Julie Harris
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− | '''Julie Harris''', US Actress who played in [[East of Eden]], [[Reflections in a Golden Eye]], [http://sites.google.com/site/movielegends/a-doll-s-house A Doll's House] and [[The Haunting]] (among others) | + | '''Julie Harris''', US Actress, born 2 Dec 1925, who played in [[East of Eden]], [[Reflections in a Golden Eye]], [http://sites.google.com/site/movielegends/a-doll-s-house A Doll's House] and [[The Haunting]] (among others). She has won five Tony awards, and three Emmy awards. |
− | + | Julia Ann Harris was born 2 Dec 1925 in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, the daughter of Elsie L. Smith, a nurse, and her husband William Pickett Harris, an investment banker. | |
− | + | Her screen debut was in 1952 in ''The Member of the Wedding''. | |
− | In [[The Haunting]] Julie plays a daughter who nursed her mother until her mother died. Her | + | In the 1955 movie [[East of Eden]], Julie is a young girl engaged to Aaron Trask (played by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Davalos Richard Davalos]), but realizing that she is really in love with his brother Cal Trask (played by [[James Dean]]). |
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+ | In the 1963 movie [[The Haunting]] Julie plays Eleanor, a daughter who nursed her mother until her mother died. Her resentment about that is a focal point affecting the poltergeists and other spirits in the house that her parapsychology group is investigating. | ||
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+ | In the 1967 movie [[Reflections in a Golden Eye]], Julie is the wife of the commander of the base, trying to recover from madness. While [[Elizabeth Taylor]] plays the wife of [[Marlon Brando]], their next-door neighbors. |