Background
Hawn, Goldie was born on November 21, 1945 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Daughter of Edward Rutledge and Laura (Steinhoff) Hawn.
Hawn, Goldie was born on November 21, 1945 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Daughter of Edward Rutledge and Laura (Steinhoff) Hawn.
Student, American University, Washington. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Loyola Marymount University, 2004.
Her pictures are an odd lot: a supporting actress Oscar for her none too remarkable debut in Cactus Flower (69, Gene Saks); with Peter Sellers in There’s a Girl in My Soup (79, Roy Boulting); with Warren Beattv in $ (71, Richard Brooks); Butterflies Are Free (72, Milton Katselas); helping to produce The Girl from Petrovka (74, Robert Ellis Miller), a major flop; easily her best performance as the muddle-headed wife, determined to rescue her husband in The Sugarland Express (74, Steven Spielberg); Beatty’s girlfriend again in Shampoo (75, Hal Ashby); The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox (76, Melvin Frank); Foul Play (78, Colin Higgins); and Travels with Anita (79, Mario Monicelli).
Her career peaked with Private Benjamin (80, Howard Zieff), which grossed over $100 million, and on which she was executive producer. But new power only exposed her as a repetitive comedienne, with questionable judgment of material: Seems Like Old Times (80, Jay Sandrich); Best Friends (82, Norman Jewison); Swing Shift (84. Jonathan Demme), which she produced, took away from Demme, and reworked to the film’s detriment; Protocol (84, Herbert Ross); Wildcats (86, Michael Ritchie); Overhoard (87, Garry Marshall), in which she played with Kurt Russell, her companion; Bird on a Wire (90, John Badham); and Deceived (91, Damien Harris). The films w'ere getting more strained, yet she won a long-term production deal at Hollywood Pictures: Crisscross (92, Chris Menges); Housesitter (92, Frank Oz); and Death Becomes Her (92. Robert Zemeckis).
She has gracefully backed away from the camera while taking on more demanding roles. And so she directed for the first time—a TV melodrama, Hope (97)—and she produced Something to Talk About (95, Lasse Hallstrom) and the far more entertaining When Billie Beat Bobby (01, Jane Anderson), about the King-vs.-Riggs tennis match. As an actress, she has done the very successful The First Wives Club (96. Hugh Wilson); Everyone Says I Love You (96, Woody Allen); The Out-of-Towners (99, Sam Weisman), and Town 6- Country (01, Peter Chelsom).
She is usually pert and engaging: amiability perches on her high, child's voice and gurgles from her baby’s mouth. The eyes are still eyes from Lolita’s face. But she will soon be too old to play the gamine, and may suffer the problems of a middle-aged baby-face. As it is, in most of her pictures she has been no more than a prettv. available comedienne, whose pop-eyed surprise reminds us of her sublime merriment on Laugh-In. That show had an extraordinary capacity for finding fresh comic personalities and presenting them in a familylike context, presided over bv Uncles Dan and Dick. Goldie was hired for the show as a dancer, and she regularly undulated in a bikini and body paint. But she was given a few lines to read, and in fluffing them she uncovered a comic potential all the more delicious when the older men on the show became paternal in their efforts to help her see straight or to comfort her helpless giggles. She disrupted the stupid propriety of TA’ and was one of the few people who ever caught the amateurishness of the medium with style and nerve. She went bananas forgetting things, but she never lost her cool. She didn’t worry, and that gave her a lovable dignity. She was a ding-a-ling, but never dumb, and she managed to bridge the gulf between daffy nymphet and tipsy lady.
Married Gus Trinkonis, May 16, 1969 (divorced 1976). Married Bill Hudson, July 1976 (divorced 1979). Children: Oliver, Kate;1 child (with Kurt Russell) Wyatt Russell 1 stepchild Boston Russell.