One of the most fascinating and underrated actresses of her generation, Tuesday Weld (born Susan Ker Weld in New York City in 1943) first came to prominence at the age of 16 in 1959 as the scheming Thalia Menninger on the popular television series The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. However, she caught the attention of serious moviegoers and critics with a series of roles in feature films from the ’60s and ’70s that increasingly examined the complex and often dark shades of character that lay beneath her blonde, all-American good looks.

In June, appropriately on Tuesday evenings, we’ll present four of Tuesday Weld’s most interesting performances from this period, beginning on June 3 with The Cincinnati Kid, featuring Weld as the angelic soul fighting with bad girl Ann-Margret over poker hustler Steve McQueen. In Pretty Poison (June 10), she’s the seemingly sweet high-schooler Sue Ann, who cleverly tricks a troubled young man (Anthony Perkins) into a sinister domestic plot. Henry Jaglom, director of A Safe Place (June 17), allowed Weld to delve into her personal background to develop her character of a flower child torn between her fantasy life and her real boyfriend (Jack Nicholson). Concluding the series is Frank Perry’s adaptation of Joan Didion’s cult novel, Play it as it Lays, which reunites Weld with her Pretty Poison co-star Perkins for a twisted take on Tinseltown. Each film will be shown in new or recently struck 35mm prints.