Elizabeth Hartman

Actor

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Birth Place

Youngstown, Ohio, USA

Born

December 23, 1941

Died

June 10, 1987

Cause of Death

Alleged Suicide By Defenestration

Biography

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This fragile, red-haired actress is best known as the blind heroine of "A Patch of Blue" (1965), for which she earned an Oscar nomination as Best Actress. Hartman went on to grace several other major films in her brief career, notably Sidney Lumet's "The Group" (1966), Francis Ford Coppola's "You're a Big Boy Now" (1967), as an actress tutoring a naive Peter Kastner, and "The Beguiled" (...

Filmography

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The Secret Of Nimh (1982)

Full Moon High (1981)

Walking Tall (1973)

The Beguiled (1971)

Edwina [Dabney]

The Fixer (1968)

Zinaida Lebedev

You're a Big Boy Now (1966)

Barbara Darling

Photos & Videos

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Group, The (1966) -- (Movie Clip) Dottie Renfrew Is Engaged

Group, The (1966) -- (Movie Clip) Landlord, Fill The Flowing Bowl

Family & Companions

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Gilbert Dennis

Husband

Screenwriter, director. Divorced.

Biography

This fragile, red-haired actress is best known as the blind heroine of "A Patch of Blue" (1965), for which she earned an Oscar nomination as Best Actress. Hartman went on to grace several other major films in her brief career, notably Sidney Lumet's "The Group" (1966), Francis Ford Coppola's "You're a Big Boy Now" (1967), as an actress tutoring a naive Peter Kastner, and "The Beguiled" (1971), as one of several Southern women who nurse a wounded Union Soldier (Clint Eastwood) during the Civil War. Battling depression and a declining career, the actress became reclusive in the 1980s. Hartman's 1987 death, after she fell from a fifth-floor apartment window, was listed as possible suicide.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

The Secret Of Nimh (1982)

Full Moon High (1981)

Walking Tall (1973)

The Beguiled (1971)

Edwina [Dabney]

The Fixer (1968)

Zinaida Lebedev

You're a Big Boy Now (1966)

Barbara Darling

The Group (1966)

Priss Hartshorn

A Patch of Blue (1965)

Ebb Tide (1937)

Cast (Special)

Willow B: Women in Prison (1980)

Cast (Short)

A CINDERELLA NAMED ELIZABETH (1965)

Life Events

1965

Film acting debut in "A Patch of Blue"

Photo Collections

A Patch of Blue - Behind-the-Scenes Photos

Here are a few photos taken during the making of A Patch of Blue (1965).

Videos

Group, The (1966) -- (Movie Clip) Dottie Renfrew Is Engaged Director Sidney Lumet resumes his narrative device with Kathleen Widdoes as college “class scribe” Helena typing, Joan Hackett as Dottie on the train, to a 1930-something New York party hosted by Kay and her boozy playwright husband (Joanna Pettet, Larry Hagman), Jessica Walter, Shirley Knight, et al conversing, in The Group, 1966.

Group, The (1966) -- (Movie Clip) Landlord, Fill The Flowing Bowl Somewhat bawdy English traditional song Landlord, Fill The Flowing Bowl among several choral pieces opening Sidney Lumet's The Group, 1966, introducing classmates Joan Hackett, Candice Bergen, Shirley Knight, Joanna Pettet et al, and their valedictorian Kathleen Widdoes.

Full Moon High (1981) -- Original Trailer Leading man Adam Arkin is more prominent than his dad Alan, and co-star Ed McMahon doesn’t appear at all, in the rude trailer for independent director-producer Larry Cohen’s low-rent comedy-horror-nostalgia feature Full Moon High, shot in 1979 but released in 1981.

You're A Big Boy Now (1966) -- (Movie Clip) Who Is She? Mayor John Lindsay intervened to get Francis Ford Coppola and crew approved to shoot in the main New York Public library, into which Elizabeth Hartman struts, drawing the attention of stack boy Peter Kastner, Tony Bill his buddy, opening You're A Big Boy Now, 1966.

You're A Big Boy Now (1966) -- (Movie Clip) What Makes Her Tick? More than 30 minutes into the picture, director Francis Ford Coppola launches his second formal character sketch, of chilly Barbara (Elizabeth Hartman), whom his hero has been chasing, with her chronicler (Michael Dunn) and grabby doctor (Michael O'Sullivan), in You're A Big Boy Now, 1966.

Patch of Blue, A -- (Movie Clip) Get Me Some Oranges Blind Selina (Elizabeth Hartman) and new friend Gordon (Sidney Poitier) at the grocery, getting to know each other in director Guy Green's A Patch of Blue, 1965.

Patch Of Blue, A (1965) -- (Movie Clip) You Sound Like The Radio Selina (Academy Award-nominated Elizabeth Hartman) left alone at the park with her beads, has no idea the passer-by she meets, Gordon (Sidney Poitier), is African-American, early in probably the best known film by English director and cinematographer Guy Green, A Patch Of Blue, 1965.

Group, The (1966) -- Original Trailer No doubt attributable to producer Charles K. Feldman, who invested heavily in the book by Vassar graduate, novelist and political essayist/agitator Mary McCarthy, the luxurious trailer for the partly autobiographical The Group, 1966, with commentary by all the members, Joan Hackett, Elizabeth Hartman, Shirley Knight, Mary-Robin Redd, Jessica Walter, Kathleen Widdoes, Joanna Pettet and Candice Bergen.

Patch of Blue, A - (Original Trailer) A blind white girl (ELizabeth Hartman) falls in love with a black man (Sidney Poitier) in A Patch of Blue (1965).

Companions

Gilbert Dennis

Husband

Screenwriter, director. Divorced.

Bibliography

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