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Piper Laurie (born Rosetta Jacobs; January 22, 1932 – October 14, 2023) was an American actress.She is known for her roles in the films The Hustler (1961), Carrie (1976), and Children of a Lesser God (1986), and the miniseries The Thorn Birds (1983).
Piper Laurie (born Rosetta Jacobs, 1932–2023), actress [425] Linda Lavin (born 1937), stage, film, and TV actress [426] Steve Lawrence (born Sidney Liebowitz, 1935–2024), singer and actor (The Carol Burnett Show) Shari Lewis (born Sonia Phyllis Hurwitz, 1933–1998), ventriloquist, puppeteer, and children's TV show host [427]
No Room for the Groom is a 1952 American comedy film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Tony Curtis, Piper Laurie, Don DeFore and Spring Byington. [1] The screenplay is based on the novel "My True Love" by Darwin Teilhet.
Piper Laurie, a three-time Oscar nominated actress who starred in “Carrie,” “The Hustler,” and “Twin Peaks,” has died at the age of 91. Laurie was “a beautiful human being and one of ...
Children of a Lesser God is a 1986 American romantic drama film directed by Randa Haines from a screenplay written by Hesper Anderson and Mark Medoff and based on Medoff's 1979 play. The film stars William Hurt, Marlee Matlin (in her film debut), Piper Laurie, and Philip Bosco.
It stars Nicol Williamson, Jean Marsh, Piper Laurie, and Fairuza Balk as Dorothy Gale in her first screen role. The film is an unofficial sequel to the 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film The Wizard of Oz , and it is based on L. Frank Baum 's early 20th century Oz novels , mainly being a combination of The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904) and Ozma of Oz ...
Until They Sail is a 1957 American black-and-white CinemaScope drama film directed by Robert Wise and starring Jean Simmons, Joan Fontaine, Paul Newman, Piper Laurie and Sandra Dee. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The screenplay by Robert Anderson , based on a story by James A. Michener included in his 1951 anthology Return to Paradise , focuses on four New ...
Piper Laurie, who blossomed as an actress only after extricating herself from the studio system and went on to rack up three Oscar nominations, has died. She was 91. Laurie’s manager Marion ...