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Samantha Eggar is dead to me

I always liked her. RIP.

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by Anonymousreply 44October 18, 2025 8:34 PM

My eyes are green, my hair is auburn, and my hair is vivid red!

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by Anonymousreply 1October 17, 2025 4:33 PM

That’s too bad. It was just in the past year or so that I saw The Brood and The Collector. I was surprised that she was still around. 86 doesn't seem so old these days

She seemed very kind and always proud of her best work. There are documentaries on both movies I named and she appears in both.

by Anonymousreply 2October 17, 2025 4:34 PM

Too bad that “Falcon Crest” thing didn’t work out for her.

by Anonymousreply 3October 17, 2025 4:35 PM

[quote]My eyes are green, my hair is auburn, and my hair is vivid red!

Huh?

by Anonymousreply 4October 17, 2025 4:41 PM

It should have read "My eyes are green, my hair is auburn, and my dress is vivid red".

by Anonymousreply 5October 17, 2025 4:52 PM

Two months after her "The Collector" co-star Terence Stamp.

RIP

by Anonymousreply 6October 17, 2025 4:56 PM

She was "Beautiful"; a Life well Lived!!

by Anonymousreply 7October 17, 2025 5:00 PM

I thought she was the same person as Rula Lenska, am I mistaken?

by Anonymousreply 8October 17, 2025 5:04 PM

She was amazing in The Brood.

by Anonymousreply 9October 17, 2025 5:18 PM

I used to get Eggar and Diana Rigg mixed up.

I should add them to the actors who could play siblings thread.

by Anonymousreply 10October 17, 2025 5:25 PM

I have been a fan for a long time too. She was terrifying in The Brood. Also excellent in The Collector, and a lot of fun in the campy slasher movie Curtains.

by Anonymousreply 11October 17, 2025 5:34 PM

How did she die?

by Anonymousreply 12October 17, 2025 9:55 PM

Was she vaxxed?

by Anonymousreply 13October 17, 2025 10:04 PM

Claudia Cardinale, Diane Keaton and now Samantha Eggar. It does come in threes...

by Anonymousreply 14October 17, 2025 10:08 PM

D'Angelo would like a word with you R14.

by Anonymousreply 15October 17, 2025 10:10 PM

I remember when she played Finola Hughes’s aunt on All My Children.

by Anonymousreply 16October 17, 2025 10:29 PM

Variety.

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by Anonymousreply 17October 17, 2025 11:33 PM

She was so beautiful.

by Anonymousreply 18October 17, 2025 11:37 PM

The Collector is directed by William Wyler so naturally it is brilliant but ultimately a downer.

Another equally tortured character played by Sam was the sister in Psyche 59 which is on YouTube.

by Anonymousreply 19October 17, 2025 11:40 PM

Always liked her since I'm a little kid. I've seen most of her films. She always was to me the epitome of British grace and beauty. I'm glad she had a long life.

by Anonymousreply 20October 18, 2025 12:10 AM

People.

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by Anonymousreply 21October 18, 2025 12:15 AM

She was also in a made for tv version of Double Indemnity.

by Anonymousreply 22October 18, 2025 12:26 AM

Samantha Eggar, who played Doctor Doolittle's love interest Emma Fairfax, said of Rex Harrison, "Yes, he was unkind and vitriolic and very mean-spirited, but he was also very funny - until, of course, he turned on me, too."

by Anonymousreply 23October 18, 2025 12:28 AM

I hated the movie she was in with Terence Stamp, THE COLLECTOR. Hated the ending.

by Anonymousreply 24October 18, 2025 12:28 AM

Samantha in The Vintage Years (Falcon Crest's unaired pilot)

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by Anonymousreply 25October 18, 2025 12:28 AM

Ah she was dubbed in Doctor Dolittle. She in fact sang little.

by Anonymousreply 26October 18, 2025 12:32 AM

unforgettable in The Collector; Stamp was, too

by Anonymousreply 27October 18, 2025 12:37 AM

Psyche 59 trailer.

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by Anonymousreply 28October 18, 2025 12:42 AM

[quote]Victoria Louise Samantha Marie Elizabeth Therese Eggar

Good heavens.

by Anonymousreply 29October 18, 2025 12:52 AM

Psyche 59 is a rainy afternoon movie and quite perverse.

by Anonymousreply 30October 18, 2025 1:01 AM

Lovely, but no condolences.

by Anonymousreply 31October 18, 2025 1:05 AM

She made many movies in the 60s Dr Doolittle, The Collector, Return from the Ashes, The Walking Stick, The Molly Maguires, The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun

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by Anonymousreply 32October 18, 2025 2:23 AM

I watched The Collector and The Brood today and she did have range. It’s a shame she didn’t have a bigger career.

by Anonymousreply 33October 18, 2025 4:12 AM

[quote]Psyche 59 is a rainy afternoon movie and quite perverse.

Interesting movie.

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by Anonymousreply 34October 18, 2025 4:21 AM

Her ex died last year. His obit says he surfed until he was 90!

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by Anonymousreply 35October 18, 2025 4:33 AM

R34 Patricia Neal plays a disabled woman and the next year she had her strokes.

by Anonymousreply 36October 18, 2025 4:40 AM

Her Oscar nomination for "The Collector" was well-deserved. Great film and great performances from her and Terence Stamp. The novel that film is based on is also extremely disturbing but very well-written and compelling.

"The Brood" is also an incredible horror film. She was interviewed for the Criterion Collection release of it and I remember her saying that she felt the role was Shakespearean in structure, and she was kind of right. It's a disturbing performance and she really went all the way.

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by Anonymousreply 37October 18, 2025 5:32 AM

An interview.

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by Anonymousreply 38October 18, 2025 12:36 PM

Ooh she says 78% of the singing in Doolittle was her.

by Anonymousreply 39October 18, 2025 12:53 PM

[quote]I used to get Eggar and Diana Rigg mixed up. I should add them to the actors who could play siblings thread.

It's wonderful you've managed to be so active on the DL despite your blindness. I honor your pluck.

by Anonymousreply 40October 18, 2025 12:55 PM

2012 Cinecon interview.

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by Anonymousreply 41October 18, 2025 1:49 PM

[quote]Ooh she says 78% of the singing in Doolittle was her.

[quote]Samantha Eggar, who played Doctor Doolittle's love interest Emma Fairfax

[quote]She made many movies in the 60s Dr Doolittle

It's DOLITTLE, as in "do little" - get it?

You probably get Cruella DeVil (it's like DEVIL) wrong, too.

by Anonymousreply 42October 18, 2025 2:21 PM

I remember seeing "Walk, Don't Run" (with Cary Grant and Jim Hutton) as a kid and enjoying it, but as an adult I discovered the original version, "The More the Merrier," with Charles Coburn, Jean Arthur, and Joel McCrea, and it's far superior.

by Anonymousreply 43October 18, 2025 2:23 PM

Doo Littel was my drag name at my old shows in Jersey City in 1954, the bar where Chico Marx was appearing because he always was broke from gambling. I didn't dress like a doctor but I did close my "members only" Sunday set as a nurse stripping. I was a comedy queen. Every week. That's the one I left because the fatfuck house manager would pick one of us drag boys every week to give him a blowjob or no one got paid. I finally did my butch thing and socked him in the jaw twice with a sack of ballbearings late one night while wearing a hood and told him I was pimping the queens and no taking from what was mine. I really swung into it. The bar had an owner tied to the DeCavalcantes and the manager suspected me so I headed back to New Orleans where at least I could get some tourist trade and see Tarley again.

by Anonymousreply 44October 18, 2025 8:34 PM
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