The American actress Eleanor Parker, three times nominated for an Oscar for best actress for her work in Caged (1950), Detective Story (1951), and Interrupted Melody (1955), has died at the age of 91.
The interpreter has died of complications derived from pneumonia in a medical center near her residence in Palm Springs (California), as reported by the digital edition of the specialized magazine.
She is also present in films such as The Sound of Music (1965) and The Man with the Golden Arm (1955). In Caged she played a naive 19-year-old girl who becomes a repeat offender; she kept bedroom secrets as the wife of Kirk Douglas in William Wyler's Detective Story, and she played Australian opera singer Marjorie Lawrence in Interrupted Melody, where she was accompanied by Glenn Ford.
During her more than 50-year career in Hollywood, the Ohio native stood out as the wife of Frank Sinatra in The Man With the Golden Arm, though she is perhaps best remembered for her role as the jealous Baroness Elsa Schraeder in the classic musical The Sound of Music by Robert Wise.
Also, actor and co-star Christopher Plummer have stated in a statement that Parker "is one of the most beautiful women" he has known in his life, "as a person and as a beauty" and has continued: "I can't believe the news. I was convinced that she was under a spell and that she would live forever," he acknowledged.
His film career also includes films such as The King and Four Queens (1956), The Seventh Sin (1957), A Hole in the Head (1959), Return to Peyton Place (1961), Panic Button (1964), and The Oscar ( 1966), among others.
Half of her career, however, is owed to television, where she earned an Emmy nomination for an episode of The Eleventh Hour (1962). She also earned a Golden Globe nomination for Bracken's World (1969).
Subsequently, she appeared in series such as Hawaii Five-O, The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, and the famous Murder, She Wrote.
A very chameleonic actress
Screenwriter William Ludwig, an Oscar winner for his work on Interrupted Melody, wrote in his biography that moviegoers went to the movies "not to see Mrs. Parker in different dresses and places, but to see the person she had created in the movie." movie".
Her ability to disappear on the big screen led author Doug McClelland to write a book about her called Eleanor Parker: Woman of a Thousand Faces.
"I don't always recognize myself when I see myself in photos," the actress admitted in the book. "These are images that remind me of Ingrid Bergman, Pat Neal, Myrna Loy, Joan Fontaine, and Eleanor Powell at times. I never look like myself. Frankly, I think this is wonderful. What woman doesn't like a bit of mystery about of herself?" she added.
Parker was married four times and had four children. Her first relationship was with Fred Losee (1943-44), then with the producer Bert Friedlob (1946-53), and later with the artist Paul Clemens (1954-65). The love of her life was executive Raymond Hirsch, whom she married in 1966.
