Eldergays, tell me about Sally Kirkland

She gives me the impression of an outcast weirdo who spent years desperately trying to infiltrate A-list Hollywood with limited success. I have read before that she was strange back in her heyday and is outright insane in her old age. I find her quite bizarre.

She called Becky a whore!

She's absolutely brilliant in the forgotten movie ANNA. Visibly pissed when Cher won the Oscar and she lost. I have a DVD of Anna and watch it a few times a year. Shame she didn't have a bigger career or at least a career that didn't involve guest shots on Charlie's Angels.

The award is presented by...Ann-Margret and Robert Wagner

She's definitely insane now and is a COVID anti-vaxxer. She's long been known as an actress who would attend the opening of an envelope.

Her website is quite a trip. She's an ordained minister, so if any DataLoungers are planning a wedding, Reverend Sally could officiate.

I was surprised to see here in a very tiny part in "80 For Brady". I think she has two lines.

She was in a very odd film called "Coming Apart," in which Rip Torn, playing a psychiatrist, filmed his therapy sessions in which he had sex with patients. It was courageous of her to appear in it.

Michael Musto always wrote snide things about her in the Village Voice.

I loved her well received cameo in Private Benjamin. "Who's your fwend?"

R2: I seen the clip, and her expression at Cher's named being announced gave me a good laugh.

She must have been a friend of Barbra since she has small parts in The Way We Were and A Star is Born.

The founding Goddess of COSTCO!

The way she’s just hovering around in the background…

She bounced around for years in NY and LA, working steadily but mostly in small parts/bit roles. Anna kind of came went as far as box office went but Kirkland got great reviews and once she won the la film critics award she asked the films studio if they would put a few for your consideration ads in the trades and launch an Oscar campaign. The studio told her they didn’t have the money so Kirkland financed most of her Oscar campaign herself.

She was always commenting on Kevin Sessums Facebook page. She was giving Norma Desmond vibes.

oh she closed her official website.

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To be fair to our Sally, who hasn’t been photographed with barbecue sauce on their chin?

She should have done a movie with Sylvia Miles and Teri Garr.

She's a lovable eccentric who now does Facebook Live videos on occasion and tells interesting stories about her life Hollywood. What's not to love?

I guess it was her penchant for showing up at awards shows that I first became aware of her, long before I’d seen her in anything as an actress.

There was another woman in the 70s or 80s who’d show up at all the awards show attention-grabbing see through gowns and the like. I don’t think that one was a legit actress, but I used to confuse her with Sally. I can’t think of the name - Evie or Edie maybe?

I'm not gonna try to be the contrarian, "deep" fashion critic. I don't know how to be that.

I also won't defend her fashion choices when she showed-up on the Academy Awards Red Carpet. Her get-ups, were, well, get-ups.

But, seriously, I'm not being condescending or "ironic" (ugh) when I say, I loved seeing her appearances on the Red Carpet.

There is something to be said about being the eccentric, memorable presence there and she is, almost, unsurpassed at that.

She told Howard Stern (while oddly attired and allowing him to massage her ass) that she'd been fucking Rip Torn for years prior to "Coming Apart" and claimed she was the one who suggested filming unsimulated sex.

In the same interview she blamed her cosmetic work on an accident ("like Ann-Margret"), which doesn't explain everything else she's done to it in the ensuing decades.

Ann-Margret's barely concealed eye roll when she sees Sally Kirkland's name on the envelope at about the 30-second point in OP's video pretty much tells the story about what Hollywood thought of her.

R20 Edie Williams. Sally Kirkland hated her. I love this clip of the Academy Awards where Sally's being interviewed and Edie barges in at the end to try and steal Sally's thunder.

I worked as a background artist on a UK film with her in 1990. It was a shockingly bad film called Bullseye, also staring Michael Caine and Roger Moore. Michael Winner directed it which tells you everything you need to know. Sally was a raging cunt on that film, I’d never heard of her before but she was obviously at the arse end of her days as a beauty.

Please tell us more, R25.

She was also very good alongside Jeffrey DeMunn in the TV movie The Haunted, one of the Warren franchise's haunted-house cases. DeMunn is assaulted by a demonic Medusa shapeshifter at 45:00:00.

Her Oscar campaign for Anna was notorious, one of the most aggressive. I think she wrote letters to every member.

