Stanley, (Patricia Kimberly) Kim

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Stanley, [Patricia Kimberly] Kim [née Reid] (1925–2001), actress. The tall, attractive blonde, whose somewhat high voice and jittery mannerisms exemplified the modern “method school” of acting, was born in Tularosa, New Mexico. She attended the universities of New Mexico and Texas before studying acting at the Pasadena Community Playhouse and at the Actors Studio. Stanley acted in several Off‐Broadway productions and then replaced Julie Harris in Monserrat (1949) before scoring her first major success as the lovesick tomboy sister Millie in Picnic (1953). Among her important later roles were the flashy nightclub singer Cherie in Bus Stop (1955), the innkeeper's daughter Sara Melody in A Touch of the Poet (1958), Freud's patient Elizabeth von Ritter in A Far Country (1961), and Masha in a 1964 revival of The Three Sisters. After suffering a nervous breakdown, she retired from the stage to teach acting.

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