Lindsay Crouse Blue". In recent years, Crouse has concentrated on the theater. "Once you get your driver's license, you end your film career," says Crouse. "Look at my generation. Great actresses like Glenn Close and Susan Sarandon—there's nothing written for anyone over a certain age." In 2007, Crouse opened a revival of "The Belle of Amherst", a one-woman show about the life of poet Emily Dickinson, at the Gloucester Stage in Gloucester, Massachusetts. "You can't stop and recite something," says Crouse. "You have to keep the poetry very, very active, which is pretty easy with Dickinson. She was striving so hard to
Glenn Close had first premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. The film is an adaptation of Meg Wolitzer's novel of the same name. It centers on Joan Castleman (played by Close) who questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is set to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. It was announced in 2017 that Paramount wanted Close to play Norma Desmond in a remake of "Sunset Boulevard", though the film is still in early development. Close began to do television movies in the early 1980s beginning with "The Elephant Man" and in 1984,