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33: 795: 767: 992: 301:, in which she portrays Randa, a young woman part of a group of scavengers who survived a nuclear apocalypse many years prior and sets off with her lover Glen (Steve Curry) to discover a ravaged world and to search for a city which Glen has seen in comic books. She worked with McBride once again when she was cast in the 1974 comedy film 273:, playing a 14-year-old who offers herself to Arlo, saying that she has already "made it" with several other musicians and "you'll probably be an album some day." He gently rejects her advances, giving her his bandanna as a souvenir and saying simply, "I just don't want to catch your cold". Plimpton also appeared in the 1969 866: 263:, and continued the role as a member of the original Broadway cast when the production moved to Broadway in 1968.In both productions, she sang the song "Frank Mills". Plimpton took a leave of absence from 1046: 678: 222:, operated an auto parts store in Roseburg, while her mother worked as a medical researcher. She had one brother, Sherman Jr. She is a "very distant" cousin of writer 287:
as one half of an interracial college couple ("It started last weekend at the Yale-Howard game") in a satire of a pimple cream TV spot. In 1971, Plimpton appeared in
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Plimpton's acting career spanned from the mid-1960s to the late-1980s. She created the role of "Crissy" in the original 1967 Off-Broadway production of
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Plimpton made a brief return to acting in 1986 when she made a guest appearance on the short-lived television sitcom
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performer. She is perhaps best known for originating the role of Crissy in the off-Broadway production of
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When Plimpton was fourteen, she relocated with her mother from Roseburg to
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family. Her father, William Sherman Plimpton, a native of
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In 2002, it was reported that Plimpton was living in
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Washington Irving High School (New York City) alumni
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Putney Swope
Roseburg
Oregon
Washington Irving High School
Daniel J. Sullivan
Martha Plimpton
Broadway
Hair
Martha Plimpton
Roseburg, Oregon
Episcopalian
Portland
University of Washington
George Plimpton
cancer
New York City
Greenwich Village
Washington Irving High School
Gramercy Park
Hair
Alice's Restaurant
Robert Downey Sr.
Putney Swope
Ronnie Dyson
Jim McBride
post-apocalyptic
Glen and Randa
Throb
Diana Canova

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