News Summary

• Two-time Oscar winner Jodie Foster had her first-ever top-billed leading role in the 1976 thriller The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane.
• Now that the movie has celebrated its 50th anniversary in May, it’s high time to break down how this momentous occasion in the history of the Silence of the Lambs star could have become so overlooked.
• By the time Little Girl arrived in theaters, Foster had already played important roles in two major releases, starring opposite Richard Harris in the family drama Echoes of a Summer and opposite Robert De Niro in the Martin Scorsese classic Taxi Driver.