Lesley Ann Warren

Let's discuss the underrated actress Lesley Ann Warren

Warren got a her big debut as Cinderella in 1965, acting alongside Celeste Holm, Walter Pidgeon, Jo Van Fleet, Stuart Damon, Pat Carroll, and Ginger Rogers.

From there, she went on to have a great career:

The Happiest Millionaire, Mission Impossible, The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band, It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman, 79 Park Avenue, Betrayal, The Muppet Show, Victor/Victoria, A Night in Heaven, Songwriter, CLUE, Life Stinks, Pure Country, Color of Night, Going All the Way, The Limey, Teaching Mrs. Tingle, Will & Grace, Constellation, Jobs, A Little Help, Between Us, In Plain Sight, and Desperate Housewives

She was GORGEOUS as Cinderella

She's a DL icon. We discuss her all the time. She's the bee's knees, baby.

R2 I could not find a thread dedicated to her

I really loved her on Mission: Impossible, she and Leonard Nimoy were great additions. But I also loved Lynda Day George as Casey, too. Lesley Ann was married to Jon Peters then, and supposedly he caused a lot of trouble onset for her.

OP?? How could you forget one of my favorite movies, "Choose Me"?

Seeing her when I was a 7-year-old girl, I had one of my first crushes, and I've loved her ever since.

[quote]I really loved her on Mission: Impossible

She sucked rocks. How many sullen hippie chicks did she do? *Zero* sophistication.

I love her as Teri Hatcher's mom on Desperate Housewives. Perfect casting.

Good actress, GREAT tits.

R7, she was also really good as Mary McCormack's mother on [italic]In Plain Sight.[/italic]

My sisters and I fell in lifelong love with her and Stuart Damon in [italic]Cinderella.[/italic]

Let's not forget Beulah Land.

I love her in CLUE.

She is acting with amazing talent- Eileen Brennan, Tim Curry, Christopher Lloyd, Michael McKean, Martin Mull, and Madeline Kahn

Clue was great.

I remember the first time I saw Cinderella on TV, probably late 70s. I thought she and Stuart Damon were too old for the roles, Cinderella was a brunette and I didn't really buy Stuart Damon aka Alan Quartermain from General Hospital, as the Prince.

How hot is it? 110 IN THE SHADE

[quote][R2] I could not find a thread dedicated to her

Seriously? I Googled "Datalounge Lesley Warren" and got an entire page of threads.

R14 It didn't appear on the search

And her Clue role was a last-minute change. It was supposed to be Carrie Fisher, but she got back on the kew-caine.

If you ask me, LAW did it better than Carrie ever could have. She's bubbly and light, and Carrie Fisher was incapable of being anything but dour and sour.

Love her but was allegedly a pain in the ass during Dream on Broadway. So much so that her name was brought up as a possible Roxie in the very hot Chicago revival and immediately vetoed.

R17 ..... who has the link to the Michael Reidel Theatre Talk episode where the publicist speaks of actors getting in their own way. She used Lesley Ann as an example..... apparently in the pre Broadway rehearsals of DREAM ....... there was a piece of furniture on the set ... a chaise lounge/ fainting couch that was yellow. Lesley Ann didn't like yellow. Lesley Ann demanded the furniture be replaced. And when it didn't GET replaced.......Lesley Ann cut up the upholstery with a knife or shears? Who else remembers that bit of Broadway lore?

I confuse her with Lesley Anne Down and Diane Warren. A trifecta of confusion.

r15 Please read what I wrote. You have to use GOOGLE.

R19 It's @ 21:30 in the linked Theater Talk episode. The press agent Susan L. Schulman was promoting her book "Backstage Pass," which I still haven't read although it's sounds like fun. Sadly, Schulman died a couple of months ago.

Barbra Striesand broke up Lesley Ann Warren marriage

Home wrecker

A Night in Heaven Christopher Atkin fucks Lesley Ann Warren. 1983

Stole scenes in victor/victoria.

The difficult rumors make sense. They never really took advantage of her character on Desperate Housewives. Her chemistry with Teri Hatcher was terrific.

R27 She appeared a lot in the first and third season I believe

Back in the 70s she wanted to be known as Lesley Warren. Not sure why or when she put the Ann back in. She made a fabulous movie of the week with Ryan O'Neal called Love Hate Love. Assuming it was pre Love Story and Ryan's movie career.

Lesley Ann Warren gave an excellent performance in the Bruce Willis POS film "Color of Night".

