This resilient blonde lead was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress for her very first screen appearance in "The Heart is A Lonely Hunter" (1968), in which she played a lonely, unhappy teenager who befriends a suicidal deaf mute. Though Locke played leads in several subsequent outings including "Willard" (1971), her career pretty much stalled until she…
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