Karen Black
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| Name: | Karen Black | |
| Status | Deceased | |
| Age: | 74 (July 1, 1939 -August 8, 2013) | |
| IMDB: | IMDb | |
| TMDB: | TMDB | |
| Smoking Status: | Unknown | |
| Type of Celebrity: | Actor | |
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| TMDB Popularity | 15.366 | |
| Biography (TMDB): | Karen Blanche Black (née Ziegler; July 1, 1939 – August 8, 2013) was an American actress, screenwriter, singer, and songwriter. She rose to prominence for her work in various studio and independent films in the 1970s, frequently portraying eccentric and offbeat characters, and established herself as a figure of New Hollywood. Her career spanned over 50 years and includes nearly 200 credits in both independent and mainstream films. Black received numerous accolades throughout her career, including two Golden Globe Awards, as well as an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. A native of suburban Chicago, Black studied theater at Northwestern University before dropping out and relocating to New York City. She performed on Broadway in 1965 before making her major film debut in Francis Ford Coppola's You're a Big Boy Now (1966). Black relocated to California and was cast as an acid-tripping prostitute in Dennis Hopper's road film Easy Rider (1969). That led to a lead in the drama Five Easy Pieces (1970), in which she played a hopeless beautician, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award and won a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress. Black made her first major commercial picture with the disaster film Airport 1975 (1974), and her subsequent appearance as Myrtle Wilson in The Great Gatsby (1974) won her a second Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress. Black starred as a glamorous country singer in Robert Altman's ensemble musical drama Nashville (1975), also writing and performing two songs for the soundtrack, which won a Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack. Her portrayal of an aspiring actress in John Schlesinger's drama The Day of the Locust (also 1975) earned her a third Golden Globe nomination, this time for Best Actress. She subsequently took on four roles in Dan Curtis' anthology horror film Trilogy of Terror (1975), followed by Curtis's supernatural horror feature, Burnt Offerings (1976). The same year, she starred as a con artist in Alfred Hitchcock's final film, Family Plot. In 1982, Black starred as a trans woman in the Robert Altman-directed Broadway debut of Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, a role she also reprised in Altman's subsequent film adaptation. She next starred in the comedy Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? (1983), followed by Tobe Hooper's remake of Invaders from Mars (1986). For much of the late 1980s and 1990s, Black starred in a variety of arthouse, independent, and horror films, as well as writing her own screenplays. She had a leading role as a villainous mother in Rob Zombie's House of 1000 Corpses (2003), which cemented her status as a cult horror icon. She continued to star in low-profile films throughout the early 2000s, as well as working as a playwright before her death from ampullary cancer in 2013. Description above from the Wikipedia article Karen Black, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. |
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Movies
Ace Up My Sleeve
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does a good smoking job |
Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?
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Smokes what appear to be unfiltered Pall Malls throughout, in 5 or 6 extended scenes. The quality of the filming is not good, but her smoking is a running topic of her boyfriend's complaining throughout the film, including one long scene devoted to him whining about her smoking in bed (which she does throughout the scene). |
Capricorn One
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Only one scene where she lights and takes a couple of drags. Inhales are audible rather than visible. |
Chanel Solitaire
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0:01 - Pisier, a close shot as she lights a short all-white. Takes several drags; one nose-exhale. 0:21 - Pisier exhales once while dangling. Hands cig to Fossey who coughs when she drags. 0:34 - Black exhales once, then dangles. 0:41 - Black, standing before a mirror in a black corset, lights. Then twice she does her trademark french-popper and exhale. 0:57 - Pisier asks for cig, accepts light; two drag-exhales. 1:09 - Pisier accepts light; talk-exhale. 1:26 - Fossey, one drag. 1:49 - Pisier accepts light; drag-exhale. 2:00 - Pisier, two drag-exhales. |
Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering
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About 15 minutes in, Karen Black lit a cig, which she soon discarded. Did not see Naomi Watts smoke in this film |
Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
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I think I remember one of her long voluminous nose exhales in this film |
Easy Rider
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takes two super drags at the end... One in fact is notable as a triple pump. |
Family Plot
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takes a lip-smacking light-up drag off of a More |
Five Easy Pieces
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Karen Black, who takes three drags, one of which while wearing a see-through black negligee. |
Gypsy 83
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Good to great work from Rue, smoking continously and looking very IRL. Black smokes a More and has one good exhale. |
Homer and Eddie
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[Goldberg] dangles and smokes a lot, but not very attractive. Black holds in a short scene. Angelyne sucks on a long holder, but the corktip at the end is unlit. |
House of 1000 Corpses
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0:29 - All we see is the start of a light-up, and a brief hold. |
In Praise of Older Women
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three or four scenes of [Black] smoking cigarettes. Nothing particularly noteworthy in the smoking except maybe for context in one scene: she's a married woman and, in front of company, she seductively asks for a light from the teenage boy... Shaver has exactly one drag-exhale in the movie but it's a beauty: a side-on close up of smoke coming out of nose and mouth simultaneously ... [Strasberg] smokes in almost every scene she's in, always with a holder |
It's Alive III: Island of the Alive
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Smokes in one scene. She smokes a cigarette in a car while talking to her boyfriend. A great close-up as she inhales and the exhales. She even french inhales a little. |
Portnoy's Complaint
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0:43 - A (not very close) light-up, 1 drag. 0:48 - Holds. 1:10 - Holds, in cab. |
The Day of the Locust
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0:14 - Accepts a light, picks tobacco from her tongue. Takes drag, then a closeup firey drag. (Non-filters throughout). 0:18 - Match light-up; 3-4 drags, but no good exhales. 0:24 - Holds. 0:44 - Dangle-and-talk before a match light-up; one drag, then holds while dining. 0:51 - In nightgown, more dangling before she accepts light; one drag. -Partly in closeup, but her character was distressed. 1:13 - She and another woman pass a cig, each takes a drag or two. 1:32 - One nice drag-exhale. 1:54 - Holds. 1:55 - Carries a holder. |
The Great Gatsby
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Chiles and [Farrow] each take one close-up drag with holder |
The Outfit
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Three scenes, but the lighting and camera angles in each could be better |
The Pyx
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0:12 - If you don't mind looking past a man's beefy shoulder, a side view as she lights a corktip in bed. Two french-inhales and a nose exhale. 1:01 - Walks toward us dangling a cig, then a french-inhale, another drag. 1:23 - Closeup side view as she speaks while dangling an unlit corktip, a cutaway, then back as she starts to light. |
Trilogy of Terror
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0:36 - Light-up, rapid french-inhale. |
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