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Beatrice Manley - Actress, Writer, Teacher. Beatrice Manley's sixty-year career in the theater starts on Broadway and ends in the Los Angeles avant-garde. Along the way, she was a co-founder and leading actress in the famed San Francisco Actor's Workshop, where, among her many central parts in dramas ranging across tragedy and comedy, both ...
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Beatrice Manley traveled through the world of American...
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Oct 30, 2002 · Beatrice Manley, an actress, teacher and author who helped launch San Francisco’s famed Actors Workshop, died Sept. 14 in Milwaukee. She was 81.
Beatrice Manley traveled through the world of American theater on a unique itinerary of her own making. She debuted on Broadway in 1941 at the age of twenty where she appeared in Maxwell Anderson's Eve of Saint Mark and Eva le Gallienne's Cherry Orchard.
Beatrice Manley, a Broadway actress who played classics at Lincoln Center and co-founded San Francisco Actors' Workshop with husband Herbert Blau, died Sept. 13 in Milwaukee at the age of 81,...
Oct 15, 2002 · Beatrice Manley, Broadway actress, author, company co-founder and teacher, died Sept. 13 in Milwaukee. She was 81. Bronx native made her stage debut at 20 in the Broadway...
Beatrice Manley was born on 23 May 1921 in The Bronx, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for The Baby (1973), Little Mo (1978) and Bang the Drum Slowly (1973). She was married to Herbert Blau and Albert Freedberg. She died on 13 September 2002 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
Manley has had a unique itinerary since her debut on Broadway at the age of twenty. In the 1960s, as a founding member of the San Francisco Actor's Workshop, she helped present the first West Coast productions of writers like Beckett and Genet; she was also the first actress in America to play the role of Brecht’s Mother Courage.
