Marcia Rodd
{{Short description|American actress}}
{{BLP sources|date=August 2022}}
{{Infobox person
| image =Marcia rodd headshot 1970s.jpg
| caption = Rodd, 1970s promotional photo
| birth_name = Marcia Rodd
| birth_date =
| birth_place =
| yearsactive = 1962–present
| occupation = Actress
| spouse = {{marriage|Dale Hagen
|1960|1978|end=divorced}}
| children =
}}
Marcia Rodd is an American actress, singer, and director. After studying theatre at Northwestern University, she moved to New York City and began a successful career as a stage actress.
She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical in 1973 for her performance in the musical Shelter. In 1964, she starred as Dorothy Gale in a televised production of The Wizard of Oz. She made her film debut in Alan Arkin's 1971 film Little Murders, and received acclaim for her role as Portland Angel in Jonathan Demme's Handle with Care (1977). In 1969, she originated the role of Bobbi in Neil Simon's Last of the Red Hot Lovers.
Early years
She was the daughter of Charles and Rosetta (née Thran) Rodd.[https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/kansas/name/rosetta-rodd-obituary?id=15821726 Rosetta Rodd Obituary Legacy.Com]accessed 07/01/2023 Her father was an oil company executive. She has a brother, Stephen Rodd, a lawyer, and a sister, Barbara.{{cite news |last1=Engels |first1=J. A. |title=Marcia Rodd Just Looks Nice |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/113297123/marcia-rodd/ |access-date=November 19, 2022 |work=The Ithaca Journal |agency=Newsweek Service |date=April 3, 1971 |page=46|via = Newspapers.com}} For most of her youth, Rodd and her family lived in Tulsa. They moved to Wichita in time for her to attend East High School for her senior year. She also worked part-time at a store. She studied drama at Northwestern University, under the tutelage of Alvina Krause. She married Dale Hagen and followed him to New Haven, Connecticut where he enrolled in Yale Law School. and she performed in Yale Repertory Theatre. The couple then moved to New York City.{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/marcia-rodd-p60953|title=Marcia Rodd | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos|website=AllMovie}}
Career
Rodd spent the 1960s and 1970s appearing on and off Broadway. She made her Broadway debut in late 1964 as a replacement in the musical Oh, What a Lovely War, assuming the roles placed by Linda Loftis.{{Cite web |title=Daily News 02 Dec 1964, page 688 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/460118645/ |access-date=2023-02-27 |website=Newspapers.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Oh What a Lovely War – Broadway Musical – Original {{!}} IBDB |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/oh-what-a-lovely-war-3214 |access-date=2023-02-27 |website=www.ibdb.com}} In 1966, she appeared as a replacement in the off-Broadway musical The Mad Show, and replaced Marian Mercer as Olivia in Your Own Thing, a musical adaptation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, one week after it opened off-Broadway in January 1968.{{Cite web |title=Trivia & History for Your Own Thing (Original Off-Broadway Production, 1968) {{!}} Ovrtur |url=https://ovrtur.com/production/2894486/trivia |access-date=2023-02-27 |website=ovrtur.com}} She appeared in Norman Krasna's short-lived Broadway comedy Love in E Flat in 1967. From December 1969 to March 1971, Rodd performed in Neil Simon's The Last of the Red Hot Lovers on Broadway opposite Linda Lavin, Doris Roberts, and James Coco.{{Cite web |title=Last of the Red Hot Lovers – Broadway Play – Original {{!}} IBDB |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/last-of-the-red-hot-lovers-3311 |access-date=2023-02-27 |website=www.ibdb.com}} Her portrayal of Maud in the Broadway musical Shelter garnered her a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical. in 1973, losing to Glynis Johns for A Little Night Music.{{Cite web |title=Shelter – Broadway Musical – Original {{!}} IBDB |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/shelter-3171 |access-date=2023-02-27 |website=www.ibdb.com}}
In 1971, she appeared in the film T.R. Baskin with Candice Bergen, and the black comedy Little Murders opposite Elliott Gould. Her other film credits included Handle with Care (1977) and Last Embrace (1979).
During the 1970s, she appeared in several made-for-television productions, and continued making appearances on television shows through the next three decades. One of these appearances was in the episode of All in the Family that served as the pilot for the series Maude in the role of Maude's daughter Carol Traynor, who was eventually played by Adrienne Barbeau in the series. She had also played another character on a previous All in the Family episode, "Mike's Mysterious Son", earlier that same season. Other guest appearances on television included M*A*S*H, Match Game '76, Murder, She Wrote, and a recurring role as Stanley Riverside's wife on Trapper John, M.D.
In 1978 she starred as the ingenue Cynthia Carter in the short-lived stage musical Barbary Coast.
Rodd portrayed Elaine Dowling in the TV series 13 Queens Boulevard in 1979.{{cite news |title=Former Wichitan Marcia Rodd To Star in '13 Queens Blvd.' |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/113296278/marcia-rodd/ |access-date=November 19, 2022 |work=The Wichita Eagle |date=March 18, 1979 |page=TV Week - 4}|via = Newspapers.com}}
She returned to Broadway in the mid-1980s, as a replacement for the role of Clara in Herb Gardner's I'm Not Rappaport.{{Cite web |title=I'm Not Rappaport – Broadway Play – Original {{!}} IBDB |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/im-not-rappaport-4384 |access-date=2023-02-27 |website=www.ibdb.com}} In 1989 and 1994, she starred in two separate national tours of Fiddler on the Roof, as Golde opposite both Theodore Bikel{{Cite web |title=Fiddler on the Roof – Broadway Musical – 1994-1996 Tour {{!}} IBDB |url=https://www.ibdb.com/tour-production/fiddler-on-the-roof-515585 |access-date=2023-02-27 |website=www.ibdb.com}} and Topol{{Cite web |title=Fiddler on the Roof – Broadway Musical – 1989-1990 Tour {{!}} IBDB |url=https://www.ibdb.com/tour-production/fiddler-on-the-roof-514483 |access-date=2023-02-27 |website=www.ibdb.com}} as Tevye, respectively.
