Actress Jean Stapleton, top left, and publisher Hugh Hefner laugh with, from foreground left, Darren McGavin, Ruth Buzzi and Barbara Fisher, during a black-tie casino fundraiser in Los Angeles in 1979. (Lennox McLendon / AP)
Jean Stapleton portraying Eleanor Roosevelt in the 2000 one-woman play “Eleanor: Her Secret Journey.” Stapleton died Friday at age 90. (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)
Jean Stapleton portrays First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt on her progression from socialite wife to activist and feminist in Rhoda Lerman’s one-woman play “Eleanor: Her Secret Journey” in 2000. (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)
