Eileen Heckart ( March 29, 1919 – December 31, 2001 ) was an American actress of film, stage, and television.

Heckart was born Anna Eileen Herbert in Columbus, Ohio, the daughter of Esther Stark, who wed Leo Herbert at her own mother's insistence so her child would not be born with the stigma of illegitimacy.

Heckart, whose surname she was known by her whole life.

Heckart won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her work in the 1972 movie adaptation of Butterflies Are Free and was nominated in 1956 for her performance as the bereaved, besotted Mrs. Daigle in The Bad Seed.

Heckart was married to John Harrison Yankee, Jr. from 1942 until his death in 1997.

In 2005, the Eileen Heckart Drama for Seniors Competition was established in her memory by Ohio State's Department of Theatre.

More recently, she was seen on One Life to Live ( 1993 ), replacing fellow stage legend Eileen Heckart as Wilma Bern.

Despite the show's connection with The Mary Tyler Moore Show, none of that series ' other regular characters ever appeared ( and were not referred to onscreen ); the only other " crossover " character was MTM recurring character Flo Meredith ( Eileen Heckart ) ( Mary Richards ' aunt ), a churlish veteran journalist with whom Lou had had a brief fling while in Minneapolis, and who appeared on a single episode of Lou Grant.

This production was directed by Martin Ritt and the cast included Van Heflin as Eddie and Eileen Heckart as Beatrice.

In the San Francisco of the 1970s, Don Baker ( Edward Albert ), who was born blind, has lived all his life with his mother ( Eileen Heckart ).

This mini-series was nominated for 11 Emmy Awards including: Outstanding Limited Series, Best Actress ( Olivia Cole ), Best Actor ( Louis Gossett Jr .), Best Supporting Actress ( both Eileen Heckart and Celeste Holm ), Best Supporting Actor ( both Ed Flanders and Robert Vaughn ), Outstanding Teleplay ( Part 1 ), Outstanding Teleplay ( Part 1 ), Outstanding Art Direction / Set Decoration ( Part 1 ), and two other technical awards.

Her son Luke Yankee is the author of Just Outside the Spotlight: Growing Up with Eileen Heckart ( ISBN 0-8230-7888-4 ), published by Back Stage Books in 2006.

She established the " Eileen Heckart Collection " at Ohio State University's Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute, with her notes, copies of scripts, and personal papers.

He went out with a woman named Charlene ( Sheree North ; Janis Paige in " Menage-a-Lou " of Season 6 ) in particularly Season 5 ; Mary's best friend Rhoda Morgenstern in Season 4 ; Mary's next-door neighbor, Paula Kovacks ( Penny Marshall ) in Season 6 ; Mary's Aunt Flo ( Eileen Heckart ) in Seasons 6 and 7 ; and even with Mary herself in the penultimate episode.

The Trip to Bountiful premiered March 1, 1953 on NBC-TV, directed by Vincent J. Donehue with Lillian Gish, Eileen Heckart and Eva Marie Saint.

For the next several years he worked steadily in commercials and on stage with emerging talents like Robert Drivas, Gene Hackman, Doris Roberts and Brenda Vaccaro and established stars such as Eileen Heckart, Jason Robards, Christopher Plummer, and Roddy McDowall.

At the 14th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards in 1987, Shipp won the Outstanding Guest Performer Award ( in a category that included Celeste Holm, Eileen Heckart, and Terrance Mann ) becoming the only actor with consecutive wins from two different daytime dramas.

