Highest rated movie: Klute (1971)
Lowest rated movie: Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (1998)
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Movies starring Jean Stapleton have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 63%.
Klute - released in 1971 - is Jean Stapleton's highest rated movie, with a score of 73% based on 278 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Jean Stapleton is Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World - released in 1998 - with a score of 44% based on 349 reviews.
Jean Stapleton was born Jeanne Murray in Manhattan, New York City, to Marie A. (Stapleton), an opera singer, and Joseph Edward Murray, a billboard advertising salesman. Her paternal grandparents were Irish. She was a cousin of actress Betty Jane Watson. Other relatives in show business were her uncle Joseph E. Deming, a vaudevillian; and her brother Jack Stapleton, a stage actor. She graduated from Wadleigh High School, NYC, in 1939, and attended Hunter College. She worked as a secretary before becoming an actress. Stapleton made her stage debut at the Greenwood Playhouse, Peaks Island, Maine, in the summer of 1941, and her New York stage debut in "The Corn Is Green" (1948). She appeared on Broadway in the musicals "Damn Yankees" (1955) and "Bells Are Ringing" (1956), and later repeated her roles in the movie versions (Damn Yankees (1958) and Bells Are Ringing (1960)). Her other Broadway roles included the original companies of "Rhinoceros" (1961) and "Funny Girl" (1964). Stapleton so played Abby Brewster in the 1986-87 revival of "Arsenic and Old Lace".
Jean Stapleton has acted in films with Dave Chappelle, Teri Garr, Dianne Dreyer and Hubert H. Humphrey.
Jean Stapleton has worked with these film directors: Nora Ephron, Lee Grant, Vincente Minnelli and Norman Lear.
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