Rest in Peace.
Posted on 03/13/2006 9:39:11 AM PST by NormsRevenge
LENOX, Mass. - Actress Maureen Stapleton, whose long career included award-winning performances on stage and in film, has died at her home in Lenox. She was 80.
A funeral director says Stapleton died this morning of natural causes. She was a native of Troy, New York and had lived in Lenox for about the past 20 years.
Stapleton won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress in 1982 for her portrayal of the anarchist Emma Goldman in "Reds."
She was nominated three other times for Best Supporting Actress, for "Lonelyhearts" in 1959; "Airport" in 1971 and "Interiors" in 1979.
She won a Golden Globe award for "Airport" in 1971.
Stapleton also made her mark on Broadway, winning a Tony Award in 1951 for her performance in "The Rose Tattoo" and again in 1971 for her role in "The Gingerbread Lady."
She was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in 1981.
No relation to Jean 'Edith Bunker' Stapleton.
Beat you by 9 seconds yours has a better story tho
I liked her. I thought she was a good actress.
Played Emma Goldman in Reds.
Let's see if the mods leave us both up. :)
No biggie anyway, There are plenty more obits yet to come. ;-)
Rest in Peace.
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I thought she made 'Johnny Dangerously' that much better.
i thought she was fantastic in Plaza Suite--starring Walter Matthau... i felt very sorry for her character...
Was 'Reds' a good movie?
At over 3 hours I found it a bit dull. Certainly ambitious. Beatty was too old to play John Reed but that never stopped him before.
Awwww, she was so great as "The Electric Grandmother."
Maureen Stapleton holds her Oscar for best performance by a supporting actress in 'Reds' at the 54th Annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles on March 30, 1982. Stapleton, the Oscar-winning character actress whose subtle vulnerability and down-to-earth toughness earned her dramatic and comedic roles on stage, screen, and television, died Monday, March 13, 2006. She was 80.(AP Photo)
The Electric Grandmother
1982
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083876/
Thank you, that was the movie I was trying to remember. I liked her in that.
susie
I thought they were sisters
Common mistake. Jean is a couple of years older actually.
Wow, you're fast! ":^)
We loved it for years and watched every time it played.
I'll always think of Maureen Stapleton as an immortal electric gramma, waiting somewhere to be plugged in again.
I try! ;-)
She had a certain quality.
What a coincidence that Maureen was on TV just last night. I have to admit I was watching PBS. ;) They had a fascinating film on about the 'Golden Age of Broadway,' and Maureen was one of the many actors who appeared.
She was great in Bye Bye Birdie.
Our kids loved the part where she poured chocolate milk from her index finger!
Edith Bunker was played by Jean Stapleton, not Maureen.
She was GREAT in Reds.
True.. DuuuH...
She was a wonderful actress. May she rest in peace.
I liked her in Cocoon. She played a great FL retiree commonly know as "blue hairs."
Uh, oh, she the first of the trio. I'm going in hiding until it's over...
Reds was definitely well made, with excellent production values, and a fabulous score.
It IS an epic, and thus it is sometimes slow in places. But it's not all hagiography. Beatty's Reed is a flawed person, and we see his flaws as his idealism runs into the reality of Bolshevik power.
I do highly recommend it, though. Jack Nicholson is solid as the jilted poet Eugene O'Neill, Diane Keaton is at her best as Reed's vapid, fawning, proto-feminist lover Louise Brown, and the film is filled with wonderful supporting performances from George Plimpton, Maureen Stapleton, Edward Herrman and Jerzy Kosinski (as an oddly compelling Grigory Zinoviev).
I get the videotapes out once a year and watch it.
She was a good actress, I enjoy her work in most of her roles.
Lived a long time, too.
Wasn't she in Cocoon, too? Loved that movie.
A great actress, she will be missed.
Yes, she was so great as Mama in Bye Bye Birdie!
Reds is one of my all time fav movies and actually has a strong consrvative message. In the end, Reed discovers socialism was all about power and evil corruption.
Thanks. I was just getting ready to say, "How can you not mention the Edith Bunker stint?"
Also, Beatty showed the movie to Ronald Reagan in the White House.
Looks like Beatty had some brains back in 1982. I liked him in 'Heaven Can Wait' as well.
Now he's just another Hollywood socialist. Maybe he should watch 'Reds' again.
Maureen Stapleton credits.
Cocoon - ( Mary Luckett / / Released / CBS Video )
Cocoon: the Return - ( Mary Luckett / / Released / CBS Video )
She was great as Ma Kelly in 'Johnny Dangerously.'
Wrong Stapleton
I've already been whipped.. Deserved it too..
Great actress. May she rest in peace.
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