SAD FINAL DAYS: Cloris Leachman

Another SAD FINAL DAYS shot

I'm gonna outlive another one!

She walked the earth with Christ, how do you expect her to look at her age?

So sad! Some ovaltine?

Shes 90, very active and still working.....we should all be so lucky.

In tribute, we should watch Cloris' daring 1970s TV-movie about V.D. in the suburbs. ... SOMEONE I TOUCHED.

I hope when I'm 90 I'm dead!

Maybe she will be dead before Sunday and will be the last minute addition to the memorial slideshow at the Emmys.

I hope I'm dead when I'm 90.

Leggy Cloris in the poolside scene from SOMEONE I TOUCHED.

Little does she know that she'll soon discover her husband brought her a special present -- SYPHILIS.

Call me seriously heartless, but the bitch is 90 ................ sounds like a pretty significant lifetime to me.

Cloris's film debut.

What so sad? Is she sick? Suffering? She was funny on Raising Hope just a few years ago. Many funny performances over a long career.

R12 great clip. Boy she was fantastic with that dialogue.

She's a 90 year old woman with no makeup on. Looks pretty damn good to me.

Old age, the ultimate faux pas!

r14 My aunt had that hair style until the day she died. She was probably the same age as Cloris.

Still waiting from last month:

DELLA REESE: SAD FINAL DAYS!

She looks fine considering her age.

The funniest "SAD FINAL DAYS" headlines were in Bob Hope's final fifteen years. Almost every few weeks he'd be on the cover of the National Enquirer or the Globe looking like shit, with the headline "BOB HOPE'S SAD FINAL DAYS: 'THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES.'" And of course it took him forever to actually die (he was over 100 when he finally croaked).

Oh, dahlinks, I've stretched my "sad final days" into a "sad final decade." So SUCK IT!

"YES. YES. Say it. He vas my... BOYFRIEND."

Ovaltine ... Perhaps?

Still filming a tv series so not sad and not final.

She was on the dais of some Comedy Central roast in recent years and she was hilarious.

She got creamed by her fellow roasters but she gave as good as she got.

I had no idea Cloris Leachman wasn't bad looking when she was young.

I know, I know, that goes for most ancient actors/actresses, but I really thought she must have been homely.

At 90, she still has a nice head of hair.

I think Cloris aged into her hard, birdlike looks--more attractive from middle-age on than when she was young.

Mary-Valerie-Cloris-Betty.

SADDEST race to the finish ever.

Oh, piss off, R28.

I am stronger than all of those bitches combined. I am like cockroaches. I am like Cher.

I WILL OUTLIVE THEM ALL.

Born in Des Moines. Vegetarian, atheist.

Placed in the Top 16 in the 20th Miss America pageant in 1946.

In 2011, scientists took a sample of her DNA as part of a longevity study (really):

Those who are nasty will get no fruit cup.

I sure hope she lives long enough so that her motion picture swan song won't be that dreadful, crappy shit-fest from last year, "Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse."

A lot of people on this thread aren't getting fruit cup, R32.

"Fat people pollute the aesthetic environment. There should be fat catchers who round these people up and force them to go on a diet."

She's fine. It's MTM who is really in decline sadly.

[quote] Mary-Valerie-Cloris-Betty. SADDEST race to the finish ever.

Maybe they'll all die on the same day!

She just did a major guest role on the final episode of Royal Pains. She looked great.

I loved her birthday tweet this year: I'm 90--how the fuck did that happen?

[quote]A lot of people on this thread aren't getting fruit cup, [R32].

Exactly. Such rudeness toward a DL icon. Hmmph.

One of Cloris Leachman's best performances seems, oddly, to have been given little recognition. In "Twigs," a four-act play by George Firth, there was one act for each of three sisters and a fourth for their mother. Leachman played all four parts - and brilliantly, too. She was on stage (and talking) for all but about three minutes.

I taped the program when it was shown on A&E in the mid-80s. Over a period of 30 years, it's gone from Beta with commercials to Beta without commercials to VHS to DVD. At this point, the video is grainy and the colors are pretty washed out, but it's still a joy to watch. Just a fantastic performance - or, more accurately, four fantastic performances.

