Maureen Stapleton

{{Infobox person

| name = Maureen Stapleton

| image = Maureen Stapleton Queen of the Stardust Ballroom (cropped).jpg

| caption = Stapleton in 1975

| birth_name = Lois Maureen Stapleton

| birth_date = {{birth date|1925|6|21|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Troy, New York, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|2006|3|13|1925|6|21|mf=y}}

| death_place = Lenox, Massachusetts, U.S.

| occupation = Actress

| years_active = 1946–2003

| spouse = {{plainlist|

{{marriage|Max Allentuck
|1949|1959|end=divorced}}
{{marriage|David Rayfiel
|1963|1966|end=divorced}}}}

| children = 2

}}

Lois Maureen Stapleton (June 21, 1925 – March 13, 2006) was an American actress.{{Cite news |last=Bernstein |first=Adam |date=2006-03-14 |title=Maureen Stapleton; Esteemed Actress Of Stage, Film, TV |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2006/03/14/maureen-stapleton/a505269b-9feb-42fb-aac4-787734448757/ |access-date=2024-09-28 |work=The Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}} She received numerous accolades becoming one of the few actors to have achieved the Triple Crown of Acting winning an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award and two Tony Awards.{{Cite web|author=|date=March 13, 2014|title=Maureen Stapleton: Almost an EGOT|url=https://www.legacy.com/news/maureen-stapleton-almost-an-egot/|access-date=October 5, 2020|website=Legacy|language=en-US}} She has also received a British Academy Film Award and a Golden Globe Award, as well as a nomination for a Grammy Award.

Stapleton started her career in theatre making her Broadway debut in The Playboy of the Western World (1946). She went on to receive two Tony Awards for Best Featured Actress in a Play for The Rose Tattoo (1951) and for Best Actress in a Play for The Gingerbread Lady (1971).{{Cite web|title=Maureen Stapleton Tony Awards Info|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/tonyawardspersoninfo.php?nomname=Maureen%20Stapleton|access-date=October 5, 2020|website=www.broadwayworld.com}} She was Tony-nominated for her roles in The Cold Wind And The Warm (1959), Toys in the Attic (1960), Plaza Suite (1971), and The Little Foxes (1981).

For her portrayal of Emma Goldman in the historical epic film Reds (1981) she received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She was also Oscar-nominated for her roles in Lonelyhearts (1958), Airport (1970), and Interiors (1978). During her career Stapleton acted in films such as Bye Bye Birdie (1963), Plaza Suite (1971), The Fan (1981), Cocoon (1985), The Money Pit (1986), and Nuts (1987).

On television, Stapleton played a variety of roles including in the television film Among the Paths to Eden (1967) for which she won the Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Drama.{{Cite web|title=Maureen Stapleton|url=https://www.emmys.com/bios/maureen-stapleton|access-date=October 5, 2020|website=Television Academy|language=en}} She was Emmy-nominated for her roles in Queen of the Stardust Ballroom (1975), The Gathering (1977), B.L. Stryker (1989), Miss Rose White (1992), and Road to Avonlea (1995). She received a Grammy Award nomination for narrating To Kill a Mockingbird in 1975. For her life achievement she was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1981.

Moriarty was a member of the Writers and Artists for Peace in the Middle East, a pro-Israel group. In 1984, she signed a letter protesting German arms sales to Saudi Arabia.{{Cite web |title=Jewish Groups, Writers and Artists Join in a Campaign Urging Germany to Reconsider Arms Sales to Sau |url=https://www.jta.org/archive/jewish-groups-writers-and-artists-join-in-a-campaign-urging-germany-to-reconsider-arms-sales-to-sau |access-date=2025-03-30 |website=Jewish Telegraphic Agency |language=en-US}}

Early life

Stapleton was born in Troy, New York, the daughter of John P. Stapleton and Irene (née Walsh), and grew up in a strict Irish American Catholic family.{{cite news | author=Sean O'Driscol | title=Stapleton, Oscar Winner, Dies at 80 | url=http://www.irishabroad.com/news/irishinamerica/entertainment/StapletonOscarWinnerDiesat80.asp | work=Irish Abroad | date=March 2006 | access-date=May 11, 2008 | archive-date=March 3, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303212347/http://www.irishabroad.com/news/irishinamerica/entertainment/StapletonOscarWinnerDiesat80.asp | url-status=dead }}{{cite news|author=Tom Vallance |title=Maureen Stapleton |url=http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20060315/ai_n16218780 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130113182624/http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20060315/ai_n16218780 |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 13, 2013 |work=The Independent |date=March 15, 2006 |access-date=May 11, 2008 }} Her father was an alcoholic and her parents separated during her childhood.{{cite news | agency=The Associated Press | title=Famed Actress Maureen Stapleton Dies | url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/famed-actress-maureen-stapleton-dies/ | work=CBS News | date=March 13, 2006 | access-date=May 11, 2008 | archive-date=March 2, 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120302103640/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/13/entertainment/main1393376.shtml | url-status=live }}{{cite news | author=Robert Berkvist | title=Maureen Stapleton; actress collected Oscar, Tonys, Emmy | url=http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060319/news_mz1p19passst.html | archive-url=https://archive.today/20120909202430/http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060319/news_mz1p19passst.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=September 9, 2012 | work=The San Diego Union-Tribune | date=March 19, 2006 | access-date=May 11, 2008 }}

Career

File:Maureen Stapleton Don Murray The Rose Tattoo 1951.jpg in The Rose Tattoo (1951)]]

Stapleton moved to New York City at the age of 18, and worked as a salesgirl, hotel clerk, and modeled to pay the bills, including for artist Raphael Soyer. She once said that it was her infatuation with the Hollywood actor Joel McCrea which led her into acting. She made her Broadway debut in the production featuring Burgess Meredith of The Playboy of the Western World in 1946. That same year, she played the role of "Iras" in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra in a touring production by actress and producer Katharine Cornell.Mosel, "Leading Lady: The World and Theatre of Katharine Cornell Stepping in because Anna Magnani refused the role due to her limited English, Stapleton won a Tony Award for her role in Tennessee Williams' The Rose Tattoo in 1951 (Magnani's English improved, however, and she was able to play the role in the film version, winning an Oscar).{{Citation needed |date=August 2024}}

