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

From: Washington Jewish Week | Date: June 30, 2005| Author: Anonymous | Copyright information

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 w...

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