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Lee Grant is an American actress who has had a long career in film and television. Without additional context about her specific achievements or historical significance, I cannot provide an accurate explanation of why she particularly matters to general audiences.
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- I Said Yes to Everything
- Everybody on the truck!
- Our Vanishing Americana
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Lee Grant (born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal; October 31, 1925) is an American actress and director. She made her film debut in 1951 as a young shoplifter in William Wyler's Detective Story, co-starring Kirk Douglas and Eleanor Parker. This role earned her an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress as well as the Best Actress Award at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival. In 1952 she was blacklisted…
Known for
- Sidney Poitier - The Man Who Changed Hollywood — Self2023
- Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster — Self2021
- Killian & the Comeback Kids — Ms. Hunter (voice)2020
- Hal — Self2019
- Scandal: The Trial of Mary Astor — Narrator (voice)2018
- Seeing is Believing: Women Direct — Self2017
- Truth and Lies: The Family Manson2017
- Actresses Turned Producer/Directors2014
- Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women — Self2014
- Tribute To Burgess Meredith — Self (voice)2006
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 53
- Total plays
- 126
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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- Common method biases in behavioral research: A critical review of the literature and recommended remedies.
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- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
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- Coefficient Alpha and the Internal Structure of Tests
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- Particle mesh Ewald: An <i>N</i>⋅log(<i>N</i>) method for Ewald sums in large systems
· 1993 · cited 29,197x
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Quotes
- “I was a bird imitating the birds. And so it was their kind of imaginary world that I was raised in, and it was part delicious and part confusing.”
- “The 1950s and early '60s were emotionally rough for me. In 1950, when I was 23, I was named a Communist by Red Channels, an anti-Communist pamphlet, and was blacklisted by Hollywood from 1952 until the early 1960s.”
- “It was like, one day you were an actress who could do anything, and the very next day, you could not work in film or television again. And that was the temper of the times.”
- “I had 12 years to make up for. I'm a very practical person. I had to support myself, I had to support my daughter, and I had to work. And if the way that I could work was to have the years taken off my age at that time, I was desperate to do it. I had to be able to go from one job to another and be pretty. And I achieved that for a good long time. I made up those 12 years.”
- “I think the most important impetus in life, is that it not be boring. The fear of boredom drove me more than any yearning for something I wanted to achieve.”
- “I don’t use a typewriter or a computer, so everything was written by pen and ink by my little desk. It took me four years to complete it, and as you can see, it wasn’t an easy book to write.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Lyova Haskell Rosenthal , October 31, during the mid-1920s (age 98– 100), New York City, U.S.
- Alma mater
- Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre , Actors Studio
- Occupations
- Actress director
- Years active
- 1931–present
- Spouses
- Arnold Manoff ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1951 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1960 ) Joseph Feury ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1970 )
- Children
- 2, including Dinah Manoff
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Lee Grant (born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal; October 31, during the mid-1920s) is an American actress, documentarian, and director. In a career spanning over eight decades, she won an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Directors Guild of America Award, in addition to nominations for five Golden Globe Awards. She is one of the last surviving actors of the Hollywood blacklist era.
Having begun her career as a child performing in stage ballet, Grant rose to prominence as an adult on Broadway, making her debut in Detective Story (1949) as the Shoplifter. She reprised the role in the film adaptation (1951), earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress and winning the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress. Her career was interrupted when she was blacklisted for 12 years after refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee. During this period, she worked as an acting teacher and took minor television and theater roles under pseudonyms.