Kim Stanley

Kim Stanley February 11 1925 August 20 2001 was an American actress primarily in televsion 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 wellreceived 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 She did not act during her later years preferring the role of teacher in Los Angeles California and later Santa Fe New Mexico where she died in 2001 of uterine cancer Description above from the Wikipedia article Kim Stanley licensed under CCBYSAfull list of contributors on Wikipedia