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Julie Harris

Julia Ann Harris (December 2, 1925 – August 24, 2013) was an American actress. Renowned for her classical and contemporary stage work, she received five Tony Awards for Best Actress in a Play.

Julie Harris
Publicity photo of Julie Harris (1973)
Born
Julia Ann Harris

(1925-12-02)December 2, 1925
DiedAugust 24, 2013(2013-08-24) (aged 87)
EducationYale University
Years active1948–2009
Spouse(s)
Jay Julian
(m. 1946; div. 1954)

Manning Gurian
(m. 1954; div. 1967)

Walter Carroll
(m. 1977; div. 1982)
Children1

Harris debuted on Broadway in 1945, against the wishes of her mother, who wanted her to be a society debutante. Harris was acclaimed for her performance as an isolated 12-year-old girl in the 1950 play The Member of the Wedding, a role she reprised in the 1952 film of the same name, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 1951, her range was demonstrated as Sally Bowles in the original production of I Am a Camera, for which she won her first Tony award. She subsequently appeared in the 1955 film version.

Harris gave acclaimed performances in films including The Haunting (1963), and Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967), in which she played opposite Marlon Brando. In addition to her Tony award for I Am a Camera (1951), she won Tonys for The Lark (1956), Forty Carats (1969), The Last of Mrs. Lincoln (1973), and The Belle of Amherst (1977). She was also a Grammy Award winner and a three time Emmy Award winner.

Harris was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1979, received the National Medal of Arts in 1994,[1] and the 2002 Special Lifetime Achievement Tony Award.[2]

Early life and education

Julia Ann Harris was born in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, the daughter of Elsie L. (née Smith), a nurse, and William Pickett Harris, an investment banker and authority on zoology.[3] She had an older brother, William, and a younger brother, Richard.[4] She graduated from Grosse Pointe Country Day School, which later merged with two others to form the University Liggett School. In New York City, she attended The Hewitt School.[5] As a teenager, she also trained at the Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts School & Camp in Colorado with Charlotte Perry, a mentor who encouraged Harris to apply to the Yale School of Drama, which she soon attended for a year.[6][7] In 2007, Yale bestowed an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree upon Harris.[8] As a founding member of Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio,[9] Harris studied method acting,[10] which emphasized psychology and emotions, and was able to successfully employ its techniques, although it was strongly associated with male actors.[11]

Career

Stage roles

In 1952, Harris won her first Best Actress Tony Award for originating the role of insouciant Sally Bowles in I Am a Camera, the stage version of Christopher Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin (later adapted as the Broadway musical Cabaret (1966) and as the 1972 film, with Liza Minnelli as Sally). Harris repeated her stage role in the film version of I Am a Camera (1955).

Of particular note is her Tony-winning performance in The Belle of Amherst, a one-woman play (written by William Luce and directed by Charles Nelson Reilly) based on the life and poetry of Emily Dickinson. She received a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Recording for the audio recording of the play. She first performed the play in 1976 and subsequently appeared in other solo shows, including Luce's Brontë.[12] Other Broadway credits include The Playboy of the Western World, Macbeth, The Member of the Wedding, A Shot in the Dark, Skyscraper, And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little, Forty Carats, The Glass Menagerie, A Doll's House, The Gin Game, and a North American tour in 1992 of Lettice and Lovage in the lead part originated by Maggie Smith on Broadway.

In 1983, Harris became a company member of The Mirror Theater Ltd's Mirror Repertory Company.[13] She became a mentor to the company, having urged Founding Artistic Director Sabra Jones to create the company from 1976 forward, when Jones married John Strasberg. Harris and Jones met at a performance of The Belle of Amherst, a revival of which The Mirror Theater Ltd recently performed in their summer home in Vermont.[14]

 
In an Actors Studio play, Marathon '33 (1963)

Harris ties with Angela Lansbury with five Tony Award wins (Audra McDonald has since passed them both, with six wins).[2] However, she holds the record (alongside Chita Rivera) for the most individual Tony Award nominations, with 10. In 1966, Harris won the Sarah Siddons Award for her work in Chicago theatre.

 
President George W. Bush and Laura Bush pose with the Kennedy Center honorees on December 4, 2005, during a reception in the Blue Room at the White House—from left to right: Julie Harris, actor Robert Redford, singer Tina Turner, ballet dancer Suzanne Farrell, and singer Tony Bennett

Film roles

Harris's screen debut was in 1952, repeating her Broadway success as the lonely teenaged girl Frankie in Carson McCullers's The Member of the Wedding, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

 
Harris and James Dean in East of Eden (1955)

Director Elia Kazan cast her in East of Eden (1955) opposite James Dean in his first major screen role. She played the ethereal Eleanor Lance in The Haunting (1963), director Robert Wise's screen adaptation of a novel by Shirley Jackson. Another cast member recalled Harris refusing to socialize with the other actors while not on set, later explaining that she had done so as a method of emphasizing the alienation from the other characters experienced by her character in the film.

