Bethel Leslie
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| Born |
Jane Bethel Leslie August 3, 1929 New York City, New York, USA |
| Died | November 28, 1999 (aged 70) New York City |
| Nationality | United States |
| Occupation | Actress, screenwriter |
Jane Bethel Leslie (August 3, 1929 – November 28, 1999) was an American theatre, film, and television actress and a screenwriter.
Born in New York, New York, Leslie's parents were a lawyer, Warren Leslie, and Jane Leslie, a newspaperwoman. She was a student at Brearley School in New York City.
While a 13-year-old student at the Brearley School, Leslie was discovered by George Abbott, who cast her in the play Snafu in 1944. In a 1965 newspaper article, Leslie described herself as "a 'quick study' -- able to learn my lines rather fast."
Over the next four decades she appeared in a number of Broadway productions, including Goodbye, My Fancy (1948), The Time of the Cuckoo (1952), Inherit the Wind (1955), Catch Me If You Can (1965), and Long Day's Journey Into Night (1986).
In 1950, Leslie was cast as Cornelia Otis Skinner in The Girls, a television series based on the author's Our Hearts Were Young and Gay. She departed the show after two months to appear with Helen Hayes in the play The Wisteria Trees, adapted from Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard by Joshua Logan.
Leslie began working in television in the 1940s and frequently was a guest on the many anthology series popular in the early to mid-1950s, such as Studio One and Playhouse 90. She appeared with Ronald W. Reagan and Stafford Repp in the 1960 episode "The Way Home" of CBS's The DuPont Show with June Allyson.
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