This resilient blonde lead was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress for her very first screen appearance in "The Heart is A Lonely Hunter" (1968), in which she played a lonely, unhappy teenager who befriends a suicidal deaf mute. Though Locke played leads in several subsequent outings including "Willard" (1971), her career pretty much stalled until she again came to prominence in a number of films co-starring Clint Eastwood--her one-time companion. Beginning as his love interest in "The Outlaw Josey Wales" (1975), the private and professional relationship continued over
