Maxine Stuart
{{short description|American actress (1918-2013)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2017}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Maxine Stuart
| image = Maxine Stuart.jpg
| birth_name = Maxine Shlivek
| birth_date = {{birth date|mf=y|1918|6|28}}
| birth_place = Deal, New Jersey, U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|2013|6|6|1918|6|28|mf=y}}
| death_place = Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
| occupation = Actress
| years_active = 1937–2003
| spouse = Alfred Gordon (1941-?) (divorced)
Frank Maxwell (1949-1963) (divorced) (1 child)
David Shaw (1974-2007) (his death) (2 children){{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/18/arts/television/maxine-stuart-94-dies-acted-on-stage-film-and-tv.html|title=Maxine Stuart, 94, Dies; Acted on Stage, Film and TV (Published 2013)|first=Margalit|last=Fox|newspaper=The New York Times |date=June 17, 2013}}
| children = 3
}}
Maxine Stuart (June 28, 1918 – June 6, 2013) was an American actress.
Biography
Stuart was born in Deal, New Jersey as Maxine Shlivek, and raised in Manhattan and Lawrence, Nassau County, New York.Fox, Margalit. [https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/18/arts/television/maxine-stuart-94-dies-acted-on-stage-film-and-tv.html "Maxine Stuart, 94, Dies; Acted on Stage, Film and TV"], The New York Times, June 17, 2013. Accessed July 13, 2017. "Maxine Shlivek was born on June 28, 1918, in Deal, N.J., and reared in Lawrence, on Long Island, and Manhattan."
Stuart was a life member of The Actors Studio.{{cite book|first=David|last=Garfield|title=A Player's Place: The Story of The Actors Studio|url=https://archive.org/details/playersplacestor00garf|url-access=registration|year=1980|publisher=MacMillan Publishing Co., Inc.|location=New York|isbn=0-02-542650-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/playersplacestor00garf/page/280 280]|chapter=Appendix: Life Members of The Actors Studio as of January 1980}} Her Broadway credits include At War With the Army (1949), A Goose for the Gander (1945), Nine Girls (1943), Ring Two (1939), Sunup to Sundown (1938), and Western Waters (1937).{{cite web|title=Maxine Stuart|url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/maxine-stuart-61393|website=Internet Broadway Database|publisher=The Broadway League|access-date=19 March 2018|archive-url=https://archive.today/20180319022842/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/maxine-stuart-61393|archive-date=March 19, 2018|url-status=live}}
On television, she portrayed B.J. Clawson in Slattery's People,{{r|etvs|page1=980}} Amanda Earp in The Rousters,{{r|etvs|page1=912}} Ruth Burton in Room for One More,{{r|etvs|page1=908-909}} Steve's grandmother in The Pursuit of Happiness,{{r|etvs|page1=865}} Maureen in Norby,{{r|etvs|page1=771}} Mrs. Jackson in Margie,{{r|etvs|page1=655}} and Lenore in Hail to the Chief.{{cite book|last1=Terrace|first1=Vincent|title=Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010|date=2011|publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers|location=Jefferson, N.C.|isbn=978-0-7864-6477-7|page=425|edition=2nd}}
