Kid, Etta Place is depicted as a schoolteacher. Screenwriter William Goldman was suspicious of claims that Place was a prostitute; he believed she was too attractive and vibrant to have worked as a prostitute, a profession that tended to age women prematurely and tax their health. Place was portrayed in the film by Katharine Ross. Elizabeth Montgomery portrayed Etta Place in Mrs. Sundance, a highly fictionalized 1974 television movie. Katharine Ross reprised her role as Etta Place in Wanted: The Sundance Woman, a fictionalized 1976 made-for-television movie. In the 1994 TV movie The Gambler V: Playing for Keeps, Etta Place is played by Mariska Hargitay. In the 2004 TV movie The Legend of Butch & Sundance, Rachelle Lefevre portrays Etta Place. Etta Place was played by Dominique McElligott in the 2011 film Blackthorn. Etta Place was the central character in Etta: A Novel by Gerald Kolpan, published in 2009 by Ballantine Books. See also Outlaws American Old West References Further reading Answer Man: Mysterious Etta Place by Chuck Parsons External links Etta Place at Sundance Kid and Henry Long 1870s births American emigrants to Argentina Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch People from Texas Year of death unknown Unidentified criminals Unidentified American criminals