Beatrice Straight

	Beatrice Straight
Geboortenaam	Beatrice Whitney Straight
Geboorte	2 Augustus 1914; Old Westbury, New York Stad, V.S.
Sterfte	7 April 2001 (op 86); Northridge, Los Angeles, California, V.S.
Nasionaliteit	Amerikaans
Ouers	Willard Dickerman Straight Dorothy Payne Whitney
Lewensmaat	Louis Dolivet (getroud 1942; geskei 1949) Peter Cookson (getroud 1949; oorlede 1990)
Kinders	3
Skool	Lincoln School in New York Stad, Verenigde State Dartington Hall Community in Devonshire, Engeland
Beroep(e)	Aktrise
Aktiewe jare	1939–1991
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Beatrice Straight (2 Augustus 1914 – 7 April 2001) was 'n Amerikaanse teater, televisie en rolprent aktrise. Sy was `n lid van die aangesiene Whitney familie. Sy was `n Tony en Academy Award wenner en `n genomineerde vir die Emmy Award.^[1]

Straight se eerste Broadway vertoning was in die toneelstuk The Possessed (1939). Vir haar rol as Elizabeth Proctor in The Crucible (1953) wen sy die Tony Toekenning vir Beste Aktrise in `n Toneelstuk. Haar ander Broadway rolle sluit in Viola in Twelfth Night (1941), Catherine Sloper in The Heiress (1947) en Lady MacDuff in Macbeth (1948). Vir die satiriese film Network (1976) wen sy die Academy Award vir Beste Ondersteunende Aktrise; met vyf minute en twee sekondes van skermtyd is haar vertoning die kortste ooit om `n Academy Award vir toneelspel te wen. Sy was genomineer vir `n Emmy Toekenning vir die minireeks The Dain Curse (1978). Straight verskyn in The Nun's Story (1959) as Moeder Christophe saam met Audrey Hepburn en as die parasielkundige Dr. Martha Lesh in Poltergeist (1982).

Vroeë lewe

Beatrice Whitney Straight is 2 Augustus 1914 in Old Westbury, New York Stad, as die tweede van drie kinders gebore. Haar vader was die beleggingsbankier, diplomaat en weermag offisier Willard Dickerman Straight en haar moeder, Dorothy Payne Whitney, `n lid van die Whitney familie en `n sosiale aktivis. In 1918 sterf haar vader aan griep in Frankryk gedurende die groot griep epidemie terwyl hy sy diensplig met die Verenigde State se weermag gedoen het. In 1925, na Dorothy Payne Whitney hertrou het met die landboukundige Leonard K. Elmhirst, trek Straight en haar gesin na Devon, Engeland. Daar ontvang sy haar opvoeding by Dartington Hall, `n landgoed wat haar moeder en stiefvader omskep het in `n eksperimentele skool en sentrum vir verkennende landbou projekte.^[2] Daar begin sy in amateur teaterproduksies optree. In die 1930s woon sy die Cornish School in Seattle by; Straight en haar moeder het belangrike weldoeners van die skool geword.^[3]

Loopbaan

Straight het na die Verenigde State teruggekeer en haar Broadway debuut in die toneelstuk The Possessed (1939) gemaak. Die meerderheid van haar werk op die verhoog was in die klassieke, insluitende Twelfth Night (1941), Macbeth (1948) en The Crucible (1953).

Straight was `n lid van Actors Studio van die ontstaan van die organisasie, en woon die klas by wat drie maal `n week aangebied word deur stigterslid, Robert Lewis. Haar klasmaats het Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Jerome Robbins, Sidney Lumet en omtrent 20 ander ingesluit.^[4]

Straight was aktief in die vroeë dae van televisie, en verskyn in reekse soos Armstrong Circle Theatre, Hallmark Hall of Fame, Kraft Television Theatre, Suspense, Studio One, The United States Steel Hour, Playhouse 90 en Alfred Hitchcock Presents, en drama reekse soos Dr. Kildare, Ben Casey, The Defenders, Route 66, Mission: Impossible en St. Elsewhere. Verdere televisie optredes sluit in Hippolyta in die Wonder Woman reeks en Marion Hillyard, die moeder van Stephen Collins in The Promise.

Straight het min in rolprente gewerk, en is wel bekend vir haar rol as die verpletterde vrou wat haar ontrou man William Holden konfronteer in die prent Network (1976). Ten spyte daarvan dat haar karakter net kortliks verksyn op die skerm, ontvang Straight hoë lof vir haar toneelspel en wen die Academy Award vir Beste Ondersteunende Aktrise.^[5] Haar ander bekende rolprent verskyning was die rol van Dr. Martha Lesh, die paranormale ondersoeker in die gruwelprent Poltergeist (1982).

