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Revealed: the actress whose bare leg featured on The Graduate poster

Revealed: the actress whose bare leg featured on The Graduate poster

The iconic promotional image for The Graduate showed a young Dustin Hoffman eyeing up an anonymous stocking-clad leg

Highlights

  • Veteran actress Linda Gray has revealed that it was her leg that appeared in the poster for The Graduate.
  • The iconic promotional image for the 1967 movie showed a young Dustin Hoffman eyeing up an anonymous stocking-clad leg.
  • But instead of belonging to the film's female lead, Anne Bancroft, that leg was actually that of Gray, now 72, who began her career as a model before finding fame as an actress in the seventies, reported Daily Mail online.
  • "I think Anne Bancroft was absent that day. I don't know. I got paid 25 dollars, one leg," Gray said.
  • Indeed Gray has enjoyed an impressive career since her body double days.
  • In addition to her most famous role, as Dallas's Sue Ellen Ewing, she co-starred alongside Sylvester Stallone in the 1991 film Oscar and was on Melrose Place in 1994.
  • In recent years, she has appeared in The Bold and the Beautiful and in 2008 had a role in 90210 and famously reprised the Dallas role last year in the continuation of the eighties series.
London: Veteran actress Linda Gray hasrevealed that it was her leg that appeared in the poster forThe Graduate.

The iconic promotional image for the 1967 movie showed ayoung Dustin Hoffman eyeing up an anonymous stocking-clad leg.

But instead of belonging to the film's female lead, AnneBancroft, that leg was actually that of Gray, now 72, whobegan her career as a model before finding fame as an actressin the seventies, reported Daily Mail online.

"I think Anne Bancroft was absent that day. I don't know.I got paid 25 dollars, one leg," Gray said.

Indeed Gray has enjoyed an impressive career since herbody double days.

In addition to her most famous role, as Dallas's Sue EllenEwing, she co-starred alongside Sylvester Stallone in the 1991film Oscar and was on Melrose Place in 1994.

In recent years, she has appeared in The Bold and theBeautiful and in 2008 had a role in 90210 and famouslyreprised the Dallas role last year in the continuation ofthe eighties series.

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