1. Mary Elizabeth Hartman was an American actress of stage and screen.
26 Facts About Elizabeth Hartman
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Elizabeth Hartman debuted in the popular 1965 film A Patch of Blue, playing a blind girl named Selina D'Arcy, opposite Sidney Poitier, a role for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, and won the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year.
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Elizabeth Hartman appeared in Francis Ford Coppola's You're a Big Boy Now as Barbara Darling, for which she was nominated for a second Golden Globe Award.
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Elizabeth Hartman starred in Don Siegel's 1971 film The Beguiled, opposite Clint Eastwood and Geraldine Page, and in 1973 film Walking Tall.
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On June 10,1987, Elizabeth Hartman died after jumping from the window of her fifth floor apartment.
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Elizabeth Hartman was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the suburb of her hometown.
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Mary Elizabeth Hartman was born December 23,1943, in Youngstown, Ohio, the daughter of Claire and BC Hartman.
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Elizabeth Hartman had a sister, Janet, and a brother, William.
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Elizabeth Hartman was a standout dramatic student at Boardman High School, where she graduated in 1961.
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Elizabeth Hartman won a statewide award for best actress in a high school production for her performance as Laura in The Glass Menagerie.
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Elizabeth Hartman performed in several productions at the Youngstown Playhouse during her youth, including A Clearing in the Woods by Arthur Laurents and Our Town.
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Elizabeth Hartman attended Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, where she met her future husband, Gill Dennis, and spent her summers acting with the Kenley Players.
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Elizabeth Hartman performed at the Cleveland Playhouse in several productions, including The Madwoman of Chaillot and Bus Stop.
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Elizabeth Hartman was encouraged to move to New York City and begin auditioning for plays there.
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In 1964, Elizabeth Hartman was signed to play the ingenue lead in the comedy Everybody Out, the Castle is Sinking, which was not a success, however her performance was again positively received, and film producers took notice.
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In 1964, Elizabeth Hartman was screen-tested by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Warner Brothers.
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Elizabeth Hartman won widespread critical acclaim for her performance, a fact proudly noted by the news media in her hometown, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.
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At the time of her nomination in 1966, Elizabeth Hartman was the youngest nominee ever in the Best Actress category.
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Elizabeth Hartman won a Golden Globe for New Star of the Year for her performance.
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In January 1967, columnist Dorothy Manners reported that Elizabeth Hartman had been cast in the role of Neely O'Hara in the movie version of Valley of the Dolls, beating out some more famous Hollywood actresses.
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Elizabeth Hartman had allegedly made a successful screen test winning over director Mark Robson and producer David Weisbart, the former already enthralled with her performance in You're a Big Boy Now.
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Between the mid-1960s and early 1970s, Elizabeth Hartman appeared in three well-received films, two of which starred Broadway and Hollywood legend Geraldine Page, The Group, You're a Big Boy Now, and The Beguiled.
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In 1975, Elizabeth Hartman starred in the premiere of Thomas Rickman's play Balaam, a play about political intrigue in Washington, DC The production was mounted in Old Town Pasadena, California, by the Pasadena Repertory Theatre located in The Hotel Carver.
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Elizabeth Hartman was highly praised for the performance; however, this proved to be her last Hollywood film role, as well as her only animated role.
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On June 10,1987, Elizabeth Hartman died by suicide, leaping to her death from the window of her fifth floor Pittsburgh apartment.
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Elizabeth Hartman was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the suburb of her hometown.