Persoonlike lewe

Beatrice Straight was tweemaal getroud. Van 1942 tot hul skeiding in 1949 was sy getroud met Louis Dolivet^[6], met wie sy `n seun, Willard Whitney Straight Dolivet, gehad het. In 1952, op die ouderdom van sewe, verdrink haar seun in `n dammetjie op hul plaas in Armonk.^[7] Die seun se vader, Louis Dolivet, het in Parys gewoon op daardie stadium, en weens sy beweerde pro-kommunistiese aktiwiteite, was hy `n visa geweier en kon dus nie die begrafnis bywoon nie.

In 1948, tydens die loop van die toneelstuk The Heiress,^[8] `n verwerking van Henry James se Washington Square, ontmoet sy Peter Cookson. Hulle trou in 1949 en het getroud gebly tot Cookson se dood in 1990.^[1] Cookson het twee kinders van sy vorige huwelik gehad: Jane Coopland en Peter W. Cookson Jr.

Met Peter Cookson het Straight twee seuns gehad: Gary Cookson en Anthony Cookson.

Straight het na bewering gely aan Alzheimer siekte gedurende haar laaste jare. Op 7 April 2001, sterf sy aan longontsteking in Northridge, Los Angeles.^[1] Haar teraardebestelling vind plaas by die William Henry Lee Memorial Cemetery in New Marlborough, Massachusetts.^[9]

Filmografie

Rolprente


Titel	Jaar	Rol
Phone Call from a Stranger	Claire Fortness	1952
Patterns	Nancy Staples	1956
The Silken Affair	Theora	1956
The Nun's Story	Moeder Christophe (Sanatorium)	1959
The Young Lovers	Mev. Burns	1964
The Garden Party	Mev. Sheridan	1973
Network	Louise Schumacher	1976
The Promise	Marion Hillyard	1979
Bloodline	Kate Erling	1979
The Formula	Kay Neeley	1980
Endless Love	Rose Axelrod	1981
Poltergeist	Dr. Lesh	1982
Two of a Kind	Ruth	1983
Power	Claire Hastings	1986
Deceived	Adrienne se moeder	1991

Televisiereekse


Titel	Jaar	Rol	Notas
Somerset Maugham TV Theatre	1951
Lights Out	1951	Charlotte
Love of Life	1951	Vinnie Phillips
Cosmopolitan Theatre	1951	Maria
Hallmark Hall of Fame	1952	Elizabeth Barrett / Louisa May Alcott	Televisierolprente Love Story en The Magnificent Failure
Armstrong Circle Theatre	1952		2 episodes
The Web	1952
Kraft Theatre	1952- 1953		3 episodes
Love Story	1954		2 episodes
Suspense	1952- 1954	Mev. de Spain / Claire Trent
Inner Sanctum	1954	Louise
Omnibus	1953- 1954	Goneril / Antigone
You Are There	1954- 1955	Anna Boleyn	2 episodes
Danger	1955
Studio One in Hollywood	1951- 1957	Kay / Pamela Baxter	4 epsiodes
The United States Steel Hour	1955- 1958	Daisy Jackson / Katherine Grant
Playhouse 90	1958	Grace
The Investigator	1958	Die Weduwee
Play of the Week	1959	Mlle. de St. Euverte
Alfred Hitchcock Presents	1959- 1960	Ida Blythe / Cynthia Fortnam	2 episodes
Diagnosis: Unknown	1960	Rhoda Clarence
Dr. Kildare	1961	Pamela Rainey
Naked City	1962	Ann Johns
The Doctors and the Nurses	1962	Ruth Martin
The Eleventh Hour	1963	Veronica Filmore
Ben Casey	1963	Edith Bauer
Route 66	1961- 1963	Elena De Amundo / Moeder Teresa / Kitty Chamberlain	3 episodes
The Defenders	1965	Mev. Campbell
Mission: Impossible	1966	Dr. Martha Richards Zubrovnik
Felony Squad	1967	Victoria Cahill
Matt Lincoln	1970	Barbara Miller
The Borrowers	1973	Mev. Crampfurl	Televisierolprent
Beacon Hill	1975	Mev. Hacker
The Andros Targets	1977	Mev. Benderson
The World of Darkness	1977	Joanna Sanford	Televisierolprent
Wonder Woman	1977	Hippolyta
Killer on Board	1977	Beatrice Richmond	Televisierolprent
The Dain Curse	1978	Alice Dain Leggett	Minireeks
King's Crossing	1982	Louisa Beauchamp
Faerie Tale Theatre	1984	Koningin Veronica / Vrou in die museum
Robert Kennedy and His Times	1985	Rose Kennedy	Minireeks
Chiller	1985	Marion Creighton	Televisierolprent
Under Siege	1986	Margaret Sloan	Televisierolprent
Jack and Mike	1988	Mike se moeder
St. Elsewhere	1988	Marjorie Andrews
Run Til You Fall	1988	Margaret	Televisierolprent
People Like Us	1990	Maisie Verdurin	Televisierolprent

