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 CNN.com - Oscar winner Eileen Heckart dead at 82 - January 2, 2002
Heckart, who had been battling cancer for three years, died Monday at her home in Norwalk, her son Mark Yankee said.
She was born Anna Eileen Heckart in Columbus, Ohio, in 1919.
Heckart's stage work began in 1943 as understudy and assistant stage manager of the long-running "Voice of the Turtle." She made her television debut in 1947 and appeared in many live dramas in such early series as Kraft Suspense Theater and Philco Playhouse.
archives.cnn.com /2002/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/01/obit.heckart/index.html   (841 words)

  
 Playbill News: Eileen Heckart, Gravel-Voiced Actress of Bad Seed and Waverly Gallery, Dead at 82
Eileen Heckart, the Tony Award-honored actress whose stage farewell at age 81 in 2000 was as an ailing grandmother in The Waverly Gallery, Off-Broadway, died Dec. 31 after a battle with cancer, according to family and colleagues.
Heckart was not afraid to be a sloppy, wildly anguished creature in the picture, and she was praised for it.
Heckart was born Anna Eileen Heckart March 29, 1919, in Columbus, OH, and studied theatre at Ohio State University.
www.playbill.com /news/article/66951.html   (869 words)

  
 Eileen Heckart, 1919-2001
Eileen's son Luke Yankee joined us for the evening and used the opportunity to officially establish the Eileen Heckart Memorial Scholarship Fund in Theatre.
Happiest on stage, Heckart's career spanned six decades, from her first appearance (as an understudy) on Broadway in 1943, to her final stage role in 2000 in The Waverly Gallery, for which she was awarded a panoply of awards, including a Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Eileen Heckart's films include The First Wives Club, Bus Stop, Heller in Pink Tights, and No Way to Treat A Lady, in addition to Butterflies Are Free.
theatre.osu.edu /3_people/level_3_people/alumni/heckart.htm   (672 words)

  
 Eileen Heckart - Biography - Moviefone
Over her long career, character actress Eileen Heckart has distinguished herself on stage, television, and in feature films.
For the 1957-1958 theater season, Heckart earned a New York Drama Critics Award for her work in The Dark at the Top of the Stairs.
Heckart began her sporadic television career in 1952 and made her feature-film debut with Miracle in the Rain (1956).
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 Eileen Heckart -- actress who portrayed eccentrics
Although Heckart described herself as "anything but eccentric," she was usually cast as some sort of emotionally warped or distraught woman, thanks to her tall, lanky frame, sad eyes, and foghorn voice she blamed more on childhood whooping cough than on her chain smoking.
Heckart first played the prickly mother in the Broadway version of "Butterflies Are Free" in 1969 and then reprised the role for the 1972 film, earning her Academy Award as best supporting actress.
Heckart was appearing as an Alzheimer's patient in "The Waverly Gallery" in 2000 when she received her special Tony.
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 Eileen Heckart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eileen Heckart (March 29, 1919 – December 31, 2001) was an Academy Award-winning American actress of stage, screen and television.
Heckart graduated from Ohio State University with a B.A. in drama.
She won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her work in the 1972 movie, Butterflies Are Free and was nominated in 1956 for her performance as the bereaved, besotted Mrs.
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 Eileen Heckart Biography :: Hollywood.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Heckart was brought to Hollywood by Warner Brothers to recreate the role in the 1956 film version for which she earned her first Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actress.
Instant TV recognition for Heckart came in 1975 when she was cast as Mary Richards' Aunt Flo Meredith, a name-dropping, globe-trotting, groundbreaking female reporter on the "Mary Tyler Moore Show".
Heckart's appearances on the Moore series triggered a spurt in her TV "Q" rating, and she was cast as a regular on "Out of the Blue", an ABC series in and as Eleanor Roosevelt in the NBC miniseries "Backstairs at the White House" (both 1979).
www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/197235   (1327 words)

