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The daughter of a well-to-do attorney and a socialite, Jane Bethel Leslie was born on August 3, 1929, in New York City. She was a 15-year-old student at the Brearley School on the Upper East Side when she was discovered by legendary producer George Abbott for the Broadway play "Snafu" in 1944. She quickly became a theatre mainstay with such plays as "The Dancer" (1946), "How I Wonder" (1947), "Goodbye, My Fancy" (1948), "Pygmalion" (1952) and "The Time of the Cuckoo" (1952) under her belt.
In later years she gave stunning theater performances in "Inherit the Wind" (1955), "Career" (1957), and "Catch Me If You Can" (1965), then capped her formidable career with a Tony nomination as drug-addicted mother Mary Tyrone in "Long Day's Journey Into Night" in 1986 opposite Jack Lemmon, Kevin Spacey, and Peter Gallagher. It was subsequently televised.
While not as well known for her movie work, the seriously attractive actress was best utilized as a brittle support player in such films as The Rabbit Trap (1959) and Captain Newman, M.D. (1963). Sporadic filming later included A Rage to Live (1965), The Molly Maguires (1970), Old Boyfriends (1979), Ironweed (1987), and Message in a Bottle (1999). On TV as a teen, her first series was playing Cornelia Otis Skinner in The Girls (1950), in 1950. Throughout the '50s, she appeared in scores of dramatic parts on episodic TV and became one of those faces without a name, playing neurotic or cruel villainesses. TV soaps took up her later years; she appeared in The Doctors (1963), All My Children (1970), and One Life to Live (1968), at various times. At one point, she was a head writer for The Secret Storm (1954).
Bethel died of cancer at age 70, survived by her daughter Leslie McCullough Jeffries.- Lily Monkus was born on 4 January 1948. She was an actress, known for The Fugitive (1993), Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986) and Wendy's: Soviet Fashion Show (1985). She died on 28 November 1999.
- Yevgeniy Shipilo was born on 7 October 1943 in Vidoki, Vitebsk Oblast, Belorussian SSR, USSR. He was an actor, known for Odna noch (1990) and Novaya zyamlya (1982). He died on 28 November 1999.
- Peter Karvas was born on 25 April 1920 in Banská Bystrica, Czechoslovakia. He was a writer, known for The Case of Barnabas Kos (1965), Cert nespi (1957) and Midnight Mass (1962). He died on 28 November 1999 in Bratislava, Slovakia.
- Robert Bingham was born on 14 March 1966 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. He was a producer, known for The Mark of Cain (2001). He was married to Vanessa Scharven Chase. He died on 28 November 1999 in Tribeca, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
- Bernard Robbins was born on 29 May 1913 in New York, New York, USA. He died on 28 November 1999 in Yonkers, New York, USA.