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Fata Morgana

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Nov 30, 1999, 3:00:00 AM11/30/99
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NEW YORK (AP) -

Bethel Leslie, a Tony-nominated actress in theater, films and television shows such as
``Gunsmoke,'' died Sunday of cancer. She was 70.

Ms. Leslie was a 15-year-old student when she was discovered by producer George Abbott,
who cast her as the girl next door in the 1944 Broadway production of the comedy
``Snafu.'' She appeared in 10 Broadway plays before she was 25 and acted alongside Fredric
March, Sam Wanamaker and Helen Hayes, among others.

In 1955, she played the conflicted daughter of a Bible-wielding reverend in ``Inherit the
Wind.'' The show earned her strong reviews and a ticket to Hollywood, where she appeared
on ``Gunsmoke,'' ``Perry Mason'' and ``The Fugitive.''

Ms. Leslie's first film was 1964's ``Captain Newman, M.D.,'' in which she played the wife
of a traumatized Air Force pilot, played by Robert Duvall.

She returned to New York in 1965, appearing on stage and in soap operas.

In 1986, she was nominated for a Tony for her work as the morphine-addicted mother in
Eugene O'Neill's ``Long Day's Journey into Night.''

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Fata Morgana

klk Beadworks

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Nov 30, 1999, 3:00:00 AM11/30/99
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Fata Morgana wrote:
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> NEW YORK (AP) -
>
> Bethel Leslie, a Tony-nominated actress in theater, films and television shows such as
> ``Gunsmoke,'' died Sunday of cancer. She was 70.

Is there a photo of her somewhere? The name sounds
familiar enough to drive me nutz trying to conjure up a
mental image...

Fata Morgana

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Nov 30, 1999, 3:00:00 AM11/30/99
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On Tue, 30 Nov 1999 10:23:43 -0600, klk Beadworks <ke...@mindspring.com> wrote:

>> Bethel Leslie, a Tony-nominated actress in theater, films and television shows such as
>> ``Gunsmoke,'' died Sunday of cancer. She was 70.
>
>Is there a photo of her somewhere? The name sounds familiar enough to drive me nutz trying to conjure up a
>mental image...

Try http://www.spacey.com/journey1.htm . She is there along with Jack Lemmon, Kevin Spacey
and Peter Gallagher.

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Fata Morgana


Laurie D. T. Mann

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Nov 30, 1999, 3:00:00 AM11/30/99
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I'm pretty sure she was on The Doctors soap opera back in the '60s
playing Maggie.
(IMDB doesn't have a complete cast list for The Doctors, since I know
Gil Gerard and Kathleen Turner were both on it early in their careers,
so they
might have missed Bethel Leslie, too.)

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TheCher18

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Dec 1, 1999, 3:00:00 AM12/1/99
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Yes she did play Maggie on the Doctors. Her obit says that she was head writer
for Secret Storm but the imdb doesn't mention that either.
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Jim Beaver

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Dec 2, 1999, 3:00:00 AM12/2/99
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TheCher18 <thec...@aol.com> wrote in message
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> Yes she did play Maggie on the Doctors. Her obit says that she was head
writer
> for Secret Storm but the imdb doesn't mention that either

That's because the IMDb doesn't list TV series writers.

Jim Beaver

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