A statuesque, attractive, skilled leading lady capable of a wide range, but usually relegated to playing grand bitches or scheming villains, Jessica Walter is perhaps best remembered for three disparate but memorable screen roles. In Sidney Lumet's "The Group" (1966), she was cast as Libby, the frigid gossip while Clint Eastwood's directorial debut "Play Misty for Me" (1971) found her as a psychotic stalker fixated on disc jockey Eastwood and in Garry Marshall's "The Flamingo Kid" (1984), Walter played the bored affluent housewife, drinking vodka and asking the cabana boy for a gun. More
