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Sondra Locke

April 23, 2023

Sandra Louise Anderson (née Smith; May 28, 1944 – November 3, 2018), professionally known as Sondra Locke, was an American actress and director. She achieved recognition for her relationship with Clint Eastwood and the six hit films they made together.

Sondra Locke
Locke in 1968
Born
Sandra Louise Smith

(1944-05-28)May 28, 1944
Shelbyville, Tennessee, U.S.
DiedNovember 3, 2018(2018-11-03) (aged 74)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Other names
  • Sandra Elkins
  • Sandra Locke
  • Sondra Anderson
Alma materMiddle Tennessee State University
Occupations
  • Actress
  • director
Years active
  • 1962–1999
  • 2016
Agents
Spouse
Gordon Anderson
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(m. 1967)​
Partner(s)Clint Eastwood (1975–1989)
Scott Cunneen (1990–?)
Signature

An alumna of Middle Tennessee State University, Locke broke into regional show business with assorted posts at the Nashville-based radio station WSM-AM, then segued into television as a promotions assistant for WSM-TV. In 1968, she made her film debut in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Locke went on to appear in such box office successes as Willard (1971), The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), The Gauntlet (1977), Every Which Way but Loose (1978), Bronco Billy (1980), Any Which Way You Can (1980) and Sudden Impact (1983). She worked regularly with Eastwood, who was her companion for 14 years despite their marriages to other people. She also directed four films, notably Impulse (1990), and published an autobiography, The Good, the Bad, and the Very Ugly: A Hollywood Journey (1997).

Locke's persona belied her age, and she habitually played roles written for women much younger than herself. She claimed to have been born several years later than 1944, and her true age remained a secret throughout her career.[1] For reasons never made clear, her death was not publicly announced, and was only confirmed by vital statistics six weeks after she died of cardiac arrest at the age of 74.[2]

Background, early life and education

Sandra Louise Smith was born on May 28, 1944,[a][b] the daughter of New York City native Raymond Smith, then a soldier stationed at Camp Forrest,[c] and Pauline Bayne, a pencil factory worker from Huntsville, Alabama, who was of mostly Scottish descent, with matrilineages in South Carolina extending back to the late 18th century.[31] Locke's parents separated before her birth.[32] In her autobiography, Locke noted that "although Momma would not admit it, I knew Mr. Smith never married my mother."[33] She had a maternal half-brother, Donald (born April 26, 1946) from Bayne's subsequent brief marriage to William B. Elkins.[34][d] When Bayne married Alfred Locke in 1948, Sandra and Donald assumed his surname.[36][e] She grew up in Shelbyville, Tennessee, where her stepfather owned a construction company;[37] the family later moved to nearby Wartrace.[38] Self-described as introspective[39] and ambitious,[40] Locke started working part-time at age 16, drove her own car, and had a phone installed in her bedroom.[33]

 
Locke's yearbook photo, 1960

Locke was a cheerleader and class valedictorian in junior high.[41] From 1958, she attended Shelbyville Central High School, where she was again valedictorian and voted "Duchess of Studiousness" by classmates.[42] She also played on the girls' basketball team, served as PTSA representative and was president of the French club.[21][22][23][24] Despite this, she wasn't considered "date material" by the more socially prominent boys in her class.[7] Following graduation in 1962, Locke enrolled at Middle Tennessee State University (then Middle Tennessee State College) in Murfreesboro on a full scholarship.[33] Majoring in drama,[43] she was a member of the Alpha Psi Omega honor society while at MTSU and appeared on stage in Life with Father and The Crucible.[38][44][45] She dropped out after completing two semesters of study.[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."[32] She never knew her biological father,[48] and did not attend the funerals of her mother (deceased 1997)[49] or stepfather (deceased 2007),[50] nor did she have anything to do with her brother, sister-in-law and three nieces.[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."[42]

Locke held a variety of jobs, including as a bookkeeper for Tyson Foods and secretary in a real-estate office.[33] For a time she lived in the commuter town of Gallatin.[53] In 1964, she joined the staff at radio station WSM-AM 650 in Nashville and was promoted to its television affiliate WSM-Channel 4 the following year.[42][54][55][56] Locke's biggest coup while employed there was hosting actor Robert Loggia when Loggia visited Nashville to promote his TV pilot T.H.E. Cat, during which he "flirted outrageously" with Locke.[33] She also modeled for The Tennessean fashion page, acted in commercials for Rich-Schwartz ladies apparel and Southerland Gel mattresses, among others, and gained further stage experience in productions for Circle Players Inc.[42][57] In 1966, the 22-year-old appeared in a UPI wire photo that showed her cavorting in new fallen snow.[58] Within one year of this exposure, she decided to pursue a career in film and changed the spelling of her first name to avoid being called Sandy.[57]

Career

Rise to prominence

In July 1967, Locke competed with 590 other Southern actresses and dozens of New York hopefuls for the part of Mick Kelly in a big-screen adaptation of Carson McCullers' novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter opposite Alan Arkin.[59][g] For the first audition in Birmingham, then-fiancé Gordon Anderson gave his bride a so-called Hollywood makeover: he bound her bosom,[61] bleached her eyebrows[33] and carefully fixed her hair, makeup and outfit so as to create a more gamine appearance.[62] They also lied about her age, shaving off six years to make her seem younger[63][h] – a pretense Locke would keep up for the rest of her career.[i] After callbacks in New Orleans and Manhattan, she was cast in the role by recommendation from Marion Dougherty.[59][71]

The film came out in the summer of 1968 to critical acclaim.[72] Locke's performance garnered her an Academy Award nomination, as well as a pair of Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actress and Most Promising Newcomer – Female.[73][74][j] Being the oldest nominee in the latter category, she concealed that distinction through retconning with aid from studio publicists.[63] She won "Most Promising New Star of the Year" at the Show-A-Rama film exhibitor convention.[75] Although her salary for the film was reported in newspapers as $15,000, Locke later claimed it was less than one-third that amount.[33]

Commercial ups and downs, missed roles, TV work

 
From the 1973 PBS installment Gondola

Hoping to shed the plain image she accentuated in her screen debut, in January 1969 Locke posed for a semi-nude pictorial by photographer Frank Bez,[76] which was published in the December issue of Playboy.[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. Nearly three decades later, Locke said she still got those photos in fan mail requesting her autograph.[33]

Her next role was as Melisse in Cover Me Babe (1970), originally titled Run Shadow Run,[78] opposite Robert Forster. 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.[79][80] It was announced that she would play the lead in Lovemakers – a film adaptation of Robert Nathan's novel The Color of Evening – but no movie resulted.[81][82] Locke was offered Barbara Hershey's role in Last Summer (1969), but her management turned it down without telling her.[83] Shortly afterwards she passed on the lead in My Sweet Charlie (1970), which won an Emmy for its eventual star Patty Duke.[84]

 
With David Carradine in Kung Fu, 1974

In 1971, Locke co-starred with Bruce Davison and Ernest Borgnine in the psychological thriller Willard, which became a surprise box office smash.[85] Locke felt overqualified for her role but did it as a favor to Davison,[69] who at the time was her unofficial paramour.[86][87] She was then featured in William A. Fraker's underseen mystery A Reflection of Fear (1972), which required her to project the image of a character nearly half her age, and held the title role in The Second Coming of Suzanne (1974), winner of three gold medals at the Atlanta Film Festival.[88] Both films were shelved for two years before finally opening in arthouse cinemas, attracting little attention at first. Over time Suzanne has developed a cult following,[33][69] while Reflection is cited as an early example of media portrayals of transgender people.[89][k]

In 1973, Locke was attached to star in Terminal Circle. "It's a woman's role that comes along once in a lifetime," she said.[91] The San Francisco-set drama was to be directed by Mal Karman and shot by cinematographer Robert Primes, who did camerawork for Gimme Shelter, but it was scrapped for lack of funds.[91] She was up for a big part in Earthquake (1974), but lost out to Geneviève Bujold.[92]

Locke guested on top-rated television drama series throughout the first half of the 1970s, including The F.B.I., Cannon (as two different characters), Barnaby Jones and Kung Fu. She was advised by her agents to stay away from TV, but thought it foolish to sit around not working between films.[93] In the 1972 Night Gallery episode "A Feast of Blood",[94] she played the victim of a curse planted by Norman Lloyd; the recipient of a brooch that devoured her. Lloyd acted with Locke again in Gondola (1973), a racially themed, three-character teleplay co-starring Bo Hopkins, and commended the actress for "a beautiful performance – perhaps her best ever."[95] Ron Harper, who worked with Locke on the short-lived 1974 show Planet of the Apes, was even more effusive: "After acting with her in a couple of scenes, there was something so feminine about her that I could picture myself easily falling for her ... She's one of those women who exudes femininity, and you just become so attracted to that."[96]

Films with Clint Eastwood

In 1975, Locke was cast in the western film The Outlaw Josey Wales as the love interest of Clint Eastwood's eponymous character.[97] Locke said she chose the role for its exposure,[98] following a run of unremarkable credits.[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.[100] The film was one of the top 15 grossing films of 1976 and revived Locke's career.[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.[104] Its pre-publicity touted Locke as "the first actress ever to be in a Clint Eastwood movie and get equal billing on screen with the macho star."[105] Eastwood predicted that she would win an Oscar for her performance.[106] Locke wasn't even nominated and received mixed critical response at best: on the upside, Vincent Canby of The New York Times said "Locke is not only pretty, but also occasionally genuinely funny"[107] and Los Angeles Times critic Kevin Thomas stated that Locke "has not received such a rich opportunity since her Academy Award-nominated debut";[108] in contrast, Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune said "she's wasted here"[109] and TV Guide felt that "Locke is simply repulsive."[110]

 
Eastwood and Locke in The Gauntlet (1977)

Over the course of their decade-and-a-half-long personal relationship, Locke did not work in any capacity on any theatrical motion picture other than with Eastwood except for 1977's experimental horror western The Shadow of Chikara.[111] The home invasion film Death Game (1977), though released after they became an item, was actually shot in 1974.[112] "Clint wanted me to work only with him," said Locke.[33] "He didn't like the idea of me being away from him."[113]

In 1978, Locke and Eastwood appeared with an orangutan named Clyde in that year's fourth highest-grossing film, Every Which Way but Loose.[114] She portrayed country singer Lynn Halsey-Taylor in the adventure-comedy. Its 1980 sequel Any Which Way You Can – for which Locke earned a six-figure salary plus a share of the profits[100] – was nearly as successful.[115] Locke recorded several songs for the soundtracks of these films and was whispered to be shopping for a record deal at the time. On the coattails of the franchise's success, she performed live in concert (one-off gigs) with The Everly Brothers, Eddie Rabbitt and Tom Jones.[116]

During this period, Eastwood did a few movies that had no prominent female character for Locke to play. In the meantime, she accepted some television offers, co-starring with an all-female ensemble cast in Friendships, Secrets and Lies (1979) and portraying big band era vocalist Rosemary Clooney in Rosie: The Rosemary Clooney Story (1982).[117] While the biopic followed Clooney from ages 17 to 40, Locke was 38 when she played the role, and though hardly counting as a proper exception due to its nonlinear structure, this marked the only time she played a mother onscreen.

Locke starred as a bitter heiress who joins a traveling Wild West show in Bronco Billy (1980), her only film with Eastwood not to reach blockbuster status, though it still ranked among the annual box office top 25.[115] The New York Times critic Janet Maslin noticed that "each of them works more delicately here than they have together previously."[118] Locke cited Bronco Billy and The Outlaw Josey Wales as her favorites of the movies they made.[119] The couple's final collaboration as performers was Sudden Impact (1983), the highest-grossing film in the Dirty Harry franchise,[120] in which Locke played an artist with her own code of vigilante justice. Her fee was a reported $350,000.[100]

Locke never appeared in a wide release after Sudden Impact.[121] The film premiered five months before her 40th birthday. Locke announced plans to develop and star in a movie about Marie Antoinette, but the project fell apart.[122] Eastwood then directed Locke in a 1985 Amazing Stories episode entitled "Vanessa in the Garden".

Directing

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.[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."[124][l] Ratboy had limited distribution in the United States, where it was a critical and financial flop, but was well received in Europe, with French newspaper Le Parisien calling it the highlight of the Deauville Film Festival.[125]

Locke's second foray behind the camera was Impulse (1990), starring Theresa Russell as a police officer on the vice squad who goes undercover as a prostitute. Siskel & Ebert gave the film "two thumbs up".[126] In a subsequent interview with Siskel, Locke said she wasn't eager to act again. "If you love the craft of filmmaking as much as I do, it's hard to go back to acting after you've tasted the high of directing."[9]

After a long interruption in her career due to legal difficulties and health issues, Locke directed the made-for-television film Death in Small Doses (1995), based on a true story, and the independent feature Trading Favors (1997), starring Rosanna Arquette.

