Dennis Milam Bensie sees himself as way more Thelma Ritter in Mankiewicz\'s All About Eve than Tom Courtney in Ronald Harwood\'s harrowing play and movie, The Dresser.
A theatrical.
Costumes became his calling, at first in summer stock and gradually with union houses, wherever he could find work.
He was his own Dresser for plays in high school when he learned a career as an actor wasn\'t for him.
Watching The Tony Awards as a teenager in the early 1980s, Bensie knew he wanted to be in theater.
Dennis Milam Bensie sees himself as way more Thelma Ritter in Mankiewicz\'s All About Eve than Tom Courtney in Ronald Harwood\'s harrowing play and movie, The Dresser