Welcome to Newfoundland's Grand Banks Genealogy site. Sean Penn felt this improved the movie. She lived with actor Eric Roberts from 1980 to 1985. Their wedding ceremony was held at their home in Morristown, New Jersey, on July 24, 1999. For her performance in the play A Thousand Clowns, she received the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. She died on March 2, 1992 at Westport, Connecticut at age 54. For her performance in the play A Thousand Clowns, she received the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. Aside from my feelings for her as a friend, I believed she would be a great asset to the movie and would inspire us all to do our best. The War of the Roses (1989) As you probably think, the title is a clear allusion to the clash for the … Denny and Lucas were married between 1974 and 1978. Dennis made a TV movie with Stuart Whitman, Only Way Out Is Dead (1970). [10], Dennis lived with prominent jazz musician Gerry Mulligan from 1965 until they split up in 1974. In 1967 Dennis was voted the 18th biggest star in the US.[7]. After 1982, her film work became sporadic, but she continued to make movies up until just before her death in 1992. She says, "It's not -- I'm not fussy about that -- the truth is I was never married. Kazan cast Dennis in her first feature film, a small part in Splendor in the Grass (1961), which starred Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty. She starred in Sweet November (1968) as a terminally ill woman who takes multiple lovers, and made a TV version of the play A Hatful of Rain (1968). Sandy married Ronald Lenoir Franklin . Around this time, Dennis guest-starred on episodes of the TV series Naked City ("Idylls of a Running Back", 1962, "Carrier", 1963), The Fugitive ("The Other Side of the Mountain", 1963), Arrest and Trial ("Somewhat Lower Than the Angels" 1964), and Mr. Broadway ("Don't Mention My Name in Sheboygan", 1964). This proved to be true. The newspapers jumped to that conclusion. In his book The Season, William Goldman called her a quintessential "critics' darling" who got rave reviews no matter how unusual her acting and questionable her choice of material. In late March 1978, while on holiday with her parents and baby Georgia in Cornwall, Denny was injured when she fell down a staircase and hit her head on concrete. At the time of her death in Westport, CT, she lived with more than 20 cats, who were adopted out by longtime friends to new homes. Scroll below and check more details information about Current Net worth as well […] Dennis grew up in Kenesaw, Nebraska, and Lincoln, Nebraska, graduating from Lincoln High School in 1955; one of her classmates was writer and comedian Dick Cavett. She sits bolt upright and repeats: "I've never been married. Dennis returned to the stage in a production of The Three Sisters (1966) with Geraldine Page and Kim Stanley that went to London and was filmed. 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