Episode 82 - Lois Smith
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Higher Ground
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2017
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
The inimitable Lois Smith has lived a full and exciting life, beginning in Kansas in 1930 and leading her to where she is today, acting in films like Marjorie Prime and Lady Bird at the age of 87. Lois studied theater at the University of Washington, got married at the age of 18, moved to New York with her husband, and has acted on stage and screen ever since. In this episode, she and Sam spend a peaceful hour discussing all of these milestones, along with Lois' first job in the Broadway play Time Out With Ginger, her LIFE magazine cover in 1955, her mindset when it comes to promoting films, and some wisdom from her character in Minority Report. http://talkeasypod.com/artist/lois-smith/
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin |
| 0:09.0 | Hey, this is Sam. |
| 0:10.0 | If you enjoy our interviews with writers and artists on Talk Easy, then I'd recommend checking |
| 0:14.8 | out the podcast Missing Pages. Hosted by acclaimed literary critic and author Beth Ann Patrick, |
| 0:21.5 | Missing Pages investigates the biggest hot button topics in the book world today |
| 0:26.4 | with the help of special guests like New York Times Best-Selling author Jody Pekle |
| 0:31.3 | and publisher weeklies Jim Miliet. |
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| 0:36.1 | Missing Pages explores everything from the insta frame of Colleen Hoover |
| 0:40.3 | to the rise of book bands across America to the lucrative culture of non-fiction ghost writing. |
| 0:46.0 | As both the Washington Post and the Guardian praise, |
| 0:49.0 | missing pages is a must listen. |
| 0:52.0 | So if you'd like to check it out, you can follow missing pages on |
| 0:55.0 | Apple Podcast or wherever you like to listen. |
| 1:15.0 | Ahh, it's It's not that there isn't grief and sorrow at the death of my siblings when they happened one after another over many years. But you know I probably don't spend a lot of time thinking oh my god I'm gonna die too. |
| 1:21.2 | They all did and I will. Yeah, I do think that's the case as far as I know. |
| 1:26.3 | But I'm not grappling. I feel like I'm not grappling. If I start to grapple I'll probably know it. |
| 1:36.0 | That was Lois Smith. I'm San Francisco. This is Talk Easy. |
| 1:41.0 | Welcome to the show. Lois Smith has been acting for the better part of 70 years, first in high school, then some in college and then, ultimately, the motion pictures. She found success early on in |
| 2:16.2 | what would later become landmark pieces of cinema. East of Eden, five easy |
| 2:21.4 | pieces, next stop Greenwich Village, fatal attraction, the great roles just |
| 2:27.3 | kept on coming. In the 21st century, you've seen her in movies like Minority Report, |
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