found: Medium cool, c1994:credits (Verna Bloom, cast)
found: Internet Movie Database, Jul. 11, 2002(Verna Bloom, actress; b. 7 August 1939, Lynn, Massachusetts)
found: Internet Movie Database WWW site, Jan. 17, 2013:(Verna Bloom, actress; b. August 7, 1939, Lynn, Massachusetts ; Attended the School of Fine Arts in Boston University, graduating with a BFA in 1959. She later studied at the Herbert Berghof Studio in New York City)
found: New York times WWW site, viewed Jan. 15, 2019(in obituary published Jan. 11: Verna Bloom; b. Verna Frances Bloom, Aug. 7, 1938, Lynn, Mass.; d. Wednesday [Jan. 9, 2019], Bar Harbor, Me., aged 80; in her first feature film, the semidocumentary Medium cool, moved anxiously through the rioting in Chicago during the 1968 Democratic National Convention; a decade later played the lustful wife of the stiff-necked college dean in National Lampoon's animal house; appeared also on stage and on television)