Other notable films Harris appeared in during the 1960s include Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962), Harper (with Paul Newman) (1966), and Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967). Another noteworthy film appearance was the World War II drama The Hiding Place (1975).

Television roles

Harris was nominated for 11 Primetime Emmy Awards for her television work, winning three. She starred as Nora Helmer opposite Christopher Plummer in A Doll's House (1959), a 90-minute television adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's play. She made more appearances in leading roles on the Hallmark program than any other actress, also appearing in two different adaptations of the play Little Moon of Alban,[15] her performance in the 1958 TV movie of the same name earning her the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie.

Her second Emmy win came for her role as Queen Victoria in the 1961 Hallmark Hall of Fame production of Laurence Housman's Victoria Regina. She received further Emmy nominations for a range of roles including Anastasia (1967), The Last of Mrs. Lincoln (1976)—where she reprised her Tony-winning role as Mary Todd Lincoln from the 1973 play of the same name—and The Woman He Loved (1988). She won her third Emmy award in 2000 for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for her voice role of Susan B. Anthony in Not for Ourselves Alone.

In 1980, Harris guest starred in the series Knots Landing as country singer Lilimae Clements, the eccentric and protective mother of Valene Ewing (Joan Van Ark); she returned to the series as a regular character from 1981 to 1987. The role earned Harris a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, and two Soap Opera Digest Award nominations.

Audio and voiceover work

Harris made two recordings of narrations of E. B. White's children's book Stuart Little for the Pathways of Sound record label: the last six chapters for a single LP record in 1965,[16] and the entire book for a two-record set in 1979.[17][18] She also recorded narrations of many children's books for Caedmon Records.

Harris also did extensive voiceover work for documentary maker Ken Burns: the voices of Emily Warren Roebling in Brooklyn Bridge (1981), Ann Lee in The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God (1984), and most notably Southern diarist Mary Boykin Chesnut for Burns' 1990 series The Civil War.

Later years

In the summer of 2008, she appeared on stage again in Chatham, Massachusetts, as "Nanny" in a Monomoy Theater production of The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds.[19]

Harris continued to work until 2009, well into her eighties, narrating five historical documentaries by Christopher Seufert and Mooncusser Films, as well as being active as a director on the board of the independent Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater (WHAT).[20] In 2007, when the company built a new, additional theater, also in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, Ms Harris declined to have the building named for her. However, she consented to their naming "a piece of it after me"; WHAT named their stage the "Julie Harris Stage".

Personal life

Harris lived in West Chatham, Cape Cod, for many years until her death.[21] Three times divorced, she had one son, Peter Gurian. A breast cancer survivor,[5] she suffered a severe fall requiring surgery in 1999, a stroke in 2001, and a second stroke in 2010.[22]

Harris died on August 24, 2013, of congestive heart failure at her home in West Chatham, Massachusetts.[23][24] Harris was cremated after her death.[25]

Legacy

On December 5, 2005, Harris was named a Kennedy Center Honoree. At a White House ceremony, President George W. Bush remarked: "It's hard to imagine the American stage without the face, the voice, and the limitless talent of Julie Harris. She has found happiness in her life's work, and we thank her for sharing that happiness with the whole world."[26]

Ben Brantley, theater critic for The New York Times, considered her "the actress who towered most luminously ... rather like a Statue of Liberty for Broadway."[27] Alec Baldwin, who played Harris's son on Knots Landing, praised her in a tribute in the Huffington Post: "Her voice was like rainfall. Her eyes connected directly to and channeled the depths of her powerful and tender heart. Her talent, a gift from God."[28]

On August 28, 2013, Broadway theaters dimmed their lights for one minute in honor of Harris.[29]

On December 3, 2013, Joan Van Ark announced at a Broadway memorial service the creation of the Julie Harris Scholarship, which provides annual support to an actor studying at the Yale School of Drama. Alec Baldwin made the first contribution.[30] In 2021, Yale Drama became tuition-free and was rebranded the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University.[31]

