On June 23, 1938, Marion Perloff jumped from atop the 11-floor-high Time & Life Building (New York) and plummeted to her death. Many other suicides followed the same year. However, Perloff’s suicide leap was the first ever to be recorded on camera. NBC cameraman, Ross Plaisted, was testing his equipment in a nearby building, when he spotted Perloff. He started filming when she reached the sixth floor and followed her all the way to the ground. The actual footage was never broadcast on television. I’ve always lived in the moment. I don’t dwell on the past or worry about the future. I try to live for today, and Parkinson’s hasn’t changed that. What was it like to work with director Stacey Souther on the documentary ‘ Valerie ’?

Then, when she was 32, having shot to movie stardom as a thinking-woman’s bombshell, she boarded a small plane to the San Sebastian Film Festival.Valerie". edmontonfilmfest.com. Archived from the original on October 1, 2020 . Retrieved September 10, 2020. Winners & Nominees: Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama (1975)". GoldenGlobes.com. Golden Globe Awards . Retrieved January 11, 2019. The most rewarding part was when the film was considered for the Oscars. Stacey did a lot of work for several years, so seeing the film get recognition made us both very happy.

That attitude helped land her the role of Honey Harlowe in Lenny. It's a complicated role—Honey is a stripper, then a wife, then a junkie, then a mother, then a relapsed junkie. In essence, Perrine plays two Honeys—the one who five minutes into the film performs a show-stopping striptea​se,and the Honey who becomes that sad woman who never got it together, but can manage a nostalgic giggle from time to time. The surgery offered some relief from the tremors, but the deterioration continued. “She went from using a cane to using a walker to using a wheelchair. This was over the course of probably 2015 through 2017,” says her brother. She was headed there to support Bob Fosse’s Lenny, in which she played Lenny Bruce’s stripper wife, Honey Bruce, a performance that earned Perrine awards at Cannes and BAFTA and a best actress Oscar nomination. She now requires a hydraulic lift to get in and out of bed. About a year ago, she developed aphasia — the same condition that afflicts Bruce Willis — which affected her comprehension and speech. Valerie Perrine became an actor after being spotted at a dinner party. What memories and highlights stand out to you from your early Hollywood career?

Valerie Ritchie Perrine (born September 3, 1943) [1] is an American actress. For her role as Honey Bruce in the 1974 film Lenny, she won the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles, the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Her other film appearances include Superman (1978), The Electric Horseman (1979), and Superman II (1980).