  
 Biography for Eileen Heckart   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Versatile, award-winning character actress Eileen Heckert with the lean, horsey face and fervant gait lived with her mother after her parents separated when she was 2.
Eileen graduated in 1942 from Ohio State University and married John Harrison Yankee Jr., an insurace broker.
Her first big break was on stage as the arch, lonely schooteacher in "Picnic," which earned her the Outer Critic's Circle award, and soon she was in demand in all three mediums as flinty, overwrought, down-to-earth or wise-to-the-bone old gals.
www.imdb.com /name/nm0373012/bio   (436 words)

  
 Darlin' Eileen: An appreciation of the life and career of Eileen Heckart, by Michael Buckley. Feature on ...
According to Heckart, "The reason [McCormack] got the part was not only because she looked right--her mother had dyed her hair and put it in braids--but also because she came in by herself.
Heckart could not have envisioned such a scene when she first stepped on stage, at age eight, in a Girl Scout camp.
Her friendship with Marlene Dietrich began when the legendary lady saw Heckart in a 1953 TV drama, Tad Mosel's The Haven, and was so moved that she sent her a bouquet of geraniums and white orchids.
www.theatermania.com /content/news.cfm?int_news_id=1871   (1583 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Just Outside the Spotlight: Growing Up With Eileen Heckart: Books: Luke Yankee,Mary Tyler Moore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Heckart's work, you will enjoy this gossipy memoire that is long on love without ever being sappy or self indulgent.
It's greatest sadness is that in the end Eileen Heckart dies (am I giving something away here?) and we feel like we're losing a friend whom we love and know well, warts and all.
Above all, Eileen Heckart was committed to her family, for that alone, she should be remembered always as a great woman!
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 Eileen Heckart - Moviefone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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The Department of Theatre was proud to present Eileen Heckart as a guest artist in...
Eileen Heckart - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Eileen Heckart Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
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 Zap2it.com - Movie news - 'Butterflies are Free' Oscarwinner Eileen Heckart Dies
The tough-talking thesp won an Oscar® in 1972 for her role as Edward Albert's domineering mother in "Butterflies Are Free," which also starred Goldie Hawn.
Heckart began her career in the theatre in 1943 and gained critical attention in her roles in Picnic and The Bad Seed a part she would reprise in the 1956 movie earning her a supporting acting nomination.
Heckart also appeared frequently on television, playing Mary Richards' globe-trotting journalist aunt on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."
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 Eileen Heckart Biography, Photos, News for Eileen Heckart | TVGuide.com
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 Lives in the Theater: Charles Wright enjoys new books about Kim Stanley, Eileen Heckart, and Moss Hart. Tunes, Tomes, & ...
Although Krampner's odds and ends of data don't add up to a cohesive portrait, the book is important for its first-hand descriptions of this extraordinary actress by peers who understood her gifts and her value.
Heckart's gravelly voice and tough-broad demeanor ran counter, in an arresting way, to her lady-next-door looks.
For 53 years, Heckart was married to an insurance executive who had been her college sweetheart.
www.theatermania.com /content/news.cfm/story/8570   (1270 words)

  
 Eileen Heckart Current Month TV Schedule
Starring Clint Eastwood, Marsha Mason, Everett McGill, Bo Svenson, Mario Van Peebles, Moses Gunn, Eileen Heckart, Arlen Dean Snyder.
Starring Patricia Richardson, Richard Karn, Earl Hindman, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Eileen Heckart, Lauren Tuerk.
Eileen Heckart, Dan Aykroyd, Lauren Tuerk, China Kantner.
www.tv-now.com /stars/eheckart.html   (131 words)

  
 Son's Memoir of Eileen Heckart--Just Outside the Spotlight--Published in May (BroadwayWorld.com)
In May, Back Stage Books will publish Just Outside the Spotlight: Growing Up With Eileen Heckart by her son Luke Yankee, with a foreword by Mary Tyler Moore.
Heckart was an acclaimed character actress who won a Tony Honors Award for Excellence in Theatre in 2000; she was nominated for her performances in Butterflies Are Free, Invitation to a March and The Dark at the Top of the Stairs;
Heckart won an Oscar for her performance in the film version of Butterflies Are Free, and was also nominated for The Bad Seed.
www.broadwayworld.com /viewcolumn.cfm?colid=8709   (745 words)