Credits

Stage

Year Title Role Notes
1945 It's a Gift Atlanta
1946 Henry IV, Part 2
Oedipus Rex
1946–1947 The Playboy of the Western World Nelly
1947 Alice in Wonderland White Rabbit alternate[32]
1948 Macbeth Witch
Sundown Beach Ida Mae
1948–1949 The Young and Fair Nancy Gear
1949 Magnolia Alley Angel Tuttle
Montserrat Felisa
1950–1951 The Member of the Wedding Frankie Addams
1951–1952 I Am a Camera Sally Bowles Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play
1954 Mademoiselle Colombe Colombe
1955–1956 The Lark Joan Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play
1959–1960 The Warm Peninsula Ruth Arnold
1960 King John Blanch of Spain
1960 Romeo and Juliet Juliet
1960 Little Moon of Alban Bridgid Mary Mangan
1961–1962 A Shot in the Dark Josefa Lantenay
1963–1964 Marathon '33 June Nominated—Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play
1964 Hamlet Ophelia
1964–1965 Ready When You Are, C.B.! Annie
1965–1966 Skyscraper Georgina Nominated—Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical
1968–1970 Forty Carats Ann Stanley Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play (1969)
1971 And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little Anna Reardon
1972 Voices Claire
1972–1973 The Last of Mrs. Lincoln Mary Todd Lincoln Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play
1973–1974 The au Pair Man Mrs. Rogers Nominated—Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play
1974–1975 In Praise of Love Lydia Cruttwell
1976 The Belle of Amherst Emily Dickinson Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play
Grammy Award: Best Spoken Word Recording
1979 On Golden Pond
1979 Break a Leg Gertie Kessel
1980–1981 Mixed Couples Clarice
1983 Under The Ilex Dora de Houghton Carrington Partridge
1988 Bronte Charlotte Brontë
1989-90 Love Letters Melissa Gardiner
1990 Driving Miss Daisy Daisy Werthan
1991 Lucifer's Child Isak Dinesen Nominated—Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play
1992 Dear Liar Mrs. Patrick Campbell
1993 The Fiery Furnace Eunice
1994 Exile in Jerusalem Elsa
1994–1995 The Glass Menagerie Amanda Wingfield
1996 Sonya Sonya Tolstoy
1997 The Road to Mecca Miss Helen
1997 The Gin Game Fonsia Dorsey Nominated—Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play
1998 Scent of the Roses Annalise Morant
2000 All My Sons Kate Keller
2001 Fossils

Films

Year Title Role Notes
1952 The Member of the Wedding Frances "Frankie" Addams Film debut
Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actress
1955 East of Eden Abra Bacon
I Am a Camera Sally Bowles Nominated—BAFTA Film Award: Best Foreign Actress
1957 The Truth About Women Helen Cooper
1958 Sally's Irish Rogue Sally Hamil
1962 Requiem for a Heavyweight Grace Miller
1963 The Haunting Eleanor "Nell" Lance
1964 Hamlet Ophelia
1966 Harper Betty Fraley
You're a Big Boy Now Miss Nora Thing
1967 Reflections in a Golden Eye Alison Langdon
1968 The Split Gladys
Journey to Midnight Leona Gillings "The Indian Spirit Guide"
1970 The People Next Door Gerrie Mason
1975 The Hiding Place Betsie Ten Boom
1976 Voyage of the Damned Alice Fienchild
1979 The Bell Jar Mrs. Greenwood
1983 Brontë Charlotte Brontë
1985 Crimewave Uncredited
1986 Nutcracker: The Motion Picture Clara (voice)
1988 Gorillas in the Mist Roz Carr
1992 Housesitter Edna Davis
1993 The Dark Half Reggie Delesseps
1996 Carried Away Joseph's Mother
1997 Bad Manners Professor Harper
1998 Passage to Paradise Martha McGraw
The First of May Carlotta
2006 The Way Back Home Jo McMillen
2008 The Golden Boys Melodeon Player
2009 The Lightkeepers Mrs. Deacon Final film role

