It's Marsha Mason. You Might Know Her From The Goodbye Girl, Chapter Two, The Middle, Grace & Frankie, Drop Dead Fred, Heartbreak Ridge, Frasier, Only When I Laugh, Cinderella Liberty, and Judy Garland: Me & My Shadows.
Marsha is a prolific stage and screen actor, a 4-time Oscar-nominee, an organic herb farmer, a race car driver, and a theatre director who gave us all the scoop on jumping in as a last-minute understudy for The Roommate starring Patti LuPone and Mia Farrow on Broadway. We talk about her artistic (and personal) partnership with her ex-husband Neil Simon, the original Goodbye Girl directed by Mike Nichols and starring Robert Deniro that never was (Bogart Slept Here), and what it was like seeing Kathleen Turner "play her" in her stepdaughter, Ellen Simon's film Moonlight and Valentino. All that plus, the cult status of Drop Dead Fred, her failed sitcom Sibs, and the Ethel Gumm of it all. This one was such an incredible full-circle moment for us and a great way to close out this half of the season but we'll be back real soon! Love yous, mean it.
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Discussed this week:
Assistant directing with Broadway director, Jack O'Brien
viral moment with Patti LuPone in The Roommate
Cinderella Liberty with James Caan (The Goodbye Girl, Chapter 2)
Started racing cars thanks to Paul Newman
Nominated for Lead Actress Oscar four times
3 of those 4 were written by Neil Simon
Played Arlene in Grace & Frankie. Still friends with Jane Fonda
The Goodbye Girl with Quin Cummings who played her 9 year old daughter
Mike Nichols was original director and Robert DeNiro was original star
Marsha reading the letter at beginning of GG
Patricia Heaton and Jeff Daniels in tv remake of GG
Got another Oscar nom for Chapter Two which was semi based on her relationship with Neil Simon
Moonlight and Valentino written by Neil Simon's daughter Ellen, and the "Marsha" character was played by Kathleen Turner in the movie
Friends with writer Tony Fingleton and turning his book Swimming Upstream into a musical
Sibswas one season sitcom with Margaret Collen and Jami Gertz
Played John Mahoney's gf Sherry on Frasier
Played Ethel Gumm, Judy Garland's mom in Me and My Shadows
The Goodbye Girl turned into musical with Bernadette and Martin Short
Barnabus Collins turned her into a vampire in Dark Shadows
Was directed by Robert Wise opposite Anthony Hopkins in the 1977 thriller, Audrey Rose (reincarnation psychological thriller)
0:57 "A dancer died at the top of these stairs" (Shirley MacLaine is her New Mexico friend)
1:24 Slaps Clint Eastwood in Heartbreak Ridge
Losing Oscar to Glenda Jackson worse than losing to Kate Hepburn
Lucille Bremer played by Queer as Folk's Thea Gill in Me and My Shadows
Anne's Lucille Bremer story has to go behind a paywall
