![]() Route 66, episodes " A Lance of Straw" (1960), " Once to Every Man" (1961), and.Kildare, episode "Whoever Heard of a Two-Headed Doll?" (1963) The Twilight Zone, episode " Nightmare as a Child" (1960).Have Gun – Will Travel, pilot episode " Three Bells to Perdido" (1957).Wagon Train, episode " The Zeke Thomas Story" (1957).General Foods 25th Anniversary Show: A Salute to Rodgers and Hammerstein (1954).She practiced in New York and Los Angeles, and continued to act occasionally until her death from a cerebral hemorrhage in 2003. She began her formal studies in 1973, specializing in treating her fellow actors, and received her PhD 10 years later from the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute in Los Angeles. ĭuring the 1960s, she became interested in psychoanalysis. Her last marriage was to actor Ben Gazzara in 1961, having one daughter together before their divorce in 1979. Her second marriage was to television and film writer Robert Thom in 1956 they had one daughter, Kate, before divorcing in 1961. Rule was briefly married, during 1955, to television and film writer N. Next followed a relationship with Ralph Meeker Meeker had played Hal in Picnic. They had appeared in the Broadway play The Carefree Tree in 1955. ![]() Rule had a brief engagement to Farley Granger in 1956. Rule also starred, second billing to Yul Brynner, in the western film Invitation to a Gunfighter (1964).Īmong her later film roles were Emily Stewart in The Chase (1966), Sheila Sommers in The Ambushers (1967), 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 American Flyers (1985). She also had a major role as Nancy Reade in "Three Bells to Perdido", the debut episode of the Richard Boone western Have Gun – Will Travel. She acted as both Barbara Webb and Barbara Wells with David Janssen in two episodes of The Fugitive entitled "Wife Killer" and "The Walls of Night". She was also in The Twilight Zone episode " Nightmare as a Child." She appeared as different characters in three episodes of Route 66. On television, she appeared in an episode of Checkmate ("The Mask of Vengeance", 1960), where she played Elena Nardos, the roommate of Cloris Leachman's character, Marilyn Parker. 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). Gazzo's Night Circus, a 1958 production which lasted for only a week, but introduced Rule to Ben Gazzara, who became her third husband. Among her other Broadway shows were The Flowering Peach, The Happiest Girl in the World, and Michael V. "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. This commitment led her to turn down the role ultimately played by Eva Marie Saint in On the Waterfront (1954). 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 in his Broadway debut. 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. Rule's Warner contract was allowed to lapse after only two films. The established star belittled the younger woman, making Rule's work on the film difficult, although Crawford years later wrote a letter of apology to Rule for treating her badly on this film. Gaining 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. She was pictured on the cover of Life magazine on January 8, 1951, as being someone to watch in the entertainment industry. Rule also studied acting at the Chicago Professional School. She began dancing at the Chez Paree nightclub in Chicago at age 15, which paid for ballet lessons, and was a dancer in the 1949 Broadway production of Miss Liberty. Her father was a dealer in industrial diamonds. ![]() Rule was born in Norwood, Ohio, to parents of Irish origin. Mary Janice Rule (Aug– October 17, 2003) was an American actress and psychotherapist, earning her PhD while still acting, then acting occasionally while working in her new profession.
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