The late actress Sandy Dennis

[BootinUp]

whom I only just "discovered" in an 80's tv show, was something else. Won an Oscar even. Watch this clip of her and Gena Rowlands.

[elleng]

1. She was good,

appeared in Dennis appeared in the films Up the Down Staircase (1967), The Fox (1967), Sweet November (1968), That Cold Day in the Park (1969), The Out-of-Towners (1970), God Told Me To (1976), The Four Seasons (1981), Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982), and Another Woman (1988).

[BootinUp]

2. Adding: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966)

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She won the Academy award for Best Supporting Actress in that.

[jayschool2013]

3. Graduated from high school

She grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska and graduated from Lincoln High School with Dick Cavett in 1955.

[nuxvomica]

4. She looks like Olivia Colman there

I remember her fondly, especially in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, one of my favorite movies.

[ashredux]

5. I had the pleasure of meeting her, and spending some time with her. She was extremely talented, and extremely gracious

She had great success, but was very firmly grounded and was very “non-diva”….