"PIPER LAURIE, The Daughter, served a celebrated apprenticeship in Hollywood, playing glamor girl roles in a succession of adventure and costume films that might today, with a little bit of luck, be enshrined as Pop Art. When the apprenticeship threatened to become a permanent career, Miss Laurie left her long-term studio contracto for the new challenge of live television drama, where she won best actress nominations for almost every show she did, including Days of Wine and Roses and The Deaf Heart. Her most recent movie was The Hustler, for which she received an Academy Award nomination for best actress. In her New York stage debut she co-starred with Jo Van Fleet in Rosemary and The Alligators, a twin bill by the late Molly Kazan. Miss Laurie is a Methodical actress, always keeping her dressing room tidy."