Sandy Dennis
Also Known As: Sandra Dale Dennis
Biography: Sandra Dale "Sandy" Dennis (April 27, 1937 – March 2, 1992) was an American actress. She made her film debut in the drama Splendor in the Grass (1961). For her performance in the comedy-drama film Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), she received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Dennis appeared in the films The Three Sisters (1966), Up the Down Staircase (1967), That Cold Day in the Park (1969), The Out-of-Towners (1970), God Told Me To (1976), The Four Seasons (1981), Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982), and Another Woman (1988). Her final film appearance came in the crime drama film The Indian Runner (1991). Dennis had a successful career on stage, appearing in the original stage production of Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. For her performance in the play A Thousand Clowns, she received the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. For her performance in the play Any Wednesday, she received the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sandy Dennis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hastings, Nebraska, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: April 27, 1937
Age: 88 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: March 02, 1992
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Overview: A history professor and his wife entertain a young couple who are new to the university's faculty. As the drinks flow, secrets come to light, and the middle-aged couple unload onto their guests the full force of the bitterness, dysfunction, and animosity that defines their marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-22
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The Out-of-Towners
Overview: George & Gwen Kellerman make a trip to New York, where George is going to start a new job, it turns out to be a trip to hell.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-28
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976-EVIL
Overview: A bullied unpopular high school student named Hoax finds an ad for 976-EVIL, a number that provides daily 'horrorscopes'. But when he calls the number he gains demonic powers, which he uses to seek vengeance against those who bullied him.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-09
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Another Woman
Overview: Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acoustic anomaly she can hear all that is said in the next apartment in which a psychiatrist holds his office. When she hears a young woman tell that she finds it harder and harder to bear her life, Marion starts to reflect on her own life. After a series of events she comes to understand how her unemotional attitude towards the people around her affected them and herself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-13
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God Told Me To
Overview: Devout Catholic detective Peter Nicholas investigates a series of murders around New York City, perpetrated by men who claim that God told them to do it. After the police department denies any religious underpinnings to the murders and suspends him, Nicholas begins to connect the murders to a messianic cult figure in town.
Genres: Crime Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-22
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The Four Seasons
Overview: Three middle-aged wealthy couples take vacations together in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Along the way we are treated to mid-life, marital, parental and other crises.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-22
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The Indian Runner
Overview: Two brothers cannot overcome their opposite perceptions of life. One brother sees and feels bad in everyone and everything, subsequently he is violent, antisocial and unable to appreciate or enjoy the good things which his brother desperately tries to point out to him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-20
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Parents
Overview: Michael is a young boy living in a typical 1950s suburbanite home... except for his bizarre and horrific nightmares, and continued unease around his parents. Young Michael begins to suspect his parents are cooking more than just hamburgers on the grill outside, but has trouble explaining his fears to his new-found friend Sheila, or the school's social worker.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-27
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Splendor in the Grass
Overview: A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-10
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Up the Down Staircase
Overview: Sylvia, a novice schoolteacher, is hired to teach English in a high school, but she’s met with an apathetic faculty, a delinquent student body and an administration that drowns its staff in paperwork. The following days go from bad to worse as Sylvia struggles to reach her most troubled students.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-06-28
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The Animals Film
Overview: The film offers a comprehensive examination of the exploitation of animals in modern society.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-10-01
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That Cold Day in the Park
Overview: Frances Austen, a young, wealthy spinster, invites a mute teenager into her apartment after finding him freezing in the park next to where she lives. Despite her best efforts, their lack of communication only increases her sense of loneliness, as her possessiveness spirals into frightening new realms.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-08
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Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
Overview: On the 20th anniversary of his death, the members of a James Dean fanclub gather at a five-and-dime for a reunion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-12
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The Fox
Overview: Jill Banford and Ellen March have built a good life together on a hardscrabble Canadian farm. Then handsome Paul Grenfell enters their isolated world, and sets friend against friend. But is Paul the real trouble between Jill and Ellen? Or has his presence merely awakened the unspoken, unexplored sexual tension that always existed between the women?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-13
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Something Evil
Overview: A young couple moves into a farmhouse in rural Pennsylvania. What they don't know is that there is an unseen presence in the house, and that it wants to take possession of the wife.
Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-21
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Sweet November
Overview: A woman refuses to let her romances last longer than one month.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-02-08
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Nasty Habits
Overview: In a Philadelphia convent, two nuns battle it out to be elected to the position of head abbess, and neither is about to let anything stand in the way of getting what she wants.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-28
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A Touch of Love
Overview: Intellectually driven doctoral student Rosamund Stacey, while undertaking graduate work at the British Museum, becomes pregnant after a brief affair with a television newsreader. Against the advice of her best friend, Lydia, Rosamund chooses to keep the baby and adjusts her life to include both her studies and her pregnancy. However, when the baby is born, an unforeseen complication threatens the self-sufficient life Rosamund plans for herself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-09-01
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The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever
Overview: A famous heart surgeon finds out that a medical research foundation is being used for shady and illegal purposes.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-12-16
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Mr. Sycamore
Overview: Jason Robards is a man who decides he'd rather be a tree.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-12
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The Execution
Overview: The members of a San Diego Wednesday night womens' mah jongg club are five survivors of a Nazi concentration camp. They recognize the owner of a local restaurant, Walter Grossman, as a doctor from the camp who performed experiments on them as young girls. To their horror they learn that he has already been tried as a war criminal and has served but a few years for his crimes. They decide that they will "execute" him, drawing lots to determine which one will perform the act, without letting the others know who it is.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-14
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Perfect Gentlemen
Overview: Women whose husbands are incarcerated decide to band together to rob a hotel safe.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-03-14
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A Hatful of Rain
Overview: A 1968 made-for-television remake of the 1957 film, based on the disturbing 1956 Michael V. Gazzo play, as performed by members of The Actors' Studio on ABC (American Broadcasting Company) television.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-03-03
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The Three Sisters
Overview: In a small Russian town at the turn of the century, three sisters and their brother live but dream daily of their return to their former home in Moscow, where life is charming and stimulating meaningful. But for now they exist in a malaise of dissatisfaction. Soldiers from the local military post provide them some companionship and society, but nothing can suffice to replace Moscow in their hopes. Andrei marries a provincial girl, Natasha, and begins to settle into a life of much less meaning than he had hoped. Natasha begins to run the family her way. Masha, though married, yearns for the sophisticated life and begins a dalliance with Vershinin, an army officer with a sick and suicidal wife. Even Irina, the freshest, most optimistic of the sisters, begins to waver in her dreams until, finally, tragedy strikes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Wilson's Reward
Overview: A missionary in the West Indies tries to change the ways of a drunken womanizer.
Genres: Drama Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-06-21
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