She also appeared in numerous other television series, including: Perry Mason Season4/Episode12 "The Case of the Resolute Reformer" as Grace Witt; The Donna Reed Show, The Asphalt Jungle, Stoney Burke, The Outer Limits, Mr. Novak, The Partridge Family, The Wonder Years, Chicago Hope, Judging Amy{{Citation needed |date=January 2021}} NYPD Blue,{{Citation needed |date=January 2021}} The Twilight Zone,{{Citation needed |date=January 2021}} and Trapper John, MD, as well as the daytime dramas The Edge of Night,{{Citation needed |date=January 2021}} and The Young and the Restless.{{Citation needed |date=January 2021}}
She appeared in TV movies such as Goodbye, Raggedy Ann (1971) and The Suicide Club (1974).{{Citation needed |date=January 2021}} She appeared in feature films such as The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975), Private Benjamin (1980),{{Citation needed |date=January 2021}} Coast to Coast (1980),{{Citation needed |date=January 2021}} and Time Share (2000).{{Citation needed |date=January 2021}}
Personal life
Stuart was married to actors Frank Maxwell{{cite book|last1=III|first1=Harris M. Lentz|title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2013|date=2014|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786476657|page=361|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LQKhAwAAQBAJ&q=%22Maxine+Shlivek%22&pg=PA361|access-date=19 March 2018|language=en}} and later, David Shaw.{{cite news|last1=Dawn|first1=Randee|title=Maxine Stuart, bandaged 'Twilight Zone' patient, soap actress, dies at 94|url=https://www.today.com/popculture/maxine-stuart-bandaged-twilight-zone-patient-soap-actress-dies-94-6C10306979|access-date=19 March 2018|work=Today|date=June 13, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180319022032/https://www.today.com/popculture/maxine-stuart-bandaged-twilight-zone-patient-soap-actress-dies-94-6C10306979|archive-date=19 March 2018}} She was a friend of writer Helene Hanff and is mentioned in Hanff's book 84, Charing Cross Road and is portrayed by Jean De Baer in the 1987 film of the same name.
Death
Maxine Stuart died June 6, 2013, at her Beverly Hills, California home of natural causes at the age of 94.{{cite web|last=Noland|first=Claire|url=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-maxine-stuart-actress-dies-94-20130611,0,5247989.story|title=Maxine Stuart, veteran actress of stage, film and TV, dies at 94 |work=Los Angeles Times|date=June 11, 2013|access-date=July 4, 2013}}
Recognition
For her role in The Wonder Years in 1989, Stuart was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series.{{cite web|title=("Maxine Stuart" search results)|url=http://www.emmys.com/awards/nominations/award-search?search_api_views_fulltext=Maxine+Stuart&submit=Search&field_celebrity_details_field_display_name=&field_show_details_field_nominee_show_nr_title=&field_show_details_field_network=All&field_show_details_field_production_company=All&field_nominations_year=1949-01-01+00%3A00%3A00&field_nominations_year_1=2018-01-01+00%3A00%3A00&field_award_category=All|website=Emmy Awards Database|publisher=Academy of Television Arts & Sciences|access-date=19 March 2018|archive-url=https://archive.today/20180319021527/http://www.emmys.com/awards/nominations/award-search?search_api_views_fulltext=Maxine+Stuart&submit=Search&field_celebrity_details_field_display_name=&field_show_details_field_nominee_show_nr_title=&field_show_details_field_network=All&field_show_details_field_production_company=All&field_nominations_year=1949-01-01+00:00:00&field_nominations_year_1=2018-01-01+00:00:00&field_award_category=All|archive-date=March 19, 2018|url-status=live}}