Under Ms Lortel's guidance The White Barn premiered plays ( many of which enjoyed successful transfers to commercial theatres ) such as: George C. Wolfe and Lawrence Bearson's Ivory Tower with Eva Marie Saint ( 1947 ); Sean O ' Casey's Red Roses for Me ( 1948 ); Eugene Ionesco's The Chairs ( 1957 ); Archibald MacLeish's This Music Crept by Me Upon the Waters ( 1959 ); Edward Albee's Fam and Yam ( 1960 ); Samuel Beckett's Embers ( 1960 ); Murray Schisgal's The Typists ( 1961 ); Adrienne Kennedy's The Owl Answers ( 1965 ); Norman Rosten's Come Slowly Eden ( 1966 ); Paul Zindel's The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds ( 1966 ); Terrence McNally's Next ( 1967 ); Barbara Wersba's The Dream Watcher starring Eva Le Gallienne ( 1975 ); June Havoc's Nuts for the Underman ( 1977 ); David Allen's Cheapside starring Cherry Jones ( which Ms. Lortel later co-produced at the Half Moon Theatre in London ); and Margaret Sanger's Unfinished Business, starring Eileen Heckart ( 1989 ).

Bus Stop ( also known as The Wrong Kind of Girl ) is a 1956 film directed by Joshua Logan for 20th Century Fox, starring Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray, Arthur O ' Connell, Betty Field, Eileen Heckart, Robert Bray and Hope Lange.

The following are well-known actors who feature in guest-starring roles on Rhoda: Henry Winkler, Vivian Vance, Eileen Heckart, John Ritter, Norman Fell, Doris Roberts, Joan Van Ark, Tim Matheson, Linda Lavin, Judd Hirsch, Ruth Gordon, Howard Hessman, Anne Jackson, Robert Alda, David Ogden Stiers, Jerry Stiller, Jack Gilford, Rene Auberjonois.

Eve Arden, Desi Arnaz, Fred Berry, Joan Blondell, George Burns ( as himself ), Ruth Buzzi ( as Chloe Beesmeyer, Henry's wife ), Robert Goulet, Joel Grey ( as himself ), Eileen Heckart ( as Rose Hyatt, Alice's interfering mother in-law ), Florence Henderson, Jay Leno, Nancy McKeon ( Philip's sister, appeared twice in different roles ), Frank Nelson, Donald O ' Conner ( as himself ), Jerry Reed, Debbie Reynolds, Telly Savalas ( as himself ), and Jerry Stiller.

In the morning, Don's mother, Mrs. Baker ( Eileen Heckart ), gives Don a surprise visit.

* Eileen Heckart as Mrs. Baker

This version featured Julie Harris, Christopher Plummer, Hume Cronyn, Eileen Heckart and Jason Robards.

* March 29 – Eileen Heckart, American actress ( d. 2001 )

Heckart began her Broadway career as the assistant stage manager and an understudy for The Voice of the Turtle in 1943.

Heckart played Diane Keaton's meddling mother in the 1996 comedy film The First Wives Club.

Heckart played two unrelated characters on the daytime soap opera One Life to Live.

On December 31, 2001, Heckart died of lung cancer at her home in Norwalk, Connecticut at the age of 82.

Heckart has a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6162 Hollywood Blvd.

* 30 – Eileen Heckart, 82, Oscar-winning American actor.

* Eleanor Roosevelt-Eileen Heckart

Other actors include: Willie Aames, Anne Archer, Parley Baer, Jonathan Banks, Don " Red " Barry, Billy Barty, Richard Basehart, Ralph Bellamy, Lucille Benson, Ray Bolger, Ernest Borgnine, Todd Bridges, Joshua Bryant, Red Buttons, Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, Tom Clancy, Matt Clark, Jeff Corey, Nicolas Coster, Johnny Crawford, James Cromwell, David Faustino, Gil Gerard, Louis Gossett, Jr., Mariette Hartley, Eileen Heckart, Arthur Hill, John Hillerman, Rance Howard, Ernie Hudson, Rick Hurst, John Ireland, Burl Ives, Richard Jaeckel, Celia Kaye, Tom Lester, Robert Loggia, Mike Lookinland, Chuck McCann, Jan Merlin, Richard Mulligan, Patricia Neal, Georg Olden, Sean Penn ( uncredited ), Chris Petersen, Bill Quinn, Anne Ramsey, Madeleine Stowe, Ford Rainey, Kim Richards, Bing Russell, William Schallert, Kathryn Leigh Scott, Ronnie Scribner, Paula Shaw, Eric Shea, Raymond St. Jacques, Liam Sullivan, and Dolph Sweet.

