Movies starring Priscilla Pointer
Though character actress Priscilla Pointer may be better known as the mother of 'Amy Irving' (qv), she has enjoyed a major stage, film and TV career herself for over four decades. The New York-born performer was trained on the stage and appeared in several tours and Broadway shows, including "A Streetcar Named Desire", "The Country Wife" and "The Condemned of Altona". Many of these were under the direction of husband 'Jules Irving' (qv), a former actor, whom she married in 1947. Together, they co-founded the San Francisco Actor's Workshop along with Herbert Blau and 'Beatrice Manley' (qv). For ...
show all Though character actress Priscilla Pointer may be better known as the mother of 'Amy Irving' (qv), she has enjoyed a major stage, film and TV career herself for over four decades. The New York-born performer was trained on the stage and appeared in several tours and Broadway shows, including "A Streetcar Named Desire", "The Country Wife" and "The Condemned of Altona". Many of these were under the direction of husband 'Jules Irving' (qv), a former actor, whom she married in 1947. Together, they co-founded the San Francisco Actor's Workshop along with Herbert Blau and 'Beatrice Manley' (qv). Forsaking her career for a time to raise her children, Pointer returned full time and, at the age of 40+, decided to set her sights on film and TV. She seemed to be everywhere in the 1970s and 1980s as somebody's mom, both brittle and resilient. She also proved to be dependable as a stern, no-nonsense teacher, doctor or judge. She played the mother of daughter 'Amy Irving' (qv) in the cult shocker Carrie (1976), 'Diane Keaton' (qv) in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977), 'Sean Penn' (qv) in Falcon and the Snowman, The (1985) and 'Kyle MacLachlan' (qv) in Blue Velvet (1986). On the nighttime soap hit "Dallas" (1978), she played mom to 'Victoria Principal' (qv)'s character. In 1979, her husband Jules passed away and, two years later, she married actor 'Robert Symonds' (qv). They have appeared together quite frequently on stage, including the plays "Voices" and "The Road to Mecca".
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This is the most complete of David Lynch’s films, made before his disturbing black vision of small-town American life veered into self-parody. The dark tone is set from the opening sequence, which starts with white picket fences and cheery firemen but ends with a man suffering a stroke in his garden while insect life seethes beneath the lawn. Lynch regular Kyle MacLachlan plays the young innocent who gets sucked into the bizarre sadomasochistic relationship between nightclub singer Isabella Rossellini and monstrous local crime boss Dennis Hopper. The latter resurrected his career with a crazed portrait of evil — legend has it that Hopper said “I’ve got to play Frank. Because I am Frank”. Once experienced here, listening to Roy Orbison’s In Dreams will never be the same again.
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