# Sondra Locke passes.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sondra-locke-passes/826102
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [December 14, 2018, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sondra-locke-passes/826102 "2018-12-14T04:26:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2018, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sondra-locke-passes/826102/1 "2018-12-14T04:26:46Z")
> **[Oscar Nominee Sondra Locke Dies at 74](https://variety.com/2018/film/news/sondra-locke-dead-dies-heart-is-a-lonely-hunter-1203089402/)**
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> Actress and director Sondra Locke, who received a supporting actress Oscar nomination in her first movie role for “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter,” died Nov. 3 at 74. The Los Angeles Coun…
Sad one for me.I was thinking about her a couple days ago watching the Outlaw Josie Wales.
I had a hell of a crush, She was so cute and/or sexy(depending on the role) in all those Eastwood films. Fell off the public radar almost entirely in the past few decades.
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2018, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sondra-locke-passes/826102/2 "2018-12-14T04:30:54Z")
I remember Sondra’s battle with cancer in the 90’s. I didn’t realize it had come back.
I really liked her and Clint in the Gauntlet. She was good in all the movies she did with him.
RIP
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### Author:  [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2018, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sondra-locke-passes/826102/3 "2018-12-14T04:32:24Z")
RIP Sondra - you were treated unfairly, but I hope you made your peace.
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### Author:  [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2018, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sondra-locke-passes/826102/4 "2018-12-14T04:39:55Z")
She had been in poor health for many years, according to this. It also sounds like she overall had a very tragic life. ☹
> **[Sondra Locke | Personal life](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sondra_Locke#Personal_life)**
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> On September 25, 1967, Locke married sculptor Gordon Leigh Anderson\[m\] (born August 2, 1944, Batesville, Arkansas) at the First Presbyterian Church in Nashville, one week after The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter commenced principal photography. Dr. Walter Rowe Courtenay presided over the ceremony. They remained married for 51 years until her death in 2018.\[n\]
> 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 w...
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### Author:  [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2018, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sondra-locke-passes/826102/5 "2018-12-14T04:52:32Z")
I wonder what the delay was in reporting her death?
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### Author:  [@lingyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lingyi)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2018, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sondra-locke-passes/826102/6 "2018-12-14T05:05:42Z")
Sad news.
Could a mod change her name in the title so she gets the proper respect and recognition she deserves. I almost didn’t come here because I wasn’t sure it was Sondra Locke.
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2018, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sondra-locke-passes/826102/7 "2018-12-14T05:25:27Z")
Oh, that’s sad. I always liked her acting.
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2018, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sondra-locke-passes/826102/8 "2018-12-14T05:31:59Z")
Right turn, Clyde.
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### Author:  [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2018, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sondra-locke-passes/826102/9 "2018-12-14T05:48:28Z")
> [@lingyi](#):
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> Sad news.
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> Could a mod change her name in the title so she gets the proper respect and recognition she deserves. I almost didn’t come here because I wasn’t sure it was Sondra Locke.
I sent a note to the mods to do that; it jumped out me too.
FFR, the little red triangle with a ! in it in the upper right corner of every post is how you can report a post to a mod; they won’t necessarily see a post in a thread.
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### Author:  [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2018, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sondra-locke-passes/826102/10 "2018-12-14T06:55:13Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#):
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> Right turn, Clyde.
Good one!
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### Author:  [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2018, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sondra-locke-passes/826102/11 "2018-12-14T10:47:15Z")
Sad to hear. I’ll never understand why Eastwood went to the lengths he did to screw over an ex; I wish she’d achieved more than winning her lawsuits.
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2018, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sondra-locke-passes/826102/12 "2018-12-14T11:42:58Z")
[Moderating]
Fixed misspelling in title.
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### Author:  [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2018, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sondra-locke-passes/826102/13 "2018-12-14T13:27:42Z")
The one thing I know about her is that Clint Eastwood sabotaged her career after they split. Lovely human, he.
> **[Eastwood Settles Fraud Suit With Ex-Lover Locke](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-09-25-mn-47374-story.html)**
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> Courts: She will receive an undisclosed amount of money. Jurors say they would have sided with her.