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Matlock' star Kathy Bates on her desert island shows, how 'Dolores Claiborne' changed a stranger's life and the movie that ...
Kathy Bates is still relatively new to leading a major network juggernaut, but at IndieWire Honors, the "Matlock" star ...
Despite Kathy Bates originating the role of Frankie in the Off-Broadway production, she was allegedly denied the part for the 1991 movie adaptation “Frankie and Johnny.” ...
Bates wanted to star in 1991's 'Frankie and Johnny,' based on Terrence McNally's stage play, where she originated the role of Frankie.
Kathy Bates feels like a director robbed her most famous character of an iconic scene by toning down the violence.
The Matlock star talks candidly about longevity, mental health, and the decades she spent feeling like she didn’t belong.
Kathy Bates says she lost the lead role in 1991's 'Frankie and Johnny' because director Garry Marshall "couldn’t make the leap that people would see me onscreen kissing someone." ...
Kathy Bates, IndieWire Honors Vanguard Award winner, unpacked the art of acting for CBS's hit legal show as she looked back ...
Kathy Bates is looking back at her career and recalling why director Garry Marshall didn’t cast her in the film adaptation of Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, a stage role she originated. ...
In celebration of Kathy Bates' IndieWire Honors 2025 Vanguard Award, Skye P. Marshall reflects on their friendship making CBS ...
Kathy Bates says Hollywood didn’t always know what to do with her early in her career.
Helen Mirren stunned her peers in an actress roundtable by saying 'none of us are beautiful,' to which Kathy Bates replied, ...