Kim Stanley

Born: 1925-02-11

Kim Stanley (February 11, 1925 – August 20, 2001) was an American actress, primarily in televsion and theatre, but with occasional film performances. She began her acting career in theatre, and subsequently attended the Actors Studio in New York City, New York. She received the 1952 Theatre World Award for her role in The Chase (1952), and starred in the Broadway productions of Picnic (1953) and Bus Stop (1955). Stanley was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play for her roles in A Touch of the Poet (1959) and A Far Country (1962). During the 1950s, Stanley was a prolific performer in television, and later progressed to film, with a well-received performance in The Goddess (1959). She was the narrator of To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) and starred in Séance on a Wet Afternoon (1964), for which she won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She was less active during the remainder of her career; two of her later film successes were as the mother of Frances Farmer in Frances (1982), for which she received a second Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress, and as Pancho Barnes in The Right Stuff (1983). She received an Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress – Miniseries or a Movie for her performance as Big Mama in a television adaptation of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1985). She did not act during her later years, preferring the role of teacher, in Los Angeles, California, and later Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she died in 2001, of uterine cancer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kim Stanley, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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To Kill a Mockingbird

as Scout as an Adult - Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: 1962-12-20

Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of...

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The Right Stuff

as Pancho Barnes
Released: 1983-10-20

As the Space Race ensues, seven pilots set off on a path to become the first American astronauts...

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Seance on a Wet Afternoon

as Myra
Released: 1964-06-19

Working-class British housewife Myra Savage reinvents herself as a medium, holding seances in...

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Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2003-04-03

Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about...

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Frances

as Lillian Farmer
Released: 1982-12-03

The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her...

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The Goddess

as Emily Ann Faulkner (Rita Shawn)
Released: 1958-06-24

A woman adored by the people around her ultimately struggles to be happy with herself.

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Operation Heartbeat

as Joanna Hanson
Released: 1969-04-17

Lawsuits fly when a widow believes a gifted surgeon allowed her husband to die so his heart...

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

as Big Mama
Released: 1984-08-19

An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his...

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The Three Sisters

as Masha
Released: 1966-01-01

In a small Russian town at the turn of the century, three sisters and their brother live but...

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Dragon Country

as One (segment "I Can't Imagine Tomorrow")
Released: 1970-01-02

Producer-director Glenn Jordan brought together two Tennessee Williams plays, written twenty...

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Quincy, M.E.

as uncredited
First aired: 1976-10-03

Los Angeles County medical examiner Quincy routinely engages in police investigations.

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The Philco Television Playhouse

as Wilma Thompson
First aired: 1948-10-03

The Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC...

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The Philco Television Playhouse

as uncredited
First aired: 1948-10-03

The Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC...

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Ben Casey

as uncredited
First aired: 1961-10-02

Ben Casey is an American medical drama series which ran on ABC from 1961 to 1966. The show was...

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Studio One

as Georgette Thomas
First aired: 1948-11-07

An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher...

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The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self
First aired: 1948-06-20

The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June...

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Goodyear Television Playhouse

as Kay
First aired: 1951-10-14

The Goodyear Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was telecast live on NBC...

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Inner Sanctum

as uncredited
First aired: 1954-01-09

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