She also began to score Broadway roles in the postwar era. After a few understudy and bit parts, she was cast as a replacement for the starring role of Ens. She continued to work in television as the medium evolved and matured, with roles in such classic series as The Twilight Zone, Gunsmoke, Rawhide, The Untouchables, Route 66, Wagon Train, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, 77 Sunset Strip, and a recurring part on more than two dozen episodes of Lassie. By the early s, Leachman was focused on features and the emerging TV-movie genre.
Her character was delightfully over-the-top — as was the Transylvania-set black-and-white movie that also starred Gene Wilder, Teri Garr, Marty Feldman, and Madeline Kahn. A recurring gag throughout the gag-filled pic saw often-unseen horses nervously whinnying at the mere mention of her name. The film remains among the funniest ever made. Leachman appeared in the high-rated wedding episode of Rhoda in , and the show finished in the year-end top 10 among primetime programs in its first two seasons — ahead of Mary Tyler Moore.
Airing as the lead-out for Rhoda on Monday nights, the new series also was an immediate hit, actually eking out a full-season ratings with over Rhoda during Salutes from other admiring colleagues poured in on social media. She started out as Miss Chicago in the Miss America Pageant and willingly accepted unglamorous screen roles. On a single day, any of us is ugly or beautiful. Phyllis combines them both. During the s, Leachman became busy in live TV drama, demonstrating her versatility, including in roles that represented casting standards of that era.
Despite her photogenic looks, she continued to be cast in character parts. Cloris Leachman grew up on the outskirts of Des Moines, Iowa, where she was born in She'd work consistently on the Great White Way every year after for the next 12 years — sometimes in leading roles, like 's As You Like It opposite Katharine Hepburn, and others as replacements, like when she stepped into the shoes of Abigail Williams in Arthur Miller's The Crucible in She was both in the original run of Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific — taking over the leading role of Nellie Forbush after understudying it from original star Mary Martin.
At the same time, Leachman's television career kicked off with a slew of live broadcasts in the '40s and '50s — beginning with 's Night Must Fall on The Ford Theatre Hour. She'd often film them during the day before rushing to act in a Broadway show at night. Along the way, she cozied up to a few big-name costars — including soon-to-be President Ronald Reagan. The big screen called, too — though the parts at first were small. Leachman's feature debut was as an extra in 's Carnegie Hall. She had a memorable scene in Robert Aldrich's classic Kiss Me Deadly, but it wasn't a speaking role.
Competing alongside Ann-Margret, Ellen Burstyn, Barbara Harris and Margaret Leighton, it was the first time in the history of the Oscars an entire category was filled with first-time honorees.
Leachman would go on to win the top prize. And look at me? It was an unexpected win for Leachman, who played Ruth — the depressed middle-aged wife of a high school football coach who has an affair with a senior on her husband's team.
Leachman filmed the movie's pivotal scene, in which she confronts the boy played by Timothy Bottoms , in just one take. Though the big screen gave Leachman her breakout, television was where she'd find her most iconic role: as Phyllis Lindstrom on 's The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Snobbish and biting, Phyllis managed the apartment where Mary and Rhoda Morgenstern Valerie Harper lived — and often clashed with Rhoda. Leachman earned two consecutive supporting actress Emmys for playing the role, in and While she appeared in all seven seasons of the CBS sitcom, Leachman also went solo with the character — leading a spinoff series titled Phyllis from She'd earn a leading comedy actress Golden Globe award for the show.
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