Stapleton played in other Williams' productions, including Twenty-Seven Wagons Full of Cotton and Orpheus Descending (and its film adaptation, The Fugitive Kind, co-starring her friend Marlon Brando), as well as in The Cold Wind and the Warm (Tony nomination, 1959) and Lillian Hellman's Toys in the Attic (1960), for which she received another Tony Award nomination. She was nominated for a Tony Award for Neil Simon's Plaza Suite in 1968 and won a second Tony Award for Simon's The Gingerbread Lady, which was written especially for her, in 1971. Later Broadway roles included a Tony-nominated turn as "Birdie" in The Little Foxes, opposite Elizabeth Taylor, and as a replacement for Jessica Tandy in The Gin Game.{{Citation needed |date=August 2024}}

Stapleton's film career, though limited, brought her immediate success, with her debut in Lonelyhearts (1958) earning nominations for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and a Golden Globe Award.{{Cite web|title=Maureen Stapleton|url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/person/maureen-stapleton|access-date=October 5, 2020|website=www.goldenglobes.com|language=en}} She appeared in the 1963 film version of Bye Bye Birdie, in the role of Mama Mae Peterson, with Dick Van Dyke, Janet Leigh, Paul Lynde, and Ann-Margret. Stapleton played the role of Dick Van Dyke's mother, even though she was only five months and 22 days older than Van Dyke. She was nominated again for an Oscar for Airport (Golden Globe Award nomination, 1970) and Woody Allen's Interiors (Golden Globe Award nomination, 1978). She won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Reds (1981), directed by Warren Beatty, in which she portrayed the Lithuanian-born anarchist, Emma Goldman. In her acceptance speech, she stated, "I would like to thank everyone I've ever met in my entire life."[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/movies/oscars/speeches.htm The Oscar Acceptance Speech: By and Large, It's a Lost Art] Washington Post. March 21, 1999. Her later appearances included Johnny Dangerously (1984), Cocoon (1985), and its sequel Cocoon: The Return (1988).

File:Maureen Stapleton Jason Robards Seven Lively Arts 1958.jpg in 1958]]

Stapleton won a 1968 Emmy Award for her performance in Among the Paths of Eden and was nominated for six more, for Avonlea (1996), Miss Rose White (1992), B.L. Stryker (1989), the television version of All the King's Men (1959), Queen of the Stardust Ballroom (1975), and The Gathering (1977), and Kraft Theatre (1959). She also appeared opposite Laurence Olivier and Natalie Wood in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1976).

She was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1981.[https://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/03/theater/26-elected-theater-hall-fame-26-broadway-voted-into-theater-hall-fame.html "26 Elected to the Theater Hall of Fame."] The New York Times, March 3, 1981. She was an alumna of the famous Actors Studio in New York City, led by Lee Strasberg, where she became friends with Marilyn Monroe, who was only one year younger than Stapleton. She was impressed with Monroe's talent, and always thought it was a shame that Monroe was rarely allowed to play roles beyond the ditzy blonde. By comparison, Stapleton thought herself lucky: "I never had that problem. People looked at me on stage and said, 'Jesus, that broad better be able to act.'" One of the most famously remembered scenes at the studio was when Stapleton and Monroe acted in Anna Christie together.

Despite her association with Strasberg, Stapleton cited Mira Rostova as her most influential acting teacher.{{Cite book|last1=Stapleton|first1=Maureen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aDJaAAAAMAAJ&q=mira+rostova|title=A Hell of a Life: An Autobiography|last2=Scovell|first2=Jane|date=1995|publisher=Simon & Schuster|isbn=978-0-684-81092-8|language=en}} She appeared with Rostova and another of Rostova's pupils, Montgomery Clift, Off-Broadway in The Sea Gull (1954).{{Cite web|title=The Seagull|url=http://www.iobdb.com/production/4448|access-date=October 5, 2020|website=www.iobdb.com}} Additionally, in his book Sanford Meisner on Acting, Meisner cites Stapleton as being "a wonderful actress." The pair starred together on Broadway in The Cold Wind and the Warm.{{Cite web |last=Hultman |first=Jon B. |date=1997-02-05 |title=Sanford Meisner |url=https://variety.com/1997/scene/people-news/sanford-meisner-1117436004/ |access-date=2023-05-23 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}

She was nominated for a 1975 Grammy Award for the spoken word recording of To Kill a Mockingbird.{{Cite web|date=May 19, 2020|title=Maureen Stapleton|url=https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/maureen-stapleton/14022|access-date=October 5, 2020|website=GRAMMY.com|language=en}}

She hosted the 19th episode of Season 4 of NBC's Saturday Night Live in 1979.

Personal life and death

Stapleton's first husband was Max Allentuck, general manager to the producer Kermit Bloomgarden, and her second was playwright David Rayfiel, from whom she divorced in 1966.{{cite web|url=http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=102983|title=National Register of Historic Places Registration: David Rayfiel House|date=June 2009|access-date=May 15, 2011|author=Daniel McEneny|publisher=New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019175155/http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=102983|archive-date=October 19, 2012}} She had a son, Daniel, and a daughter, Katharine, by her first husband.{{Cite news|last=Berkvist|first=Robert|date=March 13, 2006|title=Maureen Stapleton, Oscar-Winning Actress, Is Dead at 80|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/13/movies/maureen-stapleton-oscarwinning-actress-is-dead-at-80.html|access-date=June 21, 2021|issn=0362-4331}} Her daughter, Katharine Allentuck, played a single movie role, that of "Aggie" in Summer of '42 (Stapleton herself also had a minor, uncredited role in the film as the protagonist's mother, though only her voice is heard; she does not appear on camera). Her son, Daniel Allentuck, is a documentary filmmaker.{{Citation needed |date=August 2024}}

