from the Yale School of Drama), Meryl was able to effectively become a small-town girl whose future depended on Christopher Walken’s or Robert De Niro’s return from Vietnam. Somehow, despite her patrician looks and Ivy League background (she has a B.A. If there were any doubts about her abilities, her work in “The Deer Hunter” banished them quickly. No matter how much blinking this time, everyone saw her, and she won an Emmy for her work. Blink, and she was gone! Then, she played the Christian wife of a German Jew in “Holocaust”. But with Meryl (christened Mary Louise) to preface it, Streep has never sounded sweeter.Īlthough she has three years of highly successful work in New York theater behind her, it is in the movies and on TV that most os us have seen Meryl. Her name is Meryl Streep – what a name for Hollywood’s newest star! An old Dutch name, it sings with all the lyricism of a sparrow’s chirp. Kramer vs Kramer, Measure for Measure, Playgirl, The Seduction of Joe Tynan, Trelawney of the Wells, Year 1979
