After costarring in the movie The Graduate alongside Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Juliet Ross gained notoriety. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and won the Golden Globe for New Star of the Year as a result of her performance.
The movie was a huge success, earning $104.9 million in the US and Canada, which put it on top of the 1967 box office standings. Unknown is how Benjamin (Hoffman) will save Elaine (Ross) from her wedding in the climactic scene of The Graduate. Later, spectators are surprised by the two’s appearance as they are seen sitting on a city bus.
“In every scene, you are taught to continue until the director signals, ‘Cut.'” Mike kept it to himself for a while. The film was still recording even though we ran out of things to say. How am I thinking? Regarding the scene that made Elaine famous, Ross said, “I think Elaine got off at the next stop.”
[Dustin Hoffman] was an actor in New York theater. He was so pale it looked as though he had rolled out from under a rock. All he wanted was to return to his off-Broadway show. My first thought that day was, “Oh my God— this guy is dressed all in black, and he is white as a sheet,” Ross told the Houston Chronicle, despite the fact that we finally got to know and like each other.
As you know, Dustin’s ex-roommate Gene Hackman was chosen to play my father. He withdrew; I’m not sure what the circumstances were.
In 1962, Ross debuted as a professional actor in the television series Sam Benedict. She then starred alongside James Stewart in the film Shenandoah.
Being an actor in the 1960s was not easy, despite Ross appearing in a number of films early in her lengthy and renowned career, such as Hellfighters, Fools, The Final Countdown, A Climate for Killing, and many more.
“I remember doing a screen test for The Young Lovers, the only film Samuel Goldwyn Jr. ever directed. Chad Everett was cast in the role of Peter Fonda, who was scheduled to play the lead, but he was unavailable for the screen test. He gave the screen test his best, not knowing the character had been cast. I was too cowardly to tell him the truth. To get my appearance exactly how Sam wanted it, I had a lot of visits with a hairdresser. When they were done, my hair was completely chopped off. “And they ultimately cast a different person,” she had previously disclosed to Variety. She said, “I’ll tell you what was great about it.” “It was a time when the old studio system was collapsing and they were only starting to play around with new methods, with the $1 million budget pictures being considered the standard.” And as it turned out, it was the start of the wonderful new era that would become the independent film movement.
She was given yet another important role in 1969. She landed a role in the now-famous movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, where she made an unforgettable cameo as she balanced on the handlebars of a bicycle that actor Paul Newman was pedaling.
For around 40 years, Ross and actor Sam Elliott have enjoyed a happy marriage. Before she married Elliot, she had been married four times, and she had finally found true love with him.
Originally, he was an extra and didn’t have the courage to approach her, but they worked together in the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. She captivated him, and thus started one of the most exquisite partnerships in Hollywood history.
“I worked on Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid with my wife, Katharine Ross, but I didn’t dare approach her at the time. She was the main woman. Elliott said to AARP The Magazine in 2015, “I was a glorified extra in a bar scene, a shadow on the wall.”
“Being an extra on the show and a contract player (with Fox) allowed me to sit in and watch them produce the film, so it was a fantastic experience,” he told The Oklahoman. “I spent a lot of time in a dark corner watching Katharine and the rest of ’em work while they were in Los Angeles.”
They worked together once more ten years later, on the Gothic horror movie The Legacy.
After welcoming daughter Cleo Rose Elliott, they went on to co-star in several movies, including as Conagher, Houston: The Legend of Texas, and Travis McGee. In The Hero, Elliott portrayed an elderly Western movie star, and Ross was his former spouse.
In 2016, Elliott told the Los Angeles Times, “I think we just like making movies, and having that creative experience together is the best.”
It’s just enjoyable. Getting home with coworkers has a completely different atmosphere than getting home with a non-worker. It’s a really enjoyable experience.
Elliot once said that sharing a sensibility and making a concerted effort to be together is the key to a long and happy marriage. You don’t just walk away from the crap; you work through it. “Relationships last like that.”
