Although The Graduate is one of my favorite movies of all time, this was NOT the movie in which Katharine Ross stole my heart (though she IS so pretty here).. and it wasn’t her OTHER blockbuster hit movie, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid that did it for me, either! (Though I’d certainly pack her on MY bicycle anywhere she’d like to go…)
No, strange as it may seem, the movie that I first fell for lovely Ms. Ross was in the 1978 horror movie, THE LEGACY! Yes, that sinister movie where Roger Daltrey, lead vocallist for The Who. dies by choking on a chcken bone! For some reason, this movie was on TV an awful lot, and each time it was on, I watched it for the pretty “Natalie Wood-ish”actress with the heavy fake eyelashes, whom I later found out was named Katherine Ross!
Then came the aforementioned movie like The Graduate, Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid, and her OTHER famous Horror movie, THE STEPFORD WIVES, all featuring Katharine at her best!
She was recently credited in the cult classic “Donnie Darko’, I say “credited” because I have to say the morose psychiatrist lady in the movie didn’t look ANYTHING like the adorably girly Katharine Ross I knew and loved!
Oh Elaine Robinson, won’t you please come home?
