At the age of eighty, Le Gallienne was cast along with Ellen Burstyn in Daniel Petrie's film Resurrection. Le Gallienne's performance as Grandma Pearl earned her an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

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Her last role was in 1983 in a segment of the television drama St. Elsewhere. The episode was a fiasco, reportedly because Le Gallienne was drunk during most of the taping.

Le Gallienne died at the age of 92 on June 3, 1992.

She had acted in or directed nearly 150 live theater productions, given 16 film and television performances, made dozens of radio broadcasts, and recorded a score of records and tapes. She wrote four books, including the memoir With a Quiet Heart (1953), a biography of Eleanora Duse, and numerous articles for periodicals.

Actress Jane Alexander wrote that: "People called Helen Hayes the grand dame of the theatre but it really should be Le G[allienne]. There is nobody else like her; she did it all."

Gay, lesbian, and bisexual actors and actresses are among the elite of contemporary theater, but only recently have many come out publicly.

Poet, playwright, screenwriter, costume designer, and memoirist, Mercedes de Acosta is remembered today for her love affairs with some of the most glamorous women of her time.

In addition to being the muse and inspiration of other writers, American expatriate Natalie Barney, known as the Amazon, was a poet, memoirist, and epigrammatist in her own right.

Emily Dickinson's poems and letters to her sister-in-law Susan are both passionate and elusive in their homoeroticism.

One of the greatest actresses of her day, Eleonora Duse was also known for her tempestuous love affairs, primarily with men, but also with women.

May Sarton, who gradually revealed her lesbianism in her writing, worked successfully in poetry, the novel, essays, and the journal.

American lesbian Elsie de Wolfe helped create the profession of interior decorating; she was also one of the central figures of an elite New York "Amazon enclave" during the early years of the twentieth century.