teaching at Fordham University, Lincoln Center. Seldes appeared in every one of the 1,809 Broadway performances of Ira Levin's play Deathtrap, a feat that earned her a mention in the Guinness Book of World Records as "most durable actress". Seldes was also well known for her readings of short stories in the "Selected Shorts" series hosted by Isaiah Sheffer at New York City's Symphony Space. In December 2008, for their annual birthday celebration to "The Master", Noël Coward, the Noël Coward Society invited Seldes as the guest celebrity to lay flowers in front of Coward's statue at New York's Gershwin Theatre, thereby commemorating the playwright’s 109th birthday. Seldes was the recipient of a 2010 Tony Lifetime Achievement Award. "All I've done is live my life in the theater and loved it ... If you can get an award for being happy, that's what I've got." In 2012, Seldes played the knife-wielding socialite Mabel Billingsly in the film adaptation of Wendy Mass' popular children's book Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life, written and directed by Tamar Halpern. Personal life Seldes had one child, Katharine, by her first marriage to Julian Claman. They were divorced in 1961. Seldes stated that the marriage to Claman was violent. "If I sound a little vague about that marriage, it's because I don't understand the person in it. Me. I literally didn't know that people could be abusive." Seldes left the marriage after her father noticed marks on her face. Seldes was married to screenwriter/playwright Garson Kanin from 1990 until his death in 1999. Death Seldes died at age 86 on October 6, 2014 in Manhattan. The cause of her death was not released. However, in 2017, it was reported that a documentary about her life, Marian, by director R.E. "Rick" Rodgers, chronicling Seldes' last years, had created "consternation in the theater world" as a "horrific, intrusive depiction of her slide into dementia". Partial listing of her work Theatre Ondine (1954) The Chalk Garden (1955) The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1964) Tiny Alice (1964) A Delicate Balance (1966) Before You Go (1968) Mercy Street (1969) Equus (1974) Deathtrap (1978) Painting Churches (1983) Gertrude Stein and a Companion (1986) Three Tall Women (1993) Ivanov (1998) The Haunting (1999) The Torch-Bearers (2000) The Play About the Baby (2001) 45 Seconds from Broadway (2001) Dinner at Eight (2003 revival) Deuce (2007) La fille du régiment (2008)