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Jean Stapleton was born Jeanne Murray in Manhattan, New York City, to Marie A. (Stapleton), an opera singer, and Joseph Edward Murray, a billboard advertising salesman. Her paternal grandparents were Irish. She was a cousin of actress Betty Jane Watson. Other relatives in show business were her uncle, Joseph E. Deming, a vaudevillian; and her brother Jack Stapleton, a stage actor. She graduated from Wadleigh High School, NYC, in 1939, and attended Hunter College. She worked as a secretary before becoming an actress. Stapleton made her stage debut at the Greenwood Playhouse, Peaks Island, Maine, in the summer of 1941, and her New York stage debut in "The Corn Is Green" (1948). She appeared on Broadway in the musicals "Damn Yankees" (1955) and "Bells Are Ringing" (1956), and later repeated her roles in the movie versions (Damn Yankees (1958) and Bells Are Ringing (1960)). Her other Broadway roles included the original companies of "Rhinoceros" (1961) and "Funny Girl" (1964). Stapleton also played Abby Brewster in the 1986-87 revival of "Arsenic and Old Lace".
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Irene Silverman
as Lorraine
as Byrd
as Birdie Conrad
as Mrs. Jenkins (voice)
as Mrs. Dunbar
as Pansy Milbank
as Mrs. Coons
as Mildred
as Landlady (uncredited)
as Lenora Tolliver
as Henry Dutton
as Mother Goose
as Ariadne Oliver
as Fairy Godmother
as Mrs. Price
as Irene Wallin
as The Giantess
as Miss Tweed
as Eleanor Roosevelt
as Isabel Cooper
as Self
as Betty Eaton
as Mary Dobkin
as Penny Sycamore
as Self (uncredited)
as Mrs. DeCamp
as Gina's Mother
as Goldfarb's Secretary
as Mrs. Wappler
as Sadie Finch
as Shirley Johnson
as Sue
as Sister Miller
