Back in 1971, when Ellen Burstyn was first catapulted to movie stardom with The Last Picture Show, she received a letter.“It was from a young man in Texas who told me that he was suicidal,” she says.
The man wrote that he’d decided to see one final movie before he killed himself: The Last Picture Show. And that her performance had changed his mind. “He came out of there feeling, ‘Well, if she can make it through life,’ meaning the character I played, ‘if she can make it, I guess I can too.’” He thanked Burstyn for saving his life.An inspiring and indomitable spirit isn’t confined to Burstyn’s work though; it seems inherent to who she is.
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