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Marilyn Burns, Star of TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE Dead at 65
Fay Wray may get the prize as the best screamer in moviedom, but nobody’s screams seemed as intense and as real and as horrified as Marilyn Burns as Sally Hardesty, the ‘last girl’ from the original 1974 TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE.
If ever there was an actress in horror who will be immortalized for a single role, it’s gotta be Ms Burns. I just saw TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE in its new souped-up incarnation this past weekend when it was screened at The Hi-Pointe as part of Late Night Grindhouse and was still impressed at what an unnerving performance director Tobe Hooper coaxed from her for the film. Her post-CHAINSAW career was almost non-existent (Hooper’s follow-up EATEN ALIVE, the TV movie of HELTER SKELTER and a couple of cameos here and there were about it). I met her a few times on the horror con circuit and she was a very pleasant woman who seemed more than comfortable with her one-hit fame. Marilyn Burns died yesterday at age 65.
From Variety:
Marilyn Burns, one of the original “scream queens” who starred in Tobe Hooper’s original 1974 “Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” died Tuesday in Texas. She was 65 and was found dead in her home near Houston.
“Texas Chainsaw” was her first lead role; in it she played teenager Sally Hardesty, who goes with her brother and friends to the cemetery where her grandfather is buried and ends up as the only survivor of an encounter with the insane family led by chainsaw-wielding Leatherface.
Burns was born in Erie, Penn., raised in Texas and had small parts in films including Robert Altman’s “Brewster McCloud” while she was still in high school, and George Roy Hill’s “The Great Waldo Pepper.”……..
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