Stapleton suffered from anxiety and alcoholism for many years, and once told an interviewer, "The curtain came down, and I went into the vodka."{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/13/movies/13cnd-stapleton.html | title=Maureen Stapleton, Oscar-Winning Actress, Is Dead at 80 | last=Berkvist | first=Robert | date=March 13, 2006 | work=The New York Times|access-date=May 4, 2008}} She also said that her unhappy childhood contributed to her insecurities, which included a fear of flying, airplanes, and elevators.{{cite web|last=Haun|first=Harry|date=September 20, 2006|title=Friends and Colleagues Remember Maureen Stapleton at Memorial|url=http://www.playbill.com/article/friends-and-colleagues-remember-maureen-stapleton-at-memorial-com-135075|access-date=October 5, 2020|website=Playbill|language=en}} A lifelong heavy smoker, Stapleton died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in 2006 at her home in Lenox, Massachusetts.

In 1981 Hudson Valley Community College in Stapleton's childhood city of Troy, New York, dedicated a theater in her name.{{cite news | author= | url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0CE1DE1738F933A05752C1A967948260 | title=College to Call Theater The Maureen Stapleton | date=November 30, 1981 | work=The New York Times | access-date=May 4, 2008}}

Acting credits

=Film=

class="wikitable sortable"
Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" \| Notes
1955 \|Main Street to Broadway \|Maureen Stapleton - First Nighter \|Uncredited
1958 \|Lonelyhearts \|Fay Doyle \|
1960 \|The Fugitive Kind \|Vee Talbot \|
1961 \|A View from the Bridge \|Beatrice Carbone \|
1963 \|Bye Bye Birdie \|Mama Mae Peterson \|
1969 \|Trilogy \|Mary O'Meaghan \|Segment: "Among the Paths to Eden"
1970 \|Airport \|Inez Guerrero \|
rowspan=2\|1971 \|Summer of '42 \|Hermie's mother \|Voice, Uncredited
Plaza Suite \|Karen Nash \|
1978 \|Interiors \|Pearl \|
rowspan=2\|1979 \|Lost and Found \|Jemmy \|
The Runner Stumbles \|Mrs. Shandig \|
rowspan=3\|1981 \|On the Right Track \|Mary the Bag Lady \|
The Fan \|Belle Goldman \|
Reds \|Emma Goldman \|
1984 \|Johnny Dangerously \|Ma Kelly \|
1985 \|Cocoon \|Marilyn Luckett \|
rowspan=3\|1986 \|The Money Pit \|Estelle \|
The Cosmic Eye \|Mother Earth \|Voice
Heartburn \|Vera \|
rowspan=3\|1987 \|Sweet Lorraine \|Lillian Garber \|{{cite news\|url=http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080518/NEWS/80518002\|title=Overnight fire destroys Heiden Hotel of Sweet Lorraine fame\|work=Times Herald-Record\|location=Middletown, New York \|date=May 18, 2008\|access-date=June 9, 2010\|archive-date=February 1, 2013\|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130201165544/http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080518/NEWS/80518002\|url-status=live}}
Made in Heaven \|Aunt Lisa \|
Nuts \|Rose Kirk \|
rowspan=2\|1988 \|Cocoon: The Return \|Marilyn 'Mary' Luckett \|
Doin' Time on Planet Earth \|Helium Balloon Saleslady \|
1992 \|Passed Away \|Mary Scanlan \|
rowspan=2\|1994 \|The Last Good Time \|Ida Cutler \|
Trading Mom \|Mrs. Cavour \|
1997 \|Addicted to Love \|Nana \|
1998 \|Wilbur Falls \|Wilbur Falls High Secretary \|
2003 \|Living and Dining \|Mrs. Lundt \|Final film role

class="wikitable sortable"

Year

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable" | Notes

1955

|Main Street to Broadway

|Maureen Stapleton - First Nighter

|Uncredited

1958

|Lonelyhearts

|Fay Doyle

1960

|The Fugitive Kind

|Vee Talbot

1961

|A View from the Bridge

|Beatrice Carbone

1963

|Bye Bye Birdie

|Mama Mae Peterson

1969

|Trilogy

|Mary O'Meaghan

|Segment: "Among the Paths to Eden"

1970

|Airport

|Inez Guerrero

rowspan=2|1971

|Summer of '42

|Hermie's mother

|Voice, Uncredited

Plaza Suite

|Karen Nash

1978

|Interiors

|Pearl

rowspan=2|1979

|Lost and Found

|Jemmy

The Runner Stumbles

|Mrs. Shandig

rowspan=3|1981

|On the Right Track

|Mary the Bag Lady

The Fan

|Belle Goldman

Reds

|Emma Goldman

1984

|Johnny Dangerously

|Ma Kelly

1985

|Cocoon

|Marilyn Luckett

rowspan=3|1986

|The Money Pit

|Estelle

The Cosmic Eye

|Mother Earth

|Voice

Heartburn

|Vera

rowspan=3|1987

|Sweet Lorraine

|Lillian Garber

|{{cite news|url=http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080518/NEWS/80518002|title=Overnight fire destroys Heiden Hotel of Sweet Lorraine fame|work=Times Herald-Record|location=Middletown, New York |date=May 18, 2008|access-date=June 9, 2010|archive-date=February 1, 2013|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130201165544/http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080518/NEWS/80518002|url-status=live}}

