Marsha Mason

It's Marsha Mason. You Might Know Her From The Goodbye Girl, Chapter Two, The Middle, Grace & Frankie, Drop Dead Fred, Heartbreak Ridge, Frasier, Only When I Laugh, Cinderella Liberty, and Judy Garland: Me & My Shadows. Marsha is a prolific stage and screen actor, a 4-time Oscar-nominee, an organic herb farmer, a race car driver, and a theatre director who gave us all the scoop on jumping in as a last-minute understudy for The Roommate starring Patti LuPone and Mia Farrow on Broadway. We talk about her artistic (and personal) partnership with her ex-husband Neil Simon, the original Goodbye Girl directed by Mike Nichols and starring Robert Deniro that never was (Bogart Slept Here), and what it was like seeing Kathleen Turner "play her" in her stepdaughter, Ellen Simon's film Moonlight and Valentino. All that plus, the cult status of Drop Dead Fred, her failed sitcom Sibs, and the Ethel Gumm of it all. This one was such an incredible full-circle moment for us and a great way to close out this half of the season but we'll be back real soon! Love yous, mean it. Patreon: www.patreon.com/youmightknowherfrom Follow us on social media: @youmightknowherfrom on IG || @youmightknowherfrom on TT @damianbellino || @rodemanne Discussed this week: Assistant directing with Broadway director, Jack O'Brien viral moment with Patti LuPone in The Roommate  Cinderella Liberty with James Caan (The Goodbye Girl, Chapter 2) Started racing cars thanks to Paul Newman  Nominated for Lead Actress Oscar four times  3 of those 4 were written by Neil Simon  Played Arlene in Grace & Frankie. Still friends with Jane Fonda The Goodbye Girl with Quin Cummings who played her 9 year old daughter Mike Nichols was original director and Robert DeNiro was original star Marsha reading the letter at beginning of GG Patricia Heaton and Jeff Daniels in tv remake of GG Got another Oscar nom for Chapter Two which was semi based on her relationship with Neil Simon  Moonlight and Valentino written by Neil Simon's daughter Ellen, and the "Marsha" character was played by Kathleen Turner in the movie  Only When I Laugh phone scene  Play written for Maureen Stapleton (allegedly) and MM and Neil went to UK to see Elaine Stritch in Gingerbread Lady  Drop Dead Fred Friends with writer Tony Fingleton and turning his book Swimming Upstream into a musical  Sibswas one season sitcom with Margaret Collen and Jami Gertz  Played John Mahoney's gf Sherry on Frasier Played Ethel Gumm, Judy Garland's mom in Me and My Shadows The Goodbye Girl turned into musical with Bernadette and Martin Short Barnabus Collins turned her into a vampire in Dark Shadows Was directed by Robert Wise opposite Anthony Hopkins in the 1977 thriller, Audrey Rose (reincarnation psychological thriller) 0:57 "A dancer died at the top of these stairs" (Shirley MacLaine is her New Mexico friend) 1:24 Slaps Clint Eastwood in Heartbreak Ridge Losing Oscar to Glenda Jackson worse than losing to Kate Hepburn Lucille Bremer played by Queer as Folk's Thea Gill in Me and My Shadows  Anne's Lucille Bremer story has to go behind a paywall