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Actress Cloris Leachman, Who Played Both Silly And Serious, Dies At 94

The actress seemed game for anything: She played a heartbroken lover in The Last Picture Show, a creepy housekeeper in Young Frankenstein and even competed on Dancing With the Stars.
In 2008, Leachman told <em>The New York Times</em>, "I'm just a simple person, with a silly bone."

Actress Cloris Leachman portrayed women of wit and sass over a seven-decade career. She won an Oscar and nine Emmys, and her career was relentlessly inventive. The actress died Wednesday in Encinitas, Calif., of natural causes, according to her press representative, Monique Moss. She was

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