Teaterloopbaan

Broadway


Titel^[10]	Datum	Rol	Notas
The Possessed	Okt. 24, 1939 - Nov. 4, 1939	Lisa
Twelfth Night	Des. 2, 1941 - Des. 13, 1941	Viola
Land of Fame	Sep. 21, 1943 - Sep. 25, 1943	Angela
The Wanhope Building	Feb. 9, 1947 - Feb. 16, 1947	Felina
The Heiress	Sep. 29, 1947 - Sep. 18, 1948	Catherine Sloper	Vervang Wendy Hiller
Eastward in Eden	Nov. 18, 1947 - Nov. 29, 1947	Emily Dickinson
Macbeth	Mar. 31, 1948 - Apr. 24, 1948	Lady Macduff
The Innocents	Feb. 1, 1950 - Jun. 3, 1950	Mej. Giddens
The Grand Tour	Des. 10, 1951 - Des. 15, 1951	Nell Valentine
The Crucible	Jan. 22, 1953 - Jul. 11, 1953	Elizabeth Proctor	1953 Tony Toekenning vir Beste Aktrise in `n Toneelstuk
Everything in the Garden	Nov. 29, 1967 - Feb. 10, 1968	Mev. Toothe

Buite Broadway


Titel^[11]	Datum	Rol	Teater
Sing Me No Lullaby	1954	Christine Collinger	Phoenix Theatre
The River Line	1957	Marie Chassaigne	Carnegie Hall Playhouse
Phedre	1966	Phedre	Greenwich Mews Theatre
Ghosts	1973	Mev. Helene Alving	Roundabout Stage II
All My Sons	1974	Kate Keller	Roundabout Stage I
Hamlet	1979	Gertrude	Circle Theatre

Verwysings

↑ ^1,0 ^1,1 ^1,2 https://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/11/arts/beatrice-straight-versatile-star-dies-at-86.html
↑ https://www.dartington.org/about/our-history/
↑ Cornish, Nellie C. Miss Aunt Nellie: the Autobiography of Nellie C. Cornish. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1964: pp 214-17
↑ https://books.google.co.za/books?id=EVVX6pynyssC&q=%22Joan+Copeland%22%22Actors+Studio%22&pg=PA183&redir_esc=y
↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20170806061831/http://servingcinema.com/2015/11/while-you-were-eating-ho-hos-on-the-couch-matthew-stewart-timed-every-oscar-winning-performance/
↑ http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1942/02/22/85517640.html
↑ https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1952/09/08/84353749.html?pageNumber=21
↑ https://archives.nypl.org/the/22755
↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22235/beatrice-straight
↑ https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/beatrice-straight-61293
↑ http://www.iobdb.com/CreditableEntity/16155

Eksterne skakels

Beatrice Straight in die Internet-rolprentdatabasis
Beatrice Straight in die Internet Broadway Database

[:0-1] 1,0 ^1,1 ^1,2 https://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/11/arts/beatrice-straight-versatile-star-dies-at-86.html

[2] ttps://www.dartington.org/about/our-history/

[3] Cornish, Nellie C. Miss Aunt Nellie: the Autobiography of Nellie C. Cornish. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1964: pp 214-17

[4] ttps://books.google.co.za/books?id=EVVX6pynyssC&q=%22Joan+Copeland%22%22Actors+Studio%22&pg=PA183&redir_esc=y

[5] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20170806061831/http://servingcinema.com/2015/11/while-you-were-eating-ho-hos-on-the-couch-matthew-stewart-timed-every-oscar-winning-performance/

[6] ttp://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1942/02/22/85517640.html

[7] ttps://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1952/09/08/84353749.html?pageNumber=21

[8] ttps://archives.nypl.org/the/22755

[9] ttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22235/beatrice-straight

[10] ttps://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/beatrice-straight-61293

[11] ttp://www.iobdb.com/CreditableEntity/16155

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