Filmography
=Film=
| class="wikitable sortable"
! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
| 1959
|Television Agent |Uncredited |
| 1962
|Dottie | |
| 1964
|Peggy | |
| 1964
|Rita | |
| 1969
|Miss Redburne's Mother |Uncredited |
| 1969
|{{sortname|The|Lost Man}} |Miss Harrison | |
| 1970
|Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came |Zelda |also known as War Games, Old Soldiers Never |
| 1971
|Miss Schneider | |
| 1975
|{{sortname|The|Prisoner of Second Avenue}} |Belle | |
| 1977
|Charles' Secretary | |
| 1980
|Sam Klinger | |
| 1980
|Aunt Betty | |
| 1987
|Phyllis, Hammonds' Housekeeper | |
| 2000
|Ruth Farragher | |
=Television=
| class="wikitable sortable"
! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
| 1946
|Sorry, Wrong Number | |TV Movie |
| 1946
|NBC Television Theatre | |Season 1 Episode 2: "Mr. and Mrs. North" |
| 1950
| |Season 1 Episode 6: "The Song the Soldiers Sang" |
| 1950–1951
|Millie / Marcia / Girl |3 episodes |
| 1950–1954
|Josie Trent |3 episodes |
| 1951
| |Season 2 Episode 42: "The Knife & the Number" |
| 1951–1953
|{{sortname|The|Philco Television Playhouse}} | |5 episodes |
| 1952
|{{sortname|The|Web|The Web (1950 TV series)}} | |Season 2 Episode 23: "Friends of the Devil" |
| 1952–1953
|Goodyear Television Playhouse | |2 episodes |
| 1953
|Follow Your Heart | |Series regular |
| 1954
| |Season 1 Episode 31: "King Hakmir Khan" |
| 1954–1955
| |6 episodes |
| 1954–1958
|Sue Hornmeyer / Mrs. Broggi / Anne |4 episodes |
| 1955
|Marie Cameron |Season 7 Episode 34: "A Picture in the Paper" |
| 1955
| |Season 2 Episode 40: "Death Is a Spanish Dancer" |
| 1955
|Maureen |Series regular |
| 1955–1957
|{{sortname|The|Big Story|The Big Story (radio and TV series)}} |Mae / Elaine Manners |2 episodes |
| 1956
|Alice |Season 4 Episode 27: "Easter Gift" |
| 1956–1957
|{{sortname|The|Edge of Night}} |Grace O'Keefe |4 episodes |
| 1957–1958
|True Story | |2 episodes |
| 1959
| |Season 3 Episode 21: "The Ding-A-Ling Girl" |
| 1960
|Velma Dean |Season 1 Episode 21: "The List of Death" |
| 1960
|Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse |Sharley Wynn |Season 2 Episode 14: "The Man in the Funny Suit" |
| 1960
|Adelaide Mitchell |Season 3 Episode 31: "Bentley and the Travel Agent" |
| 1960
|Harriet Flanders |Season 2 Episode 4: "Away from It All" |
| 1960
|{{sortname|The|Twilight Zone|The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)}} |Janet Tyler (under bandages) |Episode: "Eye of the Beholder" |
| 1960
|Jane Koster |Season 3 Episode 12: "The Choice" |
| 1960–1961
|{{sortname|The|DuPont Show with June Allyson}} |Marion Carter / Agnes McCutcheon |2 episodes |
| 1960–1965
|{{sortname|The|Donna Reed Show}} |Ellen Cruikshank / Helena Whitcomb |2 episodes |
| 1961
|Grace Witt |Season 4 Episode 14: "The Case of the Resolute Reformer" |
| 1961
