Kim Stanley began her acting career in theatre, and subsequently attended the Actors Studio in New York City, New York.
25 Facts About Kim Stanley
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Kim Stanley received the 1952 Theatre World Award for her role in The Chase, and starred in the Broadway productions of Picnic and Bus Stop.
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Kim Stanley was the narrator of To Kill a Mockingbird, and starred in Seance on a Wet Afternoon, for which she won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
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Kim Stanley was less active during the remainder of her career; two of her later film successes were as the mother of Frances Farmer in Frances, for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and as Pancho Barnes in The Right Stuff.
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Kim Stanley's father was of Irish or Scottish descent, born and raised in Texas, where he met her mother.
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Kim Stanley had three older brothers ; and a half-sister.
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Kim Stanley was a drama major at the University of New Mexico, and later studied at the Pasadena Playhouse and adopted her maternal grandmother's surname as her stage name.
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Kim Stanley was a successful Broadway actress with only a few film roles.
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Kim Stanley was singled out by The New York Times critic Brooks Atkinson for her early work.
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Kim Stanley eventually attended the Actors Studio, studying under Elia Kazan, Lee Strasberg, and Vivian Nathan.
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Kim Stanley received the 1952 Theatre World Award for her performance as Anna Reeves in The Chase, and starred in such Broadway hits as Picnic, playing Millie Owens and Bus Stop, playing Cherie.
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Kim Stanley was nominated for the 1959 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for A Touch of the Poet and the 1962 Tony for Best Actress in a Play for her portrayal of Elizabeth von Ritter in Henry Denker's A Far Country.
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Kim Stanley portrayed Maggie "The Cat" in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in the original London production of the play.
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Kim Stanley was a leading lady of live television drama, which flourished in New York City during the 1950s.
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Kim Stanley's other starring roles included Wilma, a star-struck 15-year-old girl from the US Gulf Coast of Texas in Horton Foote's A Young Lady of Property, which aired on The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse on April 5,1953.
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Kim Stanley starred in Seance on a Wet Afternoon, winning both the National Board of Review Award for Best Actress and the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.
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Kim Stanley played Pancho Barnes in The Right Stuff.
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Kim Stanley was the uncredited narrator in the drama film To Kill a Mockingbird.
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Kim Stanley received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for her appearance in the episode, "A Cardinal Act of Mercy", of the television series, Ben Casey, and an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Special for her appearance in the 1984 television adaptation of Tennessee Williams's Southern melodrama Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, this time as Big Mama.
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Kim Stanley did not act during her later years, preferring the role of teacher in New York City, Los Angeles, and later Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she died.
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Kim Stanley was inducted into the New Mexico Entertainment Hall of Fame in 2012.
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Kim Stanley was married four times: to Bruce Hall, Curt Conway, Alfred Ryder, and Joseph Siegel.
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Kim Stanley had three children: one by Curt Conway; one by Brooks Clift, while she was married to Conway; and one by Alfred Ryder.
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Kim Stanley died of uterine cancer at a nursing home in Santa Fe at the age of 76.
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Kim Stanley was survived by her brother Justin, her three children, and several nephews and nieces.