Camilla Carr Dies at 83: Remembering the Star of Designing Women and Cult Horror

Camilla Carr, the versatile Texas-born actress known for 1970s cult horror classics and a poignant guest role on Designing Women, has passed away at age 83. She leaves behind a rich legacy in film, TV, and literature.

As Mrs. Imogene Salinger on Creating Women, Carr overhears plans for a funeral for a young indoor designer (Tony Goldwyn) passing away of AIDS and statements, “Regarding I’m concerned, this condition has one point going all out: It’s eliminating all the best individuals.” (View the scene right here.).

Carr additionally showed up in the Michael Anderson-directed Logan’s Run (1976 ); played housekeeper/snoop Nellie Maxwell on three episodes of CBS’ Falcon Crest in 1988; appeared on Eventually at a Time and One More Globe; and played Maxine in 1991 in Tennessee Williams’ The Evening of the Iguana, among numerous manufacturings she provided for the Los Angeles Theater Facility.

A Legacy in Horror and Television

Camilla Carr, the Texas-born actress that appeared for supervisor S.F. Brownrigg in the low-budget 1970s scary movies Don’t Look in the Basement, Poor White Trash Part II and Keep My Grave Open, has died. She was 83.

Carr additionally attracted attention on CBS’ Creating Women when she depicted a Sugarbaker client who assumes gay guys who contract help are getting what they deserve in the October 1987 episode “They’re Killing All the Right Individuals,” created by series developer Linda Bloodworth Thomason.

Early Life and Texas Roots

Born on Sept. 17, 1942, in Memphis, Texas, Carr went to Kermit (Texas) Secondary School and the College of North Texas. She first fulfilled her fiancé, Hugh Feagin, when they were stars at Theater Three in Dallas, and they showed up together in the Texas-shot A Bullet for Pretty Young Boy (1970 ), starring Fabian as 1930s bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd. (Feagin remained in Don’t Search In the Basement and Poor White Garbage Part II as well.).

Carr played an unhitched person that kills a nurse in Don’t Search in the Cellar (1973) and a devious hillbilly little girl in Poor White Trash Component II (1974)– a drive-in hit additionally called Scum of the Planet– prior to she starred in Keep My Tomb Open (1977) as a lady with a homicidal split character (she thinks she’s additionally her bro).

Literary Contributions and Late Career

Carr additionally wrote on telefilms and authored the comic 1989 novel Topsy Turvy Dingo Canine, which focused on a B-movie actress, Mary Jane Shady, that returns to her home town of Uncertain, Texas, for her 20th senior high school reunion.