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1948–1949 Actors Studio 4 episodes
1951 Starlight Theatre Bernice Episode: "Bernice Bobs Her Hair"
1951–1953 Goodyear Television Playhouse 2 episodes
1955 The United States Steel Hour Shevawn Episode: "A Wind from the South"
Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie
1956 The Good Fairy Lu TV movie
1957 The Lark Joan of Arc TV movie
1958 Little Moon of Alban Bridgid Mary Mangan TV movie
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie
Johnny Belinda Belinda TV movie
1959 A Doll's House Nora Helmer TV movie
1960 NBC Sunday Showcase Francesca Episode: "Turn the Key Deftly"
1960–1961 DuPont Show of the Month Mattie Silver/Julia 2 episodes
Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress
1961 Play of the Week Episode: "He Who Gets Slapped"
The Heiress Catherine Sloper TV movie
The Power and the Glory Maria (Priest's Mistress) TV movie
Victoria Regina Queen Victoria TV movie
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie
1963 Pygmalion Eliza Dolittle TV movie
1964 Little Moon of Alban Brigid Mary Mangan TV movie
Kraft Suspense Theatre Lucy Bram Episode: "The Roborioz Ring"
1965 The Holy Terror Florence Nightingale TV movie
Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievements in Entertainment - Actors and Performers
Rawhide Emma Teall Episode: "The Calf Women"
Laredo Annamay Episode: "Rendezvous at Arillo"
1966 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre Isobel Cain/Vicky Cain Episode: "Nightmare"
1967 Anastasia Anastasia TV movie
Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie
1967–1968 Tarzan Charity Jones 4 episodes
1968 Garrison's Gorillas Therese Donet Episode: "Run from Death"
Run for Your Life Lucrece Lawrence Episode: "The Rape of Lucrece"
Daniel Boone Faith Episode: "Faith's Way"
Bonanza Sarah Carter Episode: "A Dream to Dream"
Journey to the Unknown Leona Gillings Episode: "The Indian Spirit Guide"
The Big Valley Jennie Hall Episode: "A Stranger Everywhere"
1969–1970 The Name of the Game Verna Ward/Ruth 'Doc' Harmon 2 episodes
1970 House on Greenapple Road Leona Miller TV movie
How Awful About Allan Katherine TV movie
1971 The Virginian Jenny Episode: "Wolf Track"
1972 Home for the Holidays Elizabeth Hall Morgan TV movie
1973 Thicker than Water Nellie Paine 9 episodes
Medical Center Helen Episode: "The Guilty"
Columbo Karen Fielding Episode: "Any Old Port in a Storm"
Hawkins Janet Hubbard Episode: "Die, Darling, Die"
The Evil Touch Aunt Carrie/Jenny 2 episodes
1974 The Greatest Gift Elizabeth Holvak TV movie
1975 Long Way Home TV movie
The Family Holvak 10 episodes
Match Game Herself (panelist) 6 total episodes (1 for syndication)
1976 The Last of Mrs. Lincoln Mary Todd Lincoln TV movie
Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie
The Belle of Amherst Emily Dickinson TV movie
1978 Stubby Pringle's Christmas Georgia Henderson TV movie
1979 Backstairs at the White House Mrs. Helen 'Nellie' Taft Miniseries
Tales of the Unexpected Mrs. Bixby/Mrs. Foster 2 episodes
The Gift Anne Devlin TV movie
1980–1987 Knots Landing Lilimae Clements 165 episodes
Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series (1982)
Nominated—Soap Opera Digest Award: Outstanding Actress in a Supporting Role: Prime Time (1986, 1988)
1986 Annihilator Girl TV movie
Family Ties Margaret Episode: "The Freshman and the Senior"
1987 The Love Boat Irene Culver Episode: "Who Killed Maxwell Thorn?"
1988 The Woman He Loved Alice TV movie
Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie
Too Good to Be True Margaret Berent TV movie
The Christmas Wife Iris TV movie
Nominated—CableACE Award: Actress in a Movie or Miniseries
1989 Single Women Married Men Lucille Frankyl TV movie
1990 The Civil War Mary Chestnut (voice) Miniseries; 9 episodes
1993 Vanished Without a Trace Odessa Ray TV movie
When Love Kills: The Seduction of John Hearn Alice Hearn TV movie
1994 Scarlett Eleanor Butler Miniseries
One Christmas Sook TV movie
1995 Secrets Caroline Phelan TV movie
Lucifer's Child Isak Dinesen TV movie
1996 Little Surprises Ethel TV short
The Christmas Tree Sister Anthony TV movie
1997 Ellen Foster Leonora Nelson TV movie
Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie
1998 The Outer Limits Hera Episode: "Lithia"
1999 Love Is Strange Sylvia McClain TV movie
Not for Ourselves Alone Susan B. Anthony (voice) TV documentary
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance

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Further reading

  • Young, Jordan R. (1989). Acting Solo: The Art of One-Person Shows. Beverly Hills: Past Times Publishing Co. Introduction by Julie Harris. ISBN 9780940410848. OCLC 1020463283.

