Yiddish actress leaves theater legacy; 'Stella Adler' deals with struggles, obstacles teacher faced

Washington Jewish Week | June 30, 2005| | Copyright

Theater exists 99 percent in the imagination." So said the great actress and acting teacher Stella Adler, who, born into a Yiddish theatrical dynasty, became assuredly the most influential women of the 20th-century American theater.

Most of us never saw Adler act -- in the Hollywood of the 1940s, she was an associate producer at MGM studios who earned modest parts in less-than-stellar films like 1937's Love on Toast and, four years later, The Shadow of the Thin Man.

Yet anyone who follows film knows Adler's work. She taught an illustrious cadre of Hollywood greats, among them Marlon Brando, ...

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