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Jun 13, 2019 · Miles was a veteran actress but not a widely known name when she appeared onscreen for about six minutes in 1969′s “Midnight Cowboy.” In her sole scene, she plays a brassy Manhattan woman who invites an aspiring male prostitute from Texas, played by Jon Voight, up to her penthouse for sex, but ends up taking money from him instead.
Jun 12, 2019 · Sylvia Miles, a scene-stealing, two-time Oscar nominee for supporting roles in the Best Picture winner “Midnight Cowboy” and “Farewell, My Lovely,” died on Wednesday. She was 94.
Jun 12, 2019 · The New York Times reports today that Sylvia Miles—Oscar-nominated actress, fearless film performer, and noted fixture of the New York social scene—has died. A prolific actress whose credits ...
Jun 14, 2019 · Sylvia Miles Image by Getty Images. By Benjamin Ivry June 14, 2019. The American Jewish actress Sylvia Miles, who died on June 12 at age 94, proved that Jewish truth telling can simultaneously ...
Jun 12, 2019 · 1:02. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sylvia Miles, an actress and Manhattan socialite whose brief, scene-stealing appearances in the films "Midnight Cowboy" and "Farewell, My Lovely" earned her two Academy ...
Jun 13, 2019 · Sylvia Miles Played to Win. S ylvia Miles, who passed away on Wednesday at the age of ninety-four, is on-screen for just under six minutes in John Schlesinger’s Midnight Cowboy (1969). Nonetheless, her performance as Cass, described by Anita Gates in the New York Times as “a well-groomed, poodle-owning Upper East Side hooker,” made such ...
Jun 13, 2019 · LOS ANGELES — Sylvia Miles, an actress and Manhattan socialite whose brief, scene-stealing appearances in the films Midnight Cowboy and Farewell, My Lovely earned her two Academy Award nominations, died Wednesday. Miles died in an ambulance in New York on the way to a hospital after complaining to a home health care worker that she wasn’t ...
