70s actress Marlene Clark passes away at age 85...
Marlene Clark, the statuesque actress who portrayed Lamont’s fiancée on Sanford and Son and stood out in such 1970s’ films as Ganja & Hess, Switchblade Sisters and Slaughter, has died. She was 85.
Clark died May 18 in her home in Los Angeles, her friend Tamara Lynch announced. No cause of death was revealed.
Born in Harlem on Dec. 19, 1937, Clark often spent her summers in West Virginia, the birthplace of her mother.
She attended Morristown Junior College in Tennessee and City College in New York and worked as a model before making her film debut in For Love of Ivy (1968), starring Sidney Poitier.
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