Elizabeth Ashley | Louisiana Legends

This episode of the series “Louisiana Legends” from February 13, 1984, features an interview with Elizabeth Ashley conducted by Gus Weill. Ashley, a native of Baton Rouge, is a Tony Award-winning actress. She discusses: her move to New York; her early career in New York; her time at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre; life on the road while on tour; and her thoughts on fame and talent.

[@Richard19551]

Thanks so much for posting this! I've always liked her - and it's wonderful to see her great intelligence, keenness of insight, eloquence and idiosyncratic manners and attitude for half an hour :)

[@cynthiahawkins2389]

Miss Ashley is something else - a real force of nature. Seeing her over the decades, you do get a sense she has matured, ripened, and indeed, come home to herself. Affected by depression and bipolar disorder, she speaks very frankly about it. She also was, I think the very first to do a black and white PSA about mental illness, and asking viewers to see it as the ILLNESS it is - not a personalty flaw, not a quirk. An illness. That took courage and candor on her part. BTW don't miss her in TREME - a part of Aunt Mimi written especially for her...

[@EphemeralProductions]

She definitely seems manic here.

[@MissPerriwinkle]

good 4 her....she lived it up !!

[@BeautifulSpirit-kf5ld]

This film is 35 years old; Also, it doesnt paint Ms Ashley in a favorable light at all. I would ask LPB to remove it from public domain, if you care about her legacy, which is a great one. Thank you

[@joecaroselli5858]

To me here, she sounded a little bit like a combination of Tallulah Bankhead and Bette Davis. I think that with the sunglasses here, she looked a little bit like Sophia Loren. She really liked and respected Art Carney, who was her costar in "Take Her, She's Mine" for which she eventually won the Tony.

[@EphemeralProductions]

I’ve always thought she looked like Sophia. ❤️

[@ButchCassidyAndSundanceKid]

The only flick I saw her in was Coma (1976) . She was a no-nonsense lady-in-charge of the Jefferson Institute where human organs were harvested. I have to admit I find her husky voice very sexy.

[@jackbailey7037]

this has been speeded up too much

[@gheraiaaicha8145]

cette femme vit trop dans le stress son attitude est angoissante

[@calebcostigan2561]

Elle utilise de la cocaïne. Un toxicomane depuis de nombreuses années.

[@BujoldComa78]

She is a good actress but an awful person.

[@EphemeralProductions]

That’s a horrid thing to say. And how would you know? Did you ever meet her?

[@BujoldComa78]

@@EphemeralProductions Yes I did.

[@EphemeralProductions]

@@BujoldComa78 she had (has) bipolar. That may have had something to do with it