[33] Conversely, the media's running narrative was that Eastwood "left"[148] or "walked out on"[163] his wife for Locke as opposed to simply giving up the facade. [113] She was awarded the West Hollywood property (valued at $2.2 million), $450,000 cash and unspecified monthly support payments as well. Alan Rudolph, Keith Carradine, Sondra Locke and Jennifer Tilly in Person at the Music Hall for RAY MEETS HELEN. [209] By then, Locke had fired Garrity and hired Neil Papiano to represent her. Contradictory sources have either directly cited, or implied, every year from 1943 to 1950. "Eastwood is target of another Locke Lawsuit". As an all-American hero, he was untouchable; his public did not want to hear that he was flawed. She was nominated for her screen debut in "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter". Amid safety concerns, and anxiety over the fate of a $200 million movie, Paul Newman Says Wife Joanne Woodward Turned Him Into a Sexual Creature in Posthumous Memoir. She was nominated for her screen debut in "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" (1968), based. She starred with him in The Gauntlet (1977), as a prostitute escorted by a cop to testify in a mafia trial, and in the redneck comedies Every Which Way But Loose (1978) and its sequel Any Which Way You Can (1980) though they were both upstaged in those movies by their co-star, Clyde the orangutan. Save to an Ancestry Tree, a virtual cemetery, your clipboard for pasting or Print. I felt it was like social extortion of a kindblackmail or whatever you want to call it, he said. "[33] She had a maternal half-brother, Donald (born April 26, 1946) from Bayne's subsequent brief marriage to William B. Which is your favorite movie produced or executive produced by Albert S. Ruddy? The supercalifragilistic Lin-Manuel Miranda, The Golden Globes are quirkyand thats a good thing, How The Sopranos gave us Trump training wheels, Rockos Modern Life was even loonier than you thought, The years best movies,according to our critic. Read Full Obituary Guest Book -. [59] Dr. Walter Rowe Courtenay presided over the ceremony. "Eastwood getting a lock on Locke". [68][168][127][220][221] Unfazed by their 17-year age difference and that Locke was only three years younger than his mother[222][223] they soon went public with the romance, dining at paparazzi hotspot Spago on one of their early dates in November 1990. It was never my fameit was his fame. There was a problem getting your location. Sondra Elaine Locke, of Edmond, Oklahoma, passed away December 4, 2019. "Locke cries foul at producing deal". I only stood to lose professionally.. 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[246] "[She] lied so much during her brief but colorful career that when she lost her battle with cancer at age 74, I wondered if it was a publicity stunt," Reed wrote in an essay for Observer. Roderick Mann. [77] The Playboy layout established Locke's status as a sex symbol, and the images were recycled in other men's magazines as her fame increased. [33] "He didn't like the idea of me being away from him. Brad Schmitt. Vanity Fair may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. Over time Suzanne has developed a cult following,[33][69] while Reflection is cited as an early example of media portrayals of transgender people. "Sondra Locke: A match for the macho Clint Eastwood". [181] In 1979, at the age of 35, Locke underwent a tubal ligation at UCLA Medical Center, citing Eastwood's adamancy that parenthood would not fit into their lifestyle. [238], Cinematographer David Worth credits Locke with his big break. Newer Post Home CONTACT US Sandra went to the local high school, where she met Gordon. February 17, 2023 . Earl Wilson. Failed to remove flower. As news of Locke's passing broke, her relationship with Hollywood legend . Watson's period drama Our Very Own (2005) takes place in Shelbyville in 1978 and concerns a group of teenagers who want to meet Locke when she returns to town for the local premiere of Every Which Way but Loose. "Sondra Locke tries other side of the camera". [235] She was one of 11 female filmmakers in 1990, the year WB released her sophomore feature, Impulse. She was best known to film viewers as the co-star in such Clint Eastwood films as "The Outlaw Josey Wales" (1976), "The Gauntlet" (1977), and "Every Which Way But Loose" (1980). Please enter your email and password to sign in. [83] Shortly afterwards she passed on the lead in My Sweet Charlie (1970), which won an Emmy for its eventual star Patty Duke. Locke resented having her relationship with Eastwood labeled as an affair and being made to feel sordid as if she had "stolen" a married man, but did not contemporaneously refute such notions.[33]. The actress wrote in her autobiography that she found out he was her father "sometime during grammar school," but phrased all references to him in ambiguous past tense and evaded specifying years. Sondra Locke Obituary (1944 - 2018) - Legacy He really is a man of few words. Vernon Scott. Failed to delete memorial. This is a carousel with slides. She made it as part of a $150,000 three-picture deal with 20th Century Fox, and was compensated for the other two which never came to fruition. The Oscar-nominated actress had a long Hollywood careerand a turbulent relationship with Clint Eastwood, resulting in two acrimonious lawsuits. [210][v] The agreement with Warner Bros., Locke said, was "a happy ending. Watson decided to do the movie after performing a standup routine about Locke and about how people in Shelbyville were obsessed with her. Continuing with this request will add an alert to the cemetery page and any new volunteers will have the opportunity to fulfill your request. [20], Locke