Jean Stapleton - Фильмы

Jean Stapleton что born Jeanne Murray in Manhattan, New York City, to Marie А. (Stapleton), an opera singer, and Joseph Edward Murray, a billboard advertising salesman. Her paternal grandparents were Irish. She was a cousin of actress Бетти Джейн Уотсон. Other relatives in show business were her uncle, Джозеф э. Деминг, a водевильной; and her brother Jack Stapleton, a stage actor. She graduated from Wadleigh High School, Нью-Йорке, в 1939, and attended Hunter College. She worked as a secretary before becoming an actress. Стэплтон made her debut stage at the Greenwood Playhouse, пикс Айленд, Мэн, in the summer of 1941, New York and her debut stage в "The Corn Is Green" (1948). She appeared on Broadway in the мюзикла "Проклятые янки" (1955) и "Bells Are Ringing" (1956), and later repeated her roles in the movie versions (Damn Yankees (1958) and Bells Are Ringing (1960)). Her other Broadway roles included the original of companies "носорог" (1961) и "смешная девчонка" (1964). Стэплтон also played Abby in the Brewster 1986-87 revival of "Arsenic and Old Lace".