In 1934, Adler went to Paris with Harold Clurman and studied intensively with Stanislavski for five weeks. Members of Group Theatre were leading interpreters of the method acting technique based on the work and writings of Stanislavski. With Group Theatre, she worked in plays such as Success Story by John Howard Lawson, two Clifford Odets plays, Awake and Sing! and Paradise Lost, and directed the touring company of Odets's Golden Boy and More to Give to People. In 1931, with Sanford Meisner and Elia Kazan, among others, she joined the Group Theatre, New York, founded by Harold Clurman, Lee Strasberg, and Cheryl Crawford, through theater director and critic, Clurman, whom she later married in 1943. She joined the American Laboratory Theatre in 1925 there, she was introduced to Stanislavski's theories, from founders and Russian actor-teachers and former members of the Moscow Art Theater-Richard Boleslavsky and Maria Ouspenskaya. Adler and many others saw these performances, which had a powerful and lasting impact on her career and the 20th-century American theatre. In 1922–23, the renowned Russian actor-director Konstantin Stanislavski made his only U.S.
In London, she met her first husband, Englishman Horace Eliashcheff their brief marriage, however, ended in a divorce.Īdler made her English-language debut on Broadway in 1922 as the Butterfly in The World We Live In, and she spent a season in the vaudeville circuit. She made her London debut, at the age of 18, as Naomi in Elisa Ben Avia with her father's company, in which she appeared for a year before returning to New York. Her work schedule allowed little time for schooling, but when possible, she studied at public schools and New York University. She grew up acting alongside her parents, often playing roles of boys and girls. Career Īdler began her acting career at the age of four in the play Broken Hearts at the Grand Street Theatre on the Lower East Side, as a part of her parents' Independent Yiddish Art Company. She began acting at the age of four as a part of the Independent Yiddish Art Company of her parents. Adler became the most famous and influential member of her family. The Adlers comprised the Jewish-American Adler acting dynasty, which had its start in the Yiddish Theater District and was a significant part of the vibrant ethnic theatrical scene that thrived in New York from the late 19th century to the 1950s. Adler, the sister of Luther and Jay Adler, and half-sister of Charles Adler and Celia Adler, star of the Yiddish Theater. She was the youngest daughter of Sara and Jacob P. Stella Adler was born in the Lower East Side of New York City. Alumni of the Stella Adler-Los Angeles school include Mark Ruffalo, Benicio Del Toro, Brion James, Salma Hayek, Clifton Collins Jr., and Sean Astin. The Los Angeles school continues to function as an acting studio and houses several theaters. Irene Gilbert, a longtime protégée and friend, ran the Stella Adler Academy of Acting and Theatre in Los Angeles, until her death. Her grandson Tom Oppenheim now runs the school in New York City, which has produced alumni such as Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, Elaine Stritch, Kate Mulgrew, Kipp Hamilton, and Jenny Lumet. Later in life she taught part time in Los Angeles, with the assistance of protégée, actress Joanne Linville, who continues to teach Adler's technique. She founded the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York City in 1949. Stella Adler (Febru– December 21, 1992) was an American actress and acting teacher.
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