Paula Trueman

• Name — Paula Trueman • Occupation — Film, stage and television actress • Born — 25 April 1897 • Birthplace — New York City, U.S. • Died — 23 March 1994 • Place of death — New York City, U.S. • Years Active — 1930–1988

Born in 1897 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 1924, and at the end of that year she made her dramatic debut in The Little Clay Cart. She was also in the 1930 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 1940s and 1950s. Her film debut was in Crime Without Passion (1934). 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 1978, she played Maggie Flannigan in All My Children. She appeared as Aunt Teresa in the Tales from the Darkside episode (2/12 - 1985) "Monsters in My Room" and the dying great grandmother in "The Cutty Black Sow" (1988), series 4 episode 14.

Trueman died of natural causes in New York Hospital in 1994, aged 96. She was predeceased in 1976 by her husband, Harold Sterner, an architect, whom she married in 1936.

Paula Trueman television credits • Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1949 — Studio One — Miss Tartlett — 1 episode • 1978 — All My Children — Maggie Flannigan • 1982 — The Electric Grandmother — Old Agatha — TV movie • 1985 — Tales from the Darkside — Aunt Teresa — Episode: "Monsters in My Room" • 1987 — The Equalizer — Mrs. Hammerschmidt — Episode: "Beyond Control" • 1988 — Tales from the Darkside — Great Grandma / Catherine — Episode: "The Cutty Black Sow"