"This film image released by Music Box Films shows Besedka Johnson, in a promotional portrait for the film ""Starlet."" Johnson, who became an actress at age 85 and won praise for last year's movie ""Starlet,"" 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. Besedka Johnson played the cranky widow Sadie, who befriends a character played by Dree Hemingway in last year's movie. It was her only role. She was 87. (AP Photo/Music Box Films, Augusta Quirk)"