Made in Heaven

|Aunt Lisa

Nuts

|Rose Kirk

rowspan=2|1988

|Cocoon: The Return

|Marilyn 'Mary' Luckett

Doin' Time on Planet Earth

|Helium Balloon Saleslady

1992

|Passed Away

|Mary Scanlan

rowspan=2|1994

|The Last Good Time

|Ida Cutler

Trading Mom

|Mrs. Cavour

1997

|Addicted to Love

|Nana

1998

|Wilbur Falls

|Wilbur Falls High Secretary

2003

|Living and Dining

|Mrs. Lundt

|Final film role

=Television=

class="wikitable sortable"
Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" \| Notes
rowspan="2"\|1954 \|Medic \|Evelyn Strauss \|Episode: "Day 10"
The Philco Television Playhouse \|Daughter \|Episode: "The Mother"
1955 \|The Philco Television Playhouse \|Mrs. Johnson \|Episode: "Incident in July"
rowspan="3"\|1956 \|Armstrong Circle Theatre \|Mrs. Elizabeth Steigerwald \|Episode: "H.R. 8438: The Story of a Lost Boy"
The Alcoa Hour \|Vi Miller \|Episode: "No License to Kill (II)"
Studio One in Hollywood \|Rachel Jackson \|Episode: "Rachel"King, Joe D. (December 10, 1956). [https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-express/164664007/ "Looking and Listening: Array of Musicians on Program Tonight"]. Evening Express. p. 24. Retrieved February 4, 2025.
1958 \|Kraft Theatre \|Sadie Burke \|Episode: "All the King's Men"
1959 \|Playhouse 90 \|Pilar \|Episode: "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
1960 \|CBS Repertoire Workshop \|Tessie \|Episode: "Tessie Malfitano and Anton Waldek"
rowspan="2"\|1961 \|Car 54, Where Are You? \|Gypsy Woman \|Episode: "The Gypsy Curse"
Naked City \|Abbey Bick \|Episode: "Ooftus Goofus"
rowspan="2"\|1962 \|Naked City \|Ruth Cullan \|Episode: "Kill Me While I'm Young So I Can Die Happy!"
The DuPont Show of the Week \|Professor Gretchen Anna Thaelman \|Episode: "The Betrayal"
1964 \|East Side/West Side \|Molly Cavanaugh \|Episode: "One Drink at a Time"
1967 \|Among the Paths to Eden \|Mary O'Meaghan \|Television movie
1969 \|Mirror, Mirror Off the Wall \|Ruthie Maxwell \|Television movie
1974 \|Tell Me Where It Hurts \|Connie \|Television movie
1975 \|Queen of the Stardust Ballroom \|Bea Asher \|Television movie
rowspan="2"\|1976 \|The Lively Arts \|Amanda Wingfield \|Episode: "Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie"
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof \|Big Mama \|Television movie
1977 \|The Gathering \|Kate \|Television movie
rowspan="3"\|1979 \|Letters from Frank \|Betty Miller \|Television movie
The Gathering, Part II \|Kate Thornton \|Television movie
Saturday Night Live \|Herself (host) \|Episode: "Maureen Stapleton/Linda Ronstadt and Phoebe Snow"
rowspan="2"\|1982 \|The Electric Grandmother \|Grandmother \|Television movie
Little Gloria... Happy at Last \|Nurse Emma Kieslich \|Television movie
1983 \|Great Performances \|White Queen \|Episode: "Alice in Wonderland"
rowspan="2"\|1984 \|Sentimental Journey \|Ruthie \|Television movie
Family Secrets \|Maggie Lukauer \|Television movie
1985 \|Private Sessions \|Dr. Liz Bolger \|Television movie
rowspan="2"\|1988 \|The Thorns \|Peggy / Mrs. Hamilton \|2 episodes: "The Other Maid" / "The Maid"
Liberace: Behind the Music \|Frances Liberace \| Television movie
rowspan="2"\|1989 \|B.L. Stryker \|Auntie Sue \|Episode: "Auntie Sue"
The Equalizer \|Emily Rutherford \|Episode: "The Caper"
rowspan="3"\|1992 \|Last Wish \|Ida Rollin \|Television movie
Miss Rose White \|Tanta Perla \|Television movie
Lincoln \|Sarah Bush Lincoln \|Voice; Television movie
1995 \|Road to Avonlea \|Maggie MacPhee \|Episode: "What a Tangled Web We Weave"

class="wikitable sortable"

Year

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable" | Notes

rowspan="2"|1954

|Medic

|Evelyn Strauss

|Episode: "Day 10"

The Philco Television Playhouse

|Daughter

|Episode: "The Mother"

1955

|The Philco Television Playhouse

|Mrs. Johnson

|Episode: "Incident in July"

rowspan="3"|1956

|Armstrong Circle Theatre

|Mrs. Elizabeth Steigerwald

|Episode: "H.R. 8438: The Story of a Lost Boy"

The Alcoa Hour

|Vi Miller

|Episode: "No License to Kill (II)"

Studio One in Hollywood

|Rachel Jackson

|Episode: "Rachel"King, Joe D. (December 10, 1956). [https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-express/164664007/ "Looking and Listening: Array of Musicians on Program Tonight"]. Evening Express. p. 24. Retrieved February 4, 2025.

1958

|Kraft Theatre

|Sadie Burke

|Episode: "All the King's Men"

1959

|Playhouse 90

|Pilar

|Episode: "For Whom the Bell Tolls"

1960

|CBS Repertoire Workshop

|Tessie

|Episode: "Tessie Malfitano and Anton Waldek"

rowspan="2"|1961

|Car 54, Where Are You?

|Gypsy Woman

|Episode: "The Gypsy Curse"

Naked City

|Abbey Bick

|Episode: "Ooftus Goofus"

rowspan="2"|1962

|Naked City

|Ruth Cullan

|Episode: "Kill Me While I'm Young So I Can Die Happy!"