Memoir and final projects

In 1997, Locke's autobiography The Good, the Bad, and the Very Ugly: A Hollywood Journey was published by William Morrow and Company. In it she called Eastwood "a completely evil, manipulating, lying excuse for a man."[32] Eastwood's lawyers sent a warning letter to the publisher, and although no slander charges arose, Entertainment Tonight canceled a scheduled interview with Locke.[127] She was also bumped from The Oprah Winfrey Show and, in her words, "shut out of most venues to promote the book, in particular the networks."[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."[130]

Locke told a Spanish website that she'd been informed Entertainment Weekly originally planned to publish a positive review, but for reasons unclear, it was pulled and a negative review appeared instead.[128] The Advocate, a monthly LGBT-interest magazine, was set to do a big article on Locke's book; suddenly and uncharacteristically, Eastwood gave The Advocate an interview, and they decided not to run the piece.[128] She reflected in 2012: "Clint has said so many bad things about me to the media since we split up, and he has so much more access and power to do that. He's said things that were hurtful to my character and hurtful to me professionally."[131] Locke was nonetheless grateful to have a platform at all, stating: "It was a miracle that a major publisher took it."[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. In 2014, it was announced that Locke would serve as an executive producer on the Eli Roth film Knock Knock, starring Keanu Reeves.[132] She came out of retirement once more in 2016, shooting Alan Rudolph's indie Ray Meets Helen with Keith Carradine.[133] The film was screened at Laemmle Music Hall on May 6, 2018, less than six months before Locke died.[134]

Philanthropy

During her tenure at WSM, Locke participated in the annual United Cerebral Palsy (UCP) telethons. One year, she toured Birmingham with folk singer Richard Law.[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. "Being a woman I have great empathy for these women. I can understand how stranded they must feel, how hard it is to change one's life," Locke said.[136]

Personal life

Marriage

On September 25, 1967,[61] Locke married sculptor Gordon Leigh Anderson[m] (born August 2, 1944, Batesville, Arkansas) at the First Presbyterian Church in Nashville,[143] one week after The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter commenced principal photography.[59] Dr. Walter Rowe Courtenay presided over the ceremony.[19] They remained married for 51 years until her death in 2018.[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.[o] In early 1969, as Locke was flooded with script offers after her Oscar nomination, she and Anderson left Tennessee and moved into a condo at The Andalusia in West Hollywood.[33]

According to a 1989 affidavit, the marriage was "tantamount to sister and brother" and they never consummated it.[147] Anderson was gay.[148][149][150][151] Locke, testifying under oath to a jury, characterized her husband as being "more like a sister to me" and explained, "it's funny the sort of cultural changes, but in those days males and females never lived together unless they were married."[152] According to her death certificate, the two were residing at the same address when she died,[20] and he was the person who reported her death.[153]

Anderson is a central presence in Locke's autobiography, but she doesn't elaborate on her reasons for marrying him beyond the following passage:

However conventional or unconventional our marriage might turn out to be honestly did not concern me that much. 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.[33]

Relationships

Given that Locke waited decades to confirm that her marriage was platonic, most of her actual romantic attachments went unpublicized. In the mid-1960s, she dated her supervisor at WSM-TV's PR department, Brad Crandall (1920–1973).[155] She started as secretary to Tom Griscom in local sales for WSM Radio.[156] According to co-worker Alan Nelson, who died eight months after Locke, he and other staff members believed her promotion resulted from nepotism.[157]

George Crook, a cameraman for WSM, squired Locke to Nashville society events including the 1965 hunt ball.[158][159] He later got into local politics and was elected mayor of Belle Meade in 2000.[160] Another early boyfriend, personal injury attorney Gary Gober,[161] starred with Locke in Circle Players' productions while attending Vanderbilt University Law School.[137][138] Locke also dated a sculptor (she did not name him) prior to marrying Anderson.[33]

During her marriage, Locke was rumored to have been linked amorously to co-stars Robert Fields (Cover Me Babe), Bruce Davison (Willard), Paul Sand (The Second Coming of Suzanne) and Bo Hopkins (Gondola), as well as producer Hawk Koch, real estate agent Herb Goldfarb, and John F. Kennedy's nephew Robert Shriver.[86][162][163][164][q] For a while in the early 1970s, she shared a liaison with married actor David Soul after they played siblings in an episode of Cannon.[166]

Locke referred to these intervals as "casually exploring for a romantic relationship," noting that she had not fallen in love with any of the men. "Love ... was not something to search out actively; it finds you, I believed."[33]

Life with Eastwood

 
Chief Dan George with Locke and Eastwood at a barbecue in Santa Fe, New Mexico promoting The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)

Locke and actor/director Clint Eastwood entered a domestic partnership in October 1975.[41] She first met Eastwood in 1972 when she unsuccessfully lobbied for the title role in his film Breezy (1973);[167] they became involved upon arrival at the shooting location of The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) in Page, Arizona.[48] "It was just an immediate attraction between the two of us," Locke recalled in a 2012 documentary.[131] She had simultaneously been wooed by screenwriter Philip Kaufman but chose Eastwood over him.[168][r] After wrapping the film in December 1975, the couple shuttled between Eastwood's houses in Sherman Oaks and Carmel, as well as rented homes in San Francisco and Tiburon.[100] They eventually settled at 846 Stradella Road in Bel-Air,[41] which Eastwood still owned at the time of Locke's death.[171]

Eastwood was married during the early years of their relationship,[172][173] before their affair became public in 1978,[41] but his marriage was a nominal one just as Locke's was: he had sired at least two publicly unacknowledged children outside the marriage[100][174][175][176] and confided he'd "never been in love before."[177] Locke claimed Eastwood even sang "She Made Me Monogamous" to her.[172][177][178] Eastwood's wife Maggie Johnson lived on a colossal estate in Pebble Beach, where Eastwood rarely stayed,[33] and he and Johnson were understood to have had an open marriage from the start.[179] "I never knew I could love somebody so much, and feel so peaceful about it at the same time," Locke said he told her.[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. 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]

Late in the 1970s, Locke became pregnant by Eastwood twice;[100] she terminated both pregnancies.[180][s] "I'd feel sorry for any child that had me for a mother," she previously told columnist Dick Kleiner in 1969.[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.[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. As to the abortions, I told Locke that whether to have children or terminate her pregnancies was a decision entirely hers. Particularly with regard to the tubal ligation, I encouraged Locke to make her own decision after she had consulted with a physician about the appropriateness of and the necessity for that surgical procedure.[29][182]

Locke professed mixed feelings on the matter, stating in one chapter of her autobiography that she was grateful she hadn't had Eastwood's children, while writing in another, "I couldn't help but think that that baby, with both Clint's and my best qualities, would be extraordinary."[33] Eastwood claimed Locke told him on multiple occasions that she never wanted to have children.[183]

Eastwood and Locke were still cohabiting when, in the latter half of the 1980s, he secretly fathered another woman's two children[184][185] – a fact that did not come to light for almost 20 years.[t] Despite her affirmed ignorance, Locke sensed growing tension in the relationship around 1985, recollecting that "although I definitely still loved Clint, I didn't very much like him." In retrospect, she gathered "either he changed from white to black, or I had been living with somebody I didn't even know."[131]

Palimony suit

According to court testimony, Locke confronted Eastwood over his passive-aggressive behavior on December 29, 1988,[u] eliciting estrangement between the couple.[32][41] Locke testified that after she and Eastwood made their final joint appearance on January 6 at the American Cinema Awards, they spent exactly two nights together,[163] without intimate contact.[100] Eastwood then effectively vacated their Bel-Air mansion, sleeping in the adjacent caretakers' quarters or at his apartment in Burbank.[100] Locke thought Eastwood was acting out "because he wasn't number one at the box office anymore, or because he was facing his mortality"[100] (Eastwood was 58 at the time). As far as she was concerned their relationship was still salvageable.[189] At any rate, she called divorce lawyer Norman Oberstein to explore her options should the separation be permanent. Unbeknownst to Locke, Eastwood eavesdropped on those consultations by means of a wiretap that he placed on their home phone in early March.[100][127][168]

 
Michael Zelniker, Eastwood, Locke and Forest Whitaker promoting Bird (1988) at the Cannes film festival

On the morning of April 3[182] or 4,[100] Eastwood complained in the kitchen that Locke was "sitting on [his] only real estate in Los Angeles" and bolted.[33] Locke later defensively declared: "Clint is not good at direct communication. He really is a man of few words. You might just as well have a direct confrontation with a wall."[190] On April 10, 1989, Malpaso employees changed the locks on the family residence, moved Locke's possessions into storage, and posted security guards at the front gate per Eastwood's order.[100] Locke was shooting Impulse (1990) at the time of the lockout.[128] She filed a $70 million palimony suit on April 26,[100][168] charging Eastwood with breach of contract, emotional distress, forcible entry and possession of stolen goods.[191] Forced abortions and compulsory sterilization were also cited, though Locke would later recategorize those operations as a "mutual decision".[100]

During their 14 years as de facto husband and wife, Locke and Eastwood had lived in seven homes and acquired four, including a retreat in Sun Valley, Idaho, and the Rising River Ranch near Cassel.[192][193] Locke sought half of Eastwood's earnings and an equal division of property,[194] requesting title to the house in Bel-Air and to the Gothic-style West Hollywood place Eastwood had leased to Gordon Anderson since 1982.[41] She also asked Judge Dana Senit Henry to bar Eastwood from the Bel-Air house "because I know him to have a terrible temper ... and he has frequently been abusive to me."[195]

Locke battled Eastwood in court for 19 months; she developed breast cancer during proceedings and said the treatments sapped her will to fight.[172] In November 1990, the parties reached a private settlement wherein Eastwood set up a $1.5 million multiyear film development/directing pact for Locke at Warner Bros. in exchange for dropping the suit.[113] She was awarded the West Hollywood property (valued at $2.2 million), $450,000 cash and unspecified monthly support payments as well.[182]

The breakup affected Locke's social life. Her closest friends had been the wives of Eastwood's colleagues: Maria Shriver, Cynthia Sikes Yorkin and Lili Fini Zanuck, all 10–11 years younger than Locke and married to film industry heavyweights Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bud Yorkin and Richard D. Zanuck respectively.[100] Locke's friendships with those women gradually faded as their husbands ghosted her.[127] The female comrades Locke credited with loyalty and support were those she had known pre-Eastwood: art director Elayne Barbara Ceder, whom she met on The Second Coming of Suzanne, and realtor Denise Fraker, wife of A Reflection of Fear director William A. Fraker.[33]

Fraud suit

Between 1990 and 1993, Warner Bros. rejected more than 30 scripts that Locke pitched to the studio – including those for Junior (1994) and Addicted to Love (1997) – and refused to let her direct any of their in-house projects.[196][197][198] When her contract had yielded zero directing assignments three years in, Locke became convinced the deal was a sham.[199] She began to seek corroboration and came across incriminating printouts from WB's bookkeeping records.[100] Locke contended that the money WB pretended they were paying her came from Eastwood's pocket and was laundered through the operating budget of Unforgiven (1992).[33][69] In June 1995 she sued him again, for fraud and breach of fiduciary duty.[200][201] According to Locke's attorney Peggy Garrity, Eastwood committed "the ultimate betrayal" by arranging the "bogus" deal as a way to keep her out of work.[202] Garrity added that Eastwood had held out the allegedly counterfeit deal "like a dangled carrot" to persuade Locke to drop the earlier palimony suit.[202] Locke said that she "was stunned and outraged at the way I had been tricked and cheated a second time."[33]

The case went to trial in September 1996.[203] One juror disclosed that the panel sided with Locke by a 10-to-2 vote (nine votes are needed for a verdict) and were only debating the amount.[204] Before any court decision could be made, Locke settled the case with Eastwood for an undisclosed amount of money.[204] The outcome, Locke said, sent a "loud and clear" message to Hollywood, "that people cannot get away with whatever they want to just because they're powerful."[205] According to Locke, "in this business, people get so accustomed to being abused, they just accept the abuse and say, 'Well, that's just the way it is.' Well, it isn't."[41]

For his part, Eastwood waved the lawsuit off as a "dime-novel plot,"[204] continuing, "it's all about money ... about getting something for nothing."[206] He accused Locke of using her cancer to gain the jury's sympathy: "She plays the victim very well. Unfortunately she had cancer and so she plays that card."[207]

Locke brought a separate action against Warner Bros. for allegedly conspiring with Eastwood to sabotage her directorial career.[208] As had happened with the previous lawsuit, this ended in an out-of-court settlement, in May 1999.[209] By then, Locke had fired Garrity and hired Neil Papiano to represent her.[210][v] The agreement with Warner Bros., Locke said, was "a happy ending."[212] "I feel elated. This has been the best day in a long, long time," she told reporters on court house steps.[213] The case is used in some modern law-school contract textbooks to illustrate the legal concept of good faith.[214]

Illness; last relationship

A lifelong nonsmoker (save for a few film roles),[215] Locke practiced Transcendental Meditation[216] and worked out with weights, though she hated running.[217] In September 1990, she confirmed reports that she had breast cancer.[218] "Due to factors in my personal life, I have sustained two years of extreme and unnecessary stress, which my doctors tell me has been my enemy," Locke said at the time.[218] She added that Eastwood never communicated with her after her diagnosis: "He doesn't care if I live or die."[190][219]

Locke underwent a double mastectomy at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, followed by chemotherapy.[29] During treatment, she began dating Scott Cunneen (born September 10, 1961, Long Beach, California), an intern assigned to perform the post-surgical checkup.[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.[224] Cunneen moved in with her in the spring of 1991.[33] She called it a "real, supportive, and equal relationship."[33]

In February 2001, Locke purchased a six-bedroom gated mansion in the Hollywood Hills, where she resided for the remainder of her life.[225] Built in 1925, the home's interior was redesigned to look like Locke's old house on Stradella Road.[131] She and Cunneen eventually broke up,[226] albeit without publicity, since she had faded from public view.[w]

In 2015, after a 25-year period of apparent remission,[228] Locke's cancer returned and metastasized to her bones.[20]

Death

Locke died at age 74 on November 3, 2018, at her Los Angeles home from cardiac arrest related to breast and bone cancer.[229][230][231] Her remains were cremated on November 9 at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary and the ashes were given to her widower, Gordon Anderson.[20] Locke bequeathed Anderson an estimated fortune of $20 million, and seemed to have always supported him financially.[130]

