Sally Kellerman, having had such an illustrious career, was well-connected in Hollywood, and not just in the quantity of her industry and personal relationships but also in their quality.
While promoting her 2013 biography “Read My Lips: Stories of a Hollywood Life” with The Baltimore Sun, Kellerman discussed several such relationships. One was with Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Jones, who she met at a dinner party Jones hosted in the 1960s. “I walk in, and she says, ‘Oh, darling, I want you to meet some friends of mine,'” Kellerman said. “It was Ingrid Bergman, Deborah Kerr, Simone Signoret, Yves Montand, Louis Jourdan and his wife, and Pia Lindström. That was the dinner. She was 100% in my corner. She organized our wedding and our re-nuptials 20 years later. I went to see her a lot. She was so beautiful.”
She also had career help from legendary screenwriter Joseph Stefano, who penned the screenplay Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho.” “He said, ‘I saw you in a play six months ago, and the growth is amazing. I’m going to send you a script,” Kellerman recalled to The Baltimore Sun. She didn’t expect it to come to anything, but Stefano sent her a script for an episode of “The Outer Limits” — titled “The Human Factor” — which became the first of two episodes of the series in which she would appear.
She also had a relationship with one of Hollywood history’s biggest names: Marlon Brando.