Actually, everyone in that POS film gave an above average performance except Bruce Willis.

Poor her , a good actress whos dance card was never filled.

r31 True, but at least Bruce showed peen.

Stole Victor Victoria right out from the other three leads.

Pure Country was a lot of fun. George Strait was hot as hell in it. She was George's bitchy manager.

Totally agree with R34. I really love her in Victor-Victoria.

Color of Night is a terrible movie everyone, don't see it.

Every cast member of that Johnny Mercer Broadway musical, including Margaret Whiting, hated her fucking guts. She even rehearsed separately from the rest of the cast.

Twelve-minute retrospective of various projects.

I always found her whiny and annoying.

She looks a lot like Susan Sarandon now. Both aged very well.

R43 No. Lesley Ann Warren is way better than Susan Sarandon. Plus she stays out of politics

I left her personality out of it, obviously.

Pretty is as pretty does, r45.

I used to work with her neighbor, who was engaged in a property mine dispute with Lesley Ann and her husband. Lesley Ann stole one of the oversized pumpkins that was being grown for our special ed. classroom, because it was halfway over where Lesley thought the line was. Unfortunately, I got another job and never found out who won that lawsuit.

My coworker rarely used profanity, but anytime we mentioned watching Clue, she'd immediately ask if we could stop talking about it because it reminded her of "that cunt Lesley!"

She hit me in the head with a fondue pot.

Her Marilyn Monroe giggling schtick is tiresome.

Cant believe she’s like almost 80!!!!

It was funny when Jayne did it.

She reminds me of every girl in high school I fuckin hated.

She was very funny in a movie called Burglar with Whoopi Goldberg.

[quote] Lesley Ann stole one of the oversized pumpkins that was being grown for our special ed. classroom

Well, in her defense, her other carriage was in the shop.

I really liked her as a murderous cheer mom in "Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story"

Did you know Lesley is a New York Jewish girl?

She looks incredibly good. Wonder why she never achieved true leading lady status, she's always the best thing in whatever she appears.

BECAUSE, R60, she was born 20 years too late. The kinds of films and theater she was trained for had gone out of style by the time she was in her early twenties.

She was the youngest student at The Actors Studio.

She gave two of the best performances of 1984 with Choose Me and Songwriter, and oddly, wasn't nominated for either one.

She still works and looks fantastic. She's had an enviable career starring in several classics and cult classics. I'd say not being a traditional leading lady might have helped in her case. She'd have probably been put out to pasture by the time she'd have been up for Victor/Victoria if she'd been a normal, dull ingenue. Even in Cinderella, there was something different and offbeat about her.

I saw her cabaret show in the 80, and she sucked.

R66

There was always something exceedingly cheesy about her. There's nothing wrong with being sexy, but she was always sexy in a trashy way.

There's a Mission Impossible channel on the Pluto streamer. Her year as a member of the MI team is jarring. What spy school did LAW get sent to where she gets trained as a pale, wan, helpless, hippie chick. Leonard Nimoy is equally ineffective as he purges his Mr Spock persona with groovy neck scarves and piled on disguises. Both gone in a year.

She was married to Jon Peters and his beer can size cock back when he could go two or three rounds per night.

I will always love her for her ridiculously over-the-top sex scene in "A Night in heaven."

Foreplay produces a stronger response in her character than actual orgasm does in 99.99999% of other human beings.

BTW, at that cabaret show she sang Losing My Mind and during the light applause some queen said, Thanks I just lost my dinner.

A friend of mine worked with her on a movie back in the 90’s and said she was very aloof and not very friendly to him or the other cast members or with the crew. They were in several scenes together and were filming on location and, one day in the makeup trailer, he thought he would be nice and invite her to dinner after they finished for the day because they were to be done early. Her response was a condescending, “You must be joking. Absolutely not!” For the rest of the shoot, he only spoke to her if it regarded something with the scene they were currently working on.

She will always my Cinderella.

She will always be my slutty teacher.

For me it begins and ends with Clue. Maybe my favorite all time comedy. Certainly top 5.

While Kahn my personal favorite from Clue, Warren was a close second. I probably watched that movie ten thousand times as a kid.

Love her.

R70, why do you make up shit like that?

Lesley Ann Warren's Cinderella turned me gay. I can't re-watch it because it makes me cry with homesickness for the 1960s.

R79, Ask Pamela Anderson about Jon Peters’ cock.

