Celebrity Biographies
Marilyn burns
Marilyn Burns was considered a star by fans of horror movies, after playing the lead role in “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” by Tobe Hooper. The scream queen was found dead at the age of 64 on August 5, 2014, by a relative of hers at her residence in Houston (Texas). “Her family of hers requests privacy at this time. Other details will be released at a later date,” her representative said.
Born in Erie (Pennsylvania), on July 5, 1950, Marilyn Burns has been passionate about music and movies since she was a child. When she was 20 she first appeared on screen with a small role (not even credited) in Robert Altman ‘s Flying Is for the Birds .
Later she decided to study acting to continue her career as an actress, so she enrolled at the University of Austin (Texas). There she caught the attention of one of her teachers, Tobe Hooper , who wanted to make the leap into film directing by shooting a horror film with friends. After seeing her work in various performances on campus, he offered Burns the lead role in what would become The Texas Chainsaw Massacre .
She played Sally Hardesty, a young woman who begins a trip in a van with her paraplegic brother Franklin, her boyfriend, a friend and his partner, to Texas, to assess the damage suffered by her grandfather’s grave, which has been desecrated. . Unfortunately, along the way they run into a peculiar family of psychopaths.
“During filming we couldn’t get the fake blood to come off Burns’ finger, because we had a very limited budget for special effects. So we had to make a small cut on the real finger,” Hooper said. Despite its low budget, the film drew attention for its extreme realism, and became a huge box office success and a benchmark for subsequent forays into the genre.
Despite the good work of Burns in the film, who plays her shocked character as if she were risking an Oscar, she never managed to be taken seriously as an actress again. After the telefilm Manson, Portrait of a Murderer , Hooper himself recruited her again for the big screen for Deathtrap , where she plays a young wife persecuted this time by the deranged owner of a hotel who throws the bodies of his victims into the crocodile that has as a pet
In Ronald W. Moore’s B film Future Killers , also about psychotic killers, this time mutants from the future, she played a vengeful woman. She also made cameo appearances in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation , and Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D . Before her death, he starred in In a Madman’s World , a drama about a traumatized boy after surviving a massacre.