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Nancy J Donohue 1938 - 2001

Nancy J Donohue of Brooklyn, Kings County, NY was born on November 2, 1938 in New Jersey United States, and died at age 62 years old on March 23, 2001.

Nancy J Donohue

Brooklyn, Kings County, NY 11215

November 2, 1938

New Jersey, United States

March 23, 2001

Female

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Nancy Donohue Performer ( b. Nov 02, 1938 Orange, New Jersey, USA - d. Mar 23, 2001 Brooklyn, New York, USA ) Female Broadway Productions Productions Date of Productions The Runner Stumbles [Play, Original] Performer: Nancy Donohue [Sister Rita] May 18, 1976 - Oct 30, 1978 Never Too Late [Play, Comedy, Original] Understudy: Nancy Donohue [Kate] Nov 27, 1962 - Apr 24, 1965 Filmography Jump to: Actress | Self Hide HideActress (3 credits) 1968-1969 The Doctors (TV Series) Nancy Bennet - Episode #1.1784 (1969) ... Nancy Bennet - Episode #1.1781 (1969) ... Nancy Bennet (credit only) - Episode #1.1780 (1969) ... Nancy Bennet (uncredited) - Episode #1.1776 (1969) ... Nancy Bennet (credit only) - Episode #1.1775 (1969) ... Nancy Bennet (uncredited) Show all 120 episodes 1968 Fireball Jungle Ann Tracey 1961-1962 Car 54, Where Are You? (TV Series) Cathy Muldoon - The Sacrifice (1962) ... Cathy Muldoon (as Nancy Donahue) - Love Finds Muldoon (1961) ... Cathy Muldoon - Muldoon's Star (1961) ... Cathy Muldoon Hide HideSelf (1 credit) 1987 Working in the Theatre (TV Series documentary) Herself - Playwright & Director (1987) ... Herself Edit Personal Details Other Works: (1978-1979 season) Her play, "The Beach House," was performed in a play reading at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut. Her producer was Charles Forsythe. There was a handwritten note to him. She was using a handwritten resume which looked nutty. I paid to have it typeset because this was before computers. She rejected it and decided to use her handwritten one AND NEVER WORKED AS AN ACTRESS AGAIN!
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1938

Birthday

November 2, 1938

Birthdate

New Jersey United States

Birthplace

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Professional Career

On May 18th, 1976, The Runner Stumbles opened on Broadway at the Little Theatre. Pendleton kept the original cast from the Stamford run. The cast were by no means stars, although they were well-respected. Stephen Joyce (Father Rivard) had a long list of television credits, including Rawhide with Clint Eastwood, and a few Broadway credits, including The School for Wives at the Lyceum. The New York Times Mel Gussow noted that Joyce had the most difficult role because of Father Rivard’s challenging shifts in mood, yet Joyce handled “the ruptures in temperament with extraordinary agility.” Critics were especially fond of newcomer Nancy Donohue as Sister Rita. Barnes wrote that Donohue “can give innocence a meaning, and winkle out the sentiment in sentimentality.” Linda Lawrence singled out Donohue as well, but also commended the entire cast. Despite the performances, Lawrence felt that the play seemed like a work in progress, “still in the process of becoming.” The first few days after opening night, the theater was near empty. But after mostly positive reviews and word of mouth, the theater slowly filled. Ultimately the show would run for nearly four hundred performances and was listed as Best Broadway Play in the 1976 Burns Mantle Best Play Series. In 1979 a film version of the play was produced with Stanley Kramer as director. Kramer had been nominated for three Oscars as director of The Defiant Ones (1959), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1962). Unlike the stage version, the film featured a star-studded cast including Dick van Dyke as Father Rivard, Kathleen Quinlan as Sister Rita and Maureen Stapleton as Mrs. Shandig. The critics did not respond well to the film adaptation, criticizing Kramer’s direction in particular. Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote that “Mr. Kramer is evidently at a loss…an all-star cast is probably not what an already distracted film like The Runner Stumbles needed.” Both Rex Reed and Roger Ebert found the flashbacks from the courtroom scene “annoying.” But Archer Winstein found merit in the tale itself, “a beautiful, muted, tragic story.” Even Ebert admitted that in “it’s relentlessly old-fashioned way, The Runner Stumbles has a sort of dramatic persistence: it’s not great, but it’s there.”
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2001

Death

March 23, 2001

Death date

Unknown
Cause of death

Unknown
Death location

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Obituary

Nancy Donohue Performer ( b. Nov 02, 1938 Orange, New Jersey, USA - d. Mar 23, 2001 Brooklyn, New York, USA ) Female Broadway Productions Productions Date of Productions The Runner Stumbles [Play, Original] Performer: Nancy Donohue [Sister Rita] May 18, 1976 - Oct 30, 1978 Never Too Late [Play, Comedy, Original] Understudy: Nancy Donohue [Kate] Nov 27, 1962 - Apr 24, 1965

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