American actress and film and stage director (1932–1980)
Barbara Loden
Loden in 1964
Born
Barbara Ann Loden
(1932-07-08)July 8, 1932
Asheville, North Carolina, U.S.
Died
September 5, 1980(1980-09-05) (aged 48)
New York City, U.S.
Occupations
Actress
director
Years active
1957–1980
Spouses
Laurence Joachim (m. 1954; divorced)
Elia Kazan
(m. 1967)
Children
2
Barbara Ann Loden (July 8, 1932 – September 5, 1980) was an American actress and director of film and theater.[1][2] Richard Brody of The New Yorker described Loden as the "female
counterpart to John Cassavetes".[3]
Born and raised in North Carolina, Loden began her career at an early age in New York City as a commercial model and chorus-line dancer. Loden became a regular sidekick on the irreverent Ernie Kovacs Television Show in the mid-1950s and was a lifetime member of the famed Actors Studio. She appeared in several projects directed by her second husband, Elia Kazan, including Splendor in the Grass (1961). Her subsequent performance in a 1964 Broadway production of After the Fall earned her a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress.
In 1970, Loden wrote, directed, and starred in Wanda, a groundbreaking independent film that won the International Critics Award at the 1970 Venice Film Festival. Throughout the 1970s, she continued to work directing Off-Broadway and regional theater productions, as well as direct two short films. In 1978, Loden was diagnosed with breast cancer, of which she died two years later, aged 48.
^The Hollywood Reporter, Barbara Loden obituary, September 8, 1980.
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^"Movies". The New Yorker. Condé Nast. July 30, 2007. Retrieved September 14, 2018.
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