Maureen Stapleton

Mother roles: Teresa Wright in The Actress, with daughter Jean Simmons and husband Spencer Tracy. Teresa Wright in the 1950s: From Marlon Brando leading lady to spinsters and mother roles…

Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh in A Streetcar Named Desire. Marlon Brando movies on TCM Marlon Brando is the first star in the 2011 edition of Turner Classic Movies’ annual…

Bye Bye Birdie lobby card (top); Bobby Rydell, Ann-Margret, Bye Bye Birdie (bottom) A digitally restored print of George Sidney’s 1963 Elvis Presley-inspired satirical musical Bye Bye Birdie, starring Janet…

Warren Beatty in Reds with Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton. Eleven Warren Beatty movies will be shown on Turner Classic Movies on Monday, Aug. 9, as part of TCM’s “Summer Under…

Ninotchka with Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas (top). The Way We Were with Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford (bottom). From the Romanovs’ last stand to Warren Beatty’s first solo directorial…

Reds with Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton, and Warren Beatty. Warren Beatty’s Reds, the best of the five 1981 Academy Award nominees for best picture, will be screened as the next…

The Hard Way with Joan Leslie and Ida Lupino. ‘The Hard Way’ movie at the American Cinematheque: Director Vincent Sherman homage On Tuesday, Aug. 8, at 7:30 p.m., the American…

Robert Hays in Airplane! ‘Airplane!’ movie cast at Academy screening The 1980 Airplane! movie writers/directors Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker, and actor Robert Hays will be among those…

Maureen Stapleton, whose career in film, on stage, and on television spanned more than five decades, died of chronic pulmonary disease on March 13 at her home in Lenox, Mass.…