The cause was complications of dementia, her family stated. She later became a bookkeeper for a trucking firm. Share with us. Ms. Bloom began acting after receiving a bachelor’s degree in fine arts at Boston University. Verna Bloom, actress in 'Animal House' and 'Medium Cool,' dies at 80 https://t.co/NZsOAqnygs pic.twitter.com/vIBhHTiB5K, — Hollywood Reporter (@THR) January 11, 2019. In his review for The Associated Press, William Glover wrote that Ms. Bloom “scores with touching grace as a lyrical Charlotte Corday.”. But within a few years she was divorced and in New York, working in the box office at the Martin Beck Theater during the Broadway run of Peter Weiss’s “Marat/Sade,” which had been a sensation in London. She was fearless.”. In the 1978 John Landis film, Bloom played Marion Wormer, who flirted with and had a drunken romp with fraternity president “Otter” Stratton.        Boston Helps.

(Pictured: Verna Bloom and Tim Matheson in “Animal House”). Shot in cinéma vérité style, “Medium Cool” is the story of a local news cameraman (Robert Forster) who meets Eileen (Ms. Bloom), a poor woman from West Virginia raising her teenage son in Chicago, while covering the city’s social unrest.

       Charts She later shows up a frat-house toga party and ends up in bed with the young man. In 1967, when “Marat/Sade” was revived on Broadway, Ms. Bloom was cast in the role that Ms. Jackson had played. She was 80.

“It was about a very independent, strong, sensual, vulnerable demanding woman,” Mr. Cocks said. “My name is Eric Stratton,” Mr. Matheson says. Ms. Bloom followed “Medium Cool” with several prominent screen roles, including one opposite Clint Eastwood in his western “High Plains Drifter” (1973), and another as Frank Sinatra’s wife in the made-for-television detective movie “Contract on Cherry Street” (1977). Verna Bloom, who appeared in “Animal House” and worked with the likes of Martin Scorsese, died Jan. 9 in Bar Harbor, Maine, her rep confirmed to Variety. But few of her roles resonated like Marion Wormer, the boozy wife of Dean Vernon Wormer in “Animal House,” the raunchy hit comedy about the reprobates of a fraternity house at fictional Faber College. “A lot of her was in that role.”, Verna Bloom, 80, Amorous Dean’s Wife in ‘Animal House,’ Dies, Verna Bloom and Tim Matheson in “National Lampoon’s Animal House” (1978). Banksy’s ‘Vandalized’ Send-Up of the the French Master Sells for Nearly $10 Million, NHL Postpones Winter Classic, All-Star Weekend Until 2022, Stir Up Some Screams With These 50 Scary Halloween Costumes for Men. She later shows up a frat-house toga party. Liam Neeson: Filming in Worcester felt like 'being back home in Northern Ireland', Sarah Cooper became famous mocking President Trump, but she'll be just fine if he loses, Book Club: What it’s like to run a restaurant and parent a toddler in a pandemic, A star-studded Netflix movie begins filming in Boston next month, Huntington Theatre artistic leader resigns after inquiry prompted by staff complaints, What it’s like to be tested for COVID-19 at Northeastern, ‘Two and a Half Men’ star Conchata Ferrell dies at 77, It's official, Apple's iPhone 12 with 5G capabilities is here, 'Everyone is grieving on some level': Author Grace Talusan writes about the life of an essential worker.

       Resources She was Clint Eastwood’s lover in “High Plains Drifter” and was Mary in “The Last Temptation of Christ.”. She also appeared in three films by Martin Scorsese — “Street Scenes 1970,” “The Last Temptation of Christ” (1988), and “After Hours” (1985) — and two by Clint Eastwood: “High Plains Drifter” (1973) and “Honkytonk Man” (1982).        Map She had been acting mostly onstage when a small role in Studs Terkel’s play “Amazing Grace” led Mr. Turkel to recommend her for “Medium Cool” (1969), the cinematographer Haskell Wexler’s first feature as a director. Family spokesman Mike Kaplan tells The Hollywood Reporter that Bloom died Wednesday in Bar Harbor, Maine, of complications from dementia. Her husband, the critic and screenwriter Jay Cocks, said the cause was complications of dementia. Mr. Matheson recalled in a telephone interview that Ms. Bloom “didn’t look down at what we were doing and jumped right in.” He added: “I was already in awe of her because I’d loved her in ‘Medium Cool’ and ‘High Plains Drifter.’ Here was this serious, accomplished dramatic actress doing our silly little movie. Moving to New York in the mid-1960s, she starred as Charlotte Corday in the Broadway revival of “Marat/Sade” and, shortly after, on the recommendation of the writer-historian Studs Terkel, made her film debut in Haskell Wexler’s “Medium Cool” (1969), in which she played a young Appalachian mother caught up in the street violence of the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. Fifteen years later, she played the stepmother of the White House press secretary C. J. Cregg (Allison Janney) in an episode of “The West Wing.” It was her final television appearance. He said the western “The Hired Hand” (1971), Peter Fonda’s directorial debut, provided Ms. Bloom with her most fulfilling character: Hannah, who had been abandoned by her drifter husband (Mr. Fonda) years earlier but welcomes him back reluctantly because he has agreed to be her hired help.