Sylvia Miles, scene-stealer in MidnightCowboy and 'Farewell, My Lovely,' dies at 94
The free-wheeling actress and fabled New York partygoer received Oscar nominations for her brief appearances in those films.Midnight Cowboy was enough to land her a pair of supporting Oscar nominations, has died, theHer longtime friend Geraldine Smith confirmed the news to the, saying that Miles had been in declining health and had recently left a nursing home because "she didn’t want to die there.
In one of her most notorious roles in a career filled with them, Miles starred as a fading Hollywood movie star in from Andy Warhol's Warhol Factory. She appears naked and shares a steamy love scene with the hunky, much-younger Joe Dallesandro in the movie, directed by Paul Morrissey. Plus, she claimed to have made up every line of her dialogue.
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