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Sondra Locke's career was overshadowed by her relationship with Clint Eastwood, leading to her being virtually erased from Hollywood's history. Despite receiving star billing in Eastwood's films, Locke's directorial talent was evident, though her films were not successful at the box office. Locke faced backlash after her split from Eastwood, leading to her being blacklisted and her legacy being largely ignored by the media and Hollywood.

Sondra Locke received an Academy Award nomination for her screen acting debut in the 1968 drama film The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, in which she plays Mick Kelly, a teenage girl who befriends a deaf and mute man, played by Alan Arkin. Subsequent roles in the films A Reflection of Fear, The Second Coming of Suzanne, and Willard revealed Locke to be an adventurous young actress who possessed uncommon range and versatility.

However, Lockes career and life were forever altered in 1975, when...

‘Teach your children well’ they say, but Sondra Locke’s young girl in this show is the victim of parenting so bad it verges on criminal … John Lewis Carlino’s adult murder mystery has excellent imagery courtesy of director William A. Fraker and cameraman László Kovács. But the studio ‘made changes,’ removing explicit adult content and selling the show as horror even though it’s PG and has little to shock an audience. That leaves us with a carefully underplayed drama courtesy of Robert Shaw, Mary Ure, Sally Kellerman and Signe Hasso — and a twisted sex mystery that seems obvious from the get-go. The HD transfer restores Fraker’s elaborate imagery, making us wonder what his intended version might have been.

A Reflection of Fear

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Starring: Robert Shaw, Sally Kellerman, Mary Ure, Sondra Locke, Signe Hasso,...

Longtime Clint Eastwood fans will remember Sondra Locke as the iconic filmmaker's muse throughout the 70s and into the 80s. The pair starred in 6 movies together. She was also nominated for an Oscar. The actress has passed away at 74. She died in her Los Angeles home from cardiac arrest stemming from breast and bone cancer. The Associate Press declared her cause of death after obtaining the death certificate from the coroner's office.

While Clint Eastwood and Sondra Locke made quite a few very memorable movies together, the relationship ended on a bad note. After their partnership dissolved, Locke sued Eastwood for palimony, which turned into claims of fraud.

Before meeting Clint Eastwood, Locke made her big screen debut in the 1968 movie The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, starring opposite Alan Arkin. She was nominated for an Oscar for her portrayal of teenager Mick Kelly in the Robert Ellis Miller directed...

Actress Sondra Locke, who was Clint Eastwood‘s girlfriend for more than 13 years, has died. She was 74.

Locke, who was nominated for an Academy Award for her first film role in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, died on Nov. 3, according to Variety.

A rep for Locke did not immediately respond to People’s request for comment.

Locke began her career in 1967 when she won a nationwide talent search for a supporting role in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter opposite Alan Arkin.

Her portrayal of a sensitive 16-year-old earned her the Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress as well as two Golden Globe nominations.

Sondra Locke, who earned an Oscar nomination for her first film and went on to co-star with then-boyfriend — and later nemesis — Clint Eastwood in a half-dozen films, has died. She was 74.

Locke died November 3, but her death has just been reported. Radar Online first reported the news, saying she died of complications from breast and bone cancer.

Locke scored a Supporting Actress Oscar nom for 1968’s The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, her screen debut. She also picked a pair of Golden Globes noms for the film as Supporting Actress and Most Promising Newcomer.

She continued to work in film and television into the mid-1970s, when Eastwood cast her in his 1976 Western The Outlaw Josey Wales. They would go on to star together in The Gauntlet (1977), Bronco Billy (1980) and the Dirty Harry film Sudden Impact (1983) — all of which Eastwood also directed — along with the streetfighter romp Every Which Way but Loose...

Actress and director Sondra Locke, who received a supporting actress Oscar nomination in her first movie role for “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter,” died Nov. 3 at 74. The Los Angeles County Public Health Department confirmed her death.

She died due to breast and bone cancer, according to Radar Online, which reported that she was laid to rest at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park & Mortuary.

Locke had a contentious relationship of more than a decade with Clint Eastwood, who first cast her in “The Outlaw Josey Wales.”

Locke was born in 1944 as Sandra Louise Smith and raised in Shelbyville, Tenn. She changed her named to Sondra in her early 20s and won a nationwide talent search in 1967 for the part of teenager Mick Kelly in the movie adaptation of Carson McCullers’ novel “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.” Locke starred opposite Alan Arkin, who was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar.

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We pay tribute to Mary Yre, the star of stage and big-screen classics including Look Back In Anger and Where Eagles Dare...

There was something remote about Mary Ure that came across on screen so clearly. She looked untouchable, distant; she had great poise and enormous eyes that always contained a hint of wariness. A theatre actress in the main, she made very few films, but she always brought deeper meaning to the movies she was in, from action thrillers to science fiction, social drama or literary adaptations.

Always the supporting actress, her quiet ability to wring emotion from few words added a huge amount to these films. It’s so sad that she left behind only a few cinematic performances when she died at a young age, but here are five of her very best roles, and a reminder of how talented she was.