FAREWELL, SALLY KIRKLAND

For imagi-movie fans, you struck a chord with a series of stupendous submissions: Fatal Games, The Haunted, The Haunting of Hellhole Mine, Suburban Gothic, Awakened, The Visitor from Planet Omicron and Two Evil Eyes (doing a fine job stealing the scenery in Dario Argento's "Black Cat" segment).

However, you slipped beyond those colorful potboilers to seize roles (both large, small and in-between) in Anna, Coming Apart, The Way We Were, The Sting, A Star is Born 1976, EDtv, JFK, Adam & Steve, Forever, The Kansas City Massacre, White Hot, Death Scream, In the Heat of Passion, Paint It Black, Out of the Black, Hometown U.S.A., Georgia Peaches, Invincible, The Bride From Vegas, Chandler Hall, Neo Ned, Blue, Bruce Almighty, Cold Feet, A Month of Sundays, Primary Motive, Bullseye!, Posey, Best of the Best, Big Bad Mama, Crazy Mama, Buddy Hutchins, Bite the Bullet, Breakheart Pass, Broken Roads, Human Highway, House Under Siege, Hit the Dutchman, High Stakes, Picture Windows, The Player, Lights Out, Get a Clue, Archeology of a Woman, Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model?, Double Jeopardy, The Wayshower, The Wishmakers, Cinderella Liberty, Captains and the Kings, Coffee Break, Thank You Goodnight, Griffin and Phoenix, Another Woman's Husband, Revenge, What's Up Scarlet?, Trash Fire, Willow B: Women in Prison, Blazing Saddles, Ron and Laura Take Back America, The Code of Cain, Love Letters, Private Benjamin, The Woman Who Loved Elvis ... and (as Marilyn Monroe) The Island 1998. 

Your series appearances (whether episodic or serialized) only perpetuated your prolific trend with such entries as Theatre Fantastique, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, The Hunger, The Incredible Hulk, Roseanne, Starsky & Hutch, Kojak, Toma, Baretta, Petrocelli, Bronk, The Rookies, Hawaii 5-O, Charlie's Angels, Lou Grant, Felicity, Women: Stories of Passion, Supertrain, Resurrection Blvd, Visions, Insight, Murder She Wrote, High Tide and Falcon Crest, with protracted participation on Days of Our Lives and Valley of the Dolls.

You were a venerable performer and quintessential beauty, Ms. Kirkland, who bewitched each and every one who discovered you, and for those yet to experience that insuperable pleasure, oh, what a titillating treat awaits!