Goodman graduate Barbara Harris was among the earliest members of Chicago's Second City improvisational troupe. Harris' "everybody's best friend" demeanor, her good looks and offbeat sense of humor assured her steady work both off and on Broadway. In 1967 she won a Tony Award for her work in the whimsical Broadway musical The Apple Tree. Harris made her film debut as the heart-on-sleeve social worker Sandra (which happened to be her real first name) in 1965's A Thousand Clowns. She then re-created her Broadway role in the hot-and-cold movie version of Arthur Kopit's Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad. In 1971, Harris was nominated for an Oscar for her performance in Who is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? (did she enjoy selecting films with long-winded titles?) Her subsequent film appearances were as infrequent as they were unpredictable. Only director Robert Altman would have had the inspired notion of casting the very urban Barbara as a country-western wannabe in Nashville (1975); and only Alfred Hitchcock would have come up with the brilliant idea of casting Barbara as a lovably crooked psychic in Family Plot (1976). Both were out-of-left-field casting choices, and both worked superbly -- a tribute not only to the directors' intuition but also to Barbara Harris' boundless versatility.
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Grosse Pointe Blank
Actor |
1997 | |||
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The Pamela Principle
Actor |
1991 | |||
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Casual Sex?
Voice |
1988 | |||
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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Actor |
1988 | |||
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Everybody's All-American
Actor |
1988 | |||
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The Return of Ben Casey
Actor |
1988 | |||
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Ghost of a Chance
Actor |
1987 | |||
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Nice Girls Don't Explode
Actor |
1987 | |||
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Nightstick
Actor |
1987 | |||
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Peggy Sue Got Married
Actor |
1986 | |||
| 1985 | ||||
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Night Magic
Actor |
1985 | |||
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Second-Hand Hearts
Actor |
1981 | |||
| 1979 | ||||
| 1979 | ||||
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Movie, Movie
Actor |
1978 | |||
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Family Plot
Actor |
1976 | |||
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Freaky Friday
Actor |
1976 | |||
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Nashville
Actor |
1975 | |||
| 1975 | ||||
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Mixed Company
Actor |
1974 | |||
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The War Between Men and Women
Actor, Songwriter |
1972 | |||
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Plaza Suite
Actor |
1971 | |||
| 1971 | ||||
| 1967 | ||||
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A Thousand Clowns
Actor |
1965 | |||
| 1961 | ||||
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