carrie nye obituary

Paste as plain text instead, × “None of them,” she said. Cavett said Nye was “devoted and professional and disciplined in her art,” but “she didn’t take every job that came along, or even some good ones she might have liked doing. NEW YORK -- Carrie Nye, an actress who was a regular presence on the stages of the Williamstown Theatre Festival, died Friday of lung cancer. Clear editor. The Mississippi-born Nye made her Broadway debut in 1960 in “A Second String.” She earned a Tony nomination in 1965 for her role as a society woman in the musical “Half a Sixpence.”, She also appeared on Broadway in Ruth Gordon’s play “A Very Rich Woman” and a 1980 revival of “The Man Who Came to Dinner,” among others. ``She really was an extraordinary actress," said writer-producer Ellen Weston, who first knew Ms. Nye when they were young actresses at the festival, which is at Williams College. The daughter of a bank president, Ms. Nye was born Carolyn Nye McGeoy in Greenwood, Miss. © Copyright 2006 Globe Newspaper Company. She was 69. NEW YORK, New York-- Carrie Nye, an actress who was married to television host Dick Cavett and was a regular presence on the stages of the famed Williamstown Theatre Festival, died Friday, July 14 at her home in Manhattan of lung cancer. See our, Read a limited number of articles each month, You consent to the use of cookies and tracking by us and third parties to provide you with personalized ads, Unlimited access to washingtonpost.com on any device, Unlimited access to all Washington Post apps, No on-site advertising or third-party ad tracking. “When you write something like that, you need someone who can give you all the shadings of evil, of charm, of wit, and so, of course, I thought of Carrie Nye,” Weston said. She was nominated for a Tony Award for one of those (Half a Sixpence in 1965) and a Drama Desk nomination for another (the 1980 revival of The Man Who Came to Dinner). × ``When you write something like that, you need someone who can give you all the shadings of evil, of charm, of wit, and so, of course, I thought of Carrie Nye," Weston said. “I remember when she did Blanche in ‘A Streetcar Named Desire,’ ” Weston told The Times on Monday. “To me it does,” he said, “and it probably would for a few victims of it.”, A prime example of his wife’s wit, he said, was a 1973 essay she wrote for Time magazine about working with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in the critically blasted two-part TV-movie “Divorce His Divorce Hers.”. In 1997, a house Nye and Cavett had bought in the mid-1960s -- Tick Hall, an 1883 shingle-style cottage designed by the firm of McKim, Mead & (Stanford) White in Montauk on Long Island -- was destroyed by fire. ``Carrie Nye will be remembered as a woman whose vibrant spirit and wonderful acting in many roles enriched the festival," said Roger Rees, Williamstown's artistic director. You can post now and register later. TV_Paige, July 18, 2006 in Obituaries. Her first appearance at Williamstown was as Margaret in "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof" in 1958, and other memorable roles included the title role in "Hedda Gabler," the role of Blanche Dubois in "A Streetcar Named Desire" and Anya in "Nude With Violin." Carrie Nye, Actress: Creepshow. They married in 1964, and bought Tick Hall, a shingle-style beach house on Long Island built in the late 1800s. After Nye graduated, the couple went to Williamstown together for the Summer Theater Festival in 1959. “She was such an interesting mixture of tremendous wit, tremendous intelligence, great style and a total lack of interest in doing things the way anybody else did them. Carrie was 69 years old at the time of death. She was 69. Carrie Nye was born on October 14, 1936 and died on July 14, 2006. They bought Tick Hall, a shingle-style beach house on Long Island in New York built in the late 1800s. After Ms. Nye graduated, in 1959, she and Mr. Cavett went to Williamstown for the summer theater festival. ``I fondly remember many summer afternoons spent at her home in Montauk, where she reminisced about Tennessee Williams's visits to the Berkshires and his great affection for the Williamstown Theatre Festival.". The cause was lung cancer, according to the New York Times. Material from the Los Angeles Times was used in this obituary. “She really was an extraordinary actress,” said writer-producer Ellen Weston, who first knew Nye when they were young actresses at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, at Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., around 1960. Carrie Nye was born circa 1908, at birth place, New York, to George F Nye and Emma Nye. Actress Carrie Snodgress, whose 40-year career included an Oscar nomination for “Diary of a Mad Housewife” and memorable roles in “Pale Rider” and “Wild Things,” has died. She was 69. All went as anticipated except for one detail. The daughter of a bank president, Nye was born Carolyn Nye McGeoy on Oct. 14, 1936, in Greenwood, Miss. They married in 1964; her husband is her only immediate survivor. She continued acting in Off Broadway and regional theater in the 1980’s and 90’s, performing in plays by Ibsen, Chekhov and Tennessee Williams with the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival in Madison, the Adelphi Festival Theater in Garden City, N.Y., and the Phoenix Theater Company in Purchase, N.Y. By