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Kim Stanley (February 11, 1925 – August 20, 2001) was an American actress, primarily in television and theatre, but with occasional film performances.
She began her acting career in theatre, and subsequently attended the Actors Studio in New York City, New York. She received the 1952 Theatre World Award for her role in The Chase (1952), and starred in the Broadway productions of Picnic (1953) and Bus Stop (1955). Stanley was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play for her roles in A Touch of the Poet (1959) and A Far Country (1962).
During the 1950s, Stanley was a prolific performer in television, and later progressed to film, with a well-received performance in The Goddess (1959). She was the narrator of To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) and starred in Séance on a Wet Afternoon (1964), for which she won 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 career; two of her later film successes were as the mother of Frances Farmer in Frances (1982), for which she received a second Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress, and as Pancho Barnes in The Right Stuff (1983). She received an Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress – Miniseries or a Movie for her performance as Big Mama in a television adaptation of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1985).
Kim Stanley - A Cardinal Act of Mercy 8/8
2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson 1
Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson 1
Kim Stanley - A Young Lady of Property 1/5
Kim Stanley is Big Mama 2/2 - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Elaine Stritch and Kim Stanley in Bus Stop
John Garfield & Kim Stanley in "Golden Boy"
Kim Stanley in I Can't Imagine Tomorrow 1/4
Kim Stanley in I Can't Imagine Tomorrow 3/4
Kim Stanley Robinson: Valuing the Earth and Future Generations: Imagining Post-Capitalism