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Kim Stanley (February 11, 1925 – August 20,
2001) was an United States|American actor|actress.

She was born Patricia Beth Reid in Tularosa, New
Mexico|Tularosa, New Mexico. She was a drama major
at the University of New Mexico and later studied
at the Pasadena Playhouse.

Stanley was a successful Broadway theatre|Broadway
actress with only a few film|motion picture roles.
She was singled out by the New York Times critic
Brooks Atkinson for her early work. She eventually
attended The Actor's Studio, studying under Elia
Kazan and Lee Strasberg.

She starred in such Broadway hits as Picnic
(play)|Picnic (1953), playing Millie Owens, and
Bus Stop (play)|Bus Stop (1955), playing Cherie. 

She received the 1952 Theatre World Award for her
performance of Anna Reeves in The Chase; and was
nominated for the 1959 Tony Award|Tony for Best
Actress in a Play for A Touch of the Poet and the
1962 Tony for Best Actress in a Play for A Far
Country.

Stanley was also the leading lady of live
television drama, which flourished in New York
City|New York during the 1950s. Among her many
starring roles was Wilma, a star-struck
15-year-old girl from the U.S. Gulf Coast|Gulf
Coast of Texas in Horton Foote|Horton Foote's A
Young Lady of Property, which aired on the
Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse April 5, 1953
in television|1953.

A savaging by England|English critics after her
London performance of Masha in The Actor's Studio
production of Chekhov|Chekhov's play The Three
Sisters (play)|The Three Sisters (1964) made her
vow never to perform on stage again, a vow she
kept for the rest of her life.

Stanley had four husbands, Bruce Hall (married
1945-divorced 1946), Curt Conway (married
1949-divorced 1956), Alfred Ryder (married
1958-divorced 1964) and Joseph Siegel (married
1964-divorced 1967).

She had three children, one by Conway, one by
Brooks Clift (brother of Montgomery Clift) while
she was married to Conway, and one by Ryder.

Her first movie was The Goddess (1958 in
film|1958), playing an unstable movie star, Rita
Shawn. In 1964 in film|1964, she starred in Seance
on a Wet Afternoon and was nominated for the
Academy Award for Academy Award for Best
Actress|Best Actress in a Leading Role.

Other movies include Frances (1982 in film|1982),
playing the mother of movie star Frances Farmer
opposite Jessica Lange, in which she was nominated
for the Academy Award for Academy Award for Best
Supporting Actress|Best Actress in a Supporting
Role and a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a
Supporting Role - Motion Picture. And she played
Pancho Barnes in The Right Stuff (1983 in
film|1983).

She received an Emmy Award|Emmy for Outstanding
Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
in the episode A Cardinal Act of Mercy on the TV
series Ben Casey (1963 in television|1963) and an
Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a
Limited Series or a Special for playing Big Mama
in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1985 in
television|1985).

Kim Stanley died of uterine cancer in Santa Fe,
New Mexico.

==External links==
*http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?id=60839 IBDB
entry for Kim Stanley
*http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0822535/ IMDb entry
for Kim Stanley