The DuPont Show of the Week

|Professor Gretchen Anna Thaelman

|Episode: "The Betrayal"

1964

|East Side/West Side

|Molly Cavanaugh

|Episode: "One Drink at a Time"

1967

|Among the Paths to Eden

|Mary O'Meaghan

|Television movie

1969

|Mirror, Mirror Off the Wall

|Ruthie Maxwell

|Television movie

1974

|Tell Me Where It Hurts

|Connie

|Television movie

1975

|Queen of the Stardust Ballroom

|Bea Asher

|Television movie

rowspan="2"|1976

|The Lively Arts

|Amanda Wingfield

|Episode: "Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie"

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

|Big Mama

|Television movie

1977

|The Gathering

|Kate

|Television movie

rowspan="3"|1979

|Letters from Frank

|Betty Miller

|Television movie

The Gathering, Part II

|Kate Thornton

|Television movie

Saturday Night Live

|Herself (host)

|Episode: "Maureen Stapleton/Linda Ronstadt and Phoebe Snow"

rowspan="2"|1982

|The Electric Grandmother

|Grandmother

|Television movie

Little Gloria... Happy at Last

|Nurse Emma Kieslich

|Television movie

1983

|Great Performances

|White Queen

|Episode: "Alice in Wonderland"

rowspan="2"|1984

|Sentimental Journey

|Ruthie

|Television movie

Family Secrets

|Maggie Lukauer

|Television movie

1985

|Private Sessions

|Dr. Liz Bolger

|Television movie

rowspan="2"|1988

|The Thorns

|Peggy / Mrs. Hamilton

|2 episodes: "The Other Maid" / "The Maid"

Liberace: Behind the Music

|Frances Liberace

| Television movie

rowspan="2"|1989

|B.L. Stryker

|Auntie Sue

|Episode: "Auntie Sue"

The Equalizer

|Emily Rutherford

|Episode: "The Caper"

rowspan="3"|1992

|Last Wish

|Ida Rollin

|Television movie

Miss Rose White

|Tanta Perla

|Television movie

Lincoln

|Sarah Bush Lincoln

|Voice; Television movie

1995

|Road to Avonlea

|Maggie MacPhee

|Episode: "What a Tangled Web We Weave"

=Theatre=

class="wikitable"

!Year

!Title

!Role

!Venue

!Ref.

1946–1947

|The Playboy of the Western World

|Sara Tansey / Pegeen Mike (replacement)

|Booth Theatre, Broadway

|{{cite web|url= https://video.playbill.com/production/the-playboy-of-the-western-world-booth-theatre-vault-0000001775|title= The Playboy of the Western World (Broadway, 1946)|website= Playbill|accessdate= July 8, 2024}}

1947–1948

|Antony and Cleopatra

|Iras

|Martin Beck Theatre, Broadway

|{{cite web|url= https://video.playbill.com/production/antony-and-cleopatra-martin-beck-theatre-vault-0000008291|title= Antony and Cleopatra (Broadway, 1947)|website= Playbill|accessdate= July 8, 2024}}

1949–1950

|Detective Story

|Miss Hatch

|Hudson Theatre, Broadway

|{{cite web|url= https://video.playbill.com/production/detective-story-hudson-theatre-vault-0000005849|title= Detective Story (Broadway, 1949)|website= Playbill|accessdate= July 8, 2024}}

1950

|The Bird Cage

|Emily Williams

|Coronet Theatre, Broadway

|{{cite web|url= https://video.playbill.com/production/the-bird-cage-coronet-theatre-vault-0000004774|title= The Bird Cage (Broadway, 1950)|website= Playbill|accessdate= July 8, 2024}}

1951

|The Rose Tattoo

|Serafina Delle Rose

|Martin Beck Theatre, Broadway

|{{cite web|url= https://video.playbill.com/production/the-rose-tattoo-martin-beck-theatre-vault-0000008282|title= The Rose Tattoo (Broadway, 1951)|website= Playbill|accessdate= July 8, 2024}}

1953

|The Crucible

|Elizabeth Proctoer (replacement)

|Martin Beck Theatre, Broadway

|{{cite web|url= https://video.playbill.com/production/the-crucible-martin-beck-theatre-vault-0000008275|title= The Crucible (Broadway, 1953)|website= Playbill|accessdate= July 8, 2024}}

1953

|The Emperor's Clothes

|Bella

|Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Broadway

|{{cite web|url= https://video.playbill.com/productions/the-emperors-clothesbroadway-ethel-barrymore-theatre-1953|title= The Emperor's Clothes (Broadway, 1953)|website= Playbill|accessdate= July 8, 2024}}

1953

|Richard III

|Lady Anne

|New York City Center, Broadway

|{{cite web|url= https://video.playbill.com/production/richard-iii-city-center-vault-0000013498|title= Richard III (Broadway, 1953)|website= Playbill|accessdate= July 8, 2024}}

1955

|27 Wagons Full of Cotton

|Flora Meighan

|Playhouse Theatre

|{{cite web|url= https://video.playbill.com/production/27-wagons-full-of-cotton-playhouse-theatre-vault-0000009367|title= 27 Wagons Full of Cotton (Broadway, 1955)|website= Playbill|accessdate= July 8, 2024}}

1957

|Orpheus Descending

|Lady Torrance

|Martin Beck Theatre, Broadway

|{{cite web|url= https://video.playbill.com/production/orpheus-descending-martin-beck-theatre-vault-0000008269|title= Orpheus Descending (Broadway, 1957)|website= Playbill|accessdate= July 8, 2024}}

1958–1959

|The Cold Wind And The Warm

| Aunt Ida

|Morosco Theatre, Broadway

|{{cite web|url= https://video.playbill.com/production/the-cold-wind-and-the-warm-morosco-theatre-vault-0000002431|title= The Cold Wind and the Warm (Broadway, 1958)|website= Playbill|accessdate= July 8, 2024}}

1960–1961

|Toys in the Attic

|Carrie Berniers

|Hudson Theatre, Broadway

|{{cite web|url= https://video.playbill.com/production/toys-in-the-attic-hudson-theatre-vault-0000005847|title= Toys in the Attic (Broadway, 1960)|website= Playbill|accessdate= July 8, 2024}}

1965

|The Glass Menagerie

|The Mother

|Brooks Atkinson Theatre, Broadway

|{{cite web|url= https://video.playbill.com/production/the-glass-menagerie-brooks-atkinson-theatre-vault-0000008059|title= The Glass Menagerie (Broadway, 1965)|website= Playbill|accessdate= July 8, 2024}}

1966

|The Rose Tattoo

|Serafina Delle Rose

|Billy Rose Theatre, Broadway

1968–1970

|Plaza Suite

|Karen Nash / Muriel Tate / Norma Hubley

|Plymouth Theatre, Broadway

1970

|Norman, Is That You?

