Jo Van Fleet

Jo Van Fleet

Birthday: 1915-12-29

Place of Birth: Oakland, California, USA

Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Catherine Josephine Van Fleet (December 30, 1914 – June 10, 1996) was an American stage, film, and television actress. During her long career, which spanned over four decades, she often played characters much older than her actual age. Van Fleet won a Tony Award in 1954 for her performance in the Broadway production The Trip to Bountiful, and the next year she won an Oscar for her supporting role in East of Eden.

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East of Eden
East of Eden

In the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelmin...

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Cool Hand Luke
Cool Hand Luke

When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play...

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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their partic...

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The Tenant
The Tenant

A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit...

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Cinderella
Cinderella

After the success of the live 1957 Cinderella on CBS (with Julie Andrews), the network decided to p...

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I'll Cry Tomorrow
I'll Cry Tomorrow

Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Lillian Roth becomes a star of Broadway and ...

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I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!

Harold Fine is a self-described square - a 35-year-old Los Angeles lawyer who's not looking forward ...

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The King and Four Queens
The King and Four Queens

Opportunistic con man Dan Kehoe ingratiates himself with the cantankerous mother of four outlaws and...

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The Rose Tattoo
The Rose Tattoo

A grieving widow embarks on a new romance when she discovers her late husband had been cheating on h...

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Wild River
Wild River

A young bureaucrat for the Tennessee Valley Authority goes to rural Tennessee to oversee the buildin...

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The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight

A Brooklyn mobster and his gang try to rub out their rivals....

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Seize the Day
Seize the Day

Tommy Wilhelm (Robin Williams) is a salesman. An honest, hard-working guy who has lost his job, his ...

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80 Steps to Jonah
80 Steps to Jonah

Wayne Newton stars as an accused thug hiding out at a camp for blind children....

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This Angry Age
This Angry Age

Twenty-year-old Joseph and his sixteen-year-old sister Suzanne live in the merciless conditions of a...

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Satan's School for Girls
Satan's School for Girls

Satan's School for Girls is set within the grim walls of Fallbridge College for Girls. Hoping to lea...

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Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost

Playwright Clifford Odets' portrait of the Great Depression unfolds in the modest two-family home of...

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Power
Power

Loosely based on the life of Jimmy Hoffa, this traces the rise of Tommy Vanda (Joe Don Baker) from a...

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The Trip to Bountiful
The Trip to Bountiful

A woman has to live with a daughter in law who hates her and a son who does not dare take her side. ...

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Concerning a Woman of Sin
Concerning a Woman of Sin

An unscrupulous agent is able to sell a story by an unknown authoress to a Hollywood studio chief fo...

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The Family Rico
The Family Rico

A Mafia chief is torn between his brother, who has defected from the family, and his loyalty to the ...

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Heidi
Heidi

Johanna Spyri's beloved children's story is given the live-television musical treatment....

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