Media blackout

Locke's death was kept secret until December 13, when Radar Online broke the news the day before Eastwood's latest film The Mule (2018) opened in theaters nationwide, citing the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.[229] The Associated Press said "it is not clear why it took nearly six weeks to come to light."[153] Anderson, according to the scant AP report, was unreachable,[153] and a representative for Locke ignored People's request for comment.[232] So hidden had basic facts been kept, that The New York Times oxymoronically noted 41 days after she died: "A list of survivors was not immediately [sic] available."[233]

Locke's death received no television coverage except for a 15-second spot on ABC World News Tonight. Eastwood did not comment on the death, nor did any of Locke's other living exes, nor any of her friends or relatives. Co-stars such as Richard Dreyfuss, Cicely Tyson, Louie Anderson, Sally Kellerman, Stacy Keach and Ted Neeley – all active on social media – were equally silent. On the 91st Academy Awards telecast, broadcast nearly four months after Locke died, she was omitted from the In Memoriam segment.[234]

Legacy

 
Locke in 1961, age 17, the year before she started dyeing her hair blonde
 
Locke (far left) with neighbors Nancy Brantley, Helen Young and Louise Davenport, c. 1958

Locke is remembered as an early pioneer for women in Hollywood.[235] She was one of 11 female filmmakers in 1990, the year WB released her sophomore feature, Impulse.[236] By the time of Trading Favors (1997), her fourth effort, still only eight percent of all films were made by women, per the Directors Guild of America.[236]

Locke's influence as a feminist icon was duly acknowledged by the mainstream press. In 1989, Claudia Puig of the Los Angeles Times described her lawsuit against Clint Eastwood as a "precedent-setting legal case, as it raises the question of whether a woman, who is legally married to one man, can claim palimony rights from another."[111] Childfree by choice – unusual for a person of her generation[237] – Locke was among the first celebrities to publicly discuss her abortion experiences.[180] The avowal made Locke "a talking-point in America's sexual politics debate," according to The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw.[148] Locke's subsequent relationship with a doctor young enough to be her son added to her notoriety.[238]

Cinematographer David Worth credits Locke with his big break.[239] She is admired by such actresses as Frances Fisher and Rosanna Arquette, who applauded the strength of her directorial accomplishments, however short-lived.[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.[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). Garrity revealed that Locke's 1999 confidential settlement from WB "was for many millions more than the settlement with Clint had been."[211] Locke v. Warner Bros. Inc also catalyzed changes within the legal system. In a landmark decision,[240] California's Supreme Court ruled that access to civil trials could no longer be closed off to the public.[241][242]

Numerous outlets faced pushback over their chosen headlines for Locke's obituary. Several major publications prefaced news of her death by tagging Eastwood's name atop the article,[238] which drew criticism by some who deemed it a sexist epitaph,[235][243][244] with fans online pointing out that Locke was an Oscar nominee prior to meeting Eastwood. Women's blog Jezebel criticized The Hollywood Reporter for ostensibly regarding Locke as a nonentity;[245] THR subsequently changed its headline.[235] News organization TheWrap – whose editor, Sharon Waxman, reviewed Locke's memoir for The Washington Post in 1997 – opined that her story "should stir resonance in this age of the #MeToo movement."[235] In a tribute to the late actress, author Sarah Weinman wrote: "Sondra Locke, like Barbara Loden, deserves to be known for her work, not for the famous man she was disastrously involved with."[235]

Among those voicing an unfavorable opinion of Locke was film critic Rex Reed, who had interviewed her for a 1967 profile in The New York Times.[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.[247]

Our Very Own

In 1971, fifth-graders at Eastside Elementary in Locke's hometown of Shelbyville, Tennessee, were left star-struck when Locke made a visit and held pretend "auditions" in the class to show them what it was like in Hollywood.[43] One student, Cameron Watson, was inspired by Locke and is now an actor/director. 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. Watson decided to do the movie after performing a standup routine about Locke and about how people in Shelbyville were obsessed with her.[248] Locke attended one of those performances in 2004 at the Tiffany Theater in West Hollywood. "The minute she heard the first reference to her or to her family, she threw up her arms: 'What the hell is this?'" Watson said. "By the end of the reading, she was doubled over."[249] Locke gave the script her blessing and accepted an invitation to be special guest at the film's premiere.[250] The movie was a "special gift" to Locke, according to Deborah Obenchain, another Eastside student who said she did not think Locke really understood her impact on the small town she once called home. "I think it meant just as much to her. … In our own way … we got to live out a little bit of our dreams by making the movie and meeting her."[43]

Filmography

As actress

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
1968 The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Margaret 'Mick' Kelly Nominated—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer – Female
Nominated—Laurel Award for Female Supporting Performance
Nominated—Laurel Award for Female New Face 		[251]
1970 Cover Me Babe Melisse [252]
1971 Willard Joan Simms [253]
1972 A Reflection of Fear Marguerite [253]
1972 Night Gallery Sheila Gray Episode: "A Feast of Blood" [254]
1972 The F.B.I. Regina Mason Episode: "Dark Christmas" [2]
1973 Cannon Trish Caton Episode: "Death of a Stone Seahorse" [2]
1973 The ABC Afternoon Playbreak Nora Sells Episode: "My Secret Mother" [2]
1973 Gondola Jackie TV movie [2]
1974 The Second Coming of Suzanne Suzanne [2]
1974 Kung Fu Gwyneth Jenkins Episode: "This Valley of Terror" [2]
1974 Planet of the Apes Amy Episode: "The Cure" [2]
1975 Barnaby Jones Alicia Episode: "The Orchid Killer" [2]
1975 Cannon Tracy Murdock Episode: "A Touch of Venom" [2]
1976 Joe Forrester N/A Episode: "A Game of Love" [2]
1976 The Outlaw Josey Wales Laura Lee [2]
1977 Death Game Agatha Jackson [2]
1977 The Shadow of Chikara Drusilla Wilcox [255]
1977 The Gauntlet Augustina 'Gus' Mally [148]
1978 Every Which Way but Loose Lynn Halsey-Taylor [144]
1979 Friendships, Secrets and Lies Jessie Dunne TV movie [256]
1980 Bronco Billy Antoinette Lily Nominated—Razzie Award for Worst Actress [257]
1980 Any Which Way You Can Lynn Halsey-Taylor [258]
1982 Rosie: The Rosemary Clooney Story Rosemary Clooney TV movie [258]
1983 Sudden Impact Jennifer Spencer [258]
1984 Tales of the Unexpected Edna Episode: "Bird of Prey" [258]
1985 Amazing Stories Vanessa Sullivan Episode: "Vanessa in the Garden" [258]
1986 Ratboy Nikki Morrison Also director
Nominated—Razzie Award for Worst Actress 		[259]
1999 The Prophet's Game Adele Highsmith (adult) [232]
1999 Clean and Narrow Betsy Brand [232]
2018 Ray Meets Helen Helen Final film role [260]

As director

Stage

Year Show Role Venue Ref(s)
1962 The Monkey's Paw Mrs. White Bud Frank Theatre, Johnson City, Tennessee [265]
1962 Life with Father Mary Wickes Tucker Theater, Murfreesboro, Tennessee [38]
1963 The Crucible Mary Warren Tucker Theater, Murfreesboro, Tennessee [44]
1964 Life with Mother N/A Belcourt Playhouse, Nashville, Tennessee [266]
1964 The Innocents Flora Circle Theater, Nashville, Tennessee [267]
1964 A Thousand Clowns Dr. Sandra Markowitz Circle Theater, Nashville, Tennessee [268]
1965 Night of the Iguana Charlotte Goodall Circle Theater, Nashville, Tennessee [137]
1965 Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad Rosalie Circle Theater, Nashville, Tennessee [138]
1965 The Glass Menagerie Laura Wingfield Circle Theater, Nashville, Tennessee [139]
1967 Tiger at the Gates Helen of Troy Vanderbilt Theatre, Nashville, Tennessee [269]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Various dates were given by the press for Locke's birth. Contradictory sources have either directly cited, or implied, every year from 1943 to 1950,[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] with some PR gimmicks in the 1970s even purporting it to be as late as 1952[11][12][13] or 1956.[14][15] Her most commonly reported year of birth was 1947; Locke's publicist gave that year on several occasions when asked to clarify the inconsistency.[16][17][18] However, Locke's marriage license,[19] death certificate,[20] yearbooks,[21][22][23][24] and her entry on public records indexes FamilySearch[25] and Intelius[26] establish the year as 1944. "Untruths have been a way of life for her," one former associate wrote to the Shelbyville Times-Gazette when the disparity came up.[27] Said another past acquaintance who knew Locke in the 1950s: "She was two years younger than me in Central High, but it is really strange now, because she has now become five years younger."[27]
  2. ^ Sources are divided as to whether she was born in Alabama or Tennessee.[28] Locke said the latter.[29] While not dispositive, the 1950 census, which misspells the family name as Lacke, upholds this.[30]
  3. ^ Smith may have died before Locke learned of him. 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.
  4. ^ Bayne was also wed to painter Thomas H. Nelson between marriages to William Elkins and Alfred Locke, for less than eight months.[35]
  5. ^ In 1945, Locke briefly took the surname of her then-stepfather, Elkins, before her mother changed it again in 1948. Her legal name was changed four times during her first 24 years of life: from Sandra Smith to Sandra Elkins, to Sandra Locke, to Sondra Locke, to Sondra Anderson.
  6. ^ Notwithstanding their ongoing estrangement, Bayne vocally supported her daughter during the litigious war between Locke and Clint Eastwood. She told journalist Leon Wagener: "One of those children Clint made her abort could have been the grandson I've always wanted."[52]
  7. ^ After-the-fact publicity claimed that 2,000 actresses tried out for the role.[60]
  8. ^ Bonnie Bedelia told the 8 October 1967 Los Angeles Times that "they decided I was too old" when she auditioned for the same role as Locke.[64] As it turns out, Bedelia was four years younger than Locke, who had lied about her age. Wayne Smith, a UA student five years Locke's junior,[65] played her love interest in the movie, even though his character is described as being a couple years older than she.
  9. ^ In the 1960s, The Billings Gazette[66] and The Nashville Tennessean[67] outed Locke for lying about her age, but it took decades for syndicated publications to catch on, and most sources would continue to use the incorrect birth year(s).[68] Locke admitted in The Good, the Bad, and the Very Ugly that she lied about her age early in her career, but claimed to have knocked only three years off, rather than six. In one of her final interviews, conducted in 2015 for The Projection Booth podcast, Locke said that she "was just graduating high school" when she made The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter when she was in fact in her mid-20s.[69] In addition, an international press release from 1967 omits Locke's time at MTSU as well as her residence in Nashville, where she had moved in 1963 after dropping out of college.[67][70]
  10. ^ Even though Locke played the leading female role, Warner Bros.-Seven Arts campaigned for Best Supporting Actress instead of Best Actress during awards season, seemingly to make winning easier. She lost to Ruth Gordon for Rosemary's Baby. Ruth Gordon would later appear with Locke in Every Which Way but Loose and Any Which Way You Can.
  11. ^ A Reflection of Fear was not the first time Locke was considered to play a transsexual. In 1969, Christine Jorgensen, the trans woman famous for having sex reassignment surgery in Denmark in 1953, mentioned Locke and Mia Farrow as contenders for a planned film version of her life. A fan of Locke's performance in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Jorgensen observed that "in scenes where she didn't wear any makeup, Sondra looks very much like I did in my younger days. I think she might make an excellent choice."[90]
  12. ^ Locke's autobiography provides a convoluted recollection of the casting process for City Heat (1984). Blake Edwards was originally slated to direct the film, and Edwards supposedly promised Locke one of the two female leads at a stage in development when Burt Reynolds had signed on but the role of the other leading man was yet to be filled. Locke asserted that Edwards was merely using her to lure in her superstar boyfriend—who'd seen the script and turned it down—because once Eastwood came on board, Edwards stopped talking to Locke and cast Madeleine Kahn in the role she'd been eyeing. Edwards ultimately withdrew and was replaced by Richard Benjamin. Nevertheless, Eastwood disappointed Locke by not using his clout to get her in the movie.
  13. ^ Gordon Anderson went by the stage names 'C.B. Anderson'[137][138][139] and 'Gordon Addison'[140][141][142] during a brief acting career before he married Locke.
  14. ^ For a long time it was falsely presumed that Locke and Anderson had divorced.[145]
  15. ^ In magazine interviews, Locke and Anderson would variously claim to have met when they were 10,[37] 11[61] or 12,[146] while Locke's memoir states that they met in high school.[33] Anderson, like his late wife, always subtracted several years off his age, thus contributing to the plethora of discrepancies.
  16. ^ Actually, Locke was three years past the median age of first marriages for women in that era.[154] To obscure this – and accommodate her revisionist narrative – she often peddled the fallacy of having gotten married "right out of high school" or, as one ill-informed AP reporter put it, "during [her] childhood."[147] Locke also was older than her husband Anderson, though some profiles of the actress misstate that he was the elder spouse.[28]
  17. ^ Locke and Hopkins appeared as a couple on the game show Tattletales[165] when Locke was still talking up her marriage in the press. Incredulously, the conflicting gestures attracted no news commentary.
  18. ^ Philip Kaufman started to direct Josey, but was fired at Eastwood's command on October 24, 1975, three weeks into filming.[100][169] Although Eastwood had conquered Locke within 48 hours of her arrival on set, initially she had declined his advances, having already said yes to a date with Kaufman at the costume fitting.[33] According to biographer Patrick McGilligan, Eastwood begrudged the fact that a younger man had beaten him to the punch and therefore felt inclined to assert his dominance by getting rid of Kaufman.[100] The love triangle resulted in the Director's Guild passing new legislation, known as 'the Eastwood Rule', which prohibits an actor or producer from firing the director and then becoming the director himself.[170]
  19. ^ Locke explained in her autobiography: "Before I had met Clint my gynecologist had suggested and fitted for me an IUD. Because my sex life was not very active, he did not think I should be constantly taking birth control pills. Clint complained of the IUD – it was uncomfortable for him, he said. And he too was not in favor of birth control pills, so he suggested a special clinic at Cedars Hospital where they taught a 'natural' method of birth control. It was the same 'rhythm' system that historically has been used to determine the fertile days for those who are attempting to achieve pregnancy. Of course, it could be used for the opposite results as well. Not only was I taught their method but I was constantly monitored with regular pregnancy checks. The whole process was awkward and entailed taking my temperature every morning and marking the calendar, etc. It was demanding and ultimately it had failed twice."
  20. ^ Although the existence of Eastwood's offspring by Jacelyn Reeves was reported in tabloids such as Star[186] and in Locke's autobiography during the 1990s, it continued to be ignored by reputable media sources until about 2006.[187] As late as 2003, for instance, A&E produced a two-hour, authorized Biography episode on Eastwood which gave the false impression he had a total of only four children,[188] when he in fact has at least eight.[176][185]
  21. ^ Eastwood's passive-aggressive gestures toward Locke included inviting Jane Brolin—a woman he was having an affair with—to join Locke and himself on their annual ski trip to Sun Valley. The two women got into a row just before New Year's Eve, Locke recalling, "I wanted to hit her, to pull every hair out of her head."[33]
  22. ^ In June 1999, Garrity sued Locke to get paid for persuading the appellate court to reinstate Locke v. Warner Bros. Inc.[210] WB had requested summary judgement after the original March 1994 filing, which the court granted, but in August 1997 the decision was reversed.[168] Garrity put 2,500 hours of work into the case, only to be ditched by Locke and replaced by Papiano in May 1998.[210] Garrity won her lawsuit, and remarked that the payment would not have cost Locke a dime more than what was already going to legal fees, since it would simply have come out of Papiano's one-third contingency fee.[211]
  23. ^ The exact year of this breakup is not known with certainty. NNDB, generally considered to be an unreliable source, cites 2001.[68] Since the split was never formally announced, the timeframe aforesaid might be an approximation inferred from Locke's real estate transactions, as the L.A. Times reported she offloaded one of her properties that year.[227]

