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Play Misty for Me is a 1971 American psychological horror 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 (Walte
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.
Heims drafted a 60-page screenplay for Play Misty for Me, a psychological thriller that would soon become Eastwood's directorial debut. The plot follows a radio disc jockey who becomes a stalking victim of an obsessed, female fan. Heims based the latter character on a woman she knew after it was suggested to her by an acquaintance.
He played the deejay Sweet Al Monte in Play Misty for Me with Clint Eastwood. In 1973, he starred as Harry Tenafly, the title character in Tenafly, a short-lived detective series about a police officer turned private detective who relied on his wits and hard work rather than guns and fistfights.
The line "Play 'Misty' for me" contains a double-allusion: to Erroll Garner's 1954 jazz standard "Misty" as well as the 1971 film Play Misty for Me, a thriller about a disc jockey being stalked by a fan, which was directed by Clint Eastwood (whose 1980 film Bronco Billy Dylan had quoted in his 1985 song "Seeing the Real You at Last"). [62]
The Play Misty for Me star tells The Daily Beast she and Larry had a disagreement about what kind of photos to provide the outlet for the feature interview.
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