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Post by teleadm on Jan 13, 2018 9:57:31 GMT
Happy 88th Birthday Frances Sternhagen!!! Born on January 13, 1930 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA Thanks for everything , so far... Sternhagen has appeared On- and Off-Broadway, in movies, and on TV since the 1950s, Her character persona has usually been those of a clever and wise woman, at least in later years. Sternhagen started her career teaching acting, singing and dancing to school children at Milton Academy in Massachusetts, and she herself first performed in 1948 at a Bryn Mawr summer theater in The Glass Menagerie and Angel Street, made her Broadway debut in 1955 as Miss T. Muse in The Skin of Our Teeth.She won a Saturn Award for Outland 1981, and a Lone Star Award for The Con 1998. Her earliest TV credits was on Studio One 1956, and her very belated movie debut was in Up the Down Staircase 1967, where they managed to spell her name wrong (Francis instead of Frances). With Sir Connery in Outland 1981 Doc Hollywood 1991 As mother of the postman, Esther Clavin, seven times on successful TV-Series Cheers between 1986-1993. As Bunny MacDougal in TV-Series Sex and the City in ten episodes between 2000-2002. As of today her latest screen role, And So it Goes 2014 The Mist 2007 She has also done voice acting on The Simpsons 2002, and read as the title character in the Stephen King novel Dolores Claiborne in a 1995 audiobook recording. She also voiced characters in 13 episodes of CBS Radio Mystery Theater in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Post by petrolino on Jan 13, 2018 12:21:55 GMT
Frances Sternhagen's worked in theatre with many fine actors, including her friend Barnard Hughes in 'The Good Doctor' for which Sternhagen won her first Tony Award, a set of stories that saw Neil Simon rewriting Anton Chekhov. Sternhagen and Hughes would team years later on the big screen for 'Doc Hollywood' (1991). She's also an Obie Award winner and a Drama Desk Award recipient. One look at the film directors she's worked with confirms Sternhagen's standing within the performing arts, including a strong association forged with paranoid Alan Pakula. I cherish her performances in Peter Hyams' 'Outland' (1981) and Brian De Palma's 'Raising Cain' (1992). She's excellent in a pair of Stephen King adaptations, 'Misery' (1990) and 'The Mist' (2007). She once joked that she's Bruce Dern's long-lost sister, citing a noted physical resemblance. "I once asked Sean Connery, "When are we going to get you back in theatre?" And he replied, "Why should I?" Which makes sense, really. He enjoys playing golf and doing movies. When you just make pots of money in films, being in a play seems to be an awful lot of work. When you get to Sean's age, I can see where you think, "Why should I work so hard? Nobody in theatre ever pays as much as movies."
- Frances Sternhagen, Playbill
Charles Durning & Frances Sternhagen
Wishing her all the very best on her brithday!
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Jan 13, 2018 16:46:46 GMT
Happy birthday Frances Sternhagen! I see you've already posted it but I was going to post this same photo from the last movie I'd seen her in, And So It Goes, which I just saw over the holidays. She looks so much like my grandmother in this photo! She loved to smoke as well. I think the first time I took notice of her was in the 1991 Stephen King TV series Golden Years, here she is with costar Keith Szarabajka.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 13, 2018 19:03:00 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 17, 2018 4:53:46 GMT
I just finished watching an episode of Becker. The Subway Story Season 6 Episode 12. (2004) Francis Sternhagen plays her part so wonderfully and believably .... recommend watching for this episode when it comes around again. Edit: it's here on YouTube : www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVJGBCmgrnE"Linda deletes some important files and spends the day trying to recover them or cover up what she's done. Some out-of-town friends have come to see John but he's nowhere to be seen so Chris must entertain them, to the annoyance and embarrassment of all concerned. John is trying to get home on the subway but a little old lady needs help in getting to her destination. John stops to help her, but she needs to be helped again and again. "
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