Paula Trueman (April , â€" March , ) was an American film, stage and
television actress.Born in in New York City, to Joseph and Eva (née
Cohn) Trueman, she had two sisters, a twin, Natalie (Mrs. Sternberg)
and an elder sister, Hannah (Mrs. Bottstein). They were raised in
Manhattan. Paula attended Hunter College before gaining admission to
the Neighborhood Playhouse to study dancing. Her stage career began
with The Grand Street Follies revues in , and at the end of that year
she made her dramatic debut in The Little Clay Cart. She was also in
the revue Sweet and Low, which starred Fannie Brice, George Jessel,
and James Barton, and appeared in Kiss and Tell, For Love or Money and
Wake Up, Darling in the s and s.Her film debut was in Crime Without
Passion (). She later played "Mrs. Fenty" in Paint Your Wagon and
"Grandma Sarah" in The Outlaw Josey Wales (both with Clint Eastwood).
She appeared in Annie Hall and Zelig (both by Woody Allen), Dirty
Dancing, and had an uncredited role in Moonstruck. In , she played
Maggie Flannigan in All My Children.Trueman died of natural causes in
New York Hospital in , aged . She was predeceased in by her husband,
Harold Sterner, an architect, whom she married in and survived by a
stepson, Michael Sterner.
television actress.Born in in New York City, to Joseph and Eva (née
Cohn) Trueman, she had two sisters, a twin, Natalie (Mrs. Sternberg)
and an elder sister, Hannah (Mrs. Bottstein). They were raised in
Manhattan. Paula attended Hunter College before gaining admission to
the Neighborhood Playhouse to study dancing. Her stage career began
with The Grand Street Follies revues in , and at the end of that year
she made her dramatic debut in The Little Clay Cart. She was also in
the revue Sweet and Low, which starred Fannie Brice, George Jessel,
and James Barton, and appeared in Kiss and Tell, For Love or Money and
Wake Up, Darling in the s and s.Her film debut was in Crime Without
Passion (). She later played "Mrs. Fenty" in Paint Your Wagon and
"Grandma Sarah" in The Outlaw Josey Wales (both with Clint Eastwood).
She appeared in Annie Hall and Zelig (both by Woody Allen), Dirty
Dancing, and had an uncredited role in Moonstruck. In , she played
Maggie Flannigan in All My Children.Trueman died of natural causes in
New York Hospital in , aged . She was predeceased in by her husband,
Harold Sterner, an architect, whom she married in and survived by a
stepson, Michael Sterner.
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