Lois Chiles

Is she a DL icon?

I have found that a good source to find about a celebrity is imdb.com. You should check it out, OP.

I know!

[QUOTE]...she quit acting in 2005 and split her retirement between Houston and Charlottesville, Virginia.

She IS Lois Chiles.

She was gorgeous...and that's about it.

She deserved an Oscar nom for Moonraker

She quit acting in 2005 so that one day, 19 years later, some aspie queen would start asking questions about her.

Loved Holly Harwood.

She taught acting at a Texas university (those who cannot do teach) and partnered or married a wealthy oil or industrialist type

[quote]She taught acting at a Texas university (those who cannot do teach)

Those who cannot teach...teach gym.

I've read here she was hired for The Way We Were because she slept with the producer. No idea if that's ever been confirmed.

She married a Republican oil tycoon and taught part time at the University of Houston.

She aged.

[quote]She married a Republican oil tycoon and taught part time at the University of Houston.

She married after dating current DL punching bag Don Henley for several years, in the late 70s. The song "The Long Run" was supposedly about her and their relationship.

Lois followed Stevie in Don's big black book.

She just sold this beautiful triplex.

Rock groupie Connie Hamzy said Don Henley has a big cock.

I thought she was married to Ringo?

Loved her as Holly Harwood.

That's Barbara Bach, r18.

Thanks r20

I mostly know her from Creepshow 2, a fact I’m sure she would be pleased with

Her husband created the Central,Park Conservancy and set up the Gilder Lehman Instutute which focused on teaching American History. He was a good guy.

[quote]What happened to Lois Chiles?

[quote]A native Texan, she quit acting in 2005 and split her retirement between Houston and Charlottesville, Virginia.

You answered your own question, OP.

R13. She looks like Kathleen Turner's sister in that pic.

Perfectly cast in Gatsby.

She looks like the 70s version of Olivia Munn

[quote]She was in some big productions- The Way Were Were, The Great Gatsby, Death on the Nile, Moonraker, Dallas, Say Anything, and Austin Powers: The International Man of Mystery.

She was also in "Broadcast News" as the TV news reporter whom Holly Hunter helps get sent to the tundra.

Shed did a lot of television. She was very forgettable. She even did "Murder, She Wrote", which doesn't say much for the trajectory of her career.

She appeared in Hart to Hart, as well, as the murderous handicapped sister of her vaunted supermodel doppelganger twin (except for the grooming).

Wasn’t she Robert Evans’ girlfriend around Gatsby? I thought I recalled reading here on DL that she was really pushing to be cast as Daisy, but she was rightfully given the Jordan role.

She’s not a great thespian, but she was gorgeous and somewhat charismatic.

Wasn’t Streisand uncomfortable sharing the screen with such a beauty?

I don’t know what she did to deserve retiring in Houston.

R9 I would disagree that she couldn't "do" acting. Gatsby, moonraker, the way we were, Austin powers, say anything? That's a pretty cute resume. Measured against most actors careers I'd say she did pretty well.

R33 Houston is a nice city! Great food and a world class symphony.

Boosterish claims just make Houston and you seem all the more pathetic, R35.

She was a Bond girl. Married a wealthy older man. Split her time between New York City, her hometown Houston, and the Virginia countryside.

She was good as an assistant DA in L&O.

Hagman loved her; said she was his favorite mistress/co-star of JR's on Dallas.

They brought her back for last show the season after she was a regular guest star to give her a farewell; they must have liked her to do that.

[quote]Boosterish claims just make Houston and you seem all the more pathetic, [R35].

I'm not R35 but I lived in Houston for about a year and I agree with him. Surprisingly diverse (even way back in the '90s), nice museums and so many hot men.

I was thinking she did a guest arc on Cheers but that was Kate Mulgrew. They looked alike to me

[quote] nice museums and so many hot Menils

She was beautiful but a very lifeless actress. It worked, on a superficial lelvel, in some partt but never to the point that some other actress couldn’t have done it better.

I thought she was a good actress

When asked what her parents would think of her playing a character named Holly Goodhead Chiles replied “I think they’d believe she’s pretty smart.”

Beekman Place

Her film career was made by fucking producers and directors. Good riddance.

A beautiful movie star marries vast wealth and retires to private life. Isn’t that a dream for any of us? Apparently she lives quietly and paints.

She's fine! She sends her love!

R35, R40 I'm glad to hear that. I've been to Houston many times, but never found my hang. I promise to be more open-minded the next time I'm in your fair city.

I waited on her in '84 a few times. She had an apartment in Gramercy Park near the restaurant. She was tall and gorgeous. She liked to smoke. Very quiet and unassuming.

R51, Smoking in restaurants was allowed in 1984?

Smoking bans didn't really hit their stride until the 90s and even then there was much pearl clutching about them---I remember Atlanta being particularly fainting couch worthy about it. Smoking sections were more common than smoke free environments in the 80s.

Physically she's somewhere between Charlotte Rampling and Diane Lane. Very much a face of the 70s, glowing tan skin with decadent eye makeup And dramatic blush

Of course, R52. Smoking was allowed everywhere it didn't say "no smoking," such as gas stations.

I remember all these factoids from the WHET Lois Chiles from 3 years ago, and the one 3 years before that. I wonder if such recurring WHET threads are in fact the same ancient queen who just hauls it out on schedule. Lois Chiles is every 3 years. Other WHET celebrities are every year.

Better to only read about here every 3 years than some of the other people who get exhumed (often literally, because they're dead) on an almost weekly basis.

Thanks for the ride, lady!

She sent Sue Ellen over the edge!

[quote]Apparently she lives quietly and paints.

Are we still talking about Lois Chiles or have we switched to Kim Novak?

All old ladies with nothing to do paint, R60. Famous old ladies write children’s books and paint.

Lois Cleveland Chiles (born April 15, 1947), 77, is an American actress and former fashion model known for her role as Holly Goodhead in the James Bond film Moonraker (1979), and as a hit-and-run driver in Creepshow 2 (1987).

She worked steadily 1972-2006 including The Way We Were, her second picture in 1973.

I love that her character's name in the James Bond film, Moonraker, was Holly Goodhead. Someone would have had to ask Bond himself, Roger Moore.

She was raised with oil money. When her brother was dying she left acting and never really came back. I just happened to read up on her a few days ago.

[quote] including The Way We Were, her second picture in 1973.

Her second MOVIE was TWWW, Cecil B DeMille (R62).

Casting Lois Chiles and the other models as secondary female characters hurt The Way We Were badly. They would have done much better casting people who had real faces, 1940s-like instead of 1970s, faces, and around the same age Streisand was - 30. But Ray Stark needed bangable chicks at his disposal. This was an issue throughout the 70s, such as the flat faced models all over The Last Tycoon with De Niro in 1976.

Agree, R65, Bonnie Franklin would have been miles better than Chiles in The Way We Were and could you imagine the sexual tension between her and Redford and the rage just beneath the surface in her scenes with Streisand!

She really was gorgeous. She should've had more screen time in The Way We Were but you know Barbra wasn't having any of that.

Ha ha ha ha haaaaa, R66.

[quote]Smoking in restaurants was allowed in 1984?

Smoking was everywhere back then. You couldn't get away from cigarette smoke in the 80s.