WOW!
 
 
Oscar Nominee Sondra Locke Dies at 74
 
    11 hours ago by Dave McNary Variety
 
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.
 
 
Regards,
 
Roger

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