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Mary Janice Rule (August 15, 1931 – October 17, 2003) was an American actress "at her most convincing playing embittered, neurotic socialites".〔(Obituary: Janice Rule ), ''Daily Telegraph'' (London), October 24, 2003〕 ==Acting career== Janice Rule was born in Norwood, Ohio, to parents of Irish origin.〔Ann Guerin ("If Ben Gazzara Gets Hung Up, the Analyst Is Always In: It's His Wife, Janice Rule" ), ''People'' (magazine), 5:25, June 28, 1976〕 Her father was a dealer in industrial diamonds.〔Kenneth Jones ("Janice Rule, of Broadway's Picnic, Dead at 72" ), ''Playbill'', October 22, 2003〕 She began dancing at the Chez Paree nightclub at fifteen, which paid for ballet lessons,〔 and was a dancer in the 1949 Broadway production of ''Miss Liberty''.〔 Rule also studied acting at the Chicago Professional School.〔 She was pictured on the cover of ''Life'' magazine of January 8, 1951, as being someone to watch in the entertainment industry.〔Ben Sisario ("Janice Rule, 72, Film Actress Who Became a Psychoanalyst" ), ''New York Times'', October 22, 2003〕 Given a contract by Warner Bros., her first credited screen role was as Virginia in ''Goodbye My Fancy'' (1951), which featured Joan Crawford in the lead. The established star though, belittled the younger woman, making her work on the film difficult, although it should be noted that Joan Crawford years later wrote a letter of apology to Ms. Rule for treating her badly on this film. 〔〔For a summary of various accounts, see Lawrence J. Quirk and William Schoell ''Joan Crawford: The Essential Biography'', Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2002, p.157-58〕 and Rule's Warner contract was allowed to lapse after only two films.〔Ronald Bergan (Obituary: Janice Rule ), ''The Guardian'', October 23, 2003〕 She was troubled by the attitude toward women's beauty at the studios in the early 1950s: "Because I was afraid of being robbed of my individuality, I fought with the makeup people, the hairdressers, and I didn't understand problems of the publicity department," she was reported as saying in 1957.〔Mary Rourke ("Janice Rule, 72; Broadway Dancer, 'Picnic' Actress Also Was in Films" ), ''Los Angeles Times'', October 24, 2003〕 Rule was in the original 1953 Broadway cast of William Inge's ''Picnic'' (in the role of Madge Owens, the innocent beauty, played by Kim Novak in the film version)〔 whose company also included Paul Newman who was making his debut on Broadway. This commitment led her to turn down the role ultimately played by Eva Marie Saint in ''On the Waterfront'' (1954). "I knew I couldn't shoot in a movie all day and work on a stage at night and do my best in both," she was quoted as saying by Hedda Hopper of the ''Los Angeles Times'' in 1966.〔 Among her other Broadway shows were ''The Flowering Peach'', ''The Happiest Girl in the World'' and Michael V. Gazzo's ''Night Circus'', a 1958 production which lasted for only a week, but introduced Rule to Ben Gazzara, who became her third husband.〔 Her other films in the 1950s included ''A Woman's Devotion'' (1956), the Western ''Gun for a Coward'' (1957) and ''Bell, Book and Candle'' (1958), in which she played the fiancée who loses publisher 'Shep' Henderson (James Stewart) to the spell-casting witch Gillian Holroyd (Kim Novak). On television she appeared in the ''Checkmate'' episode "The Mask of Vengeance" (1960), where she played Elena Nardos, the roommate of Cloris Leachman's character, Marilyn Parker. She was also in ''The Twilight Zone'' episode "Nightmare as a Child." She appeared as different characters in three episodes of ''Route 66''. She acted as both Barbara Webb and Barbara Wells opposite David Janssen in two episodes of ''The Fugitive'' entitled "Wife Killer" and "The Walls of Night". She also had a major role as Nancy Reade in "Three Bells to Perdido", the first episode of ''Have Gun – Will Travel''. Among her later film roles were Emily Stewart in ''The Chase'' (1966), Burt Lancaster's bitter ex-lover in ''The Swimmer'' (1968), Willie in Robert Altman's ''3 Women'' (1977), journalist Kate Newman in Costa Gavras' political thriller ''Missing'' (1982), and Kevin Costner's mother in the bicycle racing film ''American Flyers'' (1985). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Janice Rule」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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