|{{sortname|The|Law and Mr. Jones}} |Mary Cole |Season 1 Episode 17: "The End Justifies the End" |
| 1961
|{{sortname|The|Asphalt Jungle|The Asphalt Jungle (TV series)}} |Helen Gordon |Season 1 Episode 3: "The Friendly Gesture" |
| 1961
|{{sortname|The|Many Loves of Dobie Gillis}} |Mrs. Bean |Season 3 Episode 9: "The Second Most Beautiful Girl in the World" |
| 1962
|Louise |Season 1 Episode 18: "Hazel's Secret Wish" |
| 1962
|Dianne Cartwright |Season 2 Episode 30: "Rendezvous in Washington" |
| 1962
|Sheila Murray |2 episodes |
| 1962
|Jane |Season 2 Episode 1: "In Close Pursuit" |
| 1962
|Ruth Burton |Series regular |
| 1962
|{{sortname|The|Lloyd Bridges Show}} |Miss Elliott |Season 1 Episode 3: "My Child Is Yet a Stranger" |
| 1962–1964
|{{sortname|The|Eleventh Hour|The Eleventh Hour (1962 TV series)}} |Eunice Sanders / Mrs. Henderson |3 episodes |
| 1962–1964
|Nurse Mary Ayers / Admitting Nurse / Nurse Lucy Hyde |7 episodes |
| 1963
|Hilda Pollard |Season 1 Episode 14: "Gold-Plated Maverick" |
| 1963
|{{sortname|The|Outer Limits|The Outer Limits (1963 TV series)}} |Mrs. McCluskey |Episode: "The Man Who Was Never Born" |
| 1963
|May Curtis |Season 1 Episode 9: "Inquest Into a Bleeding Heart" |
| 1963–1964
|Angie / Miss Gardner |2 episodes |
| 1964
|{{sortname|The|Fugitive|The Fugitive (1963 TV series)}} |Mrs. Gaines / Nurse Proctor |2 episodes |
| 1964–1965
|B.J. Clawson |6 episodes |
| 1964–1968
|Mrs. Hewitt |6 episodes |
| 1965
|{{sortname|The|Young Marrieds}} |Martha Coleman |16 episodes (Recurring role) |
| 1966
|Mrs. Cunningham |Season 2 Episode 3: "A-Hunting We Will Go" |
| 1966
|Manager |Season 1 Episode 14: "Phantom of the Horse Opera" |
| 1966–1972
|{{sortname|The|F.B.I.|The F.B.I. (TV series)}} |Mrs. Gennaro / Mrs. Peabody / Mrs. Stone / Bank Employee |4 episodes |
| 1967
|Mrs. Gorman |Season 1 Episode 25: "The Sell Out" |
| 1967
|Nurse #1 |Season 2 Episode 29: "A Man Called Smart: Part 2" |
| 1968
|Mrs. Dawson |Episode dated 18 December |
| 1968
|Myra Jenkins |Season 2 Episode 12: "A Swim with Sharks" |
| 1969
|Inez |Season 1 Episode 10: "Package Deal" |
| 1970
|Parent |Season 2 Episode 11: "The Valediction" |
| 1971
|Travis Logan, D.A. | |TV Movie |
| 1971
|Clerk |TV Movie |
| 1971
| |Season 3 Episode 8: "segment: Love and the Sweet Sixteen" |
| 1971
|{{sortname|The|Bold Ones: The Lawyers}} |Ellen Morley |Season 3 Episode 6: "Justice Is a Sometime Thing" |
| 1972–1974
|Etta, Poker Player / Irene |2 episodes |
| 1972–1974
|{{sortname|The|Partridge Family}} |Mrs. Damion / Gloria Hoffsteader / Miss Halstead |3 episodes |
| 1973
|{{sortname|The|Wide World of Mystery|nolink=1}} |Mrs. Higbee |Season 1 Episode 5: "Suicide Club" |
| 1973
|Ida |Season 2 Episode 10: "The Black Art of Dying" |
| 1973
|{{sortname|The|Streets of San Francisco}} |Nurse Evans |Season 2 Episode 14: "Most Feared in the Jungle" |
| 1974
|Gladys |Season 1 Episode 2: "Sentenced to Burn" |
| 1974
|Mrs. Constantine |Season 1 Episode 6: "Murder on the Thirteenth Floor" |
| 1974
|{{sortname|The|Stranger Who Looks Like Me}} |Mrs. Weiner |TV Movie |
| 1974
|Tell Me Where It Hurts | |TV Movie |
| 1974
|{{sortname|The|Underground Man|The Underground Man (1974 film)}} |Librarian |TV Movie |
| 1974
