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Her final appearance was on an 2003 episode of 'The West Wing. Born Verna Frances Bloom, she graduated from Boston University and then moved to Denver, Colorado, where she started a local theater. (The other was 1982's 'Honkytonk Man.')Īlongside Willem Dafoe's Jesus, Bloom starred as Mary in Scorsese's 1988 film 'The Last Temptation of Christ.' She appeared in two other films with her friend Scorsese, 1970's 'Street Scenes' and 1985's 'After Hours.'īloom made appearances in TV's 'The Equalizer,' 'Cagney & Lacey,' 'Kojak' and 'Bonanaza.' She was best known to film viewers as 'Marion Wormer', the drunken, debauched wife of Dean Wormer on the 1978 classic film Animal House. She starred in the 1973 Western 'High Plains Drifter' one of two films directed by and starring Eastwood. T-shirts, posters, stickers, home decor, and more, designed and sold by independent artists around. She was nominated as both best actress and best supporting actress by the National Society of Film Critics for the role. High quality Verna Bloom-inspired gifts and merchandise.

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'Every movie was an adventure for her, but 'Animal House,' no contest, was by far the funniest.”īloom made her film debut in 1969, with writer/director Haskell Wexler’s 'Medium Cool,' playing a young Appalachian mother caught up in the street violence of Chicago's 1968 Democratic Convention. 'Many of them stayed friends for years after, and the periodic 'Animal House' reunions were, even though everyone was older, equally exuberant,' wrote Cocks.

Bloom was 'exhilarated' acting with the 'crazy kids' on the movie, husband Cocks said in a statement to USA TODAY.