See also

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sondra, locke, sandra, louise, anderson, née, smith, 1944, november, 2018, professionally, known, american, actress, director, achieved, recognition, relationship, with, clint, eastwood, films, they, made, together, locke, 1968bornsandra, louise, smith, 1944, . Sandra Louise Anderson nee Smith May 28 1944 November 3 2018 professionally known as Sondra Locke was an American actress and director She achieved recognition for her relationship with Clint Eastwood and the six hit films they made together Sondra LockeLocke in 1968BornSandra Louise Smith 1944 05 28 May 28 1944Shelbyville Tennessee U S DiedNovember 3 2018 2018 11 03 aged 74 Los Angeles California U S Other namesSandra ElkinsSandra LockeSondra AndersonAlma materMiddle Tennessee State UniversityOccupationsActress directorYears active1962 19992016AgentsMichael Selsman Leonard Hirshan Gersh AgencySpouseGordon Anderson m 1967 wbr Partner s Clint Eastwood 1975 1989 Scott Cunneen 1990 SignatureAn alumna of Middle Tennessee State University Locke broke into regional show business with assorted posts at the Nashville based radio station WSM AM then segued into television as a promotions assistant for WSM TV In 1968 she made her film debut in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Locke went on to appear in such box office successes as Willard 1971 The Outlaw Josey Wales 1976 The Gauntlet 1977 Every Which Way but Loose 1978 Bronco Billy 1980 Any Which Way You Can 1980 and Sudden Impact 1983 She worked regularly with Eastwood who was her companion for 14 years despite their marriages to other people She also directed four films notably Impulse 1990 and published an autobiography The Good the Bad and the Very Ugly A Hollywood Journey 1997 Locke s persona belied her age and she habitually played roles written for women much younger than herself She claimed to have been born several years later than 1944 and her true age remained a secret throughout her career 1 For reasons never made clear her death was not publicly announced and was only confirmed by vital statistics six weeks after she died of cardiac arrest at the age of 74 2 Contents 1 Background early life and education 2 Career 2 1 Rise to prominence 2 2 Commercial ups and downs missed roles TV work 2 3 Films with Clint Eastwood 2 4 Directing 2 5 Memoir and final projects 3 Philanthropy 4 Personal life 4 1 Marriage 4 2 Relationships 4 3 Life with Eastwood 4 3 1 Palimony suit 4 3 2 Fraud suit 4 4 Illness last relationship 5 Death 5 1 Media blackout 6 Legacy 6 1 Our Very Own 7 Filmography 7 1 As actress 7 2 As director 8 Stage 9 Footnotes 10 See also 11 References 12 External linksBackground early life and education EditSandra Louise Smith was born on May 28 1944 a b the daughter of New York City native Raymond Smith then a soldier stationed at Camp Forrest c and Pauline Bayne a pencil factory worker from Huntsville Alabama who was of mostly Scottish descent with matrilineages in South Carolina extending back to the late 18th century 31 Locke s parents separated before her birth 32 In her autobiography Locke noted that although Momma would not admit it I knew Mr Smith never married my mother 33 She had a maternal half brother Donald born April 26 1946 from Bayne s subsequent brief marriage to William B Elkins 34 d When Bayne married Alfred Locke in 1948 Sandra and Donald assumed his surname 36 e She grew up in Shelbyville Tennessee where her stepfather owned a construction company 37 the family later moved to nearby Wartrace 38 Self described as introspective 39 and ambitious 40 Locke started working part time at age 16 drove her own car and had a phone installed in her bedroom 33 Locke s yearbook photo 1960 Locke was a cheerleader and class valedictorian in junior high 41 From 1958 she attended Shelbyville Central High School where she was again valedictorian and voted Duchess of Studiousness by classmates 42 She also played on the girls basketball team served as PTSA representative and was president of the French club 21 22 23 24 Despite this she wasn t considered date material by the more socially prominent boys in her class 7 Following graduation in 1962 Locke enrolled at Middle Tennessee State University then Middle Tennessee State College in Murfreesboro on a full scholarship 33 Majoring in drama 43 she was a member of the Alpha Psi Omega honor society while at MTSU and appeared on stage in Life with Father and The Crucible 38 44 45 She dropped out after completing two semesters of study 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 32 She never knew her biological father 48 and did not attend the funerals of her mother deceased 1997 49 or stepfather deceased 2007 50 nor did she have anything to do with her brother sister in law and three nieces 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 42 Locke held a variety of jobs including as a bookkeeper for Tyson Foods and secretary in a real estate office 33 For a time she lived in the commuter town of Gallatin 53 In 1964 she joined the staff at radio station WSM AM 650 in Nashville and was promoted to its television affiliate WSM Channel 4 the following year 42 54 55 56 Locke s biggest coup while employed there was hosting actor Robert Loggia when Loggia visited Nashville to promote his TV pilot T H E Cat during which he flirted outrageously with Locke 33 She also modeled for The Tennessean fashion page acted in commercials for Rich Schwartz ladies apparel and Southerland Gel mattresses among others and gained further stage experience in productions for Circle Players Inc 42 57 In 1966 the 22 year old appeared in a UPI wire photo that showed her cavorting in new fallen snow 58 Within one year of this exposure she decided to pursue a career in film and changed the spelling of her first name to avoid being called Sandy 57 Career EditRise to prominence Edit In July 1967 Locke competed with 590 other Southern actresses and dozens of New York hopefuls for the part of Mick Kelly in a big screen adaptation of Carson McCullers novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter opposite Alan Arkin 59 g For the first audition in Birmingham then fiance Gordon Anderson gave his bride a so called Hollywood makeover he bound her bosom 61 bleached her eyebrows 33 and carefully fixed her hair makeup and outfit so as to create a more gamine appearance 62 They also lied about her age shaving off six years to make her seem younger 63 h a pretense Locke would keep up for the rest of her career i After callbacks in New Orleans and Manhattan she was cast in the role by recommendation from Marion Dougherty 59 71 The film came out in the summer of 1968 to critical acclaim 72 Locke s performance garnered her an Academy Award nomination as well as a pair of Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actress and Most Promising Newcomer Female 73 74 j Being the oldest nominee in the latter category she concealed that distinction through retconning with aid from studio publicists 63 She won Most Promising New Star of the Year at the Show A Rama film exhibitor convention 75 Although her salary for the film was reported in newspapers as 15 000 Locke later claimed it was less than one third that amount 33 Commercial ups and downs missed roles TV work Edit From the 1973 PBS installment Gondola Hoping to shed the plain image she accentuated in her screen debut in January 1969 Locke posed for a semi nude pictorial by photographer Frank Bez 76 which was published in the December issue of Playboy 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 Nearly three decades later Locke said she still got those photos in fan mail requesting her autograph 33 Her next role was as Melisse in Cover Me Babe 1970 originally titled Run Shadow Run 78 opposite Robert Forster 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 79 80 It was announced that she would play the lead in Lovemakers a film adaptation of Robert Nathan s novel The Color of Evening but no movie resulted 81 82 Locke was offered Barbara Hershey s role in Last Summer 1969 but her management turned it down without telling her 83 Shortly afterwards she passed on the lead in My Sweet Charlie 1970 which won an Emmy for its eventual star Patty Duke 84 With David Carradine in Kung Fu 1974 In 1971 Locke co starred with Bruce Davison and Ernest Borgnine in the psychological thriller Willard which became a surprise box office smash 85 Locke felt overqualified for her role but did it as a favor to Davison 69 who at the time was her unofficial paramour 86 87 She was then featured in William A Fraker s underseen mystery A Reflection of Fear 1972 which required her to project the image of a character nearly half her age and held the title role in The Second Coming of Suzanne 1974 winner of three gold medals at the Atlanta Film Festival 88 Both films were shelved for two years before finally opening in arthouse cinemas attracting little attention at first Over time Suzanne has developed a cult following 33 69 while Reflection is cited as an early example of media portrayals of transgender people 89 k In 1973 Locke was attached to star in Terminal Circle It s a woman s role that comes along once in a lifetime she said 91 The San Francisco set drama was to be directed by Mal Karman and shot by cinematographer Robert Primes who did camerawork for Gimme Shelter but it was scrapped for lack of funds 91 She was up for a big part in Earthquake 1974 but lost out to Genevieve Bujold 92 Locke guested on top rated television drama series throughout the first half of the 1970s including The F B I Cannon as two different characters Barnaby Jones and Kung Fu She was advised by her agents to stay away from TV but thought it foolish to sit around not working between films 93 In the 1972 Night Gallery episode A Feast of Blood 94 she played the victim of a curse planted by Norman Lloyd the recipient of a brooch that devoured her Lloyd acted with Locke again in Gondola 1973 a racially themed three character teleplay co starring Bo Hopkins and commended the actress for a beautiful performance perhaps her best ever 95 Ron Harper who worked with Locke on the short lived 1974 show Planet of the Apes was even more effusive After acting with her in a couple of scenes there was something so feminine about her that I could picture myself easily falling for her She s one of those women who exudes femininity and you just become so attracted to that 96 Films with Clint Eastwood Edit In 1975 Locke was cast in the western film The Outlaw Josey Wales as the love interest of Clint Eastwood s eponymous character 97 Locke said she chose the role for its exposure 98 following a run of unremarkable credits 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 100 The film was one of the top 15 grossing films of 1976 and revived Locke s career 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 104 Its pre publicity touted Locke as the first actress ever to be in a Clint Eastwood movie and get equal billing on screen with the macho star 105 Eastwood predicted that she would win an Oscar for her performance 106 Locke wasn t even nominated and received mixed critical response at best on the upside Vincent Canby of The New York Times said Locke is not only pretty but also occasionally genuinely funny 107 and Los Angeles Times critic Kevin Thomas stated that Locke has not received such a rich opportunity since her Academy Award nominated debut 108 in contrast Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune said she s wasted here 109 and TV Guide felt that Locke is simply repulsive 110 Eastwood and Locke in The Gauntlet 1977 Over the course of their decade and a half long personal relationship Locke did not work in any capacity on any theatrical motion picture other than with Eastwood except for 1977 s experimental horror western The Shadow of Chikara 111 The home invasion film Death Game 1977 though released after they became an item was actually shot in 1974 112 Clint wanted me to work only with him said Locke 33 He didn t like the idea of me being away from him 113 In 1978 Locke and Eastwood appeared with an orangutan named Clyde in that year s fourth highest grossing film Every Which Way but Loose 114 She portrayed country singer Lynn Halsey Taylor in the adventure comedy Its 1980 sequel Any Which Way You Can for which Locke earned a six figure salary plus a share of the profits 100 was nearly as successful 115 Locke recorded several songs for the soundtracks of these films and was whispered to be shopping for a record deal at the time On the coattails of the franchise s success she performed live in concert one off gigs with The Everly Brothers Eddie Rabbitt and Tom Jones 116 During this period Eastwood did a few movies that had no prominent female character for Locke to play In the meantime she accepted some television offers co starring with an all female ensemble cast in Friendships Secrets and Lies 1979 and portraying big band era vocalist Rosemary Clooney in Rosie The Rosemary Clooney Story 1982 117 While the biopic followed Clooney from ages 17 to 40 Locke was 38 when she played the role and though hardly counting as a proper exception due to its nonlinear structure this marked the only time she played a mother onscreen Locke starred as a bitter heiress who joins a traveling Wild West show in Bronco Billy 1980 her only film with Eastwood not to reach blockbuster status though it still ranked among the annual box office top 25 115 The New York Times critic Janet Maslin noticed that each of them works more delicately here than they have together previously 118 Locke cited Bronco Billy and The Outlaw Josey Wales as her favorites of the movies they made 119 The couple s final collaboration as performers was Sudden Impact 1983 the highest grossing film in the Dirty Harry franchise 120 in which Locke played an artist with her own code of vigilante justice Her fee was a reported 350 000 100 Locke never appeared in a wide release after Sudden Impact 121 The film premiered five months before her 40th birthday Locke announced plans to develop and star in a movie about Marie Antoinette but the project fell apart 122 Eastwood then directed Locke in a 1985 Amazing Stories episode entitled Vanessa in the Garden Directing Edit 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 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 124 l Ratboy had limited distribution in the United States where it was a critical and