In Very Small Roles and Brief Screen Appearances -
She Brings Enormous Presence and Memorable Performances

Joanna Cassidy as Zhora (aka Miss Salome) rivets our attention every instant she's on the screen.

She handles a huge snake and Harrison Ford with equal aplomb in one of the most enthralling sequences in Blade Runner,
a dark, Philip K. Dick sci-fi yarn, that has far surpassed it's original "cult classic" designation.

Ford plays Deckard, whos job it is to flush out humanoid replicants. After a bit of cat and mouse, their little conversation
turns deadly physical and Cassidy's Zhora springs into frightening action.

Joanna Cassidy has barely 6 minutes in Blade Runner but her talented persona (under the direction of Ridley Scott)
makes it seem like much more. You certainly won't forget her rich character portrayal, if you live to be 100!

Joanna Cassidy's brief performance here is a vital component in this superior 1982 film.

In "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" Joanna Cassidy plays Delores, the sexy, street car diner waitress. This performance
is another real winner.

I appreciate the wonderful effects pulled off in this movie, but the acting by a consummately professional cast, including
Bob Hoskins, Kathleen Turner, Christopher Lloyd, and Joanna Cassidy makes it a classic.

Even Roger Rabbit couldn't upstage a character with the snap Joanna Cassidy exhibits as Delores in this ground breaking
combination of cartoon and live action that set a new standard.

A down to earth character in a nutty cartoon is perfectly balanced by Joanna Cassidy. The "making of" material shows
how much hard work the cast and crew put in to bring Roger's tale to the screen. I don't know if it's just me or because
Joanna Cassidy makes it look so easy, but I wish director, Robert Zemeckis would have used her a bit more.

This sci-fi / horror film was really hard to rate, at first.

Ghosts of Mars is really an old fashioned "B" movie with an "A" production budget.
John Carpenter seems determined to keep the Saturday matinee genre alive but it's dangerous territory these days.
Critics and the "masses" want their big budget movies to have first rate writing, lots of "twists" and plenty of computer graphics.

None of that in "Ghosts of Mars" in predictable "B" fashion. The ticket here is action, horror, schlock, and frail characters
that are always in over their heads but don't seem to know it.

Accomplished character actors Joanna Cassidy, Rex Linn, Pam Grier, Robert Carridine etc., add just the right note of "A" class to
a movie bent on maintaining it's "B" values. Inane lines delivered by a smooth performer like Cassidy takes guts to get it right,
portraying serious people in stupid situations with only a slight hint of tongue in cheek .

Director John Carpenter with Joanna Cassidy and her comrades in costume, were not afraid to be misunderstood by those who
forget that movies like "Ghosts of Mars" can scare the hell out of you while also making you chuckle at human absurdities.

The critics shredded "Ghosts of Mars", and most John Carpenter fans, insisting on another "Dark Star" and "The Thing",
hated it too. I really got a kick out of Joanna Cassidy's performance and this movie, (as did gutsy Roger Ebert) without
the burden of a "big message" and CGI excesses to weigh it down.

Natasha Henstridge, Ice Cube, Clea DuVall, etc. are a new generation of young actors, learning the value of
doing little or chancy parts like "John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars", that just might lead to a body of work as
impressive as Joanna Cassidy's. - Hollywood Sleeper

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