Capshaw worked as a teacher with an MA in Learning Disabilities.
Her desire to be an actress led her to New York where she landed a
role on the soap "Edge of Night". She met her future husband,
'Steven Spielberg' (qv) while beating out 120 actresses for the
female lead in "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom".
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– Though she'd always harbored a hankering to become an actress, she put these plans in mothballs to earn a master's degree in special education at the University of Missouri. She taught exceptional-ed classes for two years before finally heading to New York to seek out acting jobs.
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– In BEST DEFENSE (1984), when Kate Capshaw is waiting in a pick-up truck, she is humming the theme song from INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM (1984), a movie (also released in 1984) that she appeared in.
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– Sharon Stone was one of the top choices for the role of Willie Scott in INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM (1984) before Kate Capshaw auditioned.
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– To meet audience demands for an universal undesirable equivalent of snakes, Speilberg came up with the bugs. Indy does not fear them, but the character that does is Kate Capshaw's in INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM.
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– When she auditioned for the part of Willie Scott, Capshaw thought she wouldn't get the part. Speilberg felt that her actions fit the fish out of water type that was to be Willie Scott. She is a natural brunette and had to dye her hair blonde for the part. Speilberg married Capshaw after falling in love with her while making the movie.
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– She was a member of Alpha Delta Pi Sorority in college
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– Waitress at COCO's restaurant in St. Louis in high school years.
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– Her father worked in the control tower of the Lambert Airport, St. Louis.
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– Her dad owned a 1965 green Mustang.
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– Worked for two years as a teacher of learning disabled children before moving to New York City and studying acting, singing, and voice
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– Former Ford model.
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