Verna Bloom, who starred in Haskell Wexler's groundbreaking 'Medium Cool' and played the boozing, philandering wife of the college dean in the John Landis comedy 'Animal House,' has died.

Verna Bloom, who in her first feature film, the semidocumentary “Medium Cool,” moved anxiously through the rioting in Chicago during the 1968 Democratic National Convention, and who a decade ...

Share Verna Bloom, the actress who played the dean ... She made her film debut in 1969 in writer/director Haskell Wexler’s “Medium Cool,” playing a young Appalachian mother caught up ...

Verna Bloom, the actress who played debauched ... Bloom made her film debut in 1969, with writer/director Haskell Wexler’s "Medium Cool," playing a young Appalachian mother caught up in ...

Verna Bloom, who appeared in “Animal House ... made her film debut in Haskell Wexler’s “Medium Cool” (1969), in which she played a young Appalachian mother caught up in the street ...

We went to see a picture called Medium Cool, and Jay thought the actress in it was incredible. Her name was Verna Bloom. He asked if I’d go along with him to interview her, so I did. A few years ...

Verna Bloom, best-known for her role in Animal ... revival of Marat/Sade and making her film debut in 1969’s Medium Cool, in which she played an Appalachian mother caught up in the riots ...

Medium Cool follows Forster as he falls in love with single mother Verna Bloom, who transplanted herself and her son from Appalachia to a city slum. At the same time, he experiences a handful of ...

If you want to see a great Chicago film, in my opinion the greatest, see “Medium Cool ... whose life intersects with a single mother (Verna Bloom) and her son who are newly arrived in ...