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The daughter of a well-to-do attorney and a socialite, Jane Bethel Leslie was born on August 3, 1929, in New York City. She was a 15-year-old student at the Brearley School on the Upper East Side when she was discovered by legendary producer George Abbott for the Broadway play "Snafu" in 1944. She quickly became a theatre mainstay with such plays as "The Dancer" (1946), "How I Wonder" (1947), "Goodbye, My Fancy" (1948), "Pygmalion" (1952) and "The Time of the Cuckoo" (1952) under her belt.

In later years she gave stunning theater performances in "Inherit the Wind" (1955), "Career" (1957), and "Catch Me If You Can" (1965), then capped her formidable career with a Tony nomination as drug-addicted mother Mary Tyrone in "Long Day's Journey Into Night" in 1986 opposite Jack Lemmon, Kevin Spacey, and Peter Gallagher. It was subsequently televised.

While not as well known for her movie work, the seriously attractive actress was best utilized as a brittle support player in such films as The Rabbit Trap (1959) and Captain Newman, M.D. (1963). Sporadic filming later included A Rage to Live (1965), The Molly Maguires (1970), Old Boyfriends (1979), Ironweed (1987), and Message in a Bottle (1999). On TV as a teen, her first series was playing Cornelia Otis Skinner in The Girls (1950), in 1950. Throughout the '50s, she appeared in scores of dramatic parts on episodic TV and became one of those faces without a name, playing neurotic or cruel villainesses. TV soaps took up her later years; she appeared in The Doctors (1963), All My Children (1970), and One Life to Live (1968), at various times. At one point, she was a head writer for The Secret Storm (1954).

Bethel died of cancer at age 70, survived by her daughter Leslie McCullough Jeffries.

Was nominated for Broadway&#39;s 1986 Tony Award as Best Actress (Featured
Role - Play) for a revival of <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0642156/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Eugene O&#39;Neill</a>&#39;s &quot;Long Day&#39;s Journey into
Night.&quot;

Was great friends with <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0371040/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Helen Hayes</a>, who was the godmother to Leslie&#39;s daughter, Leslie McCullough Jeffries.

Her final film, <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0184979/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Uninvited (1999)</a>, was shown at the Mar Del Plata Film Festival in Argentina two days before she passed away in November 1999. The film was not generally released in the U.S. but was shown at the Hollywood Film Festival in August 2000.

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