Carlin Glynn at the 60th Annual Tony Awards - Reunion Photo Luncheon - June 1, 2006.Photo:Bruce Glikas/FilmMagic
Bruce Glikas/FilmMagic
Carlin Glynn, the singer/actress who won aTony Awardin 1979 for her role inThe Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, has died. She was 83.
Glynn’s daughter, actressMary Stuart Masterson, announced on Instagram that Glynn died July 13, following dementia and cancer diagnoses in recent years.
“Death is like birth in the oddest way. From my first breath to her last,” she continued in the caption. “This thread is as fragile as it is strong.”
TheBad Girlsactress described Glynn as “the most graceful clumsy person you would ever meet.”
“Strong, smart, silly, intuitive, kind, generous, passionate and a deep listener,” Masterson wrote of her mother. “She was devoted to my father and to the enormous circle of students and collaborators who were considered her chosen family.”
Masterson added in the caption that the third photo in her post was taken “before the worst of dementia and cancer took their toll” on Glynn. “She never lost her sense of joy or wonder… Rest in peace, mommy,” she added.
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Carlin Glynn in ‘Mr. President’.Everett Collection
Everett Collection
Glynn made her onscreen debut in the 1975 filmThree Days of the Condorbefore she set her sights on Broadway with the musicalThe Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.
Her husband Peter Masterson adapted the story and directed the musical. The actress went on to reprise her role as Mona Stangley in a 1982 revival of the show that began shortly after its original run ended, according toPlaybill.
“I initially worked on the play only to help out,” Glynn toldThe New York Timesof her role in the musical in 1978. Prior to her casting in the show, she had spent years away from her aspirations to act, aside fromThree Days of the Condor,to raise her children.
“Peter was hesitant to force his wife on his collaborators," she told the outlet at the time. “Finally, all four of the organizations who wanted to take the show to Broadway wanted me to stay in the part. So then I stopped worrying about nepotism.”
Henderson Forsythe and Carlin Glynn.Richard Corkery/NY Daily News Archive via Getty
Richard Corkery/NY Daily News Archive via Getty
Glynn notably costarred in 1984’sSixteen Candles, in which she played Sam Baker’s (Molly Ringwald) mother Brenda.
The actress’s husband Peter, who died in 2018 at 84, went on to further adaptThe Best Little Whorehouse in Texasthat starred Dolly Parton in the role Glynn originally played on Broadway.
source: people.com