financial flop but was well received in Europe with French newspaper Le Parisien calling it the highlight of the Deauville Film Festival 125 Locke s second foray behind the camera was Impulse 1990 starring Theresa Russell as a police officer on the vice squad who goes undercover as a prostitute Siskel amp Ebert gave the film two thumbs up 126 In a subsequent interview with Siskel Locke said she wasn t eager to act again If you love the craft of filmmaking as much as I do it s hard to go back to acting after you ve tasted the high of directing 9 After a long interruption in her career due to legal difficulties and health issues Locke directed the made for television film Death in Small Doses 1995 based on a true story and the independent feature Trading Favors 1997 starring Rosanna Arquette Memoir and final projects Edit In 1997 Locke s autobiography The Good the Bad and the Very Ugly A Hollywood Journey was published by William Morrow and Company In it she called Eastwood a completely evil manipulating lying excuse for a man 32 Eastwood s lawyers sent a warning letter to the publisher and although no slander charges arose Entertainment Tonight canceled a scheduled interview with Locke 127 She was also bumped from The Oprah Winfrey Show and in her words shut out of most venues to promote the book in particular the networks 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 130 Locke told a Spanish website that she d been informed Entertainment Weekly originally planned to publish a positive review but for reasons unclear it was pulled and a negative review appeared instead 128 The Advocate a monthly LGBT interest magazine was set to do a big article on Locke s book suddenly and uncharacteristically Eastwood gave The Advocate an interview and they decided not to run the piece 128 She reflected in 2012 Clint has said so many bad things about me to the media since we split up and he has so much more access and power to do that He s said things that were hurtful to my character and hurtful to me professionally 131 Locke was nonetheless grateful to have a platform at all stating It was a miracle that a major publisher took it 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 In 2014 it was announced that Locke would serve as an executive producer on the Eli Roth film Knock Knock starring Keanu Reeves 132 She came out of retirement once more in 2016 shooting Alan Rudolph s indie Ray Meets Helen with Keith Carradine 133 The film was screened at Laemmle Music Hall on May 6 2018 less than six months before Locke died 134 Philanthropy EditDuring her tenure at WSM Locke participated in the annual United Cerebral Palsy UCP telethons One year she toured Birmingham with folk singer Richard Law 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 Being a woman I have great empathy for these women I can understand how stranded they must feel how hard it is to change one s life Locke said 136 Personal life EditMarriage Edit On September 25 1967 61 Locke married sculptor Gordon Leigh Anderson m born August 2 1944 Batesville Arkansas at the First Presbyterian Church in Nashville 143 one week after The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter commenced principal photography 59 Dr Walter Rowe Courtenay presided over the ceremony 19 They remained married for 51 years until her death in 2018 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 o In early 1969 as Locke was flooded with script offers after her Oscar nomination she and Anderson left Tennessee and moved into a condo at The Andalusia in West Hollywood 33 According to a 1989 affidavit the marriage was tantamount to sister and brother and they never consummated it 147 Anderson was gay 148 149 150 151 Locke testifying under oath to a jury characterized her husband as being more like a sister to me and explained it s funny the sort of cultural changes but in those days males and females never lived together unless they were married 152 According to her death certificate the two were residing at the same address when she died 20 and he was the person who reported her death 153 Anderson is a central presence in Locke s autobiography but she doesn t elaborate on her reasons for marrying him beyond the following passage However conventional or unconventional our marriage might turn out to be honestly did not concern me that much 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 33 Relationships Edit Given that Locke waited decades to confirm that her marriage was platonic most of her actual romantic attachments went unpublicized In the mid 1960s she dated her supervisor at WSM TV s PR department Brad Crandall 1920 1973 155 She started as secretary to Tom Griscom in local sales for WSM Radio 156 According to co worker Alan Nelson who died eight months after Locke he and other staff members believed her promotion resulted from nepotism 157 George Crook a cameraman for WSM squired Locke to Nashville society events including the 1965 hunt ball 158 159 He later got into local politics and was elected mayor of Belle Meade in 2000 160 Another early boyfriend personal injury attorney Gary Gober 161 starred with Locke in Circle Players productions while attending Vanderbilt University Law School 137 138 Locke also dated a sculptor she did not name him prior to marrying Anderson 33 During her marriage Locke was rumored to have been linked amorously to co stars Robert Fields Cover Me Babe Bruce Davison Willard Paul Sand The Second Coming of Suzanne and Bo Hopkins Gondola as well as producer Hawk Koch real estate agent Herb Goldfarb and John F Kennedy s nephew Robert Shriver 86 162 163 164 q For a while in the early 1970s she shared a liaison with married actor David Soul after they played siblings in an episode of Cannon 166 Locke referred to these intervals as casually exploring for a romantic relationship noting that she had not fallen in love with any of the men Love was not something to search out actively it finds you I believed 33 Life with Eastwood Edit Chief Dan George with Locke and Eastwood at a barbecue in Santa Fe New Mexico promoting The Outlaw Josey Wales 1976 Locke and actor director Clint Eastwood entered a domestic partnership in October 1975 41 She first met Eastwood in 1972 when she unsuccessfully lobbied for the title role in his film Breezy 1973 167 they became involved upon arrival at the shooting location of The Outlaw Josey Wales 1976 in Page Arizona 48 It was just an immediate attraction between the two of us Locke recalled in a 2012 documentary 131 She had simultaneously been wooed by screenwriter Philip Kaufman but chose Eastwood over him 168 r After wrapping the film in December 1975 the couple shuttled between Eastwood s houses in Sherman Oaks and Carmel as well as rented homes in San Francisco and Tiburon 100 They eventually settled at 846 Stradella Road in Bel Air 41 which Eastwood still owned at the time of Locke s death 171 Eastwood was married during the early years of their relationship 172 173 before their affair became public in 1978 41 but his marriage was a nominal one just as Locke s was he had sired at least two publicly unacknowledged children outside the marriage 100 174 175 176 and confided he d never been in love before 177 Locke claimed Eastwood even sang She Made Me Monogamous to her 172 177 178 Eastwood s wife Maggie Johnson lived on a colossal estate in Pebble Beach where Eastwood rarely stayed 33 and he and Johnson were understood to have had an open marriage from the start 179 I never knew I could love somebody so much and feel so peaceful about it at the same time Locke said he told her 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 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 Late in the 1970s Locke became pregnant by Eastwood twice 100 she terminated both pregnancies 180 s I d feel sorry for any child that had me for a mother she previously told columnist Dick Kleiner in 1969 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 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 As to the abortions I told Locke that whether to have children or terminate her pregnancies was a decision entirely hers Particularly with regard to the tubal ligation I encouraged Locke to make her own decision after she had consulted with a physician about the appropriateness of and the necessity for that surgical procedure 29 182 Locke professed mixed feelings on the matter stating in one chapter of her autobiography that she was grateful she hadn t had Eastwood s children while writing in another I couldn t help but think that that baby with both Clint s and my best qualities would be extraordinary 33 Eastwood claimed Locke told him on multiple occasions that she never wanted to have children 183 Eastwood and Locke were still cohabiting when in the latter half of the 1980s he secretly fathered another woman s two children 184 185 a fact that did not come to light for almost 20 years t Despite her affirmed ignorance Locke sensed growing tension in the relationship around 1985 recollecting that although I definitely still loved Clint I didn t very much like him In retrospect she gathered either he changed from white to black or I had been living with somebody I didn t even know 131 Palimony suit Edit According to court testimony Locke confronted Eastwood over his passive aggressive behavior on December 29 1988 u eliciting estrangement between the couple 32 41 Locke testified that after she and Eastwood made their final joint appearance on January 6 at the American Cinema Awards they spent exactly two nights together 163 without intimate contact 100 Eastwood then effectively vacated their Bel Air mansion sleeping in the adjacent caretakers quarters or at his apartment in Burbank 100 Locke thought Eastwood was acting out because he wasn t number one at the box office anymore or because he was facing his mortality 100 Eastwood was 58 at the time As far as she was concerned their relationship was still salvageable 189 At any rate she called divorce lawyer Norman Oberstein to explore her options should the separation be permanent Unbeknownst to Locke Eastwood eavesdropped on those consultations by means of a wiretap that he placed on their home phone in early March 100 127 168 Michael Zelniker Eastwood Locke and Forest Whitaker promoting Bird 1988 at the Cannes film festival On the morning of April 3 182 or 4 100 Eastwood complained in the kitchen that Locke was sitting on his only real estate in Los Angeles and bolted 33 Locke later defensively declared Clint is not good at direct communication He really is a man of few words You might just as well have a direct confrontation with a wall 190 On April 10 1989 Malpaso employees changed the locks on the family residence moved Locke s possessions into storage and posted security guards at the front gate per Eastwood s order 100 Locke was shooting Impulse 1990 at the time of the lockout 128 She filed a 70 million palimony suit on April 26 100 168 charging Eastwood with breach of contract emotional distress forcible entry and possession of stolen goods 191 Forced abortions and compulsory sterilization were also cited though Locke would later recategorize those operations as a mutual decision 100 During their 14 years as de facto husband and wife Locke and Eastwood had lived in seven homes and acquired four including a retreat in Sun Valley Idaho and the Rising River Ranch near Cassel 192 193 Locke sought half of Eastwood s earnings and an equal division of property 194 requesting title to the house in Bel Air and to the Gothic style West Hollywood place Eastwood had leased to Gordon Anderson since 1982 41 She also asked Judge Dana Senit Henry to bar Eastwood from the Bel Air house because I know him to have a terrible temper and he has frequently been abusive to me 195 Locke battled Eastwood in court for 19 months she developed breast cancer during proceedings and said the treatments sapped her will to fight 172 In November 1990 the parties reached a private settlement wherein Eastwood set up a 1 5 million multiyear film development directing pact for Locke at Warner Bros in exchange for dropping the suit 113 She was awarded the West Hollywood property valued at 2 2 million 450 000 cash and unspecified monthly support payments as well 182 The breakup affected Locke s social life Her closest friends had been the wives of Eastwood s colleagues Maria Shriver Cynthia Sikes Yorkin and Lili Fini Zanuck all 10 11 years younger than Locke and married to film industry heavyweights Arnold Schwarzenegger Bud Yorkin and Richard D Zanuck respectively 100 Locke s friendships with those women gradually faded as their husbands ghosted her 127 The female comrades Locke credited with loyalty and support were those she had known pre Eastwood art director Elayne Barbara Ceder whom she met on The Second Coming of Suzanne and realtor Denise Fraker wife of A Reflection of Fear director William A Fraker 33 Fraud suit Edit Between 1990 and 1993 Warner Bros rejected more than 30 scripts that Locke pitched to the studio including those for Junior 1994 and Addicted to Love 1997 and refused to let her direct any of their in house projects 196 197 198 When her contract had yielded zero directing assignments three years in Locke became convinced the deal was a sham 199 She began to seek corroboration and came across incriminating printouts from WB s bookkeeping records 100 Locke contended that the money WB pretended they were paying her came from Eastwood s pocket and was laundered through the operating budget of Unforgiven 1992 33 69 In June 1995 she sued him again for fraud and breach of fiduciary duty 200 201 According to Locke s attorney Peggy Garrity Eastwood committed the ultimate betrayal by arranging the bogus deal as a way to keep her out of work 202 Garrity added that Eastwood had held out the allegedly counterfeit deal like a dangled carrot to persuade Locke to drop the earlier palimony suit 202 Locke said that she was stunned and outraged at the way I had been tricked and cheated a second time 33 The case went to trial in September 1996 203 One juror disclosed that the panel sided with Locke by a 10 to 2 vote nine votes are needed for a verdict and were only debating the amount 204 Before any court decision could be made Locke settled the case with Eastwood for an undisclosed amount of money 204 The outcome Locke said sent a loud and clear message to Hollywood that people cannot get away with whatever they want to just because they