Kim Stanley

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Kim Stanley

Kim Stanley (born Patricia Kimberley Reid on February 11, 1925 in Tularosa , New Mexico , † August 20, 2001 in Santa Fe , New Mexico) was an American actress .

Life

Kim Stanley's interest in the theater was piqued as a teenager when she saw a performance of The Night Before the Wedding starring Katharine Hepburn . After high school she began studying psychology, but her real passion continued to be the theater. She went to California via Texas , where she began acting in Pasadena theater. Her first successes led her to New York , where she played in off- Broadway productions. She finally received professional training at the New York Actors Studio , where she was tutored by Elia Kazan and Lee Strasberg . In 1952 she had her breakthrough with the play Picnic by William Inge on Broadway. Directed by Joshua Logan , the 27-year-old played a 12-year-old girl. The next piece by William Inge "Bus Stop" was also a great stage success for her. Her role played in the later film adaptation of Marilyn Monroe . Kim Stanley became one of the great theater actresses on Broadway. She was nominated twice for a Tony Award, but never won this most important American theater award.

Kim Stanley starred in Three Sisters by Anton P. Chekhov with Shirley Knight and Geraldine Page , directed by Lee Strasberg . When this production was scathingly criticized in London, it withdrew from the theater stage in the mid-1960s. She went to her homeland in New Mexico and gave acting classes at Santa Fe College for the rest of her life.

As a film actress, Stanley sometimes returned to active acting for television series and movies. In total, however, she only made six feature films in the course of her career, but each of these films was remembered by viewers. In her film debut The Goddess in 1958 she played a film star based on Marilyn Monroe . She was not mentioned in the credits for her contribution to the classic film Who disturbs the nightingale : She speaks the narrator from the off - the girl Scout, who tells the story as an adult. Despite this small number of films, Kim Stanley was nominated twice for an Oscar , in 1965 for best actress for Bryan Forbes' crime film On a Gloomy Afternoon and in 1983 as a supporting actress for Frances . For her television roles, which she completed since the 1950s, she received two Emmy Awards . Most recently, she was in front of the camera as Big Mama in 1984 for a television adaptation of The Cat on a Hot Tin Roof .

Important theater work

Filmography (selection)

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personal data
SURNAME Stanley, Kim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reid, Patricia Kimberley (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Tularosa , New Mexico , United States
DATE OF DEATH August 20, 2001
Place of death Santa Fe , New Mexico , United States