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For other uses see Julie Harris disambiguation Julia Ann Harris December 2 1925 August 24 2013 was an American actress Renowned for her classical and contemporary stage work she received five Tony Awards for Best Actress in a Play Julie HarrisPublicity photo of Julie Harris 1973 BornJulia Ann Harris 1925 12 02 December 2 1925Grosse Pointe Michigan U S DiedAugust 24 2013 2013 08 24 aged 87 West Chatham Massachusetts U S EducationYale UniversityYears active1948 2009Spouse s Jay Julian m 1946 div 1954 wbr Manning Gurian m 1954 div 1967 wbr Walter Carroll m 1977 div 1982 wbr Children1Harris debuted on Broadway in 1945 against the wishes of her mother who wanted her to be a society debutante Harris was acclaimed for her performance as an isolated 12 year old girl in the 1950 play The Member of the Wedding a role she reprised in the 1952 film of the same name for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress In 1951 her range was demonstrated as Sally Bowles in the original production of I Am a Camera for which she won her first Tony award She subsequently appeared in the 1955 film version Harris gave acclaimed performances in films including The Haunting 1963 and Reflections in a Golden Eye 1967 in which she played opposite Marlon Brando In addition to her Tony award for I Am a Camera 1951 she won Tonys for The Lark 1956 Forty Carats 1969 The Last of Mrs Lincoln 1973 and The Belle of Amherst 1977 She was also a Grammy Award winner and a three time Emmy Award winner Harris was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1979 received the National Medal of Arts in 1994 1 and the 2002 Special Lifetime Achievement Tony Award 2 Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Career 2 1 Stage roles 2 2 Film roles 2 3 Television roles 2 4 Audio and voiceover work 2 5 Later years 3 Personal life 4 Legacy 5 Credits 5 1 Stage 5 2 Films 5 3 Television 6 References 7 Further reading 8 External linksEarly life and education EditJulia Ann Harris was born in Grosse Pointe Michigan the daughter of Elsie L nee Smith a nurse and William Pickett Harris an investment banker and authority on zoology 3 She had an older brother William and a younger brother Richard 4 She graduated from Grosse Pointe Country Day School which later merged with two others to form the University Liggett School In New York City she attended The Hewitt School 5 As a teenager she also trained at the Perry Mansfield Performing Arts School amp Camp in Colorado with Charlotte Perry a mentor who encouraged Harris to apply to the Yale School of Drama which she soon attended for a year 6 7 In 2007 Yale bestowed an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree upon Harris 8 As a founding member of Lee Strasberg s Actors Studio 9 Harris studied method acting 10 which emphasized psychology and emotions and was able to successfully employ its techniques although it was strongly associated with male actors 11 Career EditStage roles Edit In 1952 Harris won her first Best Actress Tony Award for originating the role of insouciant Sally Bowles in I Am a Camera the stage version of Christopher Isherwood s Goodbye to Berlin later adapted as the Broadway musical Cabaret 1966 and as the 1972 film with Liza Minnelli as Sally Harris repeated her stage role in the film version of I Am a Camera 1955 Of particular note is her Tony winning performance in The Belle of Amherst a one woman play written by William Luce and directed by Charles Nelson Reilly based on the life and poetry of Emily Dickinson She received a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Recording for the audio recording of the play She first performed the play in 1976 and subsequently appeared in other solo shows including Luce s Bronte 12 Other Broadway credits include The Playboy of the Western World Macbeth The Member of the Wedding A Shot in the Dark Skyscraper And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little Forty Carats The Glass Menagerie A Doll s House The Gin Game and a North American tour in 1992 of Lettice and Lovage in the lead part originated by Maggie Smith on Broadway In 1983 Harris became a company member of The Mirror Theater Ltd s Mirror Repertory Company 13 She became a mentor to the company having urged Founding Artistic Director Sabra Jones to create the company from 1976 forward when Jones married John Strasberg Harris and Jones met at a performance of The Belle of Amherst a revival of which The Mirror Theater Ltd recently performed in their summer home in Vermont 14 In an Actors Studio play Marathon 33 1963 Harris ties with Angela Lansbury with five Tony Award wins Audra McDonald has since passed them both with six wins 2 However she holds the record alongside Chita Rivera for the most individual Tony Award nominations with 10 In 1966 Harris won the Sarah Siddons Award for her work in Chicago theatre President George W Bush and Laura Bush pose with the Kennedy Center honorees on December 4 2005 during a reception in the Blue Room at the White House from left to right Julie Harris actor Robert Redford singer Tina Turner ballet dancer Suzanne Farrell and singer Tony Bennett Film roles Edit Harris s screen debut was in 1952 repeating her Broadway success as the lonely teenaged girl Frankie in Carson McCullers s The Member of the Wedding for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress Harris and James Dean in East of Eden 1955 Director Elia Kazan cast her in East of Eden 1955 opposite James Dean in his first major screen role She played the ethereal Eleanor Lance in The Haunting 1963 director Robert Wise s screen adaptation of a novel by Shirley Jackson Another cast member recalled Harris