Photo Coverage: Julie Harris Honored at Actors Company Crystal Gala

The Actors Company Theatre/TACT celebrated its 15th Anniversary with a Crystal Gala honoring renowned star of stage and screen, Julie Harris at its star-studded event on Monday, March 3 at the historic Hudson Theatre; with cocktails, dinner, a silent and live auction and a performance including a tribute to Ms. Harris.

Joining the company to salute Ms. Harris were some of the theatre's most illustrious stars, including: F. Murray Abraham, Cady Huffman, Dana Ivey, Anne Meara, Lee Roy Reams, K.T. Sullivan and others.

Julie Harris was born Julia Ann Harris in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan on December 2nd, 1925. She moved to New York and became the youngest student ever accepted to Yale School of Drama. Before she had finished out the year at Yale, she was cast in her Broadway debut, It's a Gift (1945). She made several other Broadway appearances in the 1940s while studying at The Actor's Studio. Her breakout performance was in 1951 as the eleven-year old tomboy Frankie Addams in Carson McCullers' The Member of the Wedding, directed by Harold Clurman and was cast in the film version the following year, for which she earned an Oscar nomination. She earned her first of ten Tony nominations as Sally Bowles in I Am a Camera, a role she would also reprise on film. She won another Tony in 1955 as Joan of Arc in The Lark. She began an equally lauded career in television with her appearance in "The United States Steel Hour" in 1956 which earned her the first of eleven Emmy nominations. She won the Emmy for her performance as Bridgid Mary in HallMark Hall of Fame's Little Moon of Alban, a role she would reprise on Broadway. In 1958, she starred alongside James Dean in Elia Kazan's East of Eden. She has more Tony wins and nominations than any other performer (10 nominations and five wins.) She survived a bought with breast cancer in 1981, a serious head injury requiring surgery in 1999 and a stroke in 2001. She has appeared in over thirty Broadway productions

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Photos by Walter McBride / Retna Ltd

Cynthia Harris

Simon Jones

Simon Jones, Cynthia Harris and Scott Alan Evans

Larry Keith

Cynthia Harris and Larry Keith

F. Murray Abraham

F. Murray Abraham and Cynthia Harris

Mary Bacon

Steve Kunken and Mary Bacon

Steve Kunken

Dana Ivey

Simon Jones and Dana Ivey

Cady Huffman

Anne Meara

Stephen Root

Adriane Lenox

Charlotte Moore

K.T. Sullivan

Lee Roy Reams

Julie Harris and Dana Ivey

Cynthia Harris, Julie Harris and Simon Jones

Julie Harris

Simon Jones and Cynthia Harris

Julie Harris

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After his life as an ingenue in Brooklyn & Queens, Walter spent the next 25 Years in a leading role as a Photographer / Photo Researcher in Manhattan. He is currently headlining in New Jersey with his partner Richard and children Dali & Gala. As a 14 year old youth, Walter was transfixed by his first Broadway Show, the original production of "GREASE". His journey on the path to celebrity photojournalism began that fateful night. Meeting, photographing and getting to know the cast inspired him to spend his professional life doing what he loved. His photography is syndicated worldwide through Retna Ltd. and Corbis.

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