Janice Rule.(In Memoriam)(Brief Article)

American Theatre, January, 2004

Actress and psychoanalyst Janice Rule died in October at her home in New York City at age 72. Rule was in the original company of William Inge's Picnic, in 1953, opposite Paul Newman in his Broadway debut. Her film co-stars were no less illustrious: She starred with James Stewart in Bell, Book and Candle and with Shelley Duvall and Sissy Spacek in Robert Altman's 3 Women.

Among Rule's other Broadway credits are The Flowering Peach and Night Circus. She took up psychoanalysis in 1973, received her Ph.D. from Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute and went on to practice in New York and Los Angeles.