re powerful 205 According to Locke in this business people get so accustomed to being abused they just accept the abuse and say Well that s just the way it is Well it isn t 41 For his part Eastwood waved the lawsuit off as a dime novel plot 204 continuing it s all about money about getting something for nothing 206 He accused Locke of using her cancer to gain the jury s sympathy She plays the victim very well Unfortunately she had cancer and so she plays that card 207 Locke brought a separate action against Warner Bros for allegedly conspiring with Eastwood to sabotage her directorial career 208 As had happened with the previous lawsuit this ended in an out of court settlement in May 1999 209 By then Locke had fired Garrity and hired Neil Papiano to represent her 210 v The agreement with Warner Bros Locke said was a happy ending 212 I feel elated This has been the best day in a long long time she told reporters on court house steps 213 The case is used in some modern law school contract textbooks to illustrate the legal concept of good faith 214 Illness last relationship Edit A lifelong nonsmoker save for a few film roles 215 Locke practiced Transcendental Meditation 216 and worked out with weights though she hated running 217 In September 1990 she confirmed reports that she had breast cancer 218 Due to factors in my personal life I have sustained two years of extreme and unnecessary stress which my doctors tell me has been my enemy Locke said at the time 218 She added that Eastwood never communicated with her after her diagnosis He doesn t care if I live or die 190 219 Locke underwent a double mastectomy at Cedars Sinai Medical Center followed by chemotherapy 29 During treatment she began dating Scott Cunneen born September 10 1961 Long Beach California an intern assigned to perform the post surgical checkup 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 224 Cunneen moved in with her in the spring of 1991 33 She called it a real supportive and equal relationship 33 In February 2001 Locke purchased a six bedroom gated mansion in the Hollywood Hills where she resided for the remainder of her life 225 Built in 1925 the home s interior was redesigned to look like Locke s old house on Stradella Road 131 She and Cunneen eventually broke up 226 albeit without publicity since she had faded from public view w In 2015 after a 25 year period of apparent remission 228 Locke s cancer returned and metastasized to her bones 20 Death EditLocke died at age 74 on November 3 2018 at her Los Angeles home from cardiac arrest related to breast and bone cancer 229 230 231 Her remains were cremated on November 9 at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary and the ashes were given to her widower Gordon Anderson 20 Locke bequeathed Anderson an estimated fortune of 20 million and seemed to have always supported him financially 130 Media blackout Edit Locke s death was kept secret until December 13 when Radar Online broke the news the day before Eastwood s latest film The Mule 2018 opened in theaters nationwide citing the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health 229 The Associated Press said it is not clear why it took nearly six weeks to come to light 153 Anderson according to the scant AP report was unreachable 153 and a representative for Locke ignored People s request for comment 232 So hidden had basic facts been kept that The New York Times oxymoronically noted 41 days after she died A list of survivors was not immediately sic available 233 Locke s death received no television coverage except for a 15 second spot on ABC World News Tonight Eastwood did not comment on the death nor did any of Locke s other living exes nor any of her friends or relatives Co stars such as Richard Dreyfuss Cicely Tyson Louie Anderson Sally Kellerman Stacy Keach and Ted Neeley all active on social media were equally silent On the 91st Academy Awards telecast broadcast nearly four months after Locke died she was omitted from the In Memoriam segment 234 Legacy Edit Locke in 1961 age 17 the year before she started dyeing her hair blonde Locke far left with neighbors Nancy Brantley Helen Young and Louise Davenport c 1958 Locke is remembered as an early pioneer for women in Hollywood 235 She was one of 11 female filmmakers in 1990 the year WB released her sophomore feature Impulse 236 By the time of Trading Favors 1997 her fourth effort still only eight percent of all films were made by women per the Directors Guild of America 236 Locke s influence as a feminist icon was duly acknowledged by the mainstream press In 1989 Claudia Puig of the Los Angeles Times described her lawsuit against Clint Eastwood as a precedent setting legal case as it raises the question of whether a woman who is legally married to one man can claim palimony rights from another 111 Childfree by choice unusual for a person of her generation 237 Locke was among the first celebrities to publicly discuss her abortion experiences 180 The avowal made Locke a talking point in America s sexual politics debate according to The Guardian s Peter Bradshaw 148 Locke s subsequent relationship with a doctor young enough to be her son added to her notoriety 238 Cinematographer David Worth credits Locke with his big break 239 She is admired by such actresses as Frances Fisher and Rosanna Arquette who applauded the strength of her directorial accomplishments however short lived 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 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 Garrity revealed that Locke s 1999 confidential settlement from WB was for many millions more than the settlement with Clint had been 211 Locke v Warner Bros Inc also catalyzed changes within the legal system In a landmark decision 240 California s Supreme Court ruled that access to civil trials could no longer be closed off to the public 241 242 Numerous outlets faced pushback over their chosen headlines for Locke s obituary Several major publications prefaced news of her death by tagging Eastwood s name atop the article 238 which drew criticism by some who deemed it a sexist epitaph 235 243 244 with fans online pointing out that Locke was an Oscar nominee prior to meeting Eastwood Women s blog Jezebel criticized The Hollywood Reporter for ostensibly regarding Locke as a nonentity 245 THR subsequently changed its headline 235 News organization TheWrap whose editor Sharon Waxman reviewed Locke s memoir for The Washington Post in 1997 opined that her story should stir resonance in this age of the MeToo movement 235 In a tribute to the late actress author Sarah Weinman wrote Sondra Locke like Barbara Loden deserves to be known for her work not for the famous man she was disastrously involved with 235 Among those voicing an unfavorable opinion of Locke was film critic Rex Reed who had interviewed her for a 1967 profile in The New York Times 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 247 Our Very Own Edit In 1971 fifth graders at Eastside Elementary in Locke s hometown of Shelbyville Tennessee were left star struck when Locke made a visit and held pretend auditions in the class to show them what it was like in Hollywood 43 One student Cameron Watson was inspired by Locke and is now an actor director 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 Watson decided to do the movie after performing a standup routine about Locke and about how people in Shelbyville were obsessed with her 248 Locke attended one of those performances in 2004 at the Tiffany Theater in West Hollywood The minute she heard the first reference to her or to her family she threw up her arms What the hell is this Watson said By the end of the reading she was doubled over 249 Locke gave the script her blessing and accepted an invitation to be special guest at the film s premiere 250 The movie was a special gift to Locke according to Deborah Obenchain another Eastside student who said she did not think Locke really understood her impact on the small town she once called home I think it meant just as much to her In our own way we got to live out a little bit of our dreams by making the movie and meeting her 43 Filmography EditAs actress Edit Year Title Role Notes Ref 1968 The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Margaret Mick Kelly Nominated Academy Award for Best Supporting ActressNominated Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress Motion PictureNominated Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer FemaleNominated Laurel Award for Female Supporting PerformanceNominated Laurel Award for Female New Face 251 1970 Cover Me Babe Melisse 252 1971 Willard Joan Simms 253 1972 A Reflection of Fear Marguerite 253 1972 Night Gallery Sheila Gray Episode A Feast of Blood 254 1972 The F B I Regina Mason Episode Dark Christmas 2 1973 Cannon Trish Caton Episode Death of a Stone Seahorse 2 1973 The ABC Afternoon Playbreak Nora Sells Episode My Secret Mother 2 1973 Gondola Jackie TV movie 2 1974 The Second Coming of Suzanne Suzanne 2 1974 Kung Fu Gwyneth Jenkins Episode This Valley of Terror 2 1974 Planet of the Apes Amy Episode The Cure 2 1975 Barnaby Jones Alicia Episode The Orchid Killer 2 1975 Cannon Tracy Murdock Episode A Touch of Venom 2 1976 Joe Forrester N A Episode A Game of Love 2 1976 The Outlaw Josey Wales Laura Lee 2 1977 Death Game Agatha Jackson 2 1977 The Shadow of Chikara Drusilla Wilcox 255 1977 The Gauntlet Augustina Gus Mally 148 1978 Every Which Way but Loose Lynn Halsey Taylor 144 1979 Friendships Secrets and Lies Jessie Dunne TV movie 256 1980 Bronco Billy Antoinette Lily Nominated Razzie Award for Worst Actress 257 1980 Any Which Way You Can Lynn Halsey Taylor 258 1982 Rosie The Rosemary Clooney Story Rosemary Clooney TV movie 258 1983 Sudden Impact Jennifer Spencer 258 1984 Tales of the Unexpected Edna Episode Bird of Prey 258 1985 Amazing Stories Vanessa Sullivan Episode Vanessa in the Garden 258 1986 Ratboy Nikki Morrison Also directorNominated Razzie Award for Worst Actress 259 1999 The Prophet s Game Adele Highsmith adult 232 1999 Clean and Narrow Betsy Brand 232 2018 Ray Meets Helen Helen Final film role 260 As director Edit Year Title Ref 1986 Ratboy 261 1990 Impulse 262 1995 Death in Small Doses 263 1997 Trading Favors 264 Stage EditYear Show Role Venue Ref s 1962 The Monkey s Paw Mrs White Bud Frank Theatre Johnson City Tennessee 265 1962 Life with Father Mary Wickes Tucker Theater Murfreesboro Tennessee 38 1963 The Crucible Mary Warren Tucker Theater Murfreesboro Tennessee 44 1964 Life with Mother N A Belcourt Playhouse Nashville Tennessee 266 1964 The Innocents Flora Circle Theater Nashville Tennessee 267 1964 A Thousand Clowns Dr Sandra Markowitz Circle Theater Nashville Tennessee 268 1965 Night of the Iguana Charlotte Goodall Circle Theater Nashville Tennessee 137 1965 Oh Dad Poor Dad Mamma s Hung You in the Closet and I m Feelin So Sad Rosalie Circle Theater Nashville Tennessee 138 1965 The Glass Menagerie Laura Wingfield Circle Theater Nashville Tennessee 139 1967 Tiger at the Gates Helen of Troy Vanderbilt Theatre Nashville Tennessee 269 Footnotes Edit Various dates were given by the press for Locke s birth Contradictory sources have either directly cited or implied every year from 1943 to 1950 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 with some PR gimmicks in the 1970s even purporting it to be as late as 1952 11 12 13 or 1956 14 15 Her most commonly reported year of birth was 1947 Locke s publicist gave that year on several occasions when asked to clarify the inconsistency 16 17 18 However Locke s marriage license 19 death certificate 20 yearbooks 21 22 23 24 and her entry on public records indexes FamilySearch 25 and Intelius 26 establish the year as 1944 Untruths have been a way of life for her one former associate wrote to the Shelbyville Times Gazette when the disparity came up 27 Said another past acquaintance who knew Locke in the 1950s She was two years younger than me in Central High but it is really strange now because she has now become five years younger 27 Sources are divided as to whether she was born in Alabama or Tennessee 28 Locke said the latter 29 While not dispositive the 1950 census which misspells the family name as Lacke upholds this 30 Smith may have died before Locke learned of him 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 Bayne was also wed to painter Thomas H Nelson between marriages to William Elkins and Alfred Locke for less than eight months 35 In 1945 Locke briefly took the surname of her then stepfather Elkins before her mother changed it again in 1948 Her legal name was changed four times during her first 24 years of life from Sandra Smith to Sandra Elkins to Sandra Locke to Sondra Locke to Sondra Anderson Notwithstanding their ongoing estrangement Bayne vocally supported her daughter during the litigious war between Locke and Clint Eastwood She told journalist Leon Wagener One of those children Clint made her abort could have been the grandson I ve always wanted 52 After the fact publicity claimed that 2 000 actresses tried out for the role 60 Bonnie Bedelia told the 8 October 1967 Los Angeles Times that they decided I was too old when she auditioned for the same role as Locke 64 As it turns out Bedelia was four years younger than Locke who had lied about her age Wayne Smith a UA student five years Locke s junior 65 played her love interest in the movie even though his character is described as being a couple years older than she In the 1960s The Billings Gazette 66 and The Nashville Tennessean 67 outed Locke for lying about her age but it took decades for syndicated publications to catch on and most sources would continue to use the incorrect birth year s 68 Locke admitted in The Good the Bad and the Very Ugly that she lied about her age early in her career but claimed to have knocked only three years off rather than six In one of her final interviews conducted in 2015 for The Projection Booth podcast Locke said that she was just graduating high school when she made The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter when she was in fact in her mid 20s 69 In addition an international press release from 1967 omits Locke s time at MTSU as well as her residence in Nashville where she had moved in 1963 after dropping out of college 67 70 Even though Locke played the leading female role Warner Bros Seven Arts campaigned for Best Supporting Actress instead of Best Actress during awards season seemingly to make winning