!