Heckart, (Anna) Eileen

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Heckart, [Anna] Eileen (1919–2001), actress. A native of Columbus, Ohio, she made her New York debut in 1943 and soon rose to important supporting roles in such plays as Picnic (1953), The Bad Seed (1954), A View from the Bridge (1955), and The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1957). Heckart achieved stardom in a failed comedy, Everybody Loves Opal (1961), then went on to play a variety of roles in You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running (1967) and the possessive mother Mrs. Baker in Butterflies Are Free (1969). Later she was more active in regional theatre and television but did appear in the New York productions of Ladies at the Alamo (1977), Eleemosynary (1989), The Cemetery Club (1990), Northeast Local (1995), and The Waverly Gallery (2000).

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