refusing to socialize with the other actors while not on set later explaining that she had done so as a method of emphasizing the alienation from the other characters experienced by her character in the film Other notable films Harris appeared in during the 1960s include Requiem for a Heavyweight 1962 Harper with Paul Newman 1966 and Reflections in a Golden Eye 1967 Another noteworthy film appearance was the World War II drama The Hiding Place 1975 Television roles Edit Harris was nominated for 11 Primetime Emmy Awards for her television work winning three She starred as Nora Helmer opposite Christopher Plummer in A Doll s House 1959 a 90 minute television adaptation of Henrik Ibsen s play She made more appearances in leading roles on the Hallmark program than any other actress also appearing in two different adaptations of the play Little Moon of Alban 15 her performance in the 1958 TV movie of the same name earning her the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie Her second Emmy win came for her role as Queen Victoria in the 1961 Hallmark Hall of Fame production of Laurence Housman s Victoria Regina She received further Emmy nominations for a range of roles including Anastasia 1967 The Last of Mrs Lincoln 1976 where she reprised her Tony winning role as Mary Todd Lincoln from the 1973 play of the same name and The Woman He Loved 1988 She won her third Emmy award in 2000 for Outstanding Voice Over Performance for her voice role of Susan B Anthony in Not for Ourselves Alone In 1980 Harris guest starred in the series Knots Landing as country singer Lilimae Clements the eccentric and protective mother of Valene Ewing Joan Van Ark she returned to the series as a regular character from 1981 to 1987 The role earned Harris a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series and two Soap Opera Digest Award nominations Audio and voiceover work Edit Harris made two recordings of narrations of E B White s children s book Stuart Little for the Pathways of Sound record label the last six chapters for a single LP record in 1965 16 and the entire book for a two record set in 1979 17 18 She also recorded narrations of many children s books for Caedmon Records Harris also did extensive voiceover work for documentary maker Ken Burns the voices of Emily Warren Roebling in Brooklyn Bridge 1981 Ann Lee in The Shakers Hands to Work Hearts to God 1984 and most notably Southern diarist Mary Boykin Chesnut for Burns 1990 series The Civil War Later years Edit In the summer of 2008 she appeared on stage again in Chatham Massachusetts as Nanny in a Monomoy Theater production of The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds 19 Harris continued to work until 2009 well into her eighties narrating five historical documentaries by Christopher Seufert and Mooncusser Films as well as being active as a director on the board of the independent Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater WHAT 20 In 2007 when the company built a new additional theater also in Wellfleet Massachusetts Ms Harris declined to have the building named for her However she consented to their naming a piece of it after me WHAT named their stage the Julie Harris Stage Personal life EditHarris lived in West Chatham Cape Cod for many years until her death 21 Three times divorced she had one son Peter Gurian A breast cancer survivor 5 she suffered a severe fall requiring surgery in 1999 a stroke in 2001 and a second stroke in 2010 22 Harris died on August 24 2013 of congestive heart failure at her home in West Chatham Massachusetts 23 24 Harris was cremated after her death 25 Legacy EditOn December 5 2005 Harris was named a Kennedy Center Honoree At a White House ceremony President George W Bush remarked It s hard to imagine the American stage without the face the voice and the limitless talent of Julie Harris She has found happiness in her life s work and we thank her for sharing that happiness with the whole world 26 Ben Brantley theater critic for The New York Times considered her the actress who towered most luminously rather like a Statue of Liberty for Broadway 27 Alec Baldwin who played Harris s son on Knots Landing praised her in a tribute in the Huffington Post Her voice was like rainfall Her eyes connected directly to and channeled the depths of her powerful and tender heart Her talent a gift from God 28 On August 28 2013 Broadway theaters dimmed their lights for one minute in honor of Harris 29 On December 3 2013 Joan Van Ark announced at a Broadway memorial service the creation of the Julie Harris Scholarship which provides annual support to an actor studying at the Yale School of Drama Alec Baldwin made the first contribution 30 In 2021 Yale Drama became tuition free and was rebranded the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University 31 Credits EditStage Edit Year Title Role Notes1945 It s a Gift Atlanta1946 Henry IV Part 2Oedipus Rex1946 1947 The Playboy of the Western World Nelly1947 Alice in Wonderland White Rabbit alternate 32 1948 Macbeth WitchSundown Beach Ida Mae1948 1949 The Young and Fair Nancy Gear1949 Magnolia Alley Angel TuttleMontserrat Felisa1950 1951 The Member of the Wedding Frankie Addams1951 1952 I Am a Camera Sally Bowles Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play1954 Mademoiselle Colombe Colombe1955 1956 The Lark Joan Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play1959 1960 The Warm Peninsula Ruth Arnold1960 King John Blanch of Spain1960 Romeo and Juliet Juliet1960 Little Moon of Alban Bridgid Mary Mangan1961 1962 A Shot in the Dark Josefa Lantenay1963 1964 Marathon 33 June Nominated Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play1964 Hamlet Ophelia1964 1965 Ready