Sondra Locke

[Gothampc]

Posted: 4/12/14 at 1:17pm

Did Clint Eastwood ruin her career? Was she meant for bigger things or was she just a second rate talent who hitch-hiked her way into the upper echelon of Hollywood? If she had the grit that Tina Turner had, could she have eclipsed her mentor?

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 4/12/14 at 2:25pm

She had the looks. Whether or not she had the acting chops is a different story. After the Eastwood films, she kind of faded away . Had she gone in a different direction instead of hitching her wagon to Eastwood, it might have been different.

We will never know.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 4/12/14 at 2:54pm

Part of the Eastwood settlement was that Locke could develop and direct movies at Warner Brothers. She later then sued him again because she claimed he paid Warner Brothers to reject all of her projects.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 4/12/14 at 3:07pm

It is a classic case of he said/she said . We will never know which side is correct.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 4/12/14 at 4:19pm

From Wikipedia:

In 1995, Locke sued Eastwood for fraud, alleging that he had compensated Warner Bros. to keep her out of work[5]–the studio had rejected all of the 30 or more projects she proposed, and never assigned her to direct any of their in-house projects.[5] According to Locke's attorney, Eastwood committed "the ultimate betrayal" by arranging the "bogus" film directing deal.[14] In 1996, just minutes before a jury was to render a verdict in Locke's favor, Eastwood agreed to settle for an undisclosed amount.[15] The outcome of the case, Locke said, sent a "loud and clear" message to Hollywood "that people cannot get away with whatever they want to just because they're powerful."[16] The case is used in some modern law school contracts textbooks to illustrate the legal concept of good faith.[17]

At the time of the victory, Locke had a separate pending action against Warner Bros. for allegedly harming her career by agreeing to the sham movie-directing deal that Eastwood had purportedly engineered. As had been the case with the previous lawsuit, this ended in an out-of-court settlement, in 1999.[18][19]

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 4/12/14 at 5:22pm

Wow. That sh*t is foul. What happened between the two of them that drove Eastwood to be so low down and dirty to someone he loved and shared a good part of his life with?

Ewww, I just stumbled on to this bit of information:


From 1975 until 1989, Locke cohabited with actor Clint Eastwood.[13] In the late 1970s, Locke underwent two abortions and a tubal ligation.[9] According to her autobiography, she decided to have the procedures because Eastwood insisted parenthood would not fit into their lifestyle.[9] She later discovered Eastwood secretly fathered two children with another woman during the last three years of their relationship.[9]

Clint Eastwood sounds like a first class, top of the line douche-bag. It's sad that she gave in to his demands. Manipulative, controlling and a svengali.

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 4/14/14 at 1:08pm

"From small things, big things one day come. The way Sondra Locke got the part in a major Hollywood production – the film adaptation of Carson McCullers’ masterpiece – is a story which should be remembered. It was an episode of faith, talent, luck. Almost overnight, an aspiring actress from Shelbyville, Tennessee, got nominated for an Academy Award on her first role. 45 years later, Wand’rin’ Star asked Sondra Locke how this came to be."
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[Wilmingtom]

Posted: 4/20/14 at 2:34pm

Well, if someone posted it on Wiki, it must be true.

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 4/21/14 at 3:57pm

"Russell works for the vice squad as an undercover cop. She dresses in miniskirts and wears a lot of chains and works the bars and the sidewalks where the johns are. Her job is to guide them lustfully into the arms of the law, and when her back-up support arrives to read the guy his rights, she's outta there.

The problem is, it's a dangerous and lonely job with a high frustration factor. Her boss on the force (George Dzundza) is a woman-hating creep who is mad at her because she broke up with him. His eyesight seems to be Pavlovian; when he sees a woman who looks like a hooker, he assumes she is a hooker - even if in fact she is an undercover cop. Yes, he likes it when Russell busts somebody. Sure, she's a good cop. But would she dress up that way if she were a nice girl? Some nights the action gets a little dicey. Some nights she almost gets killed. Some nights adrenaline is pumping through her veins and she is expected to go quietly home and be a good girl until it's time to put on the push-up bra again. On one of those nights like that, tired and depressed, Russell goes into a bar and when a guy offers to buy her a drink, she accepts.

She knows what the score is. She's dressed like a hooker. He's dressed like a businessman with 200 bucks in his pocket that he has just decided not to spend on flowers for his wife. But the thing is, she enjoys the power over men that this role gives her. All she has to do is wear the right blouse and smile the right way, and the brains of otherwise sensible men send Code Blue to their genitals. Just once, just tonight, with the warm coil of whiskey in her stomach, she decides to go back to the guy's place and maybe take the money and see what it's like."


Impulse (1990)