LOS ANGELES (AP) — Besedka Johnson, who became an actress at age 85 and won praise for last year's movie "Starlet," has died. She was 87.
Johnson died on April 4 at Glendale Memorial Hospital of complications following surgery for a bacterial infection, her son, Jim Johnson, told the Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/Z7qH66).
Besedka Johnson played the cranky widow Sadie, who befriends Dree Hemingway in last year's movie. It was her only role.
"Besedka showed that no age is too old to do what you dream. I loved her dearly," Hemingway said in a statement.
Johnson got the part when an executive producer for the movie saw her in the locker room at a YMCA gym in Los Angeles and asked her to audition.
