Jo Van Fleet

Jo Van Fleet (1914 - 1996)
==Film Deaths==
*Wild River (1960) [Ella Garth]: Dies of old age/natural causes, while sitting on her porch and watching the workers tear down her old farmhouse.
*Cool Hand Luke (1967) [Arletta Jackson]: Dies (off-screen) of unspecified illness; we learn of her death afterwards when her son (Paul Newman) is given the news in prison.
==TV Deaths==
*Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Shopping for Death (1956) [Mrs. Shrike]: Hacked to death (off-screen) with a longshoreman's hook by her husband (Michael Ross) when he returns home (after she's thrown Robert H. Harris and John Qualen out of her apartment for warning her that her personality and behavior could drive someone to murder her). We only see the police cars pulling up to her building while Robert and John look on.
*Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Reward to Finder (1957) [Anna Kaminsky]: Hit multiple times on the head with a statuette by her husband Oscar Homolka, who is unaware he is also about to die after drinking the coffee she had laced with a massive dose her nerve medicine. (Thanks to Brian)
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