name of the girl at hospital
Does anyone know the name of the actress who was in the prisoners room at the hospital? the one with the green worm in her head.
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That's easy, dude ... it was Tisha Sterling. She plays "Linny Raven," Ringerman's girlfriend. "A certified ding-dong," as Ringerman's hosebag mom points out.
Tisha's a real bit of candy with that smile.
Here's a historical note about Coogan's Bluff's pre-production. Eastwood, director Don Siegel, and screenwriter Dean Riesner were working on the script one day in 1967, and Eastwood and Riesner became involved in a heated dispute over the scene where Coogan sleeps with Linny Raven. Riesner thought that it was stupid (and perhaps immoral) for Coogan to be sleeping around with a young chick like that (after all, she is the girlfriend of the villain that he's pursuing). Eastwood, conversely, didn't care and demanded that the scene remain in the script. Eventually, Siegel cooled everyone out and no further hitches emerged. Riesner would proceed to co-write the Eastwood movies Play Misty for Me (Eastwood, 1971), Dirty Harry (Siegel, 1971), High Plains Drifter (Eastwood, 1973) [although Riesner didn't receive credit due to a Writer's Guild arbitration, much to Eastwood's chagrin], and The Enforcer (James Fargo, 1976), while also doing a little uncredited work on The Outlaw Josey Wales (Eastwood, 1976).
shareTisha Sterling is Ann Southern's daughter. Ann was the star of films in the '40s & '50s.
shareJust saw her in a couple of episodes of the old Batman series, playing a character called Legs, the daughter of Ma Parker, played by Shelley Winters.
I saw these Batman episodes, made a note of her name and just looked it up on the IMDB. Totally blown away to find out she was also Linney Raven, since this is one of my all-time favourite films, yet oddly I'd never payed any attention to who played her before. Cool bit of trivia I'll remember now, though.
She was an excellent actress who I think was hampered by her beauty. She was gorgeous eye candy in Villiage of the Giants but later really became a superb actress. Why she didn't become a major star is beyond me. Her role in Coogan was perfect, she played a looney hippie to a tee. She was also really good in a TV Movie called Betrayal, with Amanda Blake from Gunsmoke.
shareShe sure is. Every time I see this movie, my mouth waters when she's on camera. Incredibly sexy mouth. Great teeth!
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