Occupation Actress Years active 1972 | Name Lucy Grantham Role Actress | |
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Born October 13, 1951 (age 73) ( 1951-10-13 ) Brooklyn, New York, USA Movies The Last House on the Left Similar Sandra Peabody, David Hess, Jeramie Rain | ||
Lucy Grantham aka Lucy Grunther (born October 13, 1951) is a former American actress. She is best known for her role as Phyllis Stone in Wes Craven's controversial horror film The Last House on the Left (1972).
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(1972) Last House On The Left
Early life
Grantham was born in 1951 in Brooklyn, New York.
Career
She is best known for her role as Phyllis Stone in Wes Craven's controversial 1972 horror film The Last House on the Left, which is the only film credit to her name. Grantham starred alongside Sandra Peabody, David Hess, and Jeramie Rain. She was initially reluctant to join the production due to how brutal the screenplay was. However, she felt more comfortable about starring in the project after meeting Wes and Sean S. Cunningham. In a retrospective interview in 2012, Grantham discussed meeting Wes and Sean and the impact of The Last House on the Left, stating:
"I could see from meeting them they were bright and intelligent, and I immediately recognized they were ambitious...I had no idea-and I'm not sure that anybody did-that this was breaking ground. I wish I had been prescient enough to know that."In the documentary "Celluloid Crime of the Century" Last House co-star Fred J. Lincoln states that "she came from X-rated movies, she was doing all that stuff to get back at her dad."
In 2002, Grantham appeared in the documentary It's Only a Movie: The Making of Last House on the Left, included in the film's 30th anniversary DVD release. In 1973, she appeared in the documentary film Loops, which was directed by Shaun Costello and featured her Last House co-star Fred J. Lincoln who also appeared in the documentary.
Grantham revealed in the interview that the scene in The Last House on the Left in which her character was forced to urinate, it was not a bag containing liquid, in fact, it was Grantham who urinated herself for the sake of making the film, despite the fact that in David A. Szulkin's book on the making of the film it notes that a wet makeup sponge was concealed in her jeans.