She also briefly held the role of the mother of "Lassie's" second master Timmy (Jon Provost) until she was replaced late in her only season with the cast by June Lockhart due to contract disputes. Leachman appeared in many live television broadcasts in the 1950s, including such programs as Suspense and Studio One. Leachman's name was heavily publicized prior to the production's opening, and her name still appeared in the printed program a sign appeared at the box office in Wilmington noting the change. However, Leachman left the production the day before opening night in Wilmington, with Madeleine Sherwood assuming the role. The production played four preview performances at the Playhouse Theatre in Wilmington, Delaware, from January 15–17, 1953, prior to opening on Broadway on January 22. Leachman was slated to play the role of Abigail Williams in the original Broadway cast of Arthur Miller's seminal drama The Crucible. A few years later, she appeared in the Broadway-bound production of William Inge's Come Back, Little Sheba, but left the show before it reached Broadway when Katharine Hepburn asked her to co-star in a production of William Shakespeare's As You Like It. She had been cast as a replacement for the role of Nellie Forbush during the original run of Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific. Jon Shepodd, Jon Provost, and Cloris Leachman in Lassie (1957)Īfter winning a scholarship in the Miss America pageant, placing in the top 16, Leachman studied acting under Elia Kazan at the Actors Studio in New York City. She began appearing on television and in films shortly after competing in Miss America in 1946 as Miss Chicago. Īt Northwestern, she became a member of Gamma Phi Beta and was a classmate of future comic actors Paul Lynde and Charlotte Rae. After graduating from high school, she enrolled at Northwestern University in the School of Education.
Īs a teenager, Leachman appeared in plays by local youth on weekends at Drake University in Des Moines. Leachman attended Theodore Roosevelt High School. Their maternal grandmother was of Bohemian (Czech) descent. Her other sister, Mary, was not in show business. Her youngest sister, Claiborne Cary, was an actress and singer. Her father worked at the family-owned Leachman Lumber Company. Her parents were Cloris ( née Wallace) and Berkeley Claiborne "Buck" Leachman. Leachman was born on April 30, 1926, in Des Moines, Iowa, the eldest of three daughters. She wrote Cloris: My Autobiography (2009). Her other notable film and television credits include Gunsmoke (1961), The Twilight Zone (1961 2003), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), WUSA (1970), Yesterday (1981), the English-language dub of the Studio Ghibli's Castle in the Sky (1998), Spanglish (2004), Mrs. Leachman won additional Emmys for her role on The Mary Tyler Moore Show television film A Brand New Life (1973) the variety sketch show Cher (1975) the ABC Afterschool Special production The Woman Who Willed a Miracle (1983) and the television shows Promised Land (1998) and Malcolm in the Middle (2000–06).
She was part of Mel Brooks's ensemble cast, playing Frau Blücher in Young Frankenstein (1974) and Madame Defarge in History of the World, Part I (1981). In film, she appeared in Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show (1971) as the neglected wife of a closeted schoolteacher in the 1950s she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.
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After competing in the 1946 Miss America pageant, she secured a scholarship to study under Elia Kazan at the Actors Studio in New York City, making her professional debut in 1948. She also won an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe Award.īorn and raised in Des Moines, Iowa, Leachman attended Northwestern University and began appearing in local plays as a teenager.
She won many accolades, including eight Primetime Emmy Awards from 22 nominations, making her the most nominated and, along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, most awarded performer in Emmy history. Cloris Leachman (Ap– January 27, 2021) was an American actress and comedian whose career spanned nearly eight decades.
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