|Beatrice Chambers

|Lyceum Theatre, Broadway

1970–1971

|The Gingerbread Lady

|Evy Meara

|Plymouth Theatre, Broadway

1972

|The Country Girl

|Georgie Elgin

|Billy Rose Theatre, Broadway

1972

|The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wild

|Mildred Wild

|Ambassador Theatre, Broadway

1975–1976

|The Glass Menagerie

|The Mother

|Circle in the Square Theatre, Broadway

1977–1978

|The Gin Game

|Fonisa Dorsey (replacement)

|John Golden Theatre, Broadway

1981

|The Little Foxes

|Birdie Hubbard

|Martin Beck Theatre, Broadway

== Awards and nominations ==

class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
scope="col" \| Year ! scope="col" \| Award ! scope="col" \| Category ! scope="col" \| Nominated work ! scope="col" \| Result ! scope="col" class="unsortable"\| Ref.
1958 \| rowspan="4"\| Academy Awards \| rowspan="4"\| Best Supporting Actress \| Lonelyhearts \| {{nom}} \| align="center"\| {{cite web \|url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1959 \|title=The 31st Academy Awards (1959) Nominees and Winners \|date=March 19, 2024 \|publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences \|access-date=July 8, 2024}}
1970 \| Airport \| {{nom}} \| align="center"\| {{cite web \|url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1971 \|title=The 43rd Academy Awards (1971) Nominees and Winners \|date=October 4, 2014 \|publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences \|access-date=July 8, 2024}}
1978 \| Interiors \| {{nom}} \| align="center"\| {{cite web \|url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1979 \|title=The 51st Academy Awards (1978) Nominees and Winners \|date=October 5, 2014 \|publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences \|access-date=July 8, 2024}}
1981 \| Reds \| {{won}} \| align="center"\| {{cite web \|url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1982 \|title=The 54th Academy Awards (1982) Nominees and Winners \|date=March 2022 \|publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences \|access-date=July 8, 2024}}
1970 \| rowspan="2"\| British Academy Film Awards \| rowspan="2"\| Best Actress in a Supporting Role \| Airport \| {{nom}} \| align="center"\| {{cite web \|url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/1971/film \|title=BAFTA Awards: Film in 1971 \|publisher=British Academy Film Awards \|access-date=July 8, 2024}}
1982 \| Reds \| {{won}}{{efn\|Tied with Rohini Hattangadi for Gandhi.}} \| align="center"\| {{cite web \|url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/1983/film \|title=BAFTA Awards: Film in 1983 \|publisher=British Academy Film Awards \|access-date=July 8, 2024}}
1996 \| CableACE Awards \| Actress in a Dramatic Special/Series \| Avonlea {{small\|(Episode: "What a Tangled Web We Weave")}} \| {{nom}} \| align="center"\| {{cite web \|url=http://articles.latimes.com/1996-09-11/entertainment/ca-42502_1_larry-sanders-show \|title=CableACE Nominations Are Dominated by HBO \|work=Los Angeles Times \|date=September 11, 1996 \|access-date=July 8, 2024}}
1971 \| Drama Desk Awards \| Outstanding Performance \| The Gingerbread Lady \| {{won}} \| align="center"\| {{cite web \|url=https://www.dramadesk.org/awards/nominees-and-recipients/1971-awards/ \|title=1971 Awards – Drama Desk \|publisher=Drama Desk Awards \|access-date=July 8, 2024}}
1958 \| rowspan="5"\| Golden Globe Awards \| rowspan="5"\| Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture \| Lonelyhearts \| {{nom}} \| align="center" rowspan="5"\| {{cite web \|url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/person/maureen-stapleton/ \|title=Maureen Stapleton \|publisher=Golden Globe Awards \|access-date=July 8, 2024}}
1970 \| Airport \| {{won}}{{efn\|Tied with Karen Black for Five Easy Pieces.}}
1971 \| Plaza Suite \| {{nom}}
1978 \| Interiors \| {{nom}}
1981 \| Reds \| {{nom}}
1975 \| Grammy Awards \| Best Spoken Word Recording \| To Kill a Mockingbird \| {{nom}} \| align="center"\| {{cite web \|url=https://www.grammy.com/artists/maureen-stapleton/14022 \|title=Maureen Stapleton \|publisher=Grammy Awards \|access-date=July 8, 2024}}
1978 \| rowspan="2"\| Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards \| rowspan="2"\| Best Supporting Actress \| Interiors \| {{won}}{{efn\|Tied with Mona Washbourne for Stevie.}} \| align="center"\| {{cite web \|url=http://www.lafca.net/Years/1978.php \|title=The 4th Annual Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards \|publisher=Los Angeles Film Critics Association \|access-date=July 8, 2024}}
1981 \| Reds \| {{won}} \| align="center"\| {{cite web \|url=http://www.lafca.net/Years/1981.php \|title=The 7th Annual Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards \|publisher=Los Angeles Film Critics Association \|access-date=July 8, 2024}}
1978 \| rowspan="2"\| National Society of Film Critics Awards \| rowspan="2"\| Best Supporting Actress \| Interiors \| {{draw\|2nd Place}} \| align="center" rowspan="2"\| {{cite web \|url=https://nationalsocietyoffilmcritics.com/about-2/ \|title=Past Awards \|date=December 19, 2009 \|publisher=National Society of Film Critics \|access-date=July 8, 2024}}
1981 \| Reds \| {{won}}
1966 \| New York Emmy Awards \| Individuals \| New York Television Theatre \| {{won}} \| align="center"\| {{cite web \|url=https://www.nyemmys.org/media/files/files/4a3928fd/nyemmyawards10.pdf \|title=10th Annual New York Emmy® Awards \|publisher=New York Emmy Awards \|access-date=July 8, 2024}}
1978 \| rowspan="2"\| New York Film Critics Circle Awards \| rowspan="2"\| Best Supporting Actress \| Interiors \| {{won}} \| align="center"\|
1981 \| Reds \| {{Runner-up}} \| align="center"\|
1959 \| rowspan="7"\| Primetime Emmy Awards \| Best Single Performance by an Actress \| Kraft Television Theatre {{small\|(Episode: "All the King's Men")}} \| {{nom}} \| align="center" rowspan="7"\| {{cite web \|url=https://www.emmys.com/bios/maureen-stapleton \|title=Maureen Stapleton \|publisher=Academy of Television Arts & Sciences \|access-date=July 8, 2024}}
1968 \| Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Drama \| Among the Paths to Eden \| {{won}}
1975 \| Outstanding Lead Actress in a Special Program – Drama or Comedy \| Queen of the Stardust Ballroom \| {{nom}}
1978 \| Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama or Comedy Special \| The Gathering \| {{nom}}
1989 \| Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series \| B.L. Stryker {{small\|(Episode: "Auntie Sue")}} \| {{nom}}
1992 \| Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Special \| Miss Rose White \| {{nom}}
1996 \| Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series \| Avonlea {{small\|(Episode: "What a Tangled Web We Weave")}} \| {{nom}}
1951 \| colspan="2"\| Theatre World Awards \| rowspan="2"\| The Rose Tattoo \| {{won}} \| align="center"\| {{cite web \|url=https://www.theatreworldawards.org/past-recipients \|title=Past Honorees \|publisher=Theatre World Awards \|access-date=July 8, 2024}}
1951 \| rowspan="6"\| Tony Awards \| Best Supporting or Featured Actress in a Play \| {{won}} \| align="center"\| {{cite web \|url=https://www.tonyawards.com/nominees/year/1951/category/any/show/any/ \|title=The Tony Award Nominations 1951 \|publisher=American Theatre Wing \|access-date=July 8, 2024}}
1959 \| rowspan="4"\| Best Leading Actress in a Play \| The Cold Wind And The Warm \| {{nom}} \| align="center"\| {{cite web \|url=https://www.tonyawards.com/nominees/year/1959/category/any/show/any/ \|title=The Tony Award Nominations 1959 \|publisher=American Theatre Wing \|access-date=July 8, 2024}}
1960 \| Toys in the Attic \| {{nom}} \| align="center"\| {{cite web \|url=https://www.tonyawards.com/nominees/year/1960/category/any/show/any/ \|title=The Tony Award Nominations 1960 \|publisher=American Theatre Wing \|access-date=July 8, 2024}}
1968 \| Plaza Suite \| {{nom}} \| align="center"\| {{cite web \|url=https://www.tonyawards.com/nominees/year/1968/category/any/show/any/ \|title=The Tony Award Nominations 1968 \|publisher=American Theatre Wing \|access-date=July 8, 2024}}
1971 \| The Gingerbread Lady \| {{won}} \| align="center"\| {{cite web \|url=https://www.tonyawards.com/nominees/year/1971/category/any/show/any/ \|title=The Tony Award Nominations 1971 \|publisher=American Theatre Wing \|access-date=July 8, 2024}}
1981 \| Best Featured Actress in a Play \| The Little Foxes \| {{nom}} \| align="center"\| {{cite web \|url=https://www.tonyawards.com/nominees/year/1981/category/any/show/any/ \|title=The Tony Award Nominations 1981 \|publisher=American Theatre Wing \|access-date=July 8, 2024}}

