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Verna Bloom

American actress

1938 – 2019aged 80

Verna Bloom built a character-actress career on films that became touchstones of their genres without necessarily making her famous herself: the fictionalized-documentary Medium Cool in 1969, Clint Eastwood's western High Plains Drifter in 1973, and the fraternity comedy Animal House in 1978, where she played the dean's wife opposite John Belushi's chaos.

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