Kim Stanley
Kim Stanley actually Patricia Kimberley Reid ( born February 11, 1925 in Tularosa, New Mexico; † August 20, 2001 in Santa Fe, New Mexico) was an American actress.
Life
The interest for the theater was sparked when Kim Stanley as a teenager when she had seen a performance of the play The Philadelphia Story with Katharine Hepburn in the lead role. After high school, she began initially to study psychology, but her true passion was still the theater. She went through Texas to California, where she began playing the theater in Pasadena. The first successes there led her to New York where she starred in off-Broadway productions. A professional training, she finally received at New York's Actors Studio, where she was taught by Elia Kazan and Lee Strasberg. 1952 she succeeded with the play Picnic by William Inge Broadway breakthrough. Directed by Joshua Logan, the 27 - year-old played a 12- year-old girl. The next piece of William Inge " Bus Stop" was a great success on the stage also for them. Their role played in the later film adaptation Marilyn Monroe. Kim Stanley became one of the great theater actresses on Broadway. She was twice nominated for a Tony Award, this most important American theater prize but never won.
Kim Stanley played together with Shirley Knight and Geraldine Page, directed by Lee Strasberg in Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov P.. When this production in London scathing, they already withdrew the mid-1960s by the theater stage. She went to her home to New Mexico and gave up their lives to end there acting classes at the College of Santa Fe. As a film actress, she sometimes went for television series and feature films back to the active actor life. Overall, they turned but only five movies in the course of her career, but remained sustained each of these films the audience in mind. Kim Stanley was nominated despite this low number of films twice for an Academy Award in 1965 for Best Actress for Bryan Forbes crime film Seance on a Wet Afternoon, and in 1983 as Best Supporting Actress for Frances. For her television work, she received two Emmy Awards.