When You Are C B Annie1965 1966 Skyscraper Georgina Nominated Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical1968 1970 Forty Carats Ann Stanley Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play 1969 1971 And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little Anna Reardon1972 Voices Claire1972 1973 The Last of Mrs Lincoln Mary Todd Lincoln Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play1973 1974 The au Pair Man Mrs Rogers Nominated Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play1974 1975 In Praise of Love Lydia Cruttwell1976 The Belle of Amherst Emily Dickinson Tony Award for Best Actress in a PlayGrammy Award Best Spoken Word Recording1979 On Golden Pond1979 Break a Leg Gertie Kessel1980 1981 Mixed Couples Clarice1983 Under The Ilex Dora de Houghton Carrington Partridge1988 Bronte Charlotte Bronte1989 90 Love Letters Melissa Gardiner1990 Driving Miss Daisy Daisy Werthan1991 Lucifer s Child Isak Dinesen Nominated Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play1992 Dear Liar Mrs Patrick Campbell1993 The Fiery Furnace Eunice1994 Exile in Jerusalem Elsa1994 1995 The Glass Menagerie Amanda Wingfield1996 Sonya Sonya Tolstoy1997 The Road to Mecca Miss Helen1997 The Gin Game Fonsia Dorsey Nominated Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play1998 Scent of the Roses Annalise Morant2000 All My Sons Kate Keller2001 FossilsFilms Edit Year Title Role Notes1952 The Member of the Wedding Frances Frankie Addams Film debutNominated Academy Award for Best Actress1955 East of Eden Abra BaconI Am a Camera Sally Bowles Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Foreign Actress1957 The Truth About Women Helen Cooper1958 Sally s Irish Rogue Sally Hamil1962 Requiem for a Heavyweight Grace Miller1963 The Haunting Eleanor Nell Lance1964 Hamlet Ophelia1966 Harper Betty FraleyYou re a Big Boy Now Miss Nora Thing1967 Reflections in a Golden Eye Alison Langdon1968 The Split GladysJourney to Midnight Leona Gillings The Indian Spirit Guide 1970 The People Next Door Gerrie Mason1975 The Hiding Place Betsie Ten Boom1976 Voyage of the Damned Alice Fienchild1979 The Bell Jar Mrs Greenwood1983 Bronte Charlotte Bronte1985 Crimewave Uncredited1986 Nutcracker The Motion Picture Clara voice 1988 Gorillas in the Mist Roz Carr1992 Housesitter Edna Davis1993 The Dark Half Reggie Delesseps1996 Carried Away Joseph s Mother1997 Bad Manners Professor Harper1998 Passage to Paradise Martha McGrawThe First of May Carlotta2006 The Way Back Home Jo McMillen2008 The Golden Boys Melodeon Player2009 The Lightkeepers Mrs Deacon Final film roleTelevision Edit Year Title Role Notes1948 1949 Actors Studio 4 episodes1951 Starlight Theatre Bernice Episode Bernice Bobs Her Hair 1951 1953 Goodyear Television Playhouse 2 episodes1955 The United States Steel Hour Shevawn Episode A Wind from the South Nominated Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie1956 The Good Fairy Lu TV movie1957 The Lark Joan of Arc TV movie1958 Little Moon of Alban Bridgid Mary Mangan TV moviePrimetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or MovieJohnny Belinda Belinda TV movie1959 A Doll s House Nora Helmer TV movie1960 NBC Sunday Showcase Francesca Episode Turn the Key Deftly 1960 1961 DuPont Show of the Month Mattie Silver Julia 2 episodesNominated Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress1961 Play of the Week Episode He Who Gets Slapped The Heiress Catherine Sloper TV movieThe Power and the Glory Maria Priest s Mistress TV movieVictoria Regina Queen Victoria TV moviePrimetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie1963 Pygmalion Eliza Dolittle TV movie1964 Little Moon of Alban Brigid Mary Mangan TV movieKraft Suspense Theatre Lucy Bram Episode The Roborioz Ring 1965 The Holy Terror Florence Nightingale TV movieNominated Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievements in Entertainment Actors and PerformersRawhide Emma Teall Episode The Calf Women Laredo Annamay Episode Rendezvous at Arillo 1966 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre Isobel Cain Vicky Cain Episode Nightmare 1967 Anastasia Anastasia TV movieNominated Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie1967 1968 Tarzan Charity Jones 4 episodes1968 Garrison s Gorillas Therese Donet Episode Run from Death Run for Your Life Lucrece Lawrence Episode The Rape of Lucrece Daniel Boone Faith Episode Faith s Way Bonanza Sarah Carter Episode A Dream to Dream Journey to the Unknown Leona Gillings Episode The Indian Spirit Guide The Big Valley Jennie Hall Episode A Stranger Everywhere 1969 1970 The Name of the Game Verna Ward Ruth Doc Harmon 2 episodes1970 House on Greenapple Road Leona Miller TV movieHow Awful About Allan Katherine TV movie1971 The Virginian Jenny Episode Wolf Track 1972 Home for the Holidays Elizabeth Hall Morgan TV movie1973 Thicker than Water Nellie Paine 9 episodesMedical Center Helen Episode The Guilty Columbo Karen Fielding Episode Any Old Port in a Storm Hawkins Janet Hubbard Episode Die Darling Die The Evil Touch Aunt Carrie Jenny 2 episodes1974 The Greatest Gift Elizabeth Holvak TV movie1975 Long Way Home TV movieThe Family Holvak 10 episodesMatch Game Herself panelist 6 total episodes 1 for syndication 1976 The Last of Mrs Lincoln Mary Todd Lincoln TV movieNominated Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or MovieThe Belle of Amherst Emily Dickinson TV movie1978 Stubby Pringle s Christmas Georgia Henderson TV movie1979 Backstairs at the White House Mrs Helen Nellie Taft MiniseriesTales of the Unexpected Mrs Bixby Mrs Foster 2 episodesThe Gift Anne Devlin TV movie1980 1987 Knots Landing Lilimae Clements 165 episodesNominated Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series 