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Catherine Josephine Van Fleet (December 30, 1914, despite a reference to December 29, 1915^[1]During her Naked In Peru career, which spanned over four decades, she often played characters much older than her actual age. Van Fleet won a Tony Award in 1954 for her performance in the Broadway production The Trip to Bountiful, and the next year she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her supporting role in East of Eden.^[2]

Early life and training[edit]

Josephine was born in 1914 in Oakland, California, the younger of two daughters of Indiana and Michigan natives Roy H. Van Jo Wilson Naked and Elizabeth "Bessie" Catherine (née Gardner).^[3][4] Her father Roy worked for the railroads, but died of a streptococcus throat infection which was lanced, inadvertently spreading the disease throughout his body. Federal census records show that by age five Josephine, her 18-year-old sister Corinne, and their mother were living in Oakland with Bessie's relatives, Ralph and Mary Gardner.^[5] To help support herself and her two daughters at her parents' home, Bessie, who had been widowed by 1920, worked as a "sales lady" in an Oakland dry goods store.^[5]

She continued her theatrical training in a graduate program at the College of the Pacific in Stockton, California.^[6] She moved after her graduation from her masters program to New York City, where she continued her training with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse.^[6][7]

Career[edit]

Uncle Harry at the National Theatre in Washington, D.C.^[8][9] Two years later, in New York, she distinguished herself as well on Broadway by her performances as Dorcas in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale; and yet again, in 1950, as Regan opposite Louis Calhern in King Lear.^[2] She won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play in 1954 for her portrayal of Jessie Mae Watts in Horton Foote's The Trip to Bountiful, costarring Lillian Gish and Eva Marie Saint.

Elia Kazan and Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio in New York.^[8] Kazan in 1952 directed her in the play Flight to Egypt and the following year in Camino Real. In 1954 he encouraged her to work in films in Hollywood. There Kazan cast her in his screen adaptation of John Steinbeck's East of Eden (1955) for Warner Bros. In that production—her film debut—Van Fleet portrays Cathy Ames, the mother of James Dean's character.^[2] Her performance, Jo Wilson Naked was widely praised by critics, won her an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her subsequent film work was steady through 1960 and included films such as The Rose Tattoo (1955), I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955), The King and Four Queens (1956), and Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957). Her career, however, did not progress as she had hoped. '"^[2] In an interview for the Los Angeles Caprice Bourret Nude Pics after her Oscar-winning performance in East of Eden, Van Fleet openly expressed her concerns "about being typecast in tragic roles".^[8]

Van Fleet and Perkins in the Broadway production Look Homeward, Angel (1957)

In 1958, Van Fleet was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance in Look Homeward, Angel, in which she played the acquisitive mother of Anthony Perkins' character. Her later films included Wild River (1960), one of the productions in which she played a Jo Wilson Naked far older than her actual age. Only age 45 at the time of Wild River, Van Fleet spent five hours every morning getting into make-up for her role as Ella, the 89-year-old matriarch of the Garth family.^[2] Some of her other notable roles include the Wicked Stepmother in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella (1965), Paul Newman's mother in Cool Hand Luke (1967), and the mother in I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (1968). Jo Wilson Naked Fleet's work on television included such series as Naked City, Thriller, Bonanza, The Wild Wild West, and Police Woman. Shrike in the 1956 episode "Shopping for Death" on Alfred Hitchcock Presents.^[10][11]

Personal life and death[edit]

Van Fleet in 1946 married choreographer William G. Bales, and they remained together until his death in 1990.^[6] The couple had one child, Michael.

Hollywood Walk of Fame.^[12] It is located at 7010 Hollywood Boulevard.^[12] Politically, she identified herself as a Democrat, and in the 1952 United States presidential election she supported Adlai Stevenson.^[13]

Van Fleet, at age 81, Youtube Shamless Naked Actors from undisclosed causes in New York City at Jamaica Hospital in Queens. Her body was cremated and her ashes were returned to her family.^[14]

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