* Eileen Heckart as Mary Jackson

* TCM Remembers 2002: William Warfield, director George Sidney, Signe Hasso, Brad Dexter, producer Lew Wasserman, Ted Ashley, Lawrence Tierney, Leo McKern, Kim Hunter, John Agar, Jeff Corey, Dolores Gray, producer J. Lee Thompson, Eddie Bracken, Katy Jurado, animator Chuck Jones, Harold Russell, Eileen Heckart, Jack Kruschen, Buddy Lester, Adolph Green, director André de Toth, producer Richard Sylbert, Milton Berle, director Billy Wilder, director John Frankenheimer, Dudley Moore, Richard Harris, Rod Steiger and James Coburn.

" The review further praises the acting of Goldie Hawn, saying: " Hawn, funny and touching, is a delight throughout and Heckart gets a film role that enables her to display versatility.

" Time praised the acting of both Edward Albert and Eileen Heckart: " Edward Albert, the son of Actor Edward Albert, is creditable as the blind boy, and Eileen Heckart is appropriately hateful as the mother, although she is unable to be convincing in her transformation.

It was a disturbingly familiar face, too, but I couldn't remember where we had met.

It was also subtly familiar, for it was the odor of the human body, but multiplied innumerable times because of the fact that the aborigines never bathed.

I was familiar with Pilgrim's Progress, which I read as literature.

it was Baker who thought of lessening the shock, which conscription always brings to a country, by substituting `` Greetings from your neighbors '' for the recruiting sergeant, and registration in familiar voting places rather than at military installations.

It was a part so familiar to him that he did not bother to think about it any more.

At a siding, another train which was a familiar sight these days.

The place was evidently a familiar haunt and Claire wondered what other illicit loves had been celebrated in the comfortable rooms to which they were shown.

But after the doctor's return that night Alex could see, from the high window in his own room, the now familiar figure crouched on a truly impressive heap of towels, apparently giving its egg-hatching powers one final chance before it was replaced in its office by a sure-enough hen.

The old way of doing things, which depended on a relatively stable community with stable ideas dealing with familiar situations, was no longer adequate to the task.

Others left the country, and there was no one familiar with the Indian trade.

He was familiar with this type.

Again there was something familiar about her, something --

The large sign, formerly reading " University of Lawsonomy ", was a familiar landmark for motorists in the region for many years and was visible from I-94 about 13 miles north of the Illinois state line, on the east side of the highway.

Benjamin Franklin was familiar with Antoine, as they were both members of the " Benjamin Franklin inquiries " into Mesmer and animal magnetism.

He says in the page 114 of his autobiography that he was responsible for the null set symbol ( Ø ) and it came from the Norwegian alphabet, with which he alone among the Bourbaki group was familiar.

The system of Chinese astrology was elaborated during the Zhou dynasty ( 1046 – 256 BC ) and flourished during the Han Dynasty ( 2nd century BC to 2nd century AD ), during which all the familiar elements of traditional Chinese culture – the Yin-Yang philosophy, theory of the 5 elements, Heaven and Earth, Confucian morality – were brought together to formalise the philosophical principles of Chinese medicine and divination, astrology and alchemy.

It was in Bologna that Dürer was taught ( possibly by Luca Pacioli or Bramante ) the principles of linear perspective, and evidently became familiar with the ' costruzione legittima ' in a written description of these principles found only, at this time, in the unpublished treatise of Piero della Francesca.

He was also familiar with the ' abbreviated construction ' as described by Alberti and the geometrical construction of shadows, a technique of Leonardo da Vinci.

From his chronicles it is apparent that he was familiar with a number of authors.

He also hosted similar vehicles on the radio — and was a familiar celebrity guest on various other broadcast programs, including the long-running NBC radio series, Monitor.

He was also familiar with the theories of various philosophical schools, and in particular with the developments of Neo-Platonism.