1982 Nominated Soap Opera Digest Award Outstanding Actress in a Supporting Role Prime Time 1986 1988 1986 Annihilator Girl TV movieFamily Ties Margaret Episode The Freshman and the Senior 1987 The Love Boat Irene Culver Episode Who Killed Maxwell Thorn 1988 The Woman He Loved Alice TV movie Nominated Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or MovieToo Good to Be True Margaret Berent TV movieThe Christmas Wife Iris TV movieNominated CableACE Award Actress in a Movie or Miniseries1989 Single Women Married Men Lucille Frankyl TV movie1990 The Civil War Mary Chestnut voice Miniseries 9 episodes1993 Vanished Without a Trace Odessa Ray TV movieWhen Love Kills The Seduction of John Hearn Alice Hearn TV movie1994 Scarlett Eleanor Butler MiniseriesOne Christmas Sook TV movie1995 Secrets Caroline Phelan TV movieLucifer s Child Isak Dinesen TV movie1996 Little Surprises Ethel TV shortThe Christmas Tree Sister Anthony TV movie1997 Ellen Foster Leonora Nelson TV movieNominated Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie1998 The Outer Limits Hera Episode Lithia 1999 Love Is Strange Sylvia McClain TV movieNot for Ourselves Alone Susan B Anthony voice TV documentaryPrimetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice Over PerformanceReferences Edit Lifetime Honors National Medal of Arts National Endowment for the Arts Archived from the original on July 21 2011 Retrieved December 15 2012 a b Tony Awards Facts amp Trivia Tony Awards Archived from the original on July 4 2015 Retrieved August 25 2013 Julie Harris profile Film Reference Retrieved November 15 2012 1940 United States Federal Census a b Mula Rose Madeline Julie Harris Too Good to be True Senior Women Web Retrieved November 15 2012 Famous Yalie dropouts Yale Alumni Magazine March 2001 Retrieved December 8 2020 Julie Harris Broadway Star Dies at 87 The Hollywood Reporter Associated Press August 24 2013 Retrieved December 8 2020 Yale Confers 10 Honorary Doctorates at Commencement 2007 Press release YaleNews May 28 2007 Retrieved December 8 2020 Berson Misha July 12 1998 Queen Of Stage Julie Harris Is Back At 72 The Still Luminous Actress Takes Time To Savor The Scent Of The Roses At Act The Seattle Times archive seattletimes com Retrieved July 4 2022 McArdle Terence Weil Martin August 25 2013 Julie Harris esteemed film and stage actress who won five Tony Awards dies at 87 Washington Post Hollinger Karen 2013 The Actress Hollywood Acting and the Female Star Routledge p 14 ISBN 978 1 135 20589 8 William Luce s Bronte Press Samuel French Inc Retrieved August 25 2013 Gussow Mel March 11 1984 Theater Mirror Rep in a Revival of Rain The New York Times Retrieved December 9 2018 Rodgers David K September 14 2016 Dickinson Brought To Life By Schaffel PDF Hardwick Gazette p 6 Retrieved March 31 2022 Paller Rebecca January 16 2009 Julie Harris A Bit of Magic on a Cold Winter s Day Paley Center for Media Archived from the original on June 15 2010 Retrieved November 15 2012 Burkey Mary 2013 Audiobooks for Youth A Practical Guide to Sound Literature Chicago American Library Association p 8 ISBN 978 0 8389 1157 0 Kresh Paul February 18 1979 The Children s World of E B White on Discs The New York Times PRH Audio Stuart Little by E B White read by Julie Harris SoundCloud Rizzo Frank August 28 2008 Julie Harris Returns To Stage Hartford Courant Retrieved November 15 2012 WHAT Board Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater Archived from the original on November 7 2012 Retrieved November 15 2012 Rose Judy November 4 2012 Michigan House Envy Windmill Pointe palace offers medieval charm Detroit Free Press Retrieved November 15 2012 dead link Caswell Jon July August 2007 The Belle of Aphasia Stroke Connection Retrieved November 15 2012 Weil Martin August 24 2013 Tony Winning Actress Julie Harris Dies at 87 The Washington Post Retrieved August 25 2013 Kennedy Mark August 24 2013 Julie Harris Broadway Star Dies at 87 Associated Press Archived from the original on August 25 2013 Retrieved August 25 2013 Wilson Scott August 19 2016 Resting Places The Burial Sites of More Than 14 000 Famous Persons 3d ed McFarland ISBN 978 1 4766 2599 7 Retrieved December 9 2018 via Google Books President Welcomes Kennedy Center Honorees to the White House The White House December 4 2005 Retrieved March 31 2022 Brantley Ben August 25 2013 Luminous Julie Harris Close Up and Afar The New York Times Retrieved August 30 2013 Baldwin Alec August 30 2013 A Public Farewell to Julie Harris Huffington Post Retrieved August 30 2013 Snetiker Marc August 27 2013 Broadway Theaters to Dim Lights in Honor of Stage Legend Julie Harris Broadway com Retrieved August 30 2013 Julie Harris Scholarship Established at Yale School of Drama Broadway World Retrieved December 7 2020 Paulson Michael June 30 2021 Yale Drama Goes Tuition Free With 150 Million Gift From David Geffen The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved December 13 2021 Alice In Wonderland Opening Night Cast Internet Broadway Database Retrieved March 31 2022 Further reading EditYoung Jordan R 1989 Acting Solo The Art of One Person Shows Beverly Hills Past Times Publishing Co Introduction by Julie Harris ISBN 9780940410848 OCLC 1020463283 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Julie Harris Julie Harris at the Internet Broadway Database Julie Harris at IMDb Julie Harris at the Internet Off Broadway Database TonyAwards com Interview with Julie Harris Senior Women Web Interviews Julie Harris Too Good to be True Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Julie Harris amp oldid 1137017275, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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