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Article: `Wolves' co-star shines in fine pioneer drama
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 17, 1991
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O Pioneers!
(STAR) (STAR) (STAR) (STAR)
Alexandra
Mary McDonnell
CarlRandle Mell
IvarJohn Carpenter
MarieJennifer Rohn
EmilNeil Maffin
WTTW-Channel 11, 9 to 11 tonight.
Mary McDonnell has become the leading lady of the Great Plains.
In Kevin Costner's "Dances with Wolves," McDonnell earned an
Academy Award nomination as best supporting actress for her fierce
and passionate performance as Stands with a Fist, a white woman
living with a Sioux tribe in the Dakota Territory during the 1860s.
The New York stage actress is even more impressive as a Swedish
immigrant who becomes a successful Nebraska farmer during the late
1800s in "O Pioneers!" The outstanding ...