died at age 74 on November 3, 2018, at her Los Angeles home from cardiac arrest related to breast and bone cancer. "[128], After 13 years away from acting, Locke returned to the screen in 1999 with cameo roles in the straight-to-video films The Prophet's Game with Dennis Hopper and Clean and Narrow with Wings Hauser. [19] They remained married for 51 years until her death in 2018. In 1986, Locke made her feature directorial debut with Ratboy, a parable about a youth who is part rat and part human, produced by Eastwood's company Malpaso. [43] One student, Cameron Watson, was inspired by Locke and is now an actor/director. [27][42][51][f] Donald blamed Gordon Anderson Locke's best friend since adolescence and future husband for the rift, claiming Anderson had "an almost hypnotic spell on her. [230][235], During the last third of her life, Locke maintained she was blacklisted from the film industry as a result of her acrimonious split from Eastwood;[69][128] his career went forward unscathed. [99] She took a pay cut just to be in the film; her salary for Josey Wales was $18,000, less than half of what she'd earned for her previous job. cemeteries found within kilometers of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list. Besides "The Outlaw Josey Wales," "The Gauntlet," and "Every Which Way But Loose", she went on to appear in other films such as "Bronco Billy" (1980), "Any Which Way You Can" (1980), and "Sudden Impact" (1983). [33] When this became public knowledge a decade after the fact, Eastwood issued a statement: I adamantly deny and deeply resent the accusation that either one of those abortions or the tubal ligation were done at my demand, request or even suggestion. Bart Mills. [224] Cunneen moved in with her in the spring of 1991. [234] In absence of any explanation, many surmised that Locke had to have requested the blackout in her final wishes, perhaps to keep her true age from being exposed. [46], In or around 1963,[47] Locke essentially broke off contact with her family, concluding: "It made no sense for any of us to spend our lives pretending to have relationships that did not really exist. [33], Given that Locke waited decades to confirm that her marriage was platonic, most of her actual romantic attachments went unpublicized. Sondra Locke: Clint Eastwood's Former Longtime Lover Has Died At 74 [144][n], Locke had known Anderson since at least the late 1950s; accounts as to when they met vary by as much as four years. Theyre one of Hollywoods brightest starsand most troubled actors. [41] Peggy Garrity, Locke's former counsel, recalled the courtroom drama in her book In the Game: The Highs and Lows of a Trailblazing Trial Lawyer (2016). 30 Vintage Photos of a Young and Beautiful Sondra Locke, Clint Eastwood "[128] The book received a supportive rave review from New York Daily News writer Liz Smith,[129] while Entertainment Weekly's Dana Kennedy dismissed the book as a "peculiar, not terribly consequential, life story. "Locke Is Big With Eastwood". I thought you might like to see a memorial for Sondra Locke I found on Findagrave.com. I was very young,[p] but I had come to feel that, for me, sex was the least important element in a relationship and the one thing that time had proven to me was that my love for Gordon came from such a deeply connected place that it transcended everything else. [123] When asked why she'd been absent from her longtime beau's recent star vehicles, Locke replied simply, "I wasn't right for the roles. Jacobs, Julia. cremated remains buried on Nov 9th by husband Gordon Anderson, Your Scrapbook is currently empty. Born Sandra Louise Smith, she spent a year at Middle Tennessee State University before a friend helped her prepare for a role in the 1968. [84], In 1971, Locke co-starred with Bruce Davison and Ernest Borgnine in the psychological thriller Willard, which became a surprise box office smash. [63] She won "Most Promising New Star of the Year" at the Show-A-Rama film exhibitor convention. He's said things that were hurtful to my character and hurtful to me professionally. Clint Eastwood: The Director-King of Hollywood. [135], In 1992, Locke served as honorary chairwoman for the "Starry, Starry Night" silent auction in Costa Mesa, California to benefit Human Options, a shelter for victims of domestic violence. [155] She started as secretary to Tom Griscom in local sales for WSM Radio. Use the links under See more to quickly search for other people with the same last name in the same cemetery, city, county, etc. Chapel Hill Funeral Home & Memorial Gardens. By 1989, it was clear the relationship was falling apart, she said. For years, Sondra worked in lock-step with Clint and, to hear her tell it, she helped him with his projects. [202] Locke said that she "was stunned and outraged at the way I had been tricked and cheated a second time. Flowers added to the memorial appear on the bottom of the memorial or here on the Flowers tab. In 1945, Locke briefly took the surname of her then-stepfather, Elkins, before her mother changed it again in 1948. After news broke that Locke had died of cancer last month, The Hollywood Reporterran an obituary on the actress with the headline Actress Sondra Locke, Embittered Ex of Clint Eastwood, Dies at 74. . [101][102][103] She followed it up with a lead role alongside Eastwood in the popular action film The Gauntlet (1977), the duo replacing Steve McQueen and Barbra Streisand, who bowed out from the production owing to a reported clash of egos. Stanley Eichelbaum. Try again later. It was much preferable to the sadistic thriller Sudden Impact (1983), the fourth in the Dirty Harry series of films about a renegade cop, in which Locke played a victim of rape turned violent avenger.