Kim Stanley
Kim Stanley was an
American actress.
She was born Patricia Beth Reid in
Tularosa,
New Mexico. She was a drama major at the
University of New Mexico and later studied at the Pasadena Playhouse.
Stanley was a successful
Broadway actress with only a few
motion picture roles. She was singled out by the
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critic Brooks Atkinson for her early work. She eventually attended The Actor's Studio, studying under
Elia Kazan and
Lee Strasberg.
She starred in such Broadway hits as
Picnic , playing Millie Owens, and
Bus Stop , playing Cherie.
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Kim Stanley was an
American actress.
She was born
Patricia Beth Reid in
Tularosa,
New Mexico. She was a drama major at the
University of New Mexico and later studied at the Pasadena Playhouse.
Stanley was a successful
Broadway actress with only a few
motion picture roles. She was singled out by the
New York Times is a newspaper [i] published in New York City [i] by Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. [i] ...
critic Brooks Atkinson for her early work. She eventually attended The Actor's Studio, studying under
Elia Kazan and
Lee Strasberg.
She starred in such Broadway hits as
Picnic , playing Millie Owens, and
Bus Stop , playing Cherie.
She received the 1952 Theatre World Award for her performance of Anna Reeves in
The Chase; and was nominated for the 1959 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for
A Touch of the Poet and the 1962 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for
A Far Country.
Stanley was also the leading lady of live
television drama, which flourished in
New York City during the 1950s. Among her many starring roles was Wilma, a star-struck 15-year-old girl from the
U.S. Gulf Coast of
Texas in Horton Foote's
A Young Lady of Property, which aired on the
Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse April 5, 1953.
A savaging by English critics after her
London performance of Masha in The Actor's Studio production of
Anton Chekhov's play
The Three Sisters made her vow never to perform on stage again, a vow she kept for the rest of her life.
Stanley had four husbands, Bruce Hall , Curt Conway ,
Alfred Ryder and Joseph Siegel .
She had three children, one by Conway, one by Brooks Clift while she was married to Conway, and one by Ryder.
Her first movie was
The Goddess , playing an unstable movie star, Rita Shawn. In 1964, she starred in
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and was nominated for the Best Actress in a Leading Role.
Other movies include
Frances , playing the mother of movie star
Frances Farmer opposite
Jessica Lange, in which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and a
Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Motion Picture. She also played
Pancho Barnes in
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.
While her on-screen legacy is stunning, many believe Kim Stanley's most powerful role in a movie is an off-screen one. She serves as the uncredited narrator in the 1962 film "
To Kill a Mockingbird." As the narrator, she represents the character Jean Marie Finch as an adult.
Mary Badham portrays Scout as a child in the film.
She received an
Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in the episode
A Cardinal Act of Mercy on the TV series
Ben Casey and an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Special for playing Big Mama in
Tennessee Williams' Southern melodrama
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof .
Kim Stanley died of uterine cancer at her home in
Santa Fe, New Mexico at the age of 76. She was survived by her first husband, Bruce Hall, her brother Justin Truman Reid, and her three children. Her biography,
Female Brando: the Legend of Kim Stanley by Jon Krampner, was published in the spring of 2006 by Back Stage Books, a division of Watson-Guptill Publications.
External links
- IBDB
- IMDb
- Website of Kim Stanley biographer Jon Krampner
