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Jean Stapleton
Conhecido por: InterpretaçãoJean Stapleton was born Jeanne Murray in Manhattan, New York City, to Marie A. (Stapleton), an opera singer, and Joseph Edward Murray, a billboard advertising salesman. Her paternal grandparents were Irish. She was a cousin of actress Betty Jane Watson. Other relatives in show business were her uncle, Joseph E. Deming, a vaudevillian; and her brother Jack Stapleton, a stage actor. She graduated from Wadleigh High School, NYC, in 1939, and attended Hunter College. She worked as a secretary before becoming an actress. Stapleton made her stage debut at the Greenwood Playhouse, Peaks Island, Maine, in the summer of 1941, and her New York stage debut in "The Corn Is Green" (1948). She appeared on Broadway in the musicals "Damn Yankees" (1955) and "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 companies of "Rhinoceros" (1961) and "Funny Girl" (1964). Stapleton also played Abby Brewster in the 1986-87 revival of "Arsenic and Old Lace".
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Você Tem Uma Mensagem
Pocahontas II: Viagem a um Mundo Novo
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Klute
Michael, Anjo e Sedutor
Dead Man's Folly
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Aunt Mary
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Uma Cidade Contra o Vício
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O Último Degrau
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Essa Loira Vale Um Milhão
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Quando a Vida é Cruel
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O Parceiro de Satanás
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Like Mother Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny Kimes
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You Can't Take it With You
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Bury Me in Niagara
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Lily Dale
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Eleanor, First Lady of the World
A Matter of Sex
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Começar de Novo
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