She is ordained in the church of John-Roger, who is known as the New Age Philosopher of Love. She had a period where she got breast implants and starred in some steamy Skinemax type movies. My favorite was IN THE HEAT OF PASSION, in which she co-starred with fellow John-Roger follower Jsu Garcia aka Nick Corri.

Sally was an acting coach for many years, having taught for Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio for 20 years. It was Shelley Winters who got her into the Studio and mentored her. Sally, in turn, introduced Robert De Niro to the Studio, or so she claims. So, Miss Sally has been a showbiz insider despite not having a illustrious showbiz career.

Sally was the daughter of Vogue and Life magazine fashion editor Sally Kirkland and Philadelphia Main Liner Frederic McMichael Kirkland, and she graduated from Vassar College. Quite a pedigree, which may explain how she was able to sustain herself during those "struggling" actor years.

I get her mixed up with Sally Kellerman aka Hot Lips.

That GG clip is interesting. Rachel Levin who played Fran's friend Val on The Nanny was nominated for Best Actress in a drama for Gaby with Liv Ullman.

I enjoyed her in those trashy 1960s, 1970's Roger Corman pics like 'Big Bad Mama" with Angie Dickinson, William Shatner and Tom Skerritt (which had a bit of a homo erotic thing going on between Shatner and Skerritt)

Sally and Shelley, "Making it in Hollywood."

She performed the marriage of Shelly Winters to her long time companion hours before Shelly died and while Shelly was on her deathbed. How weird is that?

Damn Ann wasn’t remotely subtle. Was she going for comedic effect?

Sally Kirkland is one of my favorite crazy ladies along with Paul Prentiss and Sally Kellerman. I wish she hadn't destroyed he face with bad plastic surgery and humongous breast implants before she got old. Great voice - just like Paula and the other Sally.

Btw, Paula Prentiss' look a like/sound a like lesbian sister Ann Prentiss was certifiably crazy, and died in prison 20 years ago.

You just KNOW her house smells like cat piss.

And she doesn’t even have cats

I assume you mean the MOTHER graduated from Vassar.

One of her acting students was 80s porn god Rex Chandler.

Did she have a nose job? She looks different in the Shelley Winters chat. Plus comparing her career to Jill Clayburgh is funny. Jill was known to be a compliant actor - never caused any problems. Sally strikes me as high maintenance.

She was good friends with Lana Clarkson, who was killed by Phil Spector. Strongly defended her against accusations that she was depressed and was considering suicide.

She comes up in my Facebook feed and always looks like she’s laying down and ill. She sometimes responds to comments and well wishes. I don’t know if she’s really sick, or says on Facebook that she is for attention. She recognized that winning that Oscar would probably give her a new lease on life in Hollywood. As great as she was in Anna, it’s sad she went right back to B films after losing to Cher. She probably came in fourth or maybe even last that year.

R43 she has been claiming that she has been ill ever since she got the Moderna vaccine.

She looked so cute in the video with Shelley. It looks like she messed her face up with the wrong kind of rhinoplasty.

[quote]I think she wrote letters to every member.

I tried that too.

She is a very good actress and seems genuinely intelligent, but also desperate and a bit nuts. Her Oscar nomination and long list of credits is frequently brought up (by her) in interviews as though she must remind people. I am always wary of people who flaunt their accomplishments like that, even though I know it always comes from a place of insecurity.

R44 thx. I guess she’s milking her anti vaxxer bullshit then.

R20 The Landers Sisters? 👠👠👠👠

I used to confuse Sally Kirkland, Sally Kellerman.....

I remember a John Simon review that said something to the effect that you should go see her in this play as it will be one of the few times Kirkland isn't naked onstage.

BTW, she got her first kiss from Ted Koppel.

There's crazy, and then there's California crazy, and then there's this broad.

No one names their daughters Sally or Buffy or Babe anymore and that saddens me.

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Sally and Gerard Malanga:

She played Truvy on the 'Steel Magnolias' tv series.

r58 the pilot, of which there was only one episode.

No it ran for 12 seasons.

[quote]Did she have a nose job?

You're kidding right?

She’s like a Tracey Ullman character. Sweet but tragic and delusional.

Sally coming on to Corey Haim.

You mean Crazy Lonnie? She was gonna rip Kris’s head off because Big Aggie lied and said she threw her makeup bag in a mud puddle. Lonnie was one crazy bitch! Also a LESBIAN!!

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