Kim Stanley
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.
To Kill a Mockingbird
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Movie pageThe Right Stuff
as Pancho BarnesAs the Space Race ensues, seven pilots set off on a path to become the first American astronauts...
Movie pageSeance on a Wet Afternoon
as MyraWorking-class British housewife Myra Savage reinvents herself as a medium, holding seances in...
Movie pageBroadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
as Self (archive footage)Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about...
Movie pageFrances
as Lillian FarmerThe true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her...
Movie pageThe Goddess
as Emily Ann Faulkner (Rita Shawn)A woman adored by the people around her ultimately struggles to be happy with herself.
Movie pageOperation Heartbeat
as Joanna HansonLawsuits fly when a widow believes a gifted surgeon allowed her husband to die so his heart...
Movie pageCat on a Hot Tin Roof
as Big MamaAn alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his...
Movie pageThe Three Sisters
as MashaIn a small Russian town at the turn of the century, three sisters and their brother live but...
Movie pageDragon Country
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Movie pageQuincy, M.E.
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TV Show pageThe Philco Television Playhouse
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TV Show pageThe Philco Television Playhouse
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TV Show pageStudio One
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TV Show pageThe Ed Sullivan Show
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TV Show pageGoodyear Television Playhouse
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