class="wikitable plainrowheaders"

scope="col" | Year

! scope="col" | Award

! scope="col" | Category

! scope="col" | Nominated work

! scope="col" | Result

! scope="col" class="unsortable"| Ref.

1958

| rowspan="4"| Academy Awards

| rowspan="4"| Best Supporting Actress

| Lonelyhearts

| {{nom}}

| align="center"| {{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1959 |title=The 31st Academy Awards (1959) Nominees and Winners |date=March 19, 2024 |publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |access-date=July 8, 2024}}

1970

| Airport

| {{nom}}

| align="center"| {{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1971 |title=The 43rd Academy Awards (1971) Nominees and Winners |date=October 4, 2014 |publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |access-date=July 8, 2024}}

1978

| Interiors

| {{nom}}

| align="center"| {{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1979 |title=The 51st Academy Awards (1978) Nominees and Winners |date=October 5, 2014 |publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |access-date=July 8, 2024}}

1981

| Reds

| {{won}}

| align="center"| {{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1982 |title=The 54th Academy Awards (1982) Nominees and Winners |date=March 2022 |publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |access-date=July 8, 2024}}

1970

| rowspan="2"| British Academy Film Awards

| rowspan="2"| Best Actress in a Supporting Role

| Airport

| {{nom}}

| align="center"| {{cite web |url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/1971/film |title=BAFTA Awards: Film in 1971 |publisher=British Academy Film Awards |access-date=July 8, 2024}}

1982

| Reds

| {{won}}{{efn|Tied with Rohini Hattangadi for Gandhi.}}

| align="center"| {{cite web |url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/1983/film |title=BAFTA Awards: Film in 1983 |publisher=British Academy Film Awards |access-date=July 8, 2024}}

1996

| CableACE Awards

| Actress in a Dramatic Special/Series

| Avonlea {{small|(Episode: "What a Tangled Web We Weave")}}

| {{nom}}

| align="center"| {{cite web |url=http://articles.latimes.com/1996-09-11/entertainment/ca-42502_1_larry-sanders-show |title=CableACE Nominations Are Dominated by HBO |work=Los Angeles Times |date=September 11, 1996 |access-date=July 8, 2024}}

1971

| Drama Desk Awards

| Outstanding Performance

| The Gingerbread Lady

| {{won}}

| align="center"| {{cite web |url=https://www.dramadesk.org/awards/nominees-and-recipients/1971-awards/ |title=1971 Awards – Drama Desk |publisher=Drama Desk Awards |access-date=July 8, 2024}}