easier She lost to Ruth Gordon for Rosemary s Baby Ruth Gordon would later appear with Locke in Every Which Way but Loose and Any Which Way You Can A Reflection of Fear was not the first time Locke was considered to play a transsexual In 1969 Christine Jorgensen the trans woman famous for having sex reassignment surgery in Denmark in 1953 mentioned Locke and Mia Farrow as contenders for a planned film version of her life A fan of Locke s performance in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Jorgensen observed that in scenes where she didn t wear any makeup Sondra looks very much like I did in my younger days I think she might make an excellent choice 90 Locke s autobiography provides a convoluted recollection of the casting process for City Heat 1984 Blake Edwards was originally slated to direct the film and Edwards supposedly promised Locke one of the two female leads at a stage in development when Burt Reynolds had signed on but the role of the other leading man was yet to be filled Locke asserted that Edwards was merely using her to lure in her superstar boyfriend who d seen the script and turned it down because once Eastwood came on board Edwards stopped talking to Locke and cast Madeleine Kahn in the role she d been eyeing Edwards ultimately withdrew and was replaced by Richard Benjamin Nevertheless Eastwood disappointed Locke by not using his clout to get her in the movie Gordon Anderson went by the stage names C B Anderson 137 138 139 and Gordon Addison 140 141 142 during a brief acting career before he married Locke For a long time it was falsely presumed that Locke and Anderson had divorced 145 In magazine interviews Locke and Anderson would variously claim to have met when they were 10 37 11 61 or 12 146 while Locke s memoir states that they met in high school 33 Anderson like his late wife always subtracted several years off his age thus contributing to the plethora of discrepancies Actually Locke was three years past the median age of first marriages for women in that era 154 To obscure this and accommodate her revisionist narrative she often peddled the fallacy of having gotten married right out of high school or as one ill informed AP reporter put it during her childhood 147 Locke also was older than her husband Anderson though some profiles of the actress misstate that he was the elder spouse 28 Locke and Hopkins appeared as a couple on the game show Tattletales 165 when Locke was still talking up her marriage in the press Incredulously the conflicting gestures attracted no news commentary Philip Kaufman started to direct Josey but was fired at Eastwood s command on October 24 1975 three weeks into filming 100 169 Although Eastwood had conquered Locke within 48 hours of her arrival on set initially she had declined his advances having already said yes to a date with Kaufman at the costume fitting 33 According to biographer Patrick McGilligan Eastwood begrudged the fact that a younger man had beaten him to the punch and therefore felt inclined to assert his dominance by getting rid of Kaufman 100 The love triangle resulted in the Director s Guild passing new legislation known as the Eastwood Rule which prohibits an actor or producer from firing the director and then becoming the director himself 170 Locke explained in her autobiography Before I had met Clint my gynecologist had suggested and fitted for me an IUD Because my sex life was not very active he did not think I should be constantly taking birth control pills Clint complained of the IUD it was uncomfortable for him he said And he too was not in favor of birth control pills so he suggested a special clinic at Cedars Hospital where they taught a natural method of birth control It was the same rhythm system that historically has been used to determine the fertile days for those who are attempting to achieve pregnancy Of course it could be used for the opposite results as well Not only was I taught their method but I was constantly monitored with regular pregnancy checks The whole process was awkward and entailed taking my temperature every morning and marking the calendar etc It was demanding and ultimately it had failed twice Although the existence of Eastwood s offspring by Jacelyn Reeves was reported in tabloids such as Star 186 and in Locke s autobiography during the 1990s it continued to be ignored by reputable media sources until about 2006 187 As late as 2003 for instance A amp E produced a two hour authorized Biography episode on Eastwood which gave the false impression he had a total of only four children 188 when he in fact has at least eight 176 185 Eastwood s passive aggressive gestures toward Locke included inviting Jane Brolin a woman he was having an affair with to join Locke and himself on their annual ski trip to Sun Valley The two women got into a row just before New Year s Eve Locke recalling I wanted to hit her to pull every hair out of her head 33 In June 1999 Garrity sued Locke to get paid for persuading the appellate court to reinstate Locke v Warner Bros Inc 210 WB had requested summary judgement after the original March 1994 filing which the court granted but in August 1997 the decision was reversed 168 Garrity put 2 500 hours of work into the case only to be ditched by Locke and replaced by Papiano in May 1998 210 Garrity won her lawsuit and remarked that the payment would not have cost Locke a dime more than what was already going to legal fees since it would simply have come out of Papiano s one third contingency fee 211 The exact year of this breakup is not known with certainty NNDB generally considered to be an unreliable source cites 2001 68 Since the split was never formally announced the timeframe aforesaid might be an approximation inferred from Locke s real estate transactions as the L A Times reported she offloaded one of her properties that year 227 See also Edit Biography portal Film portal Television portalList of American film actresses List of female film and television directors List of Middle Tennessee State University people List of people from Los Angeles List of people from TennesseeReferences Edit Stecher Raquel March 18 2022 Starring Sondra Locke TCM a b c d e f g h i j k l m McNary Dave December 14 2018 Oscar Nominee Sondra Locke Dies at 74 Variety Retrieved December 14 2018 Miranda C Herbert Barbara McNeil 1985 Biography and Genealogy Master Index Volumes 1 5 Gale Research Company ISBN 0810315068 Roberts Jerry 2009 Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors Scarecrow Press p 345 ISBN 978 0810863781 Editors of Chase s Calendar of Events 2011 Chases Calendar of Events 2012 Edition McGraw Hill Professional p 287 ISBN 978 0071766739 Film Actors Volume 5 Hollywood Creative Directory Firm IFilm Publishing 2002 a b Sondra Locke opens door to fame Marjory Adams The Boston Globe August 27 1968 Clint Sondra Loom As Big New Team Earl Wilson Fort Lauderdale News December 1 1977 a b Siskel Gene May 6 1990 Sondra Locke s Step Chicago Tribune Locke Exercises Control Over Ratboy Her Career Nancy Mills Los Angeles Times August 19 1986 The Charlotte News 3 24 79 Austin American Statesman 3 25 79 The Boston Globe 4 22 79 Barbara Lewis The Salina Journal 8 8 76 Scranton Tribune 8 14 76 Slaughter Sylvia May 28 1989 Sondra vs Clint in palimony suit The Tennessean Don Locke loves his sister He misses her and he regrets the fact that his three daughters don t have any knowledge of Sondra other than what they see on TV or in print or hear from gossipmongers Sondra s not this kind of bad character he says Maybe she s changed but she was my big sister who used to play baseball with me Sondra s gonna be 45 May 28 Locke s publicist claims Sondra will be 42 today One Way to Gain Stardom Terry Kay The Atlanta Constitution June 6 1971 Sondra s a Nice Girl Despite What Studio Says Dayton Daily News August 10 1968 a b Gordon Leigh Anderson Sondra Louise Locke Tennessee State Marriages 1780 2002 Ancestry com Date 9 25 67 Name of Female Applicant Sondra Louise Locke Born 5 28 44 Age 23 a b c d Trock Gary Walters Liz December 15 2018 Clint Eastwood s Longtime GF Sondra Locke Died from Cardiac Arrest The Blast a b 1959 Shelbyville Central High School Yearbook Classmates com a b 1960 Shelbyville Central High School Yearbook Classmates com a b 1961 Shelbyville Central High School Yearbook Classmates com a b 1962 Central High School Yearbook Classmates com Sondra L Anderson United States Public Records 1970 2009 FamilySearch org Sondra L Anderson Phone Number Address amp Background Info Intelius a b c Melson David May 23 2012 Picturing the Past 160 Sondra Locke on TV Times Gazette a b Obituary Sondra Locke actress known for her troubled association with Clint Eastwood Brian Pendreigh HeraldScotland 16 December 2018 a b c Thompson Douglas 2005 Clint Eastwood Billion Dollar Man John Blake ISBN 1857825721 1950 Census U S National Archives Various compilers Vaughn Family Group Sheets Jim Freeman received these Family Group Sheets at a Bell family reunion for descendants of David Vaughn a b c d Furtado David August 31 2013 Sondra Locke s The Good the Bad and the Very Ugly The Woman with a Name Wand rin Star a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab Locke Sondra 1997 The Good the Bad and the Very Ugly A Hollywood Journey William Morrow and Company ISBN 068815462X Madison County Alabama Brides Page 29 Pauline Bayne Alabama County Marriages 1809 1950 FamilySearch org WALKER COUNTY GA VITAL RECORDS MARRIAGES a b Armstrong Lois Taking Up The Gauntlet People February 13 1978 a b c MTSC Presents The Daily News Journal November 2 1962 p 7 Sondra Relates to True Self Lydia Lane Los Angeles Times January 3 1971 Sondra un Lockes Film Golden Gates Dick Kleiner Philadelphia Daily News October 9 1968 a b c d e f g h James Robert Parish 2006 The Hollywood Book of Breakups John Wiley amp Sons Inc ISBN 1630262080 a b c d e Sondra vs Clint in palimony suit The Tennessean May 28 1989 a b c DeGennaro Nancy Oscar nominated actress Tennessee native Sondra Locke dies at 74 December 14 2018 a b The Crucible Next College Production The Daily News Journal February 24 1963 p 15 Sondra Locke in The Crucible MTSU theater production 1963 Archived from the original on March 28 2012 Retrieved November 9 2018 Pendergrass Tony Sondra Locke to return via cinema Sidelines February 12 1971 p 3 Johnstone Iain 1981 The Man with No Name Clint Eastwood Plexus ISBN 978 0859650267 a b Sondra Locke Oscar Nominated Actress for The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Dies at 74 The Hollywood Reporter December 13 2018 Retrieved December 14 2018 The Tennessean 6 14 97 Obituary Alfred Taylor Locke 11 30 07 Shelbyville Times Gazette When Harry Left Sondra People August 7 1989 Pauline Locke interviewed by Leon Wagener 1989 Hinton Elmer Down to Earth The Nashville Tennessean June 30 1965 p 9 Oscar nominated actress Channel 4 alumna Sondra Locke dead at 74 WSMV com December 13 2018 Home Office Shield September 1966 The Official Tennessee Radio Hall Of Fame Community Public Group Facebook a b Haun Harry August 30 1968 Sandra of Shelbyville Becomes Sondra of the Cinema The Tennessean Snow Hits Tennessee The Daily Times News November 3 1966 p 1 a b c Hieronymus Clara August 15 1967 Nashville Actress Gets Starring Movie Role The Nashville Tennessean Loftus Linda August 10 1968 Meeting Sondra Locke Was Groovy The Cincinnati Enquirer a b c Peer J Oppenheimer November 24 1968 Sondra Locke They Call Her The Beautiful Fake A selfless husband with a flair for fooling catapulted this shy officeworker to overnight stardom Sarasota Herald Tribune New face in the movie world Chicago Tribune August 12 1968 Vol 122 Iss 225 Section 2 p 6 a b Sondra Locke obituary The Times December 15 2018 Smith Cecil October 8 1967 Bonnie s Westward Stage Trek Los Angeles Times Hale Wanda July 28 1968 Screen McCullers Novel New York Daily News People Etc The Billings Gazette May 25 1969 Sweet little Sondra is actually 25 years old and married Because of the movie people think she s about 13 so she s now considering offers to do a nude layout for a magazine to prove she s no kid and pave the way for adult roles a b Hieronymus Clara December 24 1967 Nashvillians in the Times The Tennessean The spelling of her name has been changed to Sondra her age lowered to 17 years for publicity purposes and her residence in Nashville where she was employed by WSM wiped out a b c Sondra Locke Notable Names Database a b c d e White Mike January 16 2016 Special Report Death Game Knock Knock The Projection Booth Podcast Interviews with Larry Spiegel Sondra Locke and David Worth Cinderella Story Of Young Actress Montreal Gazette September 19 1967 Barclift William Birmingham Post Herald July 29 1967 p 4 Sondra Takes a Film by Storm The Sydney Morning Herald August 4 1968 Winners amp Nominees Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture 1969 GoldenGlobes com Golden Globe Awards Retrieved August 18 2018 Oscar Ceremony 1969 Actress In A Supporting Role Oscars org Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Academy Awards Retrieved August 18 2018 Carroll Harrison March 12 1969 Behind the Scenes in Hollywood The Advocate Messenger Times Leader 4 1 69 Sex Stars of 1969 Arthur Knight and Hollis Alpert Playboy Vol 16 Iss 12 Harold Heffernan August 14 1969 Sondra Valuable Behind the Scene Pittsburgh Post Gazette May 28 1944 Sondra Locke was born FilmmakerIQ com May 28 2019 Greenberg Abe June 11 1969 Hard Work vs Jinx or The Luck of Sondra Locke Valley Times Sondra Set for Lovemakers Los Angeles Times March 3 1969 p 72 Lansing State Journal 1 11 70 Mell Eila 2013 Casting Might Have Beens A Film by Film Directory of Actors Considered for Roles Given to Others McFarland amp Company p 142 ISBN 978 1476609768 Haun Harry May 16 1971 Charade for Hollywood The Tennessean Norma Lee Browning August 4 1971 What Makes a Box Office Hit Bangor Daily News a b Podcast Willard 1971 Episode 53 Decades of Horror 1970s Gruesome Magazine June 26 2017 Bruce Davison DVD audio commentary 2017 Shout Factory Canadian Society of Cinematographers Cinema Canada Issues 12 17 1974 Gambin Lee February 15 2016 Exclusive Interview Actress Sondra Locke on Gender Bender Chiller A REFLECTION OF FEAR ComingSoon net Philadelphia Daily News 5 28 69 a b The Actress Couldn t Resist Jeanne Miller San Francisco Examiner August 30 1973 2 500 Movies Challenge www dvdinfatuation com Actress says TV creates automatons Will Jones Star Tribune December 3 1972 Rod