Sylvia Miles

Miles returned to the role Dolores the Realtor in the sequel film "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" (2010). It was her last notable film role.

Her next few films included the friendship-themed comedy "Denise Calls Up" (1995), the marijuana-themed comedy "High Times' Potluck" (2002), and the strip-club themed comedy "Go Go Tales" (2007).

Miles' career slowed down in the 1990s, in part due to her increasingly poor health. She was suffering from anemia and respiratory issues.

Miles' next few films included hospital-themed comedy "Critical Condition" (1987), the fairy-tale themed fantasy film "Sleeping Beauty" (1987), the romantic comedy "Crossing Delancey" (1988), the mafia-themed comedy-drama "Spike of Bensonhurst" (1988), and the revenge-themed black comedy "She-Devil" (1989).

Her most notable role in this period was that of Dolores the Realtor in the corporate-raider themed drama "Wall Street" (1987), a box office hit of the time.

She next played theatrical producer Myra Gardener in the mystery film "Evil Under the Sun" (1982).

The 1980s opened with Miles playing murdered prostitute Madame Zena in the horror film "The Funhouse" (1981), with the murder setting off the film's main plot.

From 1976 onward, she consistently claimed she had been born in 1934, shaving a decade off her true age.

Miles subsequent films films included the rivalry-themed drama "92 in the Shade" (1975), the period comedy "The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday" (1976), the supernatural horror film "The Sentinel" (1977), the repossession-themed comedy "Zero to Sixty" (1978), and the heist film "Shalimar".

Infamous for dumping a plate predominantly of steak tartare (as well as potato salad, pâté and Brie cheese, not pasta which has largely been incorrectly reported) on the head of dyspeptic theater critic John Simon of New York magazine in The Ginger Man, a New York City restaurant, after he gave her a nasty, scathing review in a 1973 play and labelled her as 'one of New York's leading party girls and gate-crashers'.

Miles subsequent films included the meta-fictional drama "The Last Movie" (1971), the mystery film "Who Killed Mary What's 'Er Name?" (1971), and the seduction-themed comedy-drama "Heat" (1972). Her most notable role at the time was that of Jessie Halstead Florian in the crime thriller "Farewell, My Lovely".

Miles had a scene-stealing performance in her next film project, "Midnight Cowboy" (1969). She played Cass, an aging kept woman, who invites Joe Buck (played by Jon Voight) to her apartment for sex. The role allowed Miles to Show off her "voluptuous figure" and overall sex-appeal. For this role, she received her first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Subsequent film appearances for Miles included the generation-gap themed drama "Parrish" (1961), the serial-killed themed horror film "Violent Midnight" (1963), and the child-labor themed drama "Pie in the Sky" (1964), Meanwhile, Miles lost a chance at television fame, when playing the character of comedy writer Sally Rogers in the 1960 pilot episode "Head of the Family".

The pilot was the basis of the popular television show "The Dick Van Dyke Show" (1961-1966), and Sally Rogers was part of the main cast.

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Portrayed Sally Rogers in the Carl Reiner television pilot "Head of the Family" (1959), which eventually became the basis for The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961).

She started appearing on television in 1954. Her film debut was the gangster film "Murder, Inc.

As a revue comedy performer, she made her first TV appearance on a Bob Hope NBC show in 1950.

Sylvia Miles was an American actress, born and raised in Greenwich Village, New York City. She was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, without ever winning the Award. Miles was born under the name "Sylvia Scheinwald". Her parents were furniture maker Reuben Scheinwald and his wife Belle Feldman. Miles attended Washington Irving High School, located in the Gramercy Park neighborhood of Manhattan. She received her acting education at the Actors Studio, located the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan. Miles made her theatrical debut in 1947, at the age of 23.

The award was instead won by rival actress Goldie Hawn (1945-).

The film was an adaptation of the 1941 novel by Agatha Christie, and featured Myra as one on the film's murder suspects.

The film was the second film adaptation of Raymond Chandler's 1940 novel, and depicted private detective Philip Marlowe working in a missing-person case. For her role in the film Miles received her second nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. The award was instead won by rival actress Lee Grant (c.

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But in the regular series, Miles was replaced by fellow actress Rose Marie (1923-2017).

Miles was born in New York City, the younger of two daughters of European-born Jewish parents, Reuben (a furniture maker) and Bella (nee Feldman) Sheinwald (sometimes misspelled as Scheinwald or Scheinwold), who lived in Brooklyn before moving to Manhattan, where their daughters were raised. Miles attended Washington Irving High School. Her elder sister, Mrs. Thelma Rahlens (born 1920), survived her and was her sole immediate survivor.