Dorothy Tristan, who had memorable turns in End of the Road, Klute and Scarecrow in the early 1970s before demonstrating remarkable resolve by co-writing and starring in the 2015 independent drama The Looking Glass, has died. She was 88.
Tristan died Sunday at her home near Le Porte, Indiana, after a 10-year battle with Alzheimer’s disease, her husband of 48 years, director John D. Hancock (Bang the Drum Slowly), announced.
After an onscreen hiatus of nearly three decades, Tristan returned in The Looking Glass as a woman caring for her troubled 13-year-old granddaughter (Grace Tarnow) as symptoms of her dementia appear. Her husband directed the film, set in the couple’s real-life, longtime home in La Porte.
Tristan struggled with remembering the words she’d written but improvised and used cue cards to recall the dialogue.
In his THR review of the film, Frank Schenk called her performance superb and highlighted “a...
Tristan died Sunday at her home near Le Porte, Indiana, after a 10-year battle with Alzheimer’s disease, her husband of 48 years, director John D. Hancock (Bang the Drum Slowly), announced.
After an onscreen hiatus of nearly three decades, Tristan returned in The Looking Glass as a woman caring for her troubled 13-year-old granddaughter (Grace Tarnow) as symptoms of her dementia appear. Her husband directed the film, set in the couple’s real-life, longtime home in La Porte.
Tristan struggled with remembering the words she’d written but improvised and used cue cards to recall the dialogue.
In his THR review of the film, Frank Schenk called her performance superb and highlighted “a...
- 1/12/2023
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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