Maureen Stapleton
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Lois Maustleton (June 21, 1925 – March 13, 2006), an American actress who appeared in film, theater, and television.
She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Lonelyhearts (1958), Airport (1970), and Interiors (1978), before winning in Reds (1981) for her role as Emma Goldman.
In 1981, she was accepted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame. Stapleton appeared on Broadway in 1946 in The Playboy of the Western World, winning the 1951 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for The Gingerbread Lady and the 1971 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress.
She received both an Emmy Award for her television film Among the Paths to Eden (1967) and a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Reds.
Bye Bye Birdie (1963), Plaza Suite (1971), Cocoon (1985), and The Money Pit (1986).
Early life
Stapleton was born in Troy, New York, the daughter of John P. Stapleton and Irene (née Walsh), and grew up in a strict Irish Catholic family. During her youth, her father became an alcoholic and her parents were divorced.
Personal life and death
Max Allentuck, the producer's first husband, was married to Stapleton's second, David Rayfiel, who died in 1966. By her first husband, she had a son, Daniel, and a daughter, Katherine. In the summer of '42, Katherine Allentuck played a single film role in "Aggie" (Stapleton herself appeared in the film as the protagonist's mother, but only her voice is heard; she does not appear on camera). Daniel Allentuck, her son, is a documentary filmmaker.
For many years, Stapleton suffered from anxiety and alcoholism, and he told an interviewer, "The curtain came down, and I went into the vodka." She also said that her unhappy childhood contributed to her insecurity, which included fears of flying, airplanes, and elevators. Stapleton, a lifelong smoker, died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at her home in Lenox, Massachusetts, in 2006.
In 1981, Hudson Valley Community College in Stapleton, New York, dedicated a theater to her name.
She was not connected by her father to All In the Family actress Jean Stapleton (who used her mother's maiden name effectively). However, she was also a second cousin of Jean Stapleton's through her mother's father.
Career
Stapleton left New York City at the age of 18, served as a salesgirl, hotel clerk, and even modeled to pay the bills, including for artist Raphael Soyer. She once said that it was her obsession with handsome Hollywood actor Joel McCrea that led to her role. In 1946, she made her Broadway debut in The Playboy of the Western World's production starring Burgess Meredith. In Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, actress and producer Katharine Cornell appeared as "Iras" in the same year. Stapleton received a Tony Award for her appearance in Tennessee Williams' The Rose Tattoo in 1951 (Magnani's English improved, but she was able to play the part in the film version, winning an Academy).
Stapleton appeared in numerous Williams' films, including Twenty-Seven Wagons Full of Cotton and Orpheus Descending (and its film version, Marlon Brando), as well as in The Cold Wind and the Warm (Tony nomination, 1959) and Lillian Hellman's Toys in the Attic (1960), for which she received her second Tony Award nomination. She was nominated for a Tony Award for Neil Simon's Plaza Suite in 1968 and received her second Tony Award for Simon's The Gingerbread Lady, which was written specifically for her. Later Broadway appearances included a Tony-nominated turn in The Little Foxes, opposite Elizabeth Taylor, and a replacement for Jessica Tandy in The Gin Game.
Despite being limited, Stapleton's film career, though brief, culminated in her debut in Lonelyhearts (1958) receiving accolades for Best Supporting Actress and a Golden Globe Award. She appeared in Bye Birdie's 1963 film version, as Mama Mae Peterson, with Dick Van Dyke, Janet Leigh, Paul Lynde, and Ann-Margret. Despite being only five months and 22 days older than Van Dyke, Stapleton portrayed Dick Van Dyke's mother. She was nominated for an Oscar for Airport (Golden Globe Award nomination, 1970) and Woody Allen's Interiors, 1978) (Golden Globe Award nomination, 1978). Emma Goldman, a Lithuanian-born anarchist, received the Best Supporting Actress award for Reds (1981), directed by Warren Beatty, in which she portrayed the Lithuanian-born anarchist. "I would like to thank everyone I've ever met in my entire life," the speaker said in her acceptance address. Johnny Dangerously (1984), Cocoon (1985), and its sequel Cocoon: The Return (1988).
Stapleton received a 1968 Emmy Award for her appearance in Among the Paths of Eden, and was nominated for six more for Avonlea (1996), B.L. (1996). Stryker (1989), the television version of All the King's Men (1959), and The Gathering (1977). On a Hot Tin Roof (1976), she appeared alongside Laurence Olivier and Natalie Wood in Cat.
In 1981, she was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame. She was an alumna of New York City's famed Actors Studio, led by Lee Strasberg, where she met Marilyn Monroe, who was only one year younger than Stapleton. Monroe was awed by the ditzy blonde's talent, but she's also regret that Monroe was never allowed to perform roles beyond the ditzy blonde. Stapleton, on the other hand, thought she was lucky: "I never had that problem." People gathered around me on stage, saying, 'Jesus, that broad enough be able to do anything.'" When Stapleton and Monroe appeared in Anna Christie together, it was one of the studio's most recalled scenes.
Despite her association with Strasberg, Stapleton cited Mira Rostova as her most popular acting instructor. Montgomery Clift, Off-Broadway in The Sea Gull (1954) appeared with Rostova and another of Rostova's pupils, Montgomery Clift, The Sea Gull (1954).
She was nominated for the 1975 Grammy Award for her spoken word recording of To Kill a Mockingbird.
In 1979, she appeared on NBC's Saturday Night Live in her 19th episode.