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   Oscar Nominee Sondra Locke Dies at 74   
       
       11 hours ago by Dave McNary Variety   
       
   Actress and director Sondra Locke, who received a supporting actress Oscar   
   nomination in her first movie role for "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter," died   
   Nov. 3 at 74. The Los Angeles County Public Health Department confirmed her   
   death.   
       
   She died due to breast and bone cancer, according to Radar Online, which   
   reported that she was laid to rest at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village   
   Memorial Park & Mortuary.   
       
   Locke had a contentious relationship of more than a decade with Clint   
   Eastwood, who first cast her in "The Outlaw Josey Wales."   
       
   Locke was born in 1944 as Sandra Louise Smith and raised in Shelbyville, Tenn.   
   She changed her named to Sondra in her early 20s and won a nationwide talent   
   search in 1967 for the part of teenager Mick Kelly in the movie adaptation of   
   Carson McCullers' novel "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter." Locke starred opposite   
   Alan Arkin, who was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar.   
       
       
   Regards,   
       
   Roger   
      
   --- D'Bridge (SR40)   
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