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- Kim Stanley's movie roles were few and far between; she is perhaps best known for her stellar performances on stage, including successes on Broadway. But when she did step in front of the camera, nothing short of memorable resulted. Her repertoire in movies and on stage covered such diversity from the sensitive glamour-girl Rita Shawn character in the 1958 "Goddess" to the crusty, somewhat salty and sunbaked Pancho Barnes in 1983's The Right Stuff (1983). Her abilities to play such diverse roles and play them well garnered her two Academy Award nominations: one for her portrayal of the slightly unhinged medium in the 1964 Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964) and another for her characterization of the domineering and wrathful mother of Frances Farmer in 1982's Frances (1982). Stanley was born Patricia Reid in Tularosa, New Mexico. When her parents divorced, her mother moved the family, sans father, to Texas where her mother found work as an interior decorator. Drawn to both Texas and New Mexico, Stanley often found herself lonely and unsure of what she wanted. As a child, she wrote poetry and had many a daydream about becoming an artist or, on the other hand, a May Queen. In school, she found she liked acting in plays. At 16, in San Antonio she attended a touring production of "The Philadelphia Story", which starred Katharine Hepburn. recreating her role from the movie. Overwhelmed by the performance to the point of tears (she didn't want the play to end), Stanley aspired to do what she had seen Hepburn do. In college, she received a degree in psychology after attending first the University of New Mexico and subsequently, the University of Texas. But acting was still what she aspired to. So pursuing a career connected neither to her college major nor to the states where she grew up, Stanley eventually landed an acting apprenticeship in California with the Pasadena Playhouse. Her stay there was brief and she soon moved on to a winter stock company in Louisville, Kentucky. From there, with $21 to her name, she traveled to Manhattan. The year was 1947 and her Texas accent was still very much a part of her persona -- so much so that many in the New York theatre scene advised she go home to Texas. Persevering, however, Stanley made ends meet as a dress model and as a cocktail waitress, all the while honing her skills in off-Broadway productions of the Gertrude Stein ilk. It was in Stein's "Yes Is for a Very Young Man," that New York Times theatre critic Books Atkinson singled out Stanley as an actress with promise (incidentally, he did not care much for the play she was in). Stanley was also developing her craft under the tutelage of Elia Kazan and Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio in New York City, and scored her first Broadway success in 1952 when, at the age of 27, she played the 12-year-old Millie Owens in William Inge's "Picnic". Subsequently, in the 1954 production of Inge's "Bus Stop," as the starry-eyed chanteuse Cherie (a role Marilyn Monroe assumed for the film), Stanley ascended to even greater heights and greater accolades in her acting achievements. Though she preferred stage acting to any other facsimile and often shied away from movies (reportedly, she declined to repeat for the movies roles she mastered on stage), she frequently played roles on television during the 1950s and '60s on such theatrical programs as "Goodyear TV Playhouse" and "Magnavox Theater," garnering two Emmy awards in the process (one in 1963 for her contributions to an episode of Ben Casey (1961); the other for her Big Mama part in the 1984 PBS/American Playhouse production of Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"). In the latter part of her life, she gravitated toward teaching, conducting acting classes in Los Angeles and, later, returning to her roots, securing a position teaching acting at the College of Santa Fe in New Mexico.
- The son of an Army officer, Walter Reed was born in Washington and grew up in Honolulu and Los Angeles, where he attended school with the children of movie stars. After his parents' divorce, and, during the darkest days of the Depression, 17-year-old Reed decided to try acting as a career and made a two-week trip to New York (via hitched rides on railroad freight cars, amidst hobos and tramps) to look for work on the stage. He worked in stock and on Broadway and, with an assist from actor Joel McCrea, broke into pictures in the early 1940s.
- Fred Hoyle was born on 24 June 1915 in Bingley, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK. He was a writer, known for A for Andromeda (1961), A come Andromeda (1972) and A for Andromeda (2006). He was married to Barbara Clark. He died on 20 August 2001 in Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK.
- Kikue Môri was born on 3 November 1903 in Gunma, Japan. She was an actress, known for The Revolutionary (1962), Sansho the Bailiff (1954) and The Garden of Women (1954). She died on 20 August 2001 in Shizuoka, Japan.
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Marty Cosens was born in 1935. He was an actor, known for Frutilla (1980), Ritmo, amor y juventud (1966) and La nena (1965). He died on 20 August 2001 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.- Luiz Carlos Vinhas was born on 19 May 1940 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was an actor, known for Roleta Russa (1972) and Saravah (1972). He died on 20 August 2001 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Lasse Aaltio was born on 28 June 1925 in Pukkila, Finland. He was a producer and writer, known for Elettiinpä ennenkin (1964), Mallorcalainen rapsodia (1958) and Omat koirat purivat (1974). He was married to Raili Aaltio. He died on 20 August 2001.- Barnett Shaw was born on 10 December 1909 in Joplin, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (1964), Creature of Destruction (1968) and Under Age (1964). He was married to Alice Ritchie. He died on 20 August 2001 in Dallas, Texas, USA.