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Lee Strasberg
Lee Strasberg , 1901-82, American theatrical director, teacher, and actor, b. Budzanów, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now Budaniv, Ukraine) as Israel Strassberg. Strasberg immigrated to New York City in 1909. He was a cofounder in 1931 of the Group Theatre . There until 1937, he initiated traini... Read more
Group Theatre
Group Theatre organization formed in New York City in 1931 by Harold Clurman , Cheryl Crawford, and Lee Strasberg . Its founders, who had worked earlier with the Provincetown Players , wished to revive and redefine American theater by establishing a permanent company to present contemporary play... Read more
The Actors Studio
The Actors Studio organization founded 1947 in New York City by the directors Cheryl Crawford, Elia Kazan , and Robert Lewis to train professional actors. Long directed (1948-82) by Lee Strasberg and famous for its advocacy of the Stanislavsky "method" technique, the workshop has trained m... Read more
acting
acting the representation of a usually fictional character on stage or in films. At its highest levels of accomplishment acting involves the employment of technique and/or an imaginative identification with the character on the part of the actor. In this way the full emotional weight of situations ... Read more
black-eyed Susan
black-eyed Susan or yellow daisy, North American daisylike wildflower ( Rudbeckia hirta ) of the family Asteraceae ( aster family) with yellow rays and a dark brown center. It is a weedy biennial or annual and grows in dry places. The black-eyed Susan and the other rudbeckias are also called y... Read more
Susan Bogert Warner
Susan Bogert Warner pseud. Elizabeth Wetherall, 1819-85, American novelist, b. New York City. Of her many books the best known was The Wide, Wide World (1850), a pious, tearful tale of an orphan. Her other novels include Queechy (1852), The Hills of the Shatemuc (1856), and Melbourne Hou... Read more
Susan Glaspell
Susan Glaspell , 1876-1948, American author, b. Davenport, Iowa, grad. Drake Univ. She married the playwright George Cram Cook (1913) and with him organized (1915) the Provincetown Players , an avant-garde theater group in Massachusetts. She wrote several plays for the company, including the one-ac... Read more
Rachel Crothers
Rachel Crothers , 1878-1958, American playwright and director, b. Bloomington, Ill., grad. Illinois State Normal Univ., 1892. Her plays, many of which were social comedies treating the ethical problems of women, were notable for their craftsmanship. Among her major successes were The Three of Us (... Read more
oxeye
oxeye name for several plants, e.g., the oxeye daisy and black-eyed Susan , but particularly for two genera: Heliopsis, native to North America, and Buphthalmum, native to Europe and W Asia but cultivated elsewhere. Both are perennials of the family Asteraceae ( aster family) and are grown ... Read more
Susan Brownell Anthony
Susan Brownell Anthony 1820-1906, American reformer and leader of the woman-suffrage movement, b. Adams, Mass.; daughter of Daniel Anthony, Quaker abolitionist. From the age of 17, when she was a teacher in rural New York state, she agitated for equal pay for women teachers, for coeducation, and fo... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Susan Strasberg"

Strasberg, Lee
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre Strasberg, Lee [ né Israel Strassberg...influence was his work at the Actors Studio. Strasberg came to the organization in 1948, a...and Maureen Stapleton . His daughter Susan Strasberg became a well‐known actress...
Camille
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre ...tours. As late as the early 1930s the work remained a favorite with playgoers, proving one of Eva Le Gallienne 's biggest successes at the Civic Repertory Theatre . However, a major 1963 revival with Susan Strasberg was a quick failure.
Diary of Anne Frank, The
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre ...the Gestapo. There Frank discovers the diary kept by his thirteen‐year‐old daughter Anne ( Susan Strasberg). His thoughts fly back to the months they spent there, often in silence lest they give away their whereabouts...
Jane Fonda
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...s interest in a much younger woman, Susan Blanchard. Told that her mother died...her father, who lived next door to Lee Strasberg, director of the Actors Studio in Malibu...urged her to go into the profession; Strasberg accepted her as his student, and she...