  
 Eileen Heckart Trivia - Eileen Heckart Facts - Eileen Heckart Notes
Eileen Heckart Trivia - Eileen Heckart Facts - Eileen Heckart Notes
1976 Outstanding Supporting Actress - Drama or Comedy Series Eileen Heckart - "Mary's Aunt" - The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Eileen Heckart- "Lou Proposes" - The Mary Tyler Moore Show
www.tv.com /eileen-heckart/person/6496/trivia.html   (122 words)

  
 Playbill News: 2000 TONY AWARDS SPOTLIGHT: Special Tony for Eileen Heckart
Eileen Heckart will cap off a busy spring by collecting a special Tony for Lifetime Achievement on June 4.
The veteran actress has made it clear that The Waverly Gallery, in which she stars at the Promenade Theatre until May 21, will mark her final stage appearance.
Heckart, 81, began her stage career at New York's Blackfriars Guild in 1943, in a play called Tinker's Dam.
www.playbill.com /news/article/52924.html   (374 words)

  
 Eileen Heckart Reviews - Eileen Heckart Opinions - Eileen Heckart Ratings
Eileen Heckart Reviews - Eileen Heckart Opinions - Eileen Heckart Ratings
There is something to be said about a secondary character who literally steals the show, Eileen is one of those people.
She was so talented and subtle in her performances that you were always taken by surprise.
www.tv.com /eileen-heckart/person/6496/reviews.html   (85 words)

  
 Eileen Heckart Movies @ Filmbug UK
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 Zap2it: 'Butterflies are Free' Oscar-winner Eileen Heckart Dies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Zap2it: 'Butterflies are Free' Oscar-winner Eileen Heckart Dies
HOLLYWOOD (Zap2it.com) - Academy Award®-winning actress Eileen Heckart has died after a three-year battle with cancer.
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 Eileen Heckart Bio, News, Awards and Movie Credits - RopeofSilicon.com
Eileen Heckart Bio, News, Awards and Movie Credits - RopeofSilicon.com
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 Eileen Heckart - Best Supporting Actress: MovieActors.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Eileen Heckart won her Supporting Oscar for playing the controlling mother of a blind son who wants to make it alone.
American character actress, born in Ohio, with stage experience.
Eileen Heckart's earlier Best Supporting Actress nomination was for: THE BAD SEED (56)
www.movieactors.com /winsw/sw72.htm   (52 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Burnt Offerings: DVD: Dan Curtis,Orin Cannon,Bette Davis,Eileen Heckart,Lee Montgomery,Oliver Reed,Joseph ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
You can tell from word one that the Allardyce siblings are not playing with a full deck, and that something VERY creepy is going on with this house, but of course the unsuspecting Rolfs don't notice -- especially when they find out they can rent the place for $900...
Despite the outstanding cast, this Dan Curtis horror flick is so poorly thrown together that it makes you want to send up burnt offerings for a better remake.
Karen Black, Oliver Reed, Bette Davis, Eileen Heckart and Burgess Meredith are professionals all.
www.amazon.ca /Burnt-Offerings-Dan-Curtis/dp/B00009PY32   (2226 words)

  
 Eileen Heckart   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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 Stock Maven® Classic Films Movies Actress: Eileen Heckart   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Movies of Motion Pictures Films Actress: Eileen Heckart
Starring: Jane Wyman, Van Johnson, Peggie Castle, Fred Clark, Eileen Heckart, Josephine Hutchinson, William Gargan, Marcel Dalio, George Givot, Barbara Nichols, Halliwell Hobbes, Paul Picerni, Alan King, Irene Seidner, Arte Johnson, Marian Holmes, Minerva Urecal,
Starring: Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Everett Sloane, Eileen Heckart, Sal Mineo, Harold Stone, Joseph Buloff, Sammy White, Arch Johnson, Robert P. Lieb, Theodore Newton
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 GreenCine: Eileen Heckart - Online DVD Rental, For People Who Like To Watch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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