Jean Stapleton

Jean Stapleton was born Jeanne Murray en Manhattan, New York City, to Marie A. (Stapleton), en opera singer, and Joseph Edward Murray, a billboard publicidad salesman. Her paternales abuelos eran los Irish. She was a primo de actriz Betty Jane Watson. Other relativo en el show business were her tío, José E. Deming, a vaudevillian; and her brother Jack Stapleton, a stage actor. She graduated from Wadleigh High School, en nueva york, en 1939, y attended de Hunter College. She worked as a la secretaria antes de convertirse en actriz. Stapleton made her debut stage at the Greenwood Playhouse, Peaks Island, Maine, en el verano de 1941, and her New York stage debut en "The Corn Is Green" (1948). Ella apareció en Broadway en the musical "Damn Yankees" (1955) y "Bells Are Ringing" (1956), and later repeated her roles en la película de la versión (Damn Yankees (1958) and Bells Are Ringing (1960)). Her other Broadway roles included the original of companies "Rhinoceros" (1961) y "Funny Girl" (1964). Stapleton, pues, played Abby Brewster en the 1986-87 revival of "Arsenic and Old Lace".