I've had lot of "sad final days" for years now

Cloris was "Miss Chicago" in the Miss America pageant (in those days, the contestants weren't just state representatives).

Not so young!

She looks great in OP and R1. I don't even know who she is but hearing she's 90 made me take a second look. She looks happy.

I was in CVS one day years ago and the Enquirer had a ROBERT STACK'S FINAL DAYS headline on the cover. A few hours later, his death was being reported on the evening news.

So terribly sad.

Except for Ted Knight, the MTM cast members are really hanging in there!

I just watched Cloris as a mean cat lady in A Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse a 2016 release.

She was crazy good as the grandmother Ida on Malcolm in the Middle. I loved the way she looked in the seventies; I always thought she was striking.

How long ago was she on DWTS?

OP's pic looks like one of Cloris's character roles. Are they sure she wasn't shooting a movie?

There is no "v" in Owaltine.

My mom grew up in Des Moines, Cloris was her babysitter. She remembers her being really fun.

She's got the oldtimer's disease. She was on Kathie Lee and Hoda awhile ago and didn't even know where she was. Senile old bat.

R30 the "top 16" is not a thing. So, she was 16th?

Hey R28, they had a good head start!!

Doris Day has been the champion of living beyond her sad final days for many years now.

When's the last time Cloris had any action down there? I bet her twst smells pretty rotten.

Cloris played a hooker in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

She was adequate as MY replacement on The Facts of Life but they could never full replace the legendary Mrs. Garrett.

Cloris in Raising Hope >>>>> Betty in Hot in Cleveland.

[Quote]When's the last time Cloris had any action down there?

I'm sure she's getting it right now, as we speak. I'm certain she'll blissfully die while some hot and muscled silver daddy is pounding away at her.

She was great in THE LAST PICTURE SHOW and one of the few among that talented cast who overcame Bogdanovich's ironic direction.

It's so hard to overcome ironic direction.

Oh, yes, the Enquirer . . . . .

Cool r53.

You forgot me, R28

Heaven for the MTM cast will be Mary's first apartment.

r29

You might outlive THEM but not ALL

Every time she touch me I cringed

Cloris looks like she has bad breath.

Why do we never see anything about Olivia's Sad Final Days?

Because Livvie is being fed white wine And peeled grapes by a hunky French Dandy, while holding a pic of Joan and Laughing hysterically. She occasionally moistens herself thinking Of me.

Nobody cares, r67/Lon Chaney!

[quote]Why do we never see anything about Olivia's Sad Final Days?

I'm doing just fine, thank you!

How about Markie Post's sad final days?

My god, she has a granddaughter named "Hallelujah." That's worse than anything Frank Zappa came up with.

Cloris Leachman as Phyllis Lindstrom was so funny on MTM. Forever Phyllis.

Is Mother Dexter still alive?

No, r79. Judith Lowry didn't live to see the episode where she marries Burt Mustin even air.

Isn't it time for overweight lardoon Ross Mathews to have a well-deserved heart attack?

According to John Mahoney, Cloris makes Marlo Thomas seem like a sweet, patient babydoll.

BLUCHER!

Fuck off, R75, I'm 95 and will still spit on your grave.

Ummm, R74...

How does she look so awful? She looked great a few years ago on that short-lived comedy "Raising Hope"

Come to my room at midnight. I will let you wear my underwear

[quote]Cloris looks like she has bad breath.

Bad doesn't begin to describe it.

r86

No makeup

I should only be so sad.

How did she get her name? By subtracting "it"?

[quote]"Now her shocked friends are terrified that the brave actress is running out of time!"

Has THE ENQUIRER ever run a story about an elder star's last days being stellar ?

[quote] the brave actress is running out of time

Aren't we all

Never you mind...never you mind.

Oh that queen, r82 - is he still in the closet?

Seriously, John needs to get out of that closet. Is he afraid he'll lose romantic leads if he does?

Skeddaddle, JM.

Is she brave for going out without makeup or for not dying yet?

