1. Anna Eileen Heckart was an American stage and screen actress whose career spanned nearly 60 years.
21 Facts About Eileen Heckart
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Eileen Heckart's mother Esther wed Leo Herbert at her own mother's insistence so her child would not be born with the stigma of illegitimacy.
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Eileen Heckart, providing her with the surname by which she would be known throughout the remainder of her life.
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Eileen Heckart additionally studied drama at HB Studio in New York City.
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Eileen Heckart acted with the Blackfriars Guild and studied for four years at the American Theatre Wing.
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Eileen Heckart began her Broadway career as the assistant stage manager and an understudy for The Voice of the Turtle in 1943.
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Eileen Heckart was granted three honorary doctorates by Sacred Heart University, Niagara University, and Ohio State University.
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Eileen Heckart won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in the 1972 movie adaptation of Butterflies Are Free and was nominated in 1957 for her performance as the bereaved, besotted Mrs Daigle in The Bad Seed, both of which were roles Eileen Heckart originated on Broadway.
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Eileen Heckart appeared in The Hiding Place as nurse, "Katje", working inside "Kamp Vught", the Dutch Concentration Camp.
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In 1977, Eileen Heckart played Bertha Hayden, mother of Sam Hayden in NBC's made for TV Christmas movie, "Sunshine Christmas".
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Eileen Heckart later appeared as a Vietnam War widow in the Clint Eastwood film Heartbreak Ridge.
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Eileen Heckart played Diane Keaton's meddling mother in the 1996 comedy film The First Wives Club.
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On television, Eileen Heckart had starring roles in The 5 Mrs Buchanans, Out of the Blue, Partners in Crime, and Backstairs at the White House.
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Eileen Heckart played two unrelated characters on the daytime soap opera One Life to Live.
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Eileen Heckart appeared in the 1954 legal drama Justice, based on case files of New York's Legal Aid Society.
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Eileen Heckart played the role of spinster Amanda Cooper on season 5 episode 17 in the Little House on the Prairie episode "Dance With Me".
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Eileen Heckart has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6140 Hollywood Blvd.
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In 1942, Eileen Heckart married insurance broker John Harrison Yankee Jr.
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Eileen Heckart met President Lyndon B Johnson at the White House in 1967.
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On December 31,2001, Eileen Heckart died of lung cancer at her home in Norwalk, Connecticut, at the age of 82.
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Eileen Heckart was cremated with her ashes scattered outside the Music Box Theatre in Manhattan, New York.