Serling s Night Gallery the Second Season A Feast of Blood NIGHT GALLERY 22 original air date January 12 1972 NightGallery net Universal Television 2018 Lloyd Norman 1990 Stages Norman Lloyd Scarecrow Press ISBN 0810822903 Weaver Tom 2009 I Talked with a Zombie Interviews with 23 Veterans of Horror and Sci Fi Films and Television McFarland p 154 ISBN 978 0786452682 Eastwood co star set Lansing State Journal October 28 1975 A long time between breaks Jeanne Miller San Francisco Examiner July 1 1976 Career Off to Great Start and Then Stanley Eichelbaum San Francisco Examiner November 3 1972 a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Patrick McGilligan 1999 Clint The Life and Legend HarperCollins ISBN 000255528X Top 1976 Movies at the Domestic Box Office The Numbers Sondra Locke Biography Movie Highlights and Photos Hal Erickson AllMovie Locke Is Big With Eastwood Vernon Scott Lebanon Daily News December 20 1977 Eastwood getting a lock on Locke Earl Wilson Independent Press Telegram April 17 1977 Pat O Haire New York Daily News 11 11 77 Earl Wilson Fort Lauderdale News 11 16 77 Screen Eastwood Gauntlet Vincent Canby The New York Times December 22 1977 Thomas Kevin December 21 1977 The Gauntlet Lives Up to Its Title Los Angeles Times Part IV p 15 Siskel Gene December 22 1977 Lots of bullets fly but Gauntlet is full of blanks Chicago Tribune Section 2 p 5 The Gauntlet Movie Reviews and Movie Ratings TV Guide a b Puig Claudia May 8 1989 In the Matter of Locke vs Eastwood Articles latimes com Anderson George October 21 1974 Local Angle Pittsburgh Post Gazette Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Block Communications p 12 ISSN 1068 624X a b Errico Marcus September 11 1996 Eastwood s Ex Lover Says He Torpedoed Her Career E News Top 1978 Movies at the Domestic Box Office The Numbers a b 1980 Yearly Box Office Results Box Office Mojo Aaron Gold Chicago Tribune 2 1 79 Locke Steps Into Big Band Era Role Dick Kleiner The Daily Advertiser July 28 1982 Eastwood Stars and Directs Bronco Billy Janet Maslin The New York Times June 11 1980 Parke Henry C December 15 2015 Outlaw Josey Wales Forty Years Later Henry s Western Round up Dirty Harry Movies Box Office Mojo Retrieved March 1 2009 Sondra Locke Box Office The Numbers Lumenick Lou June 3 2008 DVD Extra New Dirty Harry Set Showcases Sondra Locke New York Post Sondra Locke tries other side of the camera The Greenville News September 28 1985 Locke Turns To Ratboy To Escape Clint s Maze Roderick Mann Los Angeles Times March 23 1986 Ratboy Snared In The Studio Trap Pat H Broeske Los Angeles Times February 15 1987 Siskel and Ebert 1990 Ratings list a b c d Waxman Sharon November 20 1997 Make Her Day The Washington Post a b c d e f Furtado David October 19 2013 Exclusive Interview with Sondra Locke Magic in films and the real world Wand rin Star Struggling Locke strikes back at Eastwood Liz Smith The Baltimore Sun October 22 1997 a b Kennedy Dana October 31 1997 Book Review The Good the Bad and the Very Ugly Entertainment Weekly a b c d L album secret de Clint Eastwood Dir Pierre Maraval 2012 Kay Jeremy April 28 2014 Voltage taking Eli Roth s Knock Knock with Keanu Reeves to Cannes ScreenDaily Cannes Onofri Adrienne June 3 2016 BWW Interview Keith Carradine on the New Encores Cast Album of PAINT YOUR WAGON BroadwayWorld Alan Rudolph Keith Carradine Sondra Locke and Jennifer Tilly in 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Sondra Locke TCM Tcm com Eastwood s Ex Tells All in Unflattering New Book Peggy Deans Earle The Virginian Pilot November 26 1997 A Fond Farewell to Sondra Locke 1944 2018 Harrison John December 16 2018 Filmink O Neill Ann W September 16 1996 Eastwood Unforgiven Locke s Lawsuit Spins Saga of Love and Power in Hollywood Retrieved December 14 2018 via LA Times a b c Dalton Andrew December 13 2018 Oscar nominated actress Sondra Locke dies at 74 AP news National Center for Family amp Marriage Research Videotapers Syndication Whopper for Nashville Billboard Vol 79 no 14 Nielsen Business Media Inc April 8 1967 p 40 The Nashville Tennessean 1 25 64 Alan Nelson Facebook Hunt Ball To Climax Weekend The Nashville Tennessean May 7 1965 Federation Dance Tonight The Nashville Tennessean December 15 1965 Whitehouse Ken November 1 2012 Ex Belle Meade mayor passes away NashvillePost com Gary R Gober Attorney Profile SuperLawyers com Walter Scott s Personality Parade October 15 1989 a b c Kaufman Joanne Savaiano Jacqueline May 15 1989 Suing Clint Eastwood Sondra Locke Strikes with Magnum Force People Locke Sondra 1944 2018 SNAC Video on YouTube Joyce Haber 1972 11 08 Locke Soul Set for Cannon Roles Los Angeles Times O Brien Daniel 1996 Clint Eastwood Film Maker London B T Batsford ISBN 0 7134 7839 X a b c d e Eliot Marc 2009 American Rebel The Life of Clint Eastwood Three Rivers Press ISBN 978 0307336897 Clint Eastwood gets top role in outlaw film Greeley Daily Tribune July 7 1975 p 24 Eastwood Rule Hollywood Lexicon A general view of atmosphere of actor director Clint Eastwood s home house on February 14 2021 in Bel Air Los Angeles California USA Alamy a b c The Good the Bad and the Ugly Young Josh May 4 1997 The Independent Eastwood won t wed girlfriend The San Bernardino County Sun September 8 1979 Kerrigan Mike Williams Brian July 11 1989 Clint s Bombshell Secret He Has Illegitimate Daughter amp Grandson National Enquirer Clint Eastwood Appears in Public With His Secret Daughter for the First Time Inside Edition December 14 2018 a b Bergen Spencer The wild story of Clint Eastwood s eight children Page Six December 27 2018 a b Miller Victoria Sondra Locke amp Clint Eastwood Inside Their Rocky Hollywood Romance Inquisitr December 14 2018 Radner Hilary 2017 The New Woman s Film Femme centric Movies for Smart Chicks Taylor amp Francis ISBN 978 1317286486 Eden Barbara 2011 Jeannie Out of the Bottle Crown Archetype ISBN 978 0307886958 a b Hollywood love affair with abortions topic of The Choices We Made Catholic Sentinel April 4 1991 The Times and Democrat Orangeburg South Carolina July 29 1969 p 9 a b c Schickel Richard 1996 Clint Eastwood A Biography Random House ISBN 0679749918 Sandra Locke bitter shocked about split with Eastwood Hartford Courant May 18 1989 Fuster Jeremy December 13 2018 Sondra Locke Oscar Nominated Actress and Longtime Clint Eastwood Partner Dies at 74 TheWrap a b Leonard Tom January 31 2019 Is photo of Clint Eastwood s 8 children blended family harmony or cruel abandonment Viens Stephen February 27 1990 Clint Eastwood s Secret 4 Year Love Comes Out of Hiding Star The Reeves children are not included in the count for instance at Helligar Jeremy January 13 1997 Passages People News anchor Dina Ruiz 31 more than made husband Clint Eastwood s day when she gave birth to the couple s first child an 8 lb 4 oz girl named Morgan on Dec 12 in Los Angeles This is the 66 year old actor director s fifth child Behind the Scenes with Clint Dallas Morning News October 4 2003 Hamilton Anita Celebrating Seniors Clint Eastwood Turns 85 Politics and Passion June 3 2015 a b Hall Allan Clint v Sondra for a Fistful of Dollars Daily Record September 12 1996 Eastwood s private life stranger than fiction Jeanne Wright The San Bernardino County Sun June 2 1989 Eastwood buys ranch Inter Mountain News November 30 1978 102 Wedeln Ln Sun Valley ID 83353 Zillow She Won t Be Locked Out Hank Gallo New York Daily News April 5 1990 Eastwood s Ex Hit Hard by Sudden Impact of Breakup St Louis Post Dispatch May 24 1989 Sondra Locke continues to battle ex beau Clint Eastwood Josh Young Santa Cruz Sentinel March 26 1995 The Triumph and Tragedy of Sondra Locke Yohana Desta Vanity Fair December 14 2018 Eastwood Undermined Locke s Directing Career Attorney Says Steve Ryfle Los Angeles Times September 12 1996 Locke cries foul at producing deal Liz Smith The Palm Beach Post April 30 1994 Eastwood is target of another Locke Lawsuit Chicago Tribune June 7 1995 Locke Says She Was Humiliated Los Angeles Times September 13 1996 a b Eastwood ex lover settle court battle as jurors deliberate Daily News September 25 1996 O Neill Ann W September 18 1996 Sondra Locke Suing Clint Eastwood Los Angeles Times Retrieved April 29 2010 a b c Errico Marcus September 24 1996 Clint Eastwood Pays Off Sondra Locke E News Eastwood Settles with Sondra Locke Philadelphia Inquirer September 25 1996 Retrieved April 10 2013 Eastwood Settles Fraud Suit With Ex Lover Locke Efrain Hernandez Jr Ann W O Neill Los Angeles Times September 25 1996 Clint Eastwood Interview Western Movie Star Bernard Weinraub Playboy March 1997 O Neill Ann W May 23 1999 Settlement Could Make Locke s Day Los Angeles Times Ryan Joal May 25 1999 Vindication for Clint Eastwood s Ex Lover E News a b c This Time Judge Judy s a Defendant Ann W O Neill Los Angeles Times June 6 1999 a b Garrity Peggy 2016 In the Game The Highs and Lows of a Trailblazing Trial Lawyer She Writes Press ISBN 978 1631521065 The Battle s Over for Eastwood s Ex People July 5 1999 Huffaker Donna Eastwood s ex settles with Warner Bros Los Angeles Daily News Crystal Nathan Knapp Charles Prince Harry eds 2007 Problems in Contract Law Cases and Materials 6th ed New York City Aspen Publishing pp 470 80 ISBN 978 0735598225 Interview with Leta Powell Drake KOLN KGIN TV Lincoln NE 1982 Sondra Locke A match for the macho Clint Eastwood Bart Mills Chicago Tribune June 25 1978 Sondra Locke and her career as sidekick Chris Chase The New York Times December 23 1983 a b Sick bay report The Philadelphia Inquirer September 20 1990 Sondra Locke Clipping Magazine photo orig 1pg 8x10 M7797 at Amazon s Entertainment Collectibles Store Swingers and Roundabouts Film Review Orpheus Pub June 1991 Locke Biography Archived July 7 2011 at the Wayback Machine annoline com Retrieved October 7 2012 Mary Ann Forman Born 01 19 1941 in California Yaffe Alva April 20 2020 A Diagnosis and New Relationship History by Day Actress Sondra Locke and boyfriend Scott Cunneen on November 10 1990 News Photo Getty Images Sondra Locke s House virtualglobetrotting com February 25 2009 Retrieved October 7 2012 Kirk Henderson 2020 Hollywood v Beauty and the Synchronicity of the Six Austin Macauley Publishers ISBN 978 1643781655 Ruth Ryon Los Angeles Times 12 16 01 Squires Bethy December 13 2018 Sondra Locke Girlfriend Turned Enemy of Clint Eastwood Is Dead Vulture a b Jacob Mary December 13 2018 Clint Eastwood s Longtime Partner Sondra Locke Dead At 74 RadarOnline American Media Inc Retrieved December 13 2018 a b Sondra Locke Oscar nominated actress has died Sandra Gonzalez CNN December 14 2018 Sondra Locke Loses Her Battle with Cancer Star Who Loved Then Sued Clint Dies at 74 Kelly Allen The Mirror 15 December 2018 a b c Actress and Director Sondra Locke Clint Eastwood s Former Girlfriend of 14 Years Dies at 74 PEOPLE com Retrieved December 18 2018 Jacobs Julia December 14 2018 Sondra Locke 74 Is Dead Oscar Nominated Actress The New York Times p D6 Carla Baranauckas February 25 2019 Oscars Viewers Notice Baffling Omissions From In Memoriam Segment HuffPost a b c d e f Welk Brian December 14 2018 Sondra Locke Remembered as Early Pioneer for Women in Hollywood TheWrap a b Locke Feels Vindicated After Lawsuit Ann W O Neill Los Angeles Times September 29 1996 The rise of childlessness The Economist July 27 2017 a b The Actor And The Revolutionary NOTORIOUS Women podcast December 25 2018 Guarisco Don March 6 2012 Warrior of the Lost Drive In An Interview with David Worth Part 1 Schlockmania Fitzgerald Mark Go Ahead Make My Day Locke vs Eastwood Case Leads to Landmark Decision Editor amp Publisher July 31 1999 Public media have right to attend civil trials Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press August 9 1999 Dolan Maura Court Leaning Toward Access to Civil Trials Los Angeles Times May 7 1999 Gardner Kate December 14 2018 In Memory of Sondra Locke Not Her Relationship The Mary Sue She deserved better Star Sondra Locke s obituary slammed online Hannah Paine News com au 15 December 2018 Cills Hazel December 14 2018 This Is How a Woman Gets Written Out of Her Own Obituary Jezebel Rex Reed December 10 1967 The Stars Fall on Alabama Again The New York Times Rex Reed December 29 2018 In Memoriam Rex Reed Says Goodbye to the Biggest Stars of 2018 Observer Say is that C J Cregg in Shelbyville Brad Schmitt The Tennessean April 27 2004 Hollywood stars to help Shelbyville native s film Brad Schmitt The Jackson Sun June 27 2004 Shelbyville gets its close up Ken Beck The Tennessean from Nashville August 7 2005 The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter Sondra Locke and Alan Arkin MSN December 14 2018 Retrieved December 18 2018 Cover Me Babe www shockcinemamagazine com Retrieved December 18 2018 a b RIP Willard Actress Sondra Locke Horror Society December 14 2018 Retrieved December 18 2018 Night Gallery TV Guide TVGuide com Retrieved December 18 2018 Shadow of Chikara 1977 March 9 2010 Retrieved December 18 2018 O Connor John J December 3 1979 TV Friendships Secrets and Lies The New York Times Retrieved December 18 2018 Bronco Billy 1980 Svensk Filmdatabas Retrieved December 18 2018 a b c d e Actress Sondra Locke dies aged 74 BBC News December 14 2018 Retrieved December 18 2018 Interview Sondra Locke Talks Clint Eastwood and the Fate of RATBOY ComingSoon net September 29 2015 Retrieved December 18 2018 McNary Dave March 22 2018 Film News Roundup Keith Carradine Sondra Locke s Ray Meets Helen Gets Release Retrieved December 18 2018 Furtado David November 20 2013 Sondra Locke s Ratboy A modern day fairy tale Retrieved December 18 2018 Gilbey Ryan December 14 2018 Sondra Locke obituary The Guardian Retrieved December 17 2018 via www theguardian com Death in Small Doses 1995 Retrieved December 18 2018 via letterboxd com Actress and Director Sondra Locke Clint Eastwood s Former Girlfriend of 14 Years Dies at 74 www yahoo com Retrieved December 18 2018 Johnson City Press Chronicle May 1 1962 p 2 Several Days With the Days The Nashville Tennessean February 16 1964 Shivers Missing in The Innocents The Nashville Tennessean June 18 1964 Erwin Has Rare Aplomb Poise Brings Applause The Nashville Tennessean August 20 1964 Tiger at the Gates At Vanderbilt Theater The Nashville Tennessean January 20 1967 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sondra Locke Sondra Locke at IMDb Sondra Locke at the TCM Movie Database Sondra Locke at the British Film Institute Sondra Locke at 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