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Play Misty for Me is a 1971 American psychological thriller film directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, his directorial debut. Jessica Walter and Donna Mills co-star. The screenplay, written by regular Eastwood collaborators Jo Heims and Dean Riesner, follows a radio disc jockey (Eastwood) being stalked by an obsessed female fan (Walter).
Jessica Ann Walter (January 31, 1941 – March 24, 2021) was an American actress who appeared in more than 170 film, stage, and television productions.. In films, she was best known for her role as a psychotic and obsessed fan of a local disc jockey in the 1971 Clint Eastwood thriller, Play Misty for Me.
Play Misty for Me: Universal Pictures / The Malpaso Company: Clint Eastwood (director); Jo Heims, Dean Riesner (screenplay); Clint Eastwood, Jessica Walter, Donna Mills, John Larch, Jack Ging, Irene Hervey, James McEachin, Clarice Taylor, Donald Siegel, Johnny Otis, Joe Zawinul, Cannonball Adderley, Duke Everts, Britt Lind, Jack Kosslyn The ...
[2] [4] [10] [13] [15] Play Misty for Me was released in 1971, the year Eastwood also took the title role in the crime thriller Dirty Harry. Heims contributed to the story of the latter film, but she received no screen credit. [16] Heims married William Duffy in August 1972. [17]
Eastwood After Hours: Live at Carnegie Hall is a two-disc live album by American actor Clint Eastwood and various jazz musicians. Released on April 29, 1997, by Warner Bros. Records, it compiles material from Eastwood's film scores—including Play Misty for Me (1971), Honkytonk Man (1982), Bird (1988), Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser (1988), and White Hunter Black Heart (1990 ...
His instrumental ballad "Misty", his best-known composition, has become a jazz standard. It was first recorded in 1956 with Mitch Miller and his orchestra, and played a prominent part in the 1971 motion picture Play Misty for Me. [4] Scott Yanow of Allmusic calls him "one of the most distinctive of all pianists" and a "brilliant virtuoso". [5]
The Price You Got to Pay to Be Free is an album by the Cannonball Adderley Quintet recorded, in part, at the 1970 Monterey Jazz Festival.A portion of the performance is memorialized in the 1971 Clint Eastwood movie Play Misty For Me.
Hervey appeared in occasional minor film roles in her later career, such as Gene Saks's Cactus Flower (1969) and Clint Eastwood's thriller Play Misty for Me (1971). Hervey died on December 20, 1998, of heart failure in Los Angeles. She had two children, one of whom was pop singer Jack Jones.