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Julie Harris has a small physique and a powerful personality. In a career extending over half a century, she has been a gifted and very successful theatre performer who as also made the occasional film. She was born in 1925 into a wealthy family. After attending the drama school at Yale, she made her Broadway debut, at the age of 20, in It’s a Gift. This was the first of several failures in which she appeared before receiving acclaim and the Donaldson Award for her performance as Frankie Adams in The Member of the Wedding (1950).
Her successes continued and she is the most honored performer in Tony history, receiving with ten nominations and five Best Actress in a Okay awards for playing the amoral Sally Bowles in I Am A Camera (1952); Joan of Arc in The Lark (1956); Ann Stanley, the divorcée who flirts with a younger man, in Forty Carats (1969); The Last of Mrs. Lincoln (1973); and Emily Dickinson in the one-actor show The Belle of Amherst (1977). Her five additional nominations were for Marathon '33 (1964); Skyscraper (1966, in the Musical category); The Au Pair Man (1974); Lucifer's Child (1991); and The Gin Game (1997).
Although she has not made many films, the list is impressive. Her first film was The Member of the Wedding (1952) in which she reprised her Broadway rule. It earned her an Oscar nomination. Other films include East of Eden (1958), The Truth About Women (1962), Requiem for a Heavyweight (1963), The Haunting (1967), Reflections in a Golden Eye (1968) and The Bell Jar (1983). She has also appeared often in TV drama, winning three Emmy Awards, including one for Victoria Regina (1961).
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| 000773 |
Theatre: Programs (USA) - post 1939 | THE WARM PENINSULA (by Joe Masteroff) with Julie Harris & Larry Hagman - American premiere |
| 013438 |
Theatre: Programs (UK) - post 1939 | THE BELLE OF AMHERST by William Luce - with JULIE HARRIS |
| 010225 |
Theatre: Playbills | I AM A CAMERA (by John van Druten) with Julie Harris |
| 010831 |
Theatre: Playbills | READY WHEN YOU ARE, C.B! (by Susan Slade) |
| 010901 |
Theatre: Playbills | THE GIN GAME (by D. L. Coburn) - PREMIERE PRODUCTION |
| 013317 |
Theatre: Playbills | A SHOT IN THE DARK (by Marcel Achard, adapt. Harry Kurnitz) with JULIE HARRIS |
| 014776 |
Theatre: Playbills | THE GIN GAME (by D. L. Coburn) with JULIE HARRIS & CHARLES DURNING |
| 015278 |
Theatre: Playbills | SKYSCRAPER (lyrics Sammy Cahn; music James van Heusen; book Peter Stone_ with JULIE HARRIS |
| 015294 |
Theatre: Playbills | I AM A CAMERA (by John van Druten) with Julie Harris |
| 015553 |
Theatre: Playbills | THE BELLE OF AMHURST (by William Luce) with JULIE HARRIS |
| 015855 |
Theatre: Playbills | MADEMOISELLE COLOMBE (by Jean Anouilh) with JULIE HARRIS & ELI WALLACH |
| 016613 |
Theatre: Playbills | IN PRAISE OF LOVE (by Terence Rattigan) with REX HARRISON & JULIE HARRIS |
| 000914 |
Theatre: Photos - Signed | JULIE HARRIS - signed photo |
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