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Article: Oscar-Winning Actress Jo Van Fleet Dies at 81
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- June 12, 1996
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Jo Van Fleet, 81, an Oscar and Tony award-winning actress who
often portrayed determined, maternal but proudly stoic characters on
stage, screen and television, died June 10 at a hospital in Queens,
N.Y. The cause of death was not reported.
She won her Academy Award, for best supporting actress in
1955, for her portrayal of James Dean's mother in Elia Kazan's film
"East of Eden." It was her first picture.
In 1957, she won a Tony Award as best featured actress on
Broadway for her role as Jessie Mae Watts in Horton Foote's "A Trip
to Bountiful."
Over the years, Miss Van Fleet played mother to many: She was
Anthony Perkins's mother in "Look Homeward, Angel" on Broadway, Paul ...