The most interesting aspects of Louise Fletcher‘s performance as Nurse Ratched in Milos Forman‘s One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, which I honestly never liked all that much (and this is from a guy who played Dr. Spivey in a Connecticut stage version of Ken Kesey‘s play): (1) Instead of being butch-bossy, she was subdued and icy; (2) the combination of those hazel eyes and that slightly opened mouth had a macabre effect; (c) the 1940s Ann Sheridan hair style said more about Ratched than anything she said or did in that film.
Fletcher died yesterday (9.23) at her home in Montdurausse, France, at age 88. That’s an out-of-the-way town, and I wonder how she ended up there. I’d like to hear that story.