In 1961 at age 18, while a prop girl at the New York Shakespeare Festival, she won a "pivotal" Broadway stage role as Anna in Morris West's Daughters of Silence.
Slipyj's life story inspired the Australian writer Morris West's 1963 novel The Shoes of the Fisherman.
And Mike West, who wrote the songs, was the Australian-born son of the successful author, Morris West.
Another of West's sons, Mike, is a musician who fronted the UK independent popular music band the Man from Delmonte during the late 1980s and early 1990s and has released several solo albums of New Orleans country music, especially being well known with the international touring act Truckstop Honeymoon.
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