RIP Anjanette Comer

 

American actress Anjanette Comer who had leading roles in “The Loved One”, “The Appaloosa” and “The Baby” died of leukemia on May 28^th. She was 86. Comer was born on August 7, 1939, in Dawson, Texas. She attended Dawson High School, was voted queen of the Corsicana Fair and Rodeo at age 16 and studied acting at the Pasadena Playhouse, where she was spotted by agent Byron Raphael and signed. She starred as a backstabbing heroine with Marlon Brando and John Saxon in Sidney J. Furie’s “The Appaloosa” (1966) and played another Mexican woman in the Spaghetti western “Guns for San Sebastian” with Anthony Quinn (1968). In between, she appeared with Robert Wagner and Jill St. John in Banning (1967). She was married to author, screenwriter and director Robert Klane (“Weekend at Bernie’s”, “Where’s Poppa?”, “Fire Sale”, “Thank God It’s Friday”) from 1976 until their 1983 divorce.