Beatrice Straight
Beatrice Straight was born in Old Westbury, New York, United States on August 2nd, 1914 and is the Movie Actress. At the age of 86, Beatrice Straight biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Beatrice Whitney Straight (August 2, 1914 – April 7, 2001) was an American theatre, film, and television actress as well as a member of the influential Whitney family.
Straight made her Broadway debut in The Possessed (1939), and she was also an Emmy Award and Tony Award winner as well as a Emmy Award nominee.
Viola in Twelfth Night (1941), Catherine Sloper in The Heiress (1947) and Lady Macduff in Macbeth (1948), among her other Broadway appearances.
She received the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her role as Elizabeth Proctor in the production of The Crucible (1953).
She received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the satirical film Network (1976).
She was on camera for five minutes and two seconds, the shortest performance to win an Academy Award for acting.
She received an Emmy Award nomination for the miniseries The Dain Curse (1978).
In The Nun's Story (1959) and Dr. Gris, a straight woman appeared as Mother Christophe.
Martha Lesh of Poltergeist (1982).
Early life
Beatrice Whitney Straight was born in Old Westbury, New York, the granddaughter of Dorothy Payne Whitney of the Whitney family, as well as Willard Dickerman Straight, an investment banker, diplomat, and a career US Army officer. William Collins Whitney, her maternal grandfather, was both a politician and financier. When Straight was four years old, her father died of influenza in France during the terrible epidemic while serving with the US Army during World War I. Following her mother's remarriage to British agronomist Leonard K. Elmhirst in 1925, the family moved to Devon, England. Straight was educated at Dartington Hall and began to perform in amateur theater productions. She went to the Cornish School in Seattle in the 1930s, where many of her Dartington Hall tutors were from and to whom both she and her mother were benefactors.
Personal life
Straight married Louis Dolivet, Iowa's Free French Chief, died on February 22, 1942. Dolivet, a speaker at the National Farm Institute and Straight, a speaker at the National Farm Institute, was a part of the midwest road show Twelfth Night. Dorothy Elmhirst and her stepfather Leonard K. Elmhirst attended the wedding with her brother Michael Straight and his partner Belinda Crompton. Dolivet served in the French Air Force until June 1940 and was co-editor of The Free World, a magazine distributed by the International Free World Association, in which he was secretary general. Whitney Straight, her elder brother who was missing since August 1941, when his plane was shot down on the French coast at the time of the wedding, was missing.
Straight obtained a divorce from Dolivet in Reno, Nevada, on May 24, 1949.Together they had one child:
She met Peter Cookson in 1948 while performing in the Broadway production of The Heiress, Henry James' Washington Square adaptation. They married in 1949 and remained married until Cookson's death in 1990. Peter W. Cookson Jr. and Jane Coopland (née Cookson) had two children from his previous marriage. Straight and Cookson had two children together:
Willard, her 7-year-old son, died in a pond on their farm in Armonk while playing in a small rowboat tied to the dock, tragically. Cookson discovered the child. Dolivet, the boy's father, who was living in Paris at the time, was refused a visa and, as a result, was unable to fly to the United States to attend the funeral because of his suspected pro-communist activities, which he denied.
In her last years, the woman with Alzheimer's disease was known to have been in her first years. She died of pneumonia in Northridge, Los Angeles, at the age of 86. William Henry Lee Memorial Cemetery in New Marlborough, Massachusetts, was the site of her burial.
Career
Straightback to the United States and performed her first Broadway debut in the play The Possessed (1939). The bulk of her theater performances were in the classics, including Twelfth Night (1941), Macbeth (1948) and The Crucible (1953), for which she received the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play.
Straight was a founding member of Actors Studio and attended the class three times a week; her classmates included Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Jerome Robbins, Sidney Lumet, and about 20 others.
Straight began to work television in the early days of television, appearing in anthology film starring Armstrong Circle Theatre, Kraft Television Theatre, Studio One, Suspense, The United States Steel Hour, Playhouse 90, and Alfred Hitchcock Presents, as well as dramatic series like Dr. Kildare, Ben Casey, Mission: Impossible and St. Elsewhere. More television performances include the role of Hippolyta in the Wonder Woman series as well as Marion Hillyard, Stephen Collins' icy, controlling mother.
Straight appeared on television infrequently, but in Network (1976), she is perhaps best remembered for her role as a widow confronting husband William Holden's infidelity. Despite the fact that Straight Straight appeared on screen for a brief period of time, the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress was given to her. In the 1982 horror film Poltergeist, Dr. Martha Lesh played another prominent role in the role.