1958

| rowspan="5"| Golden Globe Awards

| rowspan="5"| Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture

| Lonelyhearts

| {{nom}}

| align="center" rowspan="5"| {{cite web |url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/person/maureen-stapleton/ |title=Maureen Stapleton |publisher=Golden Globe Awards |access-date=July 8, 2024}}

1970

| Airport

| {{won}}{{efn|Tied with Karen Black for Five Easy Pieces.}}

1971

| Plaza Suite

| {{nom}}

1978

| Interiors

| {{nom}}

1981

| Reds

| {{nom}}

1975

| Grammy Awards

| Best Spoken Word Recording

| To Kill a Mockingbird

| {{nom}}

| align="center"| {{cite web |url=https://www.grammy.com/artists/maureen-stapleton/14022 |title=Maureen Stapleton |publisher=Grammy Awards |access-date=July 8, 2024}}

1978

| rowspan="2"| Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

| rowspan="2"| Best Supporting Actress

| Interiors

| {{won}}{{efn|Tied with Mona Washbourne for Stevie.}}

| align="center"| {{cite web |url=http://www.lafca.net/Years/1978.php |title=The 4th Annual Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards |publisher=Los Angeles Film Critics Association |access-date=July 8, 2024}}

1981

| Reds

| {{won}}

| align="center"| {{cite web |url=http://www.lafca.net/Years/1981.php |title=The 7th Annual Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards |publisher=Los Angeles Film Critics Association |access-date=July 8, 2024}}

1978

| rowspan="2"| National Society of Film Critics Awards

| rowspan="2"| Best Supporting Actress

| Interiors

| {{draw|2nd Place}}

| align="center" rowspan="2"| {{cite web |url=https://nationalsocietyoffilmcritics.com/about-2/ |title=Past Awards |date=December 19, 2009 |publisher=National Society of Film Critics |access-date=July 8, 2024}}

1981

| Reds

| {{won}}

1966

| New York Emmy Awards

| Individuals

| New York Television Theatre

| {{won}}

| align="center"| {{cite web |url=https://www.nyemmys.org/media/files/files/4a3928fd/nyemmyawards10.pdf |title=10th Annual New York Emmy® Awards |publisher=New York Emmy Awards |access-date=July 8, 2024}}

1978

| rowspan="2"| New York Film Critics Circle Awards

| rowspan="2"| Best Supporting Actress

| Interiors

| {{won}}

| align="center"|

1981

| Reds

| {{Runner-up}}

| align="center"|

1959

| rowspan="7"| Primetime Emmy Awards

| Best Single Performance by an Actress

| Kraft Television Theatre {{small|(Episode: "All the King's Men")}}

| {{nom}}

| align="center" rowspan="7"| {{cite web |url=https://www.emmys.com/bios/maureen-stapleton |title=Maureen Stapleton |publisher=Academy of Television Arts & Sciences |access-date=July 8, 2024}}

1968

| Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Drama

| Among the Paths to Eden

| {{won}}

1975

| Outstanding Lead Actress in a Special Program – Drama or Comedy

| Queen of the Stardust Ballroom

| {{nom}}

1978

| Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama or Comedy Special

| The Gathering

| {{nom}}

1989

| Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series

| B.L. Stryker {{small|(Episode: "Auntie Sue")}}

| {{nom}}

1992

| Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Special

| Miss Rose White

| {{nom}}

1996

| Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series

| Avonlea {{small|(Episode: "What a Tangled Web We Weave")}}

| {{nom}}

1951

| colspan="2"| Theatre World Awards

| rowspan="2"| The Rose Tattoo

| {{won}}

| align="center"| {{cite web |url=https://www.theatreworldawards.org/past-recipients |title=Past Honorees |publisher=Theatre World Awards |access-date=July 8, 2024}}

1951

| rowspan="6"| Tony Awards

| Best Supporting or Featured Actress in a Play

| {{won}}

| align="center"| {{cite web |url=https://www.tonyawards.com/nominees/year/1951/category/any/show/any/ |title=The Tony Award Nominations 1951 |publisher=American Theatre Wing |access-date=July 8, 2024}}

1959

| rowspan="4"| Best Leading Actress in a Play

| The Cold Wind And The Warm

| {{nom}}

| align="center"| {{cite web |url=https://www.tonyawards.com/nominees/year/1959/category/any/show/any/ |title=The Tony Award Nominations 1959 |publisher=American Theatre Wing |access-date=July 8, 2024}}

1960

| Toys in the Attic

| {{nom}}

| align="center"| {{cite web |url=https://www.tonyawards.com/nominees/year/1960/category/any/show/any/ |title=The Tony Award Nominations 1960 |publisher=American Theatre Wing |access-date=July 8, 2024}}

1968

| Plaza Suite

| {{nom}}

| align="center"| {{cite web |url=https://www.tonyawards.com/nominees/year/1968/category/any/show/any/ |title=The Tony Award Nominations 1968 |publisher=American Theatre Wing |access-date=July 8, 2024}}

1971

| The Gingerbread Lady

| {{won}}

| align="center"| {{cite web |url=https://www.tonyawards.com/nominees/year/1971/category/any/show/any/ |title=The Tony Award Nominations 1971 |publisher=American Theatre Wing |access-date=July 8, 2024}}

1981

| Best Featured Actress in a Play

| The Little Foxes

| {{nom}}

| align="center"| {{cite web |url=https://www.tonyawards.com/nominees/year/1981/category/any/show/any/ |title=The Tony Award Nominations 1981 |publisher=American Theatre Wing |access-date=July 8, 2024}}

Notes

References

External links

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{{Find a Grave|13604784}}
[http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=wiarchives;cc=wiarchives;type=simple;rgn=Entire%20Finding%20Aid;q1=Maureen%20Stapleton;view=reslist;subview=detail;sort=freq;didno=uw-whs-tape00339a Maureen Stapleton] at the University of Wisconsin's [https://web.archive.org/web/20140502211533/http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=wiarchives;view=reslist;subview=standard;didno=uw-whs-tape00339a Actors Studio audio collection]
Maureen Stapleton Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

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