OMG I remember her brief - and disastrous turn - as Scarlett O'Hara in the musical Gone With The Wind. Pernell Roberts(!!) as Rhett Butler. It NEVER made it to Broadway, and was considered a can't miss hit. Udana Power as Melanie Wilkes???? I think she was on Merv Griffin's old show chatting it up, and Merv gushing she was a sure Tony winner!!!

The thing I remembered most about DREAM was how old her arms looked (thin, bony with flesh hanging). And gloves. To cover up I guess wicked witch hands. Long ones when she warbled “Moon River”. She made very little impression which I thought was interesting considering she was my Cinderella from childhood also. One of those stars I almost forget I ever saw perform live. She’s appearing at a local theater later in the spring ostensibly hosting some show about the dance in film. Considering going. Tickets are not expensive but for the meet and greet after words it’s 100 bucks a head, I think.

Oh! I seem to remember the end was dropped in some attempt to distance herself from the Cinderella/Disney image.

Fucking autocorrect: the ANN was dropped

She did get to rub up against nude Christopher Atkins.

R73 That’s pretty fascinating. It’s interesting when a famous person carries their fame like a burden imposed upon them. They might be afraid of others. I remember one actress in a diner in midtown NYC, when approached by the manager who said he enjoyed her work, grew uncomfortable and left without ordering anything. I think it was Molly Ringwald.

In your story, your friend wasn’t even a stranger or a fan, but a colleague. So that snub is pretty hurtful and classless.

Please go to the Meet and Greet R84 !! We'll all chip in to help pay for the ticket. Tell her DataLounge sends their regards, ,,,,,,and please give a report back....... an update on the bony arms with flesh hanging!

After Clue, her recurring role on Will & Grace is my favorite. It was pure L.A.W. goodness.

God Bless all of you fucking old fags. Nobody remembers this old snatch except you old queens.

Datalounge is a treasure trove of obscure pop culture junk culture from the last third of the 20th Century.

Unfortunately, that's when their lives stopped.

[quote]I really loved her on Mission: Impossible, she and Leonard Nimoy were great additions. But I also loved Lynda Day George as Casey, too. Lesley Ann was married to Jon Peters then, and supposedly he caused a lot of trouble onset for her.

The cum running out of my ass and leaking down my legs as I navigate W. 23rd St. to get back home in a Grey Goose haze is less gay than the above sentence.

[quote]I remember the first time I saw Cinderella on TV, probably late 70s. I thought she and Stuart Damon were too old for the roles, Cinderella was a brunette and I didn't really buy Stuart Damon aka Alan Quartermain from General Hospital, as the Prince.

Getting bent over a trash can and being anally raped by two Puerto Ricans on Gay St. isn't as gay as the above sentence.

Love her on Willi & Grace. Her laugh, then Sydney Pollack mimics it. It is perfection

She was so good (and forgettable) in "A Night in Heaven" perfect foild for the homoeroticism between Christopher Atkins and Robert Logan

She always seemed to be having fun with her roles!

She was so great in Burglar.

Whoopi: [Explains her whodunnit theory in detail]

LAW: “Uh, can I ask a question please?”

W: “Sure!”

LAW: “WHO GIVES A SHIT? I just want a hot bath.”

always enjoyed her wild performance in color of night. interesting to listen to her discuss how she created the character.

Lesley Ann and the DREAM female ensemble

Perhaps she should have insisted she only be photographed standing next to Margaret Whiting.

She is still gorgeous at 70

Love Lesley. She was robbed of the Oscar for "Victor, Victoria."

1983 - Academy Awards - ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

WINNER: JESSICA LANGE Tootsie

NOMINEES

GLENN CLOSE - The World According to Garp

TERI GARR - Tootsie

KIM STANLEY - Frances

LESLEY ANN WARREN - Victor/Victoria

I love Jessica Lange, but Lesley Ann Warren deserved to win the Oscar. Jessica Lange should have won the Oscar for 1983 Best Actress for "Frances." Instead, Meryl Streep won 1983 Best Actress for "Sophie's Choice."

She and Ann Reinking were finalists to play Cassie in the movie version of ACL.

Fabulous actress. Loved her on Will & Grace as the girlfriend of Will's father.

Lesley Ann Warren is 77. Born August 16, 1946 in New York City.

I confuse her with the one who killed her career singing on the Oscars.

I confuse both of then with the fat teacher in High School Musical

A good, long recent interview. She's articulate, funny, and seems to be open and honest about her career and performances. She's 77, but her voice hasn't aged at all.

Love Lesly especially in Victor/Victoria, pookie.

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