March 13, 2006

Maureen Stapleton, 1925 - 2006.

Maureen Stapleton
Maureen Stapleton, an 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. She was 80.

Adam Gorlick, the AP.

Ms Stapleton had one of the most honored acting careers of her generation. Her Academy Award for Reds, Warren Beatty's 1981 epic about the Russian Revolution, came on her fourth Oscar nomination. She also won two Tony Awards and an Emmy among many nominations.

Robert Berkvist, the New York Times.

I think voting is the opium of the masses in this country. Every four years you deaden the pain.

"Emma Goldman" in Reds.



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Posted by dwhudson at March 13, 2006 10:18 PM

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I enjoyed her Emma Goldman in Reds, particularly when she turned to Diane Keaton's Louise Bryant, whom she had judged harshly, and said, "I was wrong about you."

But I will miss Maureen Stapleton more for the moment she dances around in her red dress in Interiors, smashing into a vase, and is labelled a "complete vulgarian" by her wonderfully uptight stepdaughter Mary Beth Hurt.

Cinema was cinema then.

Posted by: N.P. Thompson at March 14, 2006 1:33 PM