|Fools, Females and Fun |Miss Bickley |TV Movie |
| 1974
|{{sortname|The|New Land|The New Land (TV series)}} | |Season 1 Episode 4: "The Word Is: Mortal" |
| 1974
|{{sortname|The|Bob Newhart Show}} |Mrs. Chaney |Season 3 Episode 7: "Dr. Ryan's Express" |
| 1974
|Whitman's Secretary |Season 1 Episode 1: "Baptism of Fire" |
| 1975
|Scotty |TV Movie |
| 1975
|Scotty |2 episodes |
| 1975
| |Season 1 Episode 9: "Us Against the World" |
| 1976
|Secretary |Season 1 Episode 2: "Chapter II" |
| 1976–1977
|Marge Newberry |Series regular |
| 1976–1979
|Emily / June |2 episodes |
| 1977
| |Season 1 Episode 1: "Bluebird Is Back" |
| 1977
|Kill Me If You Can |Mrs. Asher |TV Movie |
| 1977
|{{sortname|The|San Pedro Beach Bums}} |Ginny |Season 1 Episode 8: "A Bum Thanksgiving" |
| 1977–1982
|Judge Daley / Margo Hennessy |2 episodes |
| 1979
|{{sortname|The|Seeding of Sarah Burns|nolink=1}} |Flora |TV Movie |
| 1979
|Breaking Up Is Hard to Do |Gracie |TV Movie |
| 1979
|{{sortname|The|Associates|The Associates (American TV series)}} |Mrs. Milestone |Season 1 Episode 6: "The Deadly Serve" |
| 1979–1980
|Ms. Langley |3 episodes |
| 1981
|Revenge of the Gray Gang |Daisy 'Boots' Duffy |TV Movie |
| 1982
|{{sortname|The|Rules of Marriage|nolink=1}} |Ingrid Olsen |TV Movie |
| 1982
|{{sortname|The|Devlin Connection}} | |Season 1 Episode 9: "Arsenic and Old Caviar" |
| 1983
|Rose |Season 2 Episode 21: "A Cry for Help" |
| 1983
|Ruth Grogan |TV Movie |
| 1983–1984
|{{sortname|The|Rousters}} |Amanda Earp |Series regular |
| 1984
|Mrs. Simmons |Season 5 Episode 5: "Bangladesh Slowly" |
| 1985
|Fay Stewart |TV Movie |
| 1985
|Lenore |4 episodes |
| 1987
|Ellen Pearl |Season 1 Episode 13: "Prince Kuzak in a Can" |
| 1987
|Estelle Metzler |Season 1 Episode 1: "Hooperman" |
| 1989
|{{sortname|The|Wonder Years}} |Mrs. Carples |Season 2 Episode 7: "Coda" |
| 1989
|Charlotte Lowell |Season 1 Episode 4: "Mr. Dennis's Neighborhood" |
| 1990
|Olivia Judd |Season 3 Episode 2: "Murder, He Wrote" |
| 1993
|Amy Shoemaker |Season 5 Episode 16: "The Intern" |
| 1993–1994
|Velma Davis |8 episodes |
| 1993–1996
|{{sortname|The|Young and the Restless}} |Margaret Anderson |22 episodes |
| 1993–1997
|Catherine Kelly / Edith Murphy |2 episodes |
| 1994
|{{sortname|The|Haunting of Seacliff Inn}} |Lorraine Adler |TV Movie |
| 1995
|{{sortname|The|Pursuit of Happiness|The Pursuit of Happiness (1995 TV series)}} |Eleanor 'Gram' Rutledge |Series regular |
| 1996–1997
|Harriet Owens |3 episodes |
| 1997
|Mrs. Gunther |Season 2 Episode 13: "Chapter Thirteen, Year Two" |
| 1997
|Murder One: Diary of a Serial Killer |Mrs. Gunther |Miniseries |
| 1998
|Grandma Robbins |Season 4 Episode 18: "Whose Wife Am I, Anyway?" |
| 1998
|Ellie |Season 1 Episode 20: "Felix Culpa" |
| 1999
|Willa, Teenager's Aunt |2 episodes |
| 2002
|Angela Dell |Season 3 Episode 20: "Ties That Bind" |
| 2003
|Jane |Season 4 Episode 15: "Maxine Interrupted" |
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0835798}}
- {{TV Guide person|208077}}
- {{IBDB name|61393}}
- [http://www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/maxine-stuart 2004 Stuart's video interview with Archive of American Television]
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