Linda Manz, the artfully sullen actress who won glowing reviews as the narrator and the little sister in Terrence Malick’s haunting film “Days of Heaven” (1978), died on Aug. 14. She was 58. A GoFundMe page set up by her son Michael Guthrie to pay for funeral expenses said she had lung cancer and pneumonia. “Days of Heaven,” which takes place in 1916, follows two streetwise Chicago lovers, Bill and Abby (played by Richard Gere and Brooke Adams), who pose as brother and sister while working in the wheat fields of a rich Texas farmer. Ms. Manz, who was 4-foot-10 and played Bill’s younger sister, was 15 when she was cast and 17 when the film opened.

Source: New York Times August 28, 2020 17:07 UTC