Kim Stanley
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Kim Stanley (born Patricia Reid, February 11, 1925 to August 20, 2001) was an American actress, primarily in television and theatre but with occasional film appearances. She began her acting career in theatre and then attended the Actors Studio in New York City, New York.
She was nominated for her work in The Chase (1952) and Bus Stop (1955), as well as appearing in Picnic (1953) and Bus Stop (1955).
Stanley was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her appearances in A Touch of the Poet (1959) and A Far Country (1962). Stanley, a prolific performer on television and later migrated to film with a well-received appearance in The Goddess (1959).
She was the narrator of To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) and appeared in Séance on a Wet Afternoon (1964), for which she received the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
She was less active during the remainder of her life; two of her film accomplishments were as the mother of Frances Farmer (1982), which earned her a nomination for Best Supporting Actress, and Pancho Barnes in The Right Stuff (1983).
For her role as Big Mama in a television version of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 1985, she was given a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress, Miniseries, or a Movie.
Kim Stanley was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in the same year.
Early life
Stanley was born in Tularosa, New Mexico, the niece of Ann (née Miller), an interior decorator, and J. T. Reid, a philosophy and education professor at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Her father, who was of Irish or Scottish descent, was born and raised in Texas, where she met her mother (who was of German and English descent). She had three older brothers (Howard Reid, a psychiatrist; Kenneth Reid, a pilot who died in pilot service during WWII); and Justin Truman Reid, a solicitor); and a half-sister (Carol Ann Reid). She attended the University of New Mexico as a drama major and later worked at the Pasadena Playhouse, adopting her maternal grandmother's surname as her stage name.
Personal life
Stanley Hall (1945–1964), Curt Conway (1949–1964), and Joseph Siegel (1964–1966) were married four times. Both four marriages ended in divorce.
She had three children, one by Curt Conway; one by Brooks Clift (brother of Montgomery Clift), when she married to Conway; and one by Alfred Ryder (Laurie). Stanley converted to Judaism during her marriage to Ryder.
Career
Stanley was a successful Broadway actress with only a few film roles. She was singled out by The New York Times critic Brooks Atkinson for her early work. She eventually attended the Actors Studio, studying under Elia Kazan, Lee Strasberg, and Vivian Nathan. She received the 1952 Theatre World Award for her performance as Anna Reeves in The Chase, and starred in such Broadway hits as Picnic (1953), playing Millie Owens and Bus Stop (1955), playing Cherie.
She 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. Stanley also portrayed Maggie "The Cat" in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in the original London production of the play. In 1965, she played Masha in the London run of an Actors Studio production of Anton Chekhov's play The Three Sisters. After a savaging of the production by local critics, she made good on her promise to never act on stage again.
Stanley was a leading lady of live television drama, which flourished in New York City during the 1950s. On October 17, 1950, she starred in "The Vanishing Lady" on The Trap. Her other starring roles included Wilma, a star-struck 15-year-old girl from the U.S. 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.
Her first film was The Goddess (1958), playing a tragic movie star. She starred in Séance on a Wet Afternoon (1964), 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.
A filmed version of Strasberg-directed Three Sisters (1966) opened with Stanley reprising the role of Masha, and is the only time one can see her perform in a film alongside Geraldine Page, Sandy Dennis, Shelley Winters and other well-known names of the Actors Studio. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture for her performance as Frances Farmer's possessive mother in Frances (1982). She also played Pancho Barnes in The Right Stuff (1983). Stanley was the uncredited narrator in the drama film To Kill a Mockingbird (1962). As the narrator, she represents the character Jean Louise Finch ("Scout") as an adult. Mary Badham portrays Scout as a child in the film.
She 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" (1963), of the television series, Ben Casey (1961–1966), 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.
