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Costume Designer Born: Grosse Pointe, MI Biography:Though born to a very wealthy Michigan family, "Julie Harris" was not some "poor little rich girl" whose career was subsidized by Daddy and Mommy. In fact, the rebellious Harris chose acting as a profession primarily because her family was dead set against her doing so. Trained at the Yale School of Drama and the Actors' Studio, the deceptively waiflike Harris made her first Broadway appearance in the now-forgotten 1945 production "It's a Gift". Five years later she took Broadway by storm as 12-year-old Frankie Addams in Carson McCullers' A Member of the Wedding. Twenty-five years old at the time of the play's premiere, Harris was 27 when she re-created the role in the 1952 film version, but was still so touchingly believable as an awkward adolescent that she was nominated for an Academy Award. Sometimes, Harris' entrancingly emphatic stage mannerisms did not translate so well to film: she seems way... Full Biography
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