She also appeared in a 2003 episode of the television series Without a Trace, the 2012 short film Parallax, and the long-running soap opera The Young and the Restless.
Filmography
=Film=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1971
|Patsy Newquist | |
| 1971
|Dayle Wigoda | |
| 1972
|Woman | |
| 1977
|Portland Angel |Nominated — National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress |
| 1979
|Adrian | |
| 1994
|{{sortname|The|Scout|The Scout (1994 film)}} |Mrs. Lacy | |
| 1997
|Mulligans! |Madge |Short |
| 1998
|{{sortname|The|Scottish Tale|nolink=1}} |Sarah | |
| 2000
|Wanted |Mama Scrico | |
| 2012
|Parallax |Cassandra |Short |
| 2015
|Shining Seas |Maria |Short |
| 2015
|Broken: A Musical |Judge | |
| 2016
|Road to the Wall |Barb | |
| 2019
|American Christmas |Martha | |
=Television=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1971
|{{sortname|The|New Dick Van Dyke Show}} |Linda |"Linda, Linda, Linda" |
| 1972
|Dr. Nicole Keefe |"Chemistry of Anger" |
| 1972
|Connie |"The Torn Man" |
| 1972
|Marilyn Sanders / Carol Traynor |"Mike's Mysterious Son", "Maude" |
| 1975
|Phyllis |"The Captives" |
| 1975
|Nurse Marion Hollister |"Fatal Witness" |
| 1976
|{{sortname|The|Dumplings|The Dumplings (TV series)}} |Stephanie |Regular role |
| 1976
|Joanne |"Coffee, Tea, or Gloria" |
| 1976
|How to Break Up a Happy Divorce |Eve |TV film |
| 1977
|Joanne Valenti |"Dan's Ex" |
| 1977
|Vanessa Farr |"The Dick and Vanessa Show" |
| 1977
|Leslie Perkins |"Walter's Temptation" |
| 1978
|Nurse Lorraine Anderson |"Temporary Duty" |
| 1979
|Elaine Dowling |Main role |
| 1979
|Barbara McKain |"A Movie Star's Daughter" |
| 1979
|Eleanor Janssen |"Sweet Land of Liberty" |
| 1979
|Nancy Rhoden |"Samaritan" |
| 1980
|Allison Flanders |"Home Again" |
| 1980
|Pat McGinn / Kay Durban |"Unfinished Business", "God in the Dock" |
| 1980–86
|E.J. Riverside |Recurring role |
| 1981
|Alice Kovacs |Recurring role |
| 1981
|Miss Turley |"The School Conference" |
| 1981
|Capt. Estelle Slater |"The Yellow Rose" |
| 1982
|Hillary |"The Playboy Show" |
| 1982
|Vivian Hamlin |"Cameras" |
| 1983
|Mary Goodwin |"Keeping On" |
| 1984
|Nora Bowers Sedgwick |"Hi Honey, I'm Home" |
| 1984
|{{sortname|The|Four Seasons|nolink=1}} |Claudia Zimmer |13 episodes |
| 1984
|Off. Dwyer |"Carl's Delicate Moment" |
| 1985
|Ann Haynes |"The Right Thing" |
| 1985
|Margaret Sinclair |"Off and Running" |
| 1985
|Between the Darkness and the Dawn |Lilly |TV film |
| 1987
|Sara Taylor |"A Question of Loyalty" |
| 1986
|Betty Fiddler |"Keep the Home Fires Burning" |
| 1987–89
|Margaret Hanson |"After School Special", "Christmas in Saigon", "Loc'd Out: Part 2" |
| 1988
|Madeline DeHaven |"Harbinger of Death" |
| 1990
|Miss Doyle |"Oh, the Shark Bites!" |
| 1994
|Judge Joan Stephens |"Once Burned, Twice Chey" |
| 1995
|Barbara Burton |"Doctor in the House" |
| 1996
|Jane Wilcott Sumner |"Housecleaning" |
| 2000
|Susan Lumberg |"Telling Lies" |
| 2001–02
|Judge Paula Scott |"Recovery", "Celano v. Foster" |
| 2003
|Sandra Pappish |"Moving On" |
| 2012
|Treelore Theatre |Granny Gilly |"Memory Lane Diner" |
| 2013–14
|Broken at Love |Grandma Lulu |"Post-Match Analysis", "Sudden Death" |
| 2014
|Hellman v. McCarthy |Mary McCarthy |TV film |
| 2017
|Myrna Bloodworth |2 episodes |
| 2020
|Gertie Schmitt |Episode: "The Last Supper" |
| 2023
|Helga Hansöm |"The Home" |
References
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External links
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- {{iobdb name|14493}}
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Category:American film actresses
Category:American stage actresses
Category:American television actresses
Category:Actresses from Kansas
Category:People from Lyons, Kansas
Category:Northwestern University School of Communication alumni
Category:20th-century American actresses