I wonder if she still has sex? People that old are just happy to be breathing let alone have intercourse.

At this point, she's probably as dry as the Sahara.

I love you, R52!

Ba ha ha @ R73!

What the hell is a 90 year-old supposed to look like?

That's why lube can be purchased in bulk, Luise.

I was on MTM and I'm still here too, BITCHES! And I even outlived the MUCH younger guy who played my lover!

Cloris' late sister Claiborne Cary.

Yes, r103/Janis, dear - you took over that role from me when the show decided they wanted Lou's girlfriend to look OLDER.

R105 They also switched my character from a pianist to an organist ... for obvious reasons, Sheree.

I couldn't get Lou Grant or Rose Nylund to sleep with me.

And - FUCK - I think I'm dead.

The correct line is "Those who are.tardy will get no fruit cup".

Did anyone see this really good TV movie "Deadly Intentions" starring DL fave Michael Biehn as a psycho husband terrorizing Madolyn Smith. Leachman makes a shockingly effective appearance as Biehn's mother, almost a straight version of Frau Blucher or Nurse Diesel.

I'm going to outlive all of you bitches!

I'm still in that damn hospital waiting for that go go dancer to come back!

Had Broadway ever been exposed to such a nellie performance?

Will Lisa Gerritsen come out of hiding to attend the funeral?

That Bess always looked like a dykey lez.

If I could beat pancreatic cancer, she'll probably beat me to the grave.

Oh Charlotte sweets, we all know that you faked pancreatic cancer for the attention.

[R114] - You say that like it's a bad thing.

I got HIV pretty early and still outlived Ted Knight. Don't I get credit for that?

[quote]Did anyone see this really good TV movie "Deadly Intentions" starring DL fave Michael Biehn as a psycho husband terrorizing Madolyn Smith. Leachman makes a shockingly effective appearance as Biehn's mother, almost a straight version of Frau Blucher or Nurse Diesel.

Thanks to you, I watched it last night (it's on YouTube). Really fun and Madolyn Smith is very good.

Cloris is fantastic as the smotheringly incestuous mother — with a Joan Crawford hairstyle, sucking suspiciously on a cigarette in every scene, stomping around in flaming red pants and what looks like a Dalmatian fur coat.

Cloris is great. Really.

Is she still with us?

Oh, I thought she had already passed on. How embarrassing.

Did she apologize for winning an Oscar for a horrible film?

She’s still here.

I think she looks good. Think Cher looks any better?

why doesn't she she just take one of those "Instantly Young Again" pills?

Her performance in The last Picture show: one of the best of any actress. ever.

So deserving of the Oscar she won.

Burn brightly sweet Cloris

She's got three films in production right now, so her "sad final days" have been going on for over 2 1/2 years now while she's been working.

Hope she has access to opiate meds, for the pain of old age.

THE GOVT IS TRYING TO STOP EVEN US OLD FOLKS FROM GETTING THEM.

GOD DAMMIT

She looks perfectly normal for a thin woman of her age with absolutely no makeup on.

So "sad final days" last for a year-and-a-half?

Cloris has a biting and sick sense of humor. I would bet if she didn't pose for that pic on purpose, she laughed when she saw it published and posted it on her refrigerator.

I was disappointed to read somewhere that CL was a royal BITCH to work with. Maybe it was on DL, so you know it must be true...

r19 is correct in their going for a Joan look!

I fucked her husband like Cloris never could.

She has a part in that Christian film that's out right now and has worked constantly for over 60 years, if she was dying or a cunt, I don't think she would be doing either.

She's tight with DL fave Mindy Cohn.

Over 70 years, r136. After competing in the 1946 Miss America Pageant, she made her film debut as an extra in 1947. Then she moved to New York, studied at the Actors Studio with Elia Kazan and made her Broadway debut the same year. At one point she replaced Mary Martin in South Pacific.

she Is beloved in the biz.

has great sense of humor, a real blast.

Don't forget that Will Shakespeare stint with Kate, r137.

R139, she dropped out of the original production of Come Back, Little Sheba before it opened, at Hepburn's request, to do that production