But I think it's more fulfilling to be working with people.
But I think it's more fulfilling to be working with people. Lots of colors appear when you're working with other people. It's a more natural form.
First, you do a piece of material that begins and ends and has a flow; it's not chopped up as in a film, where in an extreme case you might be doing the last scene of the script the first day that you go to work, and you don't know enough about the character you're playing.
In the theatre, it's a craft and you're going from beginning to end and you experience the whole flow of the play.
Lots of colors appear when you're working with other people.
Of course, our series, the first six years or so, it was enhanced by an audience.
On the last day of our five-day work week, we did two performances and we had an audience. It was similar to theatre; we went from beginning to end, and it was very pleasing.
One comes to mind immediately because I did it up here at Syracuse Stage: the mother-in-law in The Show-Off. It's by George Kelly.
The reason I'm in this play and taking a tour and the box office is doing very well is that I'm well-known, and that's thanks to television.
Jean Stapleton once toured in one-woman show called Eleanor, which was about First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
Jean Stapleton won three Emmy Awards for her performance of Edith Bunker on All In The Family. She also won eight Golden Globe Awards for the same show.
Jean Stapleton once ran the Totem Pole Playhouse, which is a Summerstock Theatre, in Pennsylvania, with her late husband.
Jean Stapleton has two children named John Putch and Pamela Putch. They are both entertainers as well.
Jean Stapleton was once a secretary.
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