Dictionary entries related to "Susan Strasberg"

Monroe, Marilyn
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...The Ultimate Look at the Legend, London, 1991. Brown, Peter H., Marilyn: The Last Take, New York, 1992. Strasberg, Susan, Marilyn and Me: Sisters, Rivals, Friends, New York, 1992. Wayne, Jane Ellen, Marilyn's Men: The Private...
Kinski, Nastassja
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Caracas, and New York; studied acting with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio. Family: Married Ibrahim...x2014;mini for TV) (as Sophia Luciano) 1998 Susan's Plan (Landis) (as Susan); Playing by Heart (Carroll) (as Melanie...
Neal, Patricia
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...production of Another Part of the Forest ; 1947—joined Strasberg's Actors Studio, New York; 1949—film debut...Stranger from Venus (Immediate Disaster ) (Burt Balaban) (as Susan North) 1957 A Face in the Crowd (Kazan) (as Marcia Jeffries...
Spacek, Sissy
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...December 1949. Education: Attended Quitman High School; Lee Strasberg Theatrical Institute, New York. Family: Married the art...Mama/Mom/Natasha); A Place for Annie (for TV) (as Susan Lansing) 1995 The Good Old Boys (Jones—for TV...

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Susan Strasberg
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 1/28/1999; ; 700+ words ; Susan Strasberg, actress Born: 22 May, 1938, in...January, 1999, in New York, aged 60 SUSAN Strasberg had a talent that came from a famous...Me - Sisters and Rivals (1992). Susan Strasberg was the only daughter of Lee and Paula...
Actress Susan Strasberg Dies; Played Anne Frank on Stage; Acting Coaches' Daughter Also Wrote About Marilyn Monroe
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 1/23/1999; ; 700+ words ; Susan Strasberg, 60, the actress who created the...teacher of "method" acting. Miss Strasberg, who lived in San Francisco, "really...wasn't," Krane said yesterday. Susan Strasberg was born in New York and grew up in...
Obituary: Susan Strasberg
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 1/25/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...as Marilyn Monroe's coach, Susan Strasberg was starring on Broadway in The...and parents who cared." Later Strasberg wrote a book about the friendship...rivals and friends (1992). Susan Strasberg's major chance to attain screen...
Susan Strasberg Actress
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 1/23/1999; 348 words ; Susan Strasberg, the daughter of acting coach Lee Strasberg, a close friend of Marilyn Monroe and an actress in her own right, has died at age 60. Strasberg, who lived in San Francisco, died here Thursday of cancer...
Susan Strasberg, stage, film actress
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 1/24/1999; 363 words ; Actress Susan Strasberg, 60, has died of breast cancer. Ms. Strasberg, who also lived in Los Angeles and San Francisco, died in her apartment in New York. Ms. Strasberg, daughter of acting coach Lee Strasberg, electrified...
SUSAN STRASBERG DIES AT 60
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 1/23/1999; 340 words ; ...DIFFER SLIGHTLY FROM THE PRINTED VERSION. Susan Strasberg, the daughter of legendary acting teacher Lee Strasberg and an accomplished actress in her own...Broadway hit drama, "Agnes of God." Strasberg, who also lived in Los Angeles and San...
SUSAN STRASBERG DIES OF CANCER.(MAIN)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 1/23/1999; 466 words ; Byline: Los Angeles Times Susan Strasberg, the daughter of legendary acting teacher Lee Strasberg and an accomplished actress in her own right...cancer in New York. She was 60. At 17, Strasberg electrified Broadway audiences with her performance...
Brustein stirs up controversy with Strasberg-Monroe play.
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald; 4/21/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...the play is about Lee Strasberg, head of the famed...their two children: Susan, the actress, and...professional career. Lee Strasberg is the central figure...heart in the role of Susan, as fragile and needy...accomplishments. Lee Strasberg and his interpretation...
Marilyn and Me, Sisters, Rivals, Friends.
Magazine article from: Video Age International; 8/1/1992; 569 words ; ...Sisters, Rivals, Friends by Susan Strasberg (Warner Books, 282 p.) adds...marriage to Arthur Miller, and Miss Strasberg has a winning way with words...mates because, like Marilyn, Susan Strasberg clearly seemed to have great...
Mandrake: Christie's to sell Monroe dresses
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 5/23/1999; ; 413 words ; ...possessions passed to his daughter, the actress Susan Strasberg. She died in January, aged 60. I am told...followers. Marilyn Monroe became close to Susan Strasberg in 1955. She envied Susan because of her loving parents and stable background...