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Lorna Thayer
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Lorna Thayer (10 March 1919 - June 4, 2005) was an American character actress.
Thayer was born in Boston, the daughter of silent screen actress Louise Gibney. She appeared often in theatre and on television. In 1955 she played in The Beast with a Million Eyes with Paul Birch. She played minor roles in the films The Lusty Men, Texas City and Frankie and Johnny.
It was her role in the iconic 1970 film Five Easy Pieces as the waitress who refuses to allow Jack Nicholson's character to order a side of wheat toast that she is most likely to be remembered for and identified with. The scene has come to be known as the "chicken salad scene".
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Lorna Thayer (10 March 1919 - June 4, 2005) was an American character actress. Thayer was born in Boston, the daughter of silent screen actress Louise Gibney. She appeared often in theatre and on television. In 1955 she played in The Beast with a Million Eyes with Paul Birch. She played minor roles in the films The Lusty Men, Texas City and Frankie and Johnny. It was her role in the iconic 1970 film Five Easy Pieces as the waitress who refuses to allow Jack Nicholson's character to order a side of wheat toast that she is most likely to be remembered for and identified with. The scene has come to be known as the "chicken salad scene". She died at the Motion Picture and Television Fund Retirement Home in Woodland Hills, California aged 86, after battling Alzheimer's disease for five years. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lorna Thayer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Frankie and Johnny
as Flower Mart Vendor
Nothing in Common
as Auditioning Grandma
Buddy Buddy
as Lady
The Aliens Are Coming
as Waitress
Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers
as Hospital Receptionist
Revenge of the Cheerleaders
as Lilly Downs
Smoke In The Wind
as Ma Mondier
Alice Goodbody
as Yvonne
It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy
as Mrs. Gibbs
The Dion Brothers
as TV Interviewer (uncredited)
The Family Kovack
as Thelma
Rhinoceros
as Restaurant Owner
Mrs. Sundance
as Fanny Porter
Skyjacked
as Weber's mother
Cisco Pike
as Swimming Lady
The Andromeda Strain
as Woman (uncredited)
Five Easy Pieces
as Waitress
Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
as Widow Wycherly
The Shakiest Gun in the West
as Saloon Girl (uncredited)
Freckles
as Alice Cooper
Natchez
as Belle
The Women of Pitcairn Island
as Mortua
The Beast with a Million Eyes
as Carol Kelley
Women's Prison
Jennifer
as Molly
The Lusty Men
as Grace Burgess