Elaine Stritch
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Straight out of finishing school, American actress Elaine Stritch laid the groundwork for her career by studying drama at New York's New School. Stritch's first stage appearance was in 1944, and her Broadway bow was in 1946. A superlative dramatic actress, Ms. Stritch also excelled in musical comedy, a genre she returned to off and on into the '90s. After her film debut in The Scarlet Hour (1956), Stritch contributed a compelling performance to the 1957 remake of A Farewell to Arms, but wouldn't make another truly worthwhile film (worthwhile to her, that is) until the French-filmed Providence in 1970. On television, Stritch starred in the the pioneering 1948 domestic comedy Growing Paynes, the short-lived 1960 sitcom My Sister Eileen, and costarred as the star's mother in The Ellen Burstyn Show (1986). She was also a member of the supporting comedy troupe on the 1949 TVer Jack Carter and Company, a comic switchboard operator on the bi-weekly 1956 variety series Washington Square, and Peter Falk's secretary on the one-season Trials of O'Brien (1965). In 1972, Ms. Stritch moved to London as a cast member of the Broadway hit Company and remained there to work for several years. In the last decade, Elaine Stritch has appeared in such films as September (1988) and Cocoon (1990), and has won additional critical plaudits for her role as Parthy Hawkes in the lavish 1994 Broadway revival of Show Boat. Her on-screen work included projects such as Krippendorf's Tribe, Autumn in New York, Screwed, and the working-class musical Romance & Cigarettes. She was part of Jane Fonda's comeback vehicle Monster-In-Law, and in 2012 she lent he voice to the animated family film ParaNorman. She had a recurring role as Colleen Donaghy, Jack's mother, on 30 Rock, which earned her an Emmy Award in 2007. She died in 2014 at age 89.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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58% | Always at the Carlyle |
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— | 2018 |
No Score Yet | River Of Fundament |
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$43.6k | 2015 |
99% | Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me |
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$0.4M | 2014 |
No Score Yet | Show Stopper: The Theatrical Life of Garth Drabinsky |
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— | 2012 |
89% | ParaNorman |
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$56M | 2012 |
52% | Romance & Cigarettes |
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$0.4M | 2007 |
18% | Monster-in-Law |
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$82.9M | 2005 |
83% | Broadway: The Golden Age |
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— | 2004 |
No Score Yet | Paradise |
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— | 2004 |
No Score Yet | Elaine Stritch at Liberty |
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— | 2002 |
19% | Autumn in New York |
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— | 2000 |
66% | Small Time Crooks |
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— | 2000 |
13% | Screwed |
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— | 2000 |
16% | Krippendorf's Tribe |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | The Noel Coward Trilogy |
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— | 1998 |
36% | Out to Sea |
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— | 1997 |
No Score Yet | An Unexpected Life |
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— | 1997 |
No Score Yet | An Inconvenient Woman |
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— | 1991 |
55% | Cadillac Man |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | Sparks: The Price of Passion |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | Runaway Heart |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | The Secret Life of Archie's Wife |
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— | 1990 |
33% | Cocoon: The Return |
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— | 1988 |
67% | September |
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— | 1987 |
No Score Yet | Follies in Concert |
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— | 1985 |
No Score Yet | Follies in Concert |
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— | 1978 |
80% | Providence |
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— | 1977 |
No Score Yet | The Spiral Staircase |
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— | 1975 |
No Score Yet | Pollyanna |
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— | 1973 |
No Score Yet | Who Killed Teddy Bear |
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— | 1965 |
No Score Yet | The Perfect Furlough (Strictly for Pleasure) |
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— | 1958 |
0% | A Farewell To Arms |
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— | 1957 |
No Score Yet | Three Violent People |
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— | 1957 |
No Score Yet | Gun Fury |
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— | 1953 |
TV
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Sunday Morning
2011-2018
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78% |
30 Rock
2006-2020
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Great Performances
2000
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In Performance at the White House
2010-2016
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The Wendy Williams Show
2008-2020
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No Score Yet |
3rd Rock from the Sun
1996-2001
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No Score Yet |
Law & Order
1990-2010
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No Score Yet |
American Playhouse
1982-1996
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No Score Yet |
Head of the Class
1986-1991
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No Score Yet |
The Cosby Show
1984-1992
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No Score Yet |
Trapper John, M.D.
1979-1986
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No Score Yet |
Tales of the Unexpected
1979-1988
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Quotes from Elaine Stritch's Characters
Grandma: | There's nothing wrong with being scared, Norman, as long as it doesn't change who you are |
Grandma: | There's nothing wrong with being scared, Norman, as long as it doesn't change who you. are |
Grandma: | There's nothing wrong with being scared, Norman, as long as it doesn't change who you are. |