• Une carrière en photos.

    The Belle of Broadway: Julie Harris--a career in photosUne carrière en photos.


    Harris, a 6-time Tony Award Winner (5 Competitive, 1 Lifetime Achievement), 3-time Emmy Winner & Oscar nominee, passed away on August 24th, 2013. She was 87.


    The brilliant actress played such real-life ladies as Emily Dickinson, Joan of Arc, Mary Todd Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony, Florence Nightingale, Queen Victoria and Charlotte Bronte.

    Her first love was the stage, but Harris also made her mark on film and TV.
       


    Film roles of note include:

     

     Recreating her Broadway triumph-
    12 year old Frankie Adams in Carson McCullers

     

    THE MEMBER OF THE WEDDING
     
     
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    With MEMBER director Fred Zinnemann
     
     
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    Harris, Ethel Waters and Brandon De Wilde goof around on 
    the MEMBER set
    Harris was nominated for a 1952 Best Actress Oscar for her performance
     
     
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    Abra in EAST OF EDEN with James Dean
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    The E OF E cast relaxes between takes: Richard Davalos, Harris, Albert Dekker, Lois Smith and Dean
     
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    The first big screen Sally Bowles in 1955's 
    I AM A CAMERA opposite her chum Laurence Harvey
     
    Harris had won a Tony Award for her work in the Bwdy. production of CAMERA
     
     
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    Anthony Quinn's love interest in the Rod Serling written REQUIEM FOR A HEAVYWEIGHT 
     
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    My favorite Harris role, the damaged & doomed Eleanor 'Neil' Lance
    in the Robert Wise 1963 ghost story classic, THE HAUNTING
     
     
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    The crazy, junkie lounge singer Betty Fraley
    in HARPER Starring Paul Newman and directed by workhorse Jack Smight
     
     
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    The self-destructive and suicidal wife of Brian Keith in REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE
     
     
     
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    Sigourney Weaver's host in GORILLAS IN THE MIST
     
    Harris also shined on TV:
     
    She snared 11 Emmy nominations, winning 3--HALLMARK HALL OF FAME's ''Little Moon of Alban'' & ''Victoria Regina' and her voice over performance as Susan B. Anthony in NOT FOR OURSELVES ALONE: THE STORY OF ELIZABETH STANTON & SUSAN B. ANTHONY
     
     
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    With Red Buttons on KNOT'S LANDING
    Harris played country singer Lillmae Clements from 1980-87 on the prime time soap
     
     
    Mary Todd in the 1976 gem THE LAST OF MRS. LINCOLN with Robby Benson as Tad and Micheal Cristofer as Robert
     
    Harris had won a Tony for playing Abe's babe on Broadway 
     
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    Anthony Perkins sister in the 1970 chiller HOW AWFUL ABOUT ALLAN
     
     
     
     
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    Glenn Ford's wife and Lance Kerwin & Elizabeth Cheshire's mom in
    the short-lived 1975 drama THE FAMILY HOLVAK
     
     
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    4 appearances as missionary Charity Jones on TARZAN with Ron Ely
     
    And of course, the stage:
     
    A Tony win for playing Emily Dickinson
     
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    Harris appeared on Broadway in over 30 plays and musicals from 1945 to 1997
     
     
     
     
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    She teamed up with Charles Durning in THE AU PAIR MAN & THE GIN GAME
     
    Other White Way roles for Harris included: 
     
    Joan of Arc in THE LARK
    1956 Tony Award Winner Best Actress in a Play
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    THE GLASS MENAGERIE with Calista Flockhart
     
     
     
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    A SHOT IN THE DARK with William Shatner
     
     
     
     
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    SKYSCRAPER with her future THE BELLE OF AMHERST & THE GIN GAME director Charles Nelson Reilly and Peter Marshall
     
     
     
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    Another Tony win for FORTY CARATS
     
    All told, Harris was honored with 10 Tony nominations, 5 wins and a Lifetime Achievement Award
     
     
    Did you know...?
     
    In 2005 she was a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors.
     
    She has one son, Peter Gurian
     
    Harris suffered a stroke in 2001.
     
     
    Harris on film:
     
    THE BELLE OF AMHERST http://youtu.be/v7jBfFzsGKg
     
    Scene from EAST OF EDENhttp://youtu.be/du9jH9jPTMs
     
     
    HOW AWFUL ABOUT ALLANhttp://youtu.be/ZuygOootLWw
     
    Scene from THE HAUNTINGhttp://youtu.be/sog3etUwtSk
     
     
    Alan King gives Julie her Tony Award for THE LAST OF MRS. LINCOLNhttp://youtu.be/XGl7aJkXI5Y
     
     
    Trailer for REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYEhttp://youtu.be/xJg4jQk7F7w
     
     
     
     
     
     
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