Peter Bogdanovich on Directing Cloris Leachman in ‘The Last Picture Show’: ‘Cut, Print, You Just Won an Oscar’
Pat Saperstein Deputy EditorPeter Bogdanovich’s first impression of Cloris Leachman was nothing like the lonely housewife she played in “Last Picture Show.”The director recalled his first meeting with Leachman, who died Wednesday at 94, when he was casting “The Last Picture Show.”“One of the producers was Bob Rafaelson. I said, ‘I don’t know any 30 or 40ish women.’ So he made me a list with Cloris and Ellen Burstyn and some other women,” Bogdanovich recalls.