Any Other Name: Can You Identify These Historical Theatres? It is all here. Along with her theater work, Ms. Nye also acted in many television movies, including a two-part 1973 movie starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor called “Divorce His” and “Divorce Hers,” an experience she later described hilariously in an essay in Time magazine. “Outnumbered” co-host Melissa Francis, who recently filed a pay discrimination complaint against Fox News, is off the air and her status is in doubt. ``She was such an interesting mixture of tremendous wit, tremendous intelligence, great style, and a total lack of interest in doing things the way anybody else did them. Her last Williamstown appearance was as Zelda Fitzgerald in "Clothes For A Summer Hotel" in 1989. Cavett said, however, that no one on the street ever mistook his wife for Bankhead until she played her in the 1980 TV movie “The Scarlett O’Hara War,” for which Nye earned an Emmy nomination. The Star had beaten me to the punch.”. She came to the Williamstown Theater Festival in northern Massachusetts a few years after it opened, in 1955, and continued to return throughout the 1960’s and 70’s, playing the leading roles in “A Streetcar Named Desire,” “The Skin of Our Teeth” and “Nude With Violin.” With the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Conn., Ms. Nye performed “Troilus and Cressida” at the Kennedy White House. "I only became an actress so I wouldn't have to cook or make a bed.". She was a woman who in the early days of AIDS nursed friends of hers, allowed them to stay on property that she had and took care of them. By clicking “I agree” below, you consent to the use by us and our third-party partners of cookies and data gathered from your use of our platforms. She first attended Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri and then went on to the Yale Drama School, where she met fellow student, Dick Cavett. Two of her off-Broadway credits are Michael Cacoyannis’ 1963 production of “The Trojan Women” and a 1972 production of Tom Stoppard’s “The Real Inspector Hound.”, Among her film credits are “The Group,” “The Seduction of Joe Tynan,” and “Creepshow.” On television, she did a 1984 stint on “The Guiding Light.”. Carrie Nye, a seductive Mississippi-born actress who found an artistic home at Massachusetts' Williamstown Theatre Festival, died July 12, 2006, at her home in Manhattan. Five years later she was nominated for a Tony Award for playing a society lady in the musical “Half a Sixpence.”, Other Broadway productions included “A Very Rich Woman,” a play written by Ruth Gordon, and a 1980 revival of “The Man Who Came to Dinner.” Among her Off Broadway credits were Michael Cacoyannis’s 1963 production of “The Trojan Women” and a 1972 production of Tom Stoppard’s “Real Inspector Hound.”. By Ms. Nye and Cavett, her only immediate survivor, were married in 1964. She was 69. She was the most interesting combination of humanist and iconoclast.". When Nye's friend, Ellen Weston became head writer of "Guiding Light" in 2003, she penned another character for Nye. Nye later wrote a humorous essay for Time magazine about the experience. ``I remember when she did Blanche in `Streetcar Named Desire,' " Weston told the Los Angeles Times. “Borat” star Sacha Baron Cohen said on “Good Morning America” that he was concerned for actress Maria Bakalova during her scene with Rudy Giuliani. The combination of what Cavett described as “her Southern-ness, deep voice and a somewhat physical resemblance” to Bankhead resulted in Nye’s often being compared with the flamboyant Broadway star. Heaven got even happier on Monday, July 15th, as Marie arrived to join a glorious reunion already in progress, including the love of her life, Sam Nye; her parents, Frank and Jessie McCully; her beloved brothers, Lee Garner, James McCully, Harley McCully, and Charles McCully; great grandson Richard Davis, and a host of extended family and friends who had gone before her. Nye, however, was determined to rebuild the house as it was, a process chronicled in the 2003 documentary “From the Ashes: The Life and Times of Tick Hall.”, “It was the work of a genius,” Nye told Newsday in 1998. Her more common artistic base was the Williamstown Theatre Festival, where—appropriately given her upbringing—her first appearance was as Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 1958. In a 2003 interview with The Times-Picayune of New Orleans, Nye was asked to name the favorite role of her career. NEW YORK, New York -- Carrie Nye, an actress who was married to television host Dick Cavett and was a regular presence on the stages of the famed Williamstown Theatre Festival, died Friday, July 14 at her home in Manhattan of lung cancer. Please enable cookies on your web browser in order to continue. Jessie Marie's Obituary. She also performed off-Broadway, in Michael Cacoyannis' production of "The Trojan Women" in 1963 and Tom Stoppard's "Real Inspector Hound" in 1972. She was 69. Sign up for exclusive discounts and save up to 50% on tickets! Nye was featured in a number of television movies during the 1970s, including "Screaming Skull" and "The Users." But it was at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in the Berkshires where